SMS Continuity won’t be available at iOS 8 launch

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on SMS Continuity feature, you’ll have to wait a bit more. According to a press release from Apple, SMS Continuity and iCloud Photo Library will come as an update and not with the iOS 8 release on September 17. For those who don’t know, SMS Continuity gives you the ability to continue messaging on your Mac and iPad if you receive it from your phone. And iCloud Photo Library lets you access photos you have in your iCloud on any of your devices.

SMS Continuity will be available as a free update in October, while iCloud Photo Library will come out in beta.

Source: Apple | Via: Ubergizmo

Google Hangouts updates app to improve SMS capabilities

Google Hangouts improved the kinks of the SMS integration with a new update for Android devices. The app now has the ability to disable the ability that converts group messages into MMS by default. You can also import your current SMS messages into the app. There have also been some APN tweaks added for those with unlocked smartphones.

PayPal pushing mobile payment solutions

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

PayPal has gone beyond catering to e-tailers and eBay traders and has managed to cap 2009 by introducing ways to pay via Twitter, smartphones and has provided the payment backbone for BlackBerry’s new App World store.

We interviewed Darrell Macmullin, PayPal Canada’s general manager who gamely demoed some of PayPal’s new directions and discussed the companies’ recently released open-source developer platform.

“There’s a whole new suite of payment APIs for developers to create and embed PayPal in applications. The first companies to sign up for these new APIs were Twitter and Research in Motion,” Darrell explained.

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