[INFOGRAPHIC]: All About Mobile App Quality

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Here’s a quick and dirty infographic aimed at mobile developers (or anyone who’s thinking about becoming one.) Developed by UTest, “All About Mobile App Quality” is pretty much what’s written on the box. It starts with a brief overview of the top two mobile platforms. There aren’t really any surprises here. The Android store considers [...]

WakaWaka Power: The Portable Solar Charger and Light

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The biggest issue with mobile devices is that, security risks aside, they all require the occasional sojourn to an electrical outlet. Particularly when you’re on the road, this can be something of a pain: sometimes you don’t have time to stop and search for a spot to charge your cell phone or tablet. Sometimes, you [...]

[Infographic]: How Mobile Phones Have Changed Media Consumption

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Nowadays,  having a smartphone (or, at the very least, a cell phone) today is akin to having a TV back in the 80s or 90s: everybody simply did, and anyone who didn’t was considered “odd,” “backwards” or “behind the times.” Particularly since the development of the iPad in 2010, mobile devices have become a common [...]

Google Maps is Back on the iPhone – Users Rejoice

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Last night – late – the new, native Google Maps application dropped into the App Store for iOS. And, look at this… within hours, it has over 7,000 extremely positive ratings: Clearly, iOS users were pretty pissed off about Apple Maