Apps & Services
Samsung Wallet launches a service for students
Student IDs play a vital role in college life, and it is necessary to always have their student ID with them for attendance purposes, etc. Samsung has now announced a feature that will allow students to add IDs to their phones’ digital wallets in the United States. With its Samsung Wallet, which was launched earlier this year, the firm combines the mobile payment experiences of Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass. The firm extends its hands-over adoption of digital IDs, such as NFC dorm room locks and classroom check-ins, by adding support for student IDs from a few US institutions to Samsung Wallet.
Through a collaboration with Transact Campus, mobile-centric platforms across several schools, support for student IDs has been expanded. Now students can use their phones in the place of their ID card to open their dorm room and other facilities by saving their ID in Samsung Wallet. Additionally, they can also make contactless purchases if their phone and campus support NFC(Near Field Communications) with their IDs through phones.
Institutions such as Penn State, the University of Florida, Central Michigan University, the University of North Alabama, and the Stevens Institute of Technology will support student IDs on Samsung Wallet. Samsung America also launched the initiative at 68 colleges and educational institutions across the country, and the firm is actively working to expand to more institutions. However, it is obvious that the student should be a Samsung user.
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Further, the software uses a function called fast mode which enables users to submit their NFC ID without having to unlock their handset and activate the power reserve to use their gadget after the battery gets down.
Jude Buckley, executive vice president of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics America, opened up,”We’re always looking to innovate and improve the Galaxy experience for every kind of user. Technology plays a big part in today’s college experience, and with student ID for Samsung Wallet, we created a way for students to use the technology they already have on hand to simplify their busy lives.”
Here’s Samsung Wallet supported smartphones full list:
- Galaxy S Series: Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy S21 5G, Galaxy S21+ 5G, Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, Galaxy S21 Fan Edition 5G, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S20 Fan Edition 5G
- Galaxy Note Series: Galaxy Note20 5G, Galaxy Note20 Ultra
- Galaxy Z Series: Galaxy Z Flip4, Galaxy Z Flip3 5G, Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Galaxy Z Fold4, Galaxy Z Fold3 5G, Galaxy Z Fold2 5G, Galaxy Fold
- Galaxy Series A: Galaxy A53 5G
Apps & Services
ByteDance wants to kick off TikTok in the US market rather than selling it to an American firm
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, would have to shut down TikTok in the US market rather than sell it to an American firm. Following many assertions and statements for years, finally, it appears that ByteDance wants to ditch TikTok from the US market. Menahile, earlier reports significantly suggested that eventually TikTok will get banned in the US and was officially approved by the US House, Senate, and President of the US, Biden.
According to a source shared by Reuters via Android Police, ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, seems looking up to ditching TikTok in the US completely rather than selling it to an American firm, while after the official approval, ByteDance was given the last 270-day deadline that either the company needs to release TikTok from its ownership forever or completely stop TikTok in the US market.
ByteDance counts a small part of TikTok’s revenue, though:
Meanwhile, the company is currently eyeing over some other legal options, but if all the legal options proved unsuccessful, then it’s quite clear that TikTok would be leaving the US market forever. On the flip side, some sources also reveal that the highly engaging properties of TikTok are due to its core algorithms, while these core algorithms are the most essential section of ByteDance’s technology. Moreover, this ditching of TikTok in the US will not really impact ByteDance’s current operations in the US market, as the company accounts for a small part of revenue through the app.
Sources further added that last year, TikTok gained about 25% of its revenue from the US market, which significantly means that it could be a sudden decrement within the revenue stream. However, ByteDance’s dedicated app, Douyin, which is certainly a Chinese version of TikTok, Also, no American firm is willing to pay billions to acquire TikTok without its core algorithms. Meanwhile, all these factors significantly indicate that if the legal efforts proved to be a failure, TikTok would have to leave the US market for sure.
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).
Good Lock plays a key role in providing a platform for all the customizing applications or plugins of the Galaxy devices. For information, it provides several types of plugins like NavStar, QuickStar, LockStar, Camera Assistant, and many more. With these plugins, users can perform several customizations for the smartphone UI, including navigation bars, lock screens, home screens, notifications, and many more. To manage these plugins more conveniently, the company has started rolling out the update for Good Lock.
Good Lock is receiving a new update, version 2.2.04.95. With the latest update, the company has introduced some new changes that will fix the phenomenon of installation and deletion of modules, so users can easily manage them according to their requirements.
Along with this, the changelog also says to bring some fixes for the security-related functionalities, so if you are also having some issues while using any of the functions of Good Lock or want to get some performance enhancements, then you should go for the latest Good Lock update.
If you want to install the latest version of Good Lock, you can check its availability from the Galaxy Store. If it is available, tap on the update button, but if it isn’t available, you can also sideload the application through some external sources.