Sky told it doesn’t have to give BT a discount on Sky Sports
BT Sport is no longer the David to Sky Sports’ Goliath. When it launched in August 2013, the underdog TV service weighed heavily on less popular football leagues such as Serie A in Italy and Ligue 1 in France. But BT has slowly expanded, spending large amounts for the Champions League, the Europa League and a highly sought-after batch of Premier League fixtures. That’s triggered Ofcom to re-evaluate what’s known as a “wholesale must-offer” between Sky and BT. Its final decision, announced today, means that Sky is no longer forced to offer its flagship sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, at a discount to BT.
LG throws its hat into the crowded mobile payment game
You might not be terribly excited about mobile payments, but there’s a reason why there are so many out there, including Apple Pay, Android Pay and, yep, Samsung Pay. All of those companies get a cut of every user purchase, which can add up to a lot of much-needed extra revenue. So it’s not terribly surprising that LG has launched a mobile payment system of its own called (wait for it) LG Pay. The company didn’t provide a lot of details, other than saying it will only be available in Korea for now. However, LG promised Techcrunch it would reveal more in the “coming weeks,” so it may have plans to launch the service in other markets later on.
Via: Techcrunch
Source: LG
Amazon expands its Prime Same Day delivery service to more parts of the UK
Same day delivery is a service that is just beginning to catch on in the UK, with Argos’ Fast Track Delivery being the most widely available option, as opposed to Amazon’s Prime Same Day service which, up until now, has been limited to Greater London and select Berkshire and Hertfordshire areas. That is about to change, though, as Amazon has announced that its Same Day service is now available in a number of new locations in England and Scotland.
The following locations are now able to enjoy Prime Same Day deliveries:
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Dudley
- Milton Keynes
- Northampton
- Walsall
- Wolverhampton
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
More than 1 million products can be ordered using the Prime Same Day delivery service. Orders placed before noon are eligible to be delivered between 6pm and 10pm that day, seven days a week with no minimum spend, although naturally you need to be a Prime subscriber.
Full Press Release:
Amazon expands Prime Same Day in the UK – Prime Members in the Midlands, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Milton Keynes now receive unlimited free same-day delivery on one million items
Orders placed by noon will be delivered between 6pm and 10pm the same day, seven days a week.LONDON – 18 November 2015 – Amazon.co.uk today has expanded its recently-launched Prime Same Day service, offering Prime members free same-day delivery on one million items. The service launched in Greater London and parts of Hertfordshire and Berkshire earlier this month is now available to residential addresses in Birmingham, Bristol, Dudley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Amazon will continue to expand Prime Same Day to other areas of the UK in 2016.
Prime members who place an order for same-day delivery by noon, on any day of the week, will receive their delivery between 6pm and 10pm on that same evening. There is no minimum order value and a wide range of items are available, from TVs to toasters, DVDs to books, and coffee makers to children’s toys.
“Prime members are telling us that they love the convenience of free same-day delivery so we are quickly introducing it to many new areas of the UK. And we continue to invest in our delivery network to expand our fast delivery options to even more Prime members,” said Christopher North, Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk. “Prime Same Day adds to the range of benefits available to Prime members, like unlimited streaming of movies and music, unlimited photo storage and more.”
Look for Prime Same Day while shopping
Prime members can now find and purchase products for same-day delivery on Amazon.co.uk, whether they’re using their PC, tablet or mobile device. Members can simply look for the Prime Same Day logo on eligible items, add these items to their shopping basket, and then choose the FREE Same Day option at checkout. Alternatively, members can tick the new Prime Same Day check box located in the filter menu while browsing or after performing a search.Expanding customer choice for fast delivery
The choice of fast delivery services for Prime customers now includes:
Prime Now: Members can choose delivery to selected London and Birmingham postcodes within one hour of ordering for £6.99, or free delivery within a choice of two-hour delivery windows between 8am and midnight the same day, seven days a week on thousands of daily essentials, gifts and more. Prime Now is available through the Prime Now mobile app, available to download at http://www.amazon.co.uk/primenow
Prime Same Day: Members can order before noon for same-day delivery on one million items, seven days a week, to residential addresses in Birmingham, Bristol, Dudley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Walsall and Wolverhampton as well as Greater London and AL, HP and SL postcodes
Prime One Day: Members across the UK continue to enjoy unlimited one-day delivery on millions of items across all product categories
Prime Now and Prime Same Day are made available through Amazon Logistics, which empowers independent local, regional and national delivery companies across the UK to deliver Amazon parcels to customers seven days a week.
Same-day delivery is also available for non-Prime customers at a cost of £9.99 per order. To learn more and check for eligible postcodes, visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/sameday.
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Amazon brings one-hour Prime Now deliveries to Newcastle
Just a day after it expanded its same-day delivery service to more of the UK, Amazon has added another big city to its list of Prime Now locations: Newcastle. The Northern city joins London and Birmingham in offering Prime customers one-hour deliveries, allowing locals order up to 15,000 products including electronics, food and possible Christmas for £6.99 or for free if they’re willing to wait two hours. Amazon says selected postcodes in Gateshead, Durham and Sunderland are now eligible, but you should probably check Amazon’s delivery checker first before filling your online basket.
