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LA Is Getting WiFi & Cell Service In The Subway
For being one of the largest cities in the United States, Los Angeles is sure behind the times in one area: Having WiFi and cellular service in the subway. That’s right – if you’re riding the subway and need to make a call you’re out of luck. Riding the... Read more
How To Set Up Chrome Remote Desktop For iOS
Chrome Remote Desktop has been a service from Google that has been around for a while now, in fact, it’s been knocking around for years. The service basically allowed users to gain access to a Mac or Windows computer from another computer or an Android device. Up until now... Read more
Hugo Barra Reveals How Xiaomi Keeps Prices Low
Xiaomi sold over 60 million smartphones in 2014, coming third in overall global smartphone sales. Even though these are tremendous feats, some analysts claim Xiaomi is making small profits from the smartphone division, due to the large price undercuts to win the Chinese audience. Head of international Hugo Barra... Read more
Samsung In Talks To Acquire BlackBerry For $7.5 Billion
Samsung is reportedly in talks with BlackBerry on a $7.5 billion deal, even though spokespeople at Seoul and Ontario both claim no talks are presently happening. First reported by Reuters, Samsung is interested in BlackBerry’s rather lucrative enterprise patents, which Samsung could use in patent battles against Apple, IBM and... Read more
Google Translate Now Has Live Conversation and Text Translation
The Google Translate app now has the ability to translate speech in real time and also signs at the click of a button on your Smartphone. The update has began rolling out to both iOS and Android users from Jan 14th. The app is very simple to use; tap... Read more
The FBI Can Spy On Your Cell Phone Calls Without A Warrant
There’s no doubt about it – the past couple of years have not been kind to the agencies which exist to “protect” us. Just mention the name Edward Snowden in a group of people and you’ll see what I mean. As most anyone knows, he was responsible for blowing... Read more
Microsoft Launches Affordable Lumia 435 and 532 Running Windows Phone
Microsoft has unveiled three new budget smartphones today, the Lumia 435, Lumia 532 and Lumia 535, all targeted at developing nations, where Microsoft is throwing all of its money at hthe moment. The Lumia 435 is the most exciting in the pack, since it will start at just $79... Read more
Facebook Starting To Restrict Violent Videos
I don’t know if you remember last year when Facebook faced all kinds of criticism for allowing actual video footage of beheadings to be on the site, but it was definitely not a good time for the social media giant. While one side of people said that while obviously... Read more
Not Having Your iPhone Messes With Your Head
How often do you find yourself looking at your smartphone? Or, maybe a better question is, how often do you find yourself even thinking about your smartphone? Since the advent of smartphones, we’ve sort of become attached to them, as if they were an additional appendage to our own... Read more
Samsung Announces $92 Tizen OS Smartphone
Samsung has launched the Z1 in India, the South Korean company’s first Tizen OS smartphone, following an extensive delay to the platform coming to mobile. The Z1 features a 4-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 768MB RAM, 4GB of onboard storage (with 64GB of microSD expandable... Read more
The Top Business Apps You Need For Your Phone and Tablet
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, the working world is no longer restricted to the office desk and instead is available at the touch of a button. These brilliant business apps will get the job done, whatever your business needs and ensure you keep things running smoothly 24/7. TurboScan Image... Read more
Men Who Post Lots Of Selfies Might Be Psychopathic
Guys – do you take lots of selfies and post them online? It’s no secret that we as a society are slightly obsessed with the whole selfie craze right now, and people will go to incredible lengths to have the perfect selfie body. It doesn’t matter where we are,... Read more
Xiaomi Announces Redmi 2
Xiaomi announcements might not mean much in the U.S., but in China they are treated like Apple announcements, with millions on Weibo talking about the recently announced Redmi 2. Selling over 60 million smartphone units in 2014, Xiaomi is currently the largest smartphone seller in Mainland China, recently expanding... Read more
Thieves Arrested For Tunneling Into iPhone 6 Warehouse
How far would you go to get your hands on a few iPhone 6’s? Would you maybe work a few extra shifts to get Apple’s latest and greatest smartphone? Would you just bite the bullet and sign up for another 2-year contract (or installment plan, whatever you want to... Read more
Man Straps 94 iPhones To Body To Smuggle Them Into China
Man, this is just a crazy week when it comes to people wanting to illegally get their hands on iPhones. Earlier in the week, Techbeat reported about a group of 3 men who tunneled into an iPhone warehouse in Beijing where they ended up stealing 240 brand new iPhone... Read more
McDonalds Restuarants In UK Offering Wireless Charging
You know the sound of impeding doom, right? The small bleep that echoes from your smartphone as the battery indicator light clicks to red/flashing. If you are not heading back to the office and you have no portable battery or charging cable/plug to hand? You day is about to... Read more
Can A Photo Of Your Hand Unlock Your iPhone?
One of the things I was most excited about when I got my iPhone 5s early last year was the TouchID feature. As you probably well know, this feature allows an iPhone to be unlocked with the fingerprint of its owner. (It also authorizes purchases, apps, etc.). My experience... Read more
Lost iPhone Data? Perform A Rescue Yourself With iFonebox
Don’t you just hate it when you lose your data? I mean, you ‘think’ you’ve backed up what you consider mission critical information, but when it comes to the crunch you know that you will have inevtably missed something! Time for iFonebox to step up on your behalf. iFonebox... Read more