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When I started high school, my dad had a flip phone, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. It had a black and white screen, an actual “ring’ tone, and an antenna you had to pull out in order to get the maximum phone signal. It was... Read more
Californian Town Adds Facebook Warning To Road Signs
MobileNewsSocial Media February 16, 2015
You know too many people are addicted to Facebook when even road signs have to warn people to pay more attention to what they’re doing. I’m sure we’ve all noticed people walking down the street paying far more attention to what’s happening on their Facebook Newsfeed than what’s happening... Read more
Smartphone theft is a big issue; but there is relatively new fight against the war and it looks like the stats show it is winning, for the moment anyway. With pressure from the communications industry and government regulators alike, the decision to implement a ‘kill switch’ in Apple’s flagship mobile... Read more
For as great as smartphones are, sometimes they’re really inconvenient. Case(s) in point: you’re in the middle of a very important job interview and your phone starts loudly ringing in your pocket because you forgot to put it on silent. Or, you’re at the movie theater and someone calls... Read more
With the ability to pay for your goods and services in so many different ways these days, it was only a matter of time before the tech giants figured out they are going to make lots of revenue from NFC mobile payments. Both Google and Apple have entered the field... Read more
Apple is apparently scaling back from two large updates to the iOS platform this year, content with bug fixes, stability issues and an overall performance buff for users of the forthcoming iOS 9. Two years ago, Apple launched iOS 7 with the fully redesigned look, followed in 2014 by... Read more
Smartphones are a mixed bag. They all have their differences, but behind the operating system they are all pretty much the same. They have a display, a data connection, a web browser and a camera or two. What is different is the operating system that the phone runs on.... Read more
Most of us use our smartphones so much that they will use up all of their juice by the end of the day. Likely you will plug your smartphone in at night and then forget about it and fall asleep, knowing that you will wake up to a fully... Read more
Samsung has sent out press invites for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1st. Even though Samsung had a quiet CES 2015 in January, it is reportedly preparing to launch the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy Edge S at MWC to make up for it. Samsung faced a... Read more
Microsoft’s new mantra for Lumia devices is shoot for the low-end and hope something sticks, but in-between the launches of cheaper and cheaper Windows Phone we might finally get a flagship. That’s according to Microsoft’s Juha Kokkonen in a press release, claiming Microsoft will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip in... Read more
A few weeks back, Microsoft released a preview version of their Office for Android apps. The time has now arrived for the guys over at Redmond to bring the final versions to the Google Play Store. Now you can download the finalised versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to... Read more
Apple has just released the latest update for OS X Yosemite (10.10.2). This update marks the second update for the new operating system since its October 2014 release. It is understood that testing for OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 began back in late November. Apple introduced six beta tests to... Read more
Twitter Launches Mobile Video Camera and Group Direct Messaging
MobileNewsSocial Media January 29, 2015
Twitter have revealed in a blog post that they have started rolling out two fresh new features: group messaging and a new mobile video experience. If you want to have a private conversation on Twitter, then you can. This is a great addition to the vastly public experience that... Read more
I love playing games on my iPhone; I always have, and I probably always will. While Angry Birds wasn’t all that hard to play with the touchscreen, other, more advanced games were a little harder to master. Games such as Six Guns and Man of Steel were not all that easy to conquer... Read more
The Nexus 6 is Motorola’s first partnership with Google, despite being owned by the search giant for two years. Even though the phone reminds us of the Moto X (but larger), it had meagre results in the opening few months on sale. Dennis Woodside, the ex-CEO of Motorola, claims... Read more
Google’s location and traffic app Waze has been labelled a “stalking app” by two U.S. officials, asking for the developers to remove the ‘police nearby’ functionality. Reserve deputy sheriff Sergio Kopelev of Southern California started the complaint, claiming user submitted reports on police cars in nearby locations are a... Read more
If small is beautiful, then Israeli PC manufacturer CompuLab Ltd is about to release an absolute stunner. The trend for smaller and smaller computers is now embracing fan-less systems, leaving us with a very small, very quiet little box that does more than we used to expect from a... Read more
Samsung launched its first Tizen OS smartphone earlier this month, starting in India for 5700 INR ($92), however early uptake on the Samsung Z1 is low in the country. Reuters claims the lackluster amount of sales in the region is due to several key factors, including the brand new... Read more