Rest of the Day: Yahoo Mail Gets Caller ID
Yahoo Mail continues to live on despite the sale of its eponymous owner, and today is even getting some new mobile features, including a great caller ID feature and mobile phone photo downloads. About this and much more in today’s news.
- You may be asking why does the mail app need to have a Caller ID? When you receive a call from an unknown number, the new Caller ID feature in Yahoo Mail for iOS checks to see if your email contacts have a number even if you don’t have that number stored on your phone. There’s also a new photo sync feature that can automatically download your camera roll so you can privately access your phone’s photos from your desktop. [Yahoo]
- Want to hear the iPhone 8 rumors? He may have an iris scanner. Unlikely! Can you imagine how to unlock your phone by holding it up to your eye? Support for wireless charging is far more likely because Apple just joined the Wireless Power Consortium. [Gizmodo]
- You can buy the unlimited plan again with Verizon for $ 80 / month . If you’re crazy about downloading to your phone – say over 10 GB per month – then this is probably worth your consideration. T-Mobile has responded by adding free HD video streaming and 10GB of free connection to its T-Mobile One plan .
- Wall Street Journal closes Google loophole. For years, you could read any article for free by simply googling it, since the newspaper is on a paywall, but traffic from Google is allowed. However, this will soon change as they suppress the Googlin freeloaders and close this loophole completely. Articles found on social media will continue to be free. [Digiday]
- Facebook is in talks with record companies so that you can include popular music in your videos. It’s pretty smart. However, they have been in talks with labels since 2015. [TechCrunch]