Author: Clinton

Although it is only hitting Asia and Europe at the moment, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is starting to see the Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 update roll out globally.  The update will bring the latest security updates to the phablet along with several other UI tweaks that are exclusive to Samsung.  While the South Korean company has made no official announcements – and they rarely do – it is expect that this update will roll out globally over the course of the next few days.

Google has made a change to the Google Contributor program that will benefit those who use the service.  If you aren’t familiar with it, Contributor allows you to enjoy a more ad-free web by contributing an amount each month to site you enjoy visiting.  ClintonFitch.com participates in Google Contributor and for those in the program, about 95% of the ads on the site are hidden when you visit.  You can get more information about joining by clicking the banner at the top of any page on the site or this link – and thank you!

The Chromium team has released an update to the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux that all users will want to update to as soon as possible.  The update is build 48.0.2564.116 and it has been released for download.  The critical update fixes issue CVE-2016-1629: Same-origin bypass in Blink and Sandbox escape in Chrome.  Users of Chrome will have the update to pushed to them automatically but you can force the update in the browser by going to Settings>About.  In the course of the writing of this post, I received the update on my Windows 10 PC so it is for sure rolling out.

Yesterday there was a lot of news floating around Gmail and the new Gmailify feature.  First things first, what is Gmailify?  This is a feature that allows you to take your non-Gmail accounts like Hotmail and Yahoo and give them Gmail-like features such as spam filtering, Google Now cards and other features that up to this point have been Google only.  It is a pretty slick feature, especially if you have an email account other than Gmail.

With this update comes a new Android version of the app which will allow you to fully enable this feature.

In a post made this morning on the Google Translate Blog, the service announced that 13 new languages have been added to the service.  That brings the total number of languages to 103 and makes the app and service the closest thing to a Star Trek-esque Universal Translator out there today.

In 2006, we started with machine learning-based translations between English and Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Almost 10 years later, with today’s update, we now offer 103 languages that cover 99% of the online population.

It is exciting to see the growth of this service that allows people across borders and language barriers to easily and quickly communicate.

Yesterday, T-Mobile announced their Q4 2015 numbers and they were pretty impressive overall.  The company added 2.1 million new customers, bringing their total for all of 2015 to 8.3 million for the year.  They also added some 1.3 million branded postpaid users, bringing that total up to 4.5 million for the year.  Couple this with the overall financial figures of $297 million in income for the quarter and over $730 million for the year, the company is on pretty solid foundations for growth in 2016.

There was one interesting note in the release on their financial report when it came to T-Mobile’s LTE coverage.  In the report, the company states they have doubled their 4G LTE footprint since this time last year.  That is a huge amount of growth and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down.