Source: Amazon Prime Now
Google Play will start labeling ad-supported apps
Google Play clearly states which applications have in-app purchases, and starting in 2016, it’ll also be more transparent when it comes to ads. According to Droid Life, Mountain View has notified developers (see the full email below the fold) that they’re required to sign into their consoles and declare whether their applications have advertisements. And, if they lie about it, they could face suspension. Google originally launched the “ad-supported” tag in April in its kid-friendly Play Store as part of the Designed for Families program. Now, developers only have until January 11, 2016 to tag their apps, since the label itself is slated to begin showing up in the regular Play Store “early next year.”
Via: Gamasutra
Source: Droid Life
Get some face time with a snarling dinosaur in virtual reality
Until the real version of Jurassic World opens the closest we’ll get to going face-to-face with dinosaurs is in virtual reality. The folks at German game developer Crytek are helping that stopgap by releasing one of their Back to Dinosaur Island demos to the public via Steam for free. As VRFocus reports, this demo has been on the trade show circuit since this past March at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. Here you’re seeing the world from the eyes of an infant dino hanging out in a nest of unhatched eggs as gigantic dragonflies flit about a gorgeous looking and sounding primeval forest. Oh you wanted terror? Don’t fret because one of history’s most impressive apex predators pokes its nose in for a view as well.
Via: VR Focus
Source: Crytek
Android Wear SDK now has Marshmallow support
For a while now, developers of Android Wear apps have had to cope with a handful of irritating details that made working in the environment less than awesome. However, Google has now updated the Android Wear SDK to include support for API 23, which is Android 6.0 Marshmallow functionality. This not only lets devs play with all the perks of Marshmallow, but it also solve a few developmental issues that had been plaguing the SDK for a while.
For example, API 23 allows developers to quickly distinguish between round and square Wear devices with the -round/-notround resource qualifiers. This takes care of a long-standing difficulty that made creating apps for the shape-variable universe of Android Wear cumbersome. Now this simple tag will let apps intelligently choose from a set of images and layouts to more appropriately fit the screen of a given device.
The update also brings a new runtime permissions model to the table, allowing devs and users to take advantage of Marshmallow’s ability to discretely determine permissions for individual apps. It also takes into account speakers for Wear devices, which until the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, had been silent. API 23 makes incorporating sounds into Wear apps as easy as doing so for smartphone or tablet apps.
Tired of uploading every version of your app to a Wear device to test it out? Google has pushed out an official Wear emulator just for you, then. This is sure to make Wear app development easier and quicker across the board. The emulator runs both Lollipop and Marshmallow, so you can easily make sure your app runs well on the vast majority of Wear devices currently on the market.
Skype updates Android app so you can save video messages
Next time you receive a memorable video message on Skype that you want to keep forever, you can tap it and then choose Save to Gallery if you’re using an Android device. The messaging application has released an update that adds the capability to its Android version, along with a few other features. For instance, you can now long-press a conversation on your Recents tab to bring up a new toolbar, which gives you quick access to delete, mark as read and mute notifications buttons. The new app gives you an easy way to share images from your gallery to a group convo and forward images from one conversation to another, as well. In addition, you can now forward Mojis (these are short reaction video clips similar to GIFs) and take advantage of a better search function. Skype has already rolled out its latest Android version, and you can download the app with all these features from Google Play if you haven’t yet.
Source: Skype
Popular Xposed module GravityBox now supports Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Be sure that whenever the Xposed framework is updated to support a new Android version, the popular module GravityBox is to follow. It has been under a week since we learnt Xposed is compatible with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and now GravityBox has been given the same treatment.
For those who may not know, the Xposed framework allows users to tweak certain parts of the UI without having to manipulate the whole experience. On the other hand, GravityBox is a multi-tool of sorts, which allows for multiple of these manipulations. And boy can this module do a lot.
The post from developer C3C075 has a long list of feature highlights, including an expanded desktop, status bar icon coloring, status bar brightness control, battery indicator style, low battery warning control, minimal brightness setting, lockscreen tweaks, Dialer tweaks, screen recording, notification control and more.
But there are a few things to keep in mind. The module is designed to work with vanilla Android 6.0 (or close to it). It is also still unknown whether this works with other manufacturer UI’s, but you can test at your own risk. The developer also states this should not really be used as a way to get missing features on third-party ROMs. In fact, he goes on to mention it’s not designed to run with non-stock ROMs, and using it can cause unexpected behavior. Therefore, no support will be provided if you choose to use GravityBox with these types of ROMs.
Interested? Just head over to the developer’s post on XDA Developers (link below) to learn all the requisites and steps for installing this software. Remember, any type of tinkering may void your warranty and/or harm your device, so I would advice that you do your research before proceeding. It will be only your responsibility if something happens to your phone.
Still pushing ahead? Happy tweaking!
Project Spectrum gives the Oppo Find 7 that stock Android feeling
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While Android devices made and manufactured in China have a lot in common with their Western counterparts, a significant difference between the two is their different take on user interfaces. While the devices we know are based on stock Android with varying degrees of theming and modification, Chinese devices opt for a layout not dissimilar to iPhones, often referred to as MIUI. Oppo is one such company who uses this kind of user interface, but their ambition to eventually sell more devices globally has led them to start Project Spectrum which appears to be an effort to put an almost stock Android experience onto their Oppo Find 7. Check out a video of it in action below:
As you might be able to see, Oppo has tried to keep some of the better features that they’ve put into ColorOS, but retain the zippy, simple feel of stock Android, and to be honest, it’s a pretty good effort. No doubt an Android Marshmallow update is also in the Find 7’s future, and Project Spectrum is expected to reach other Oppo devices in the future as well.
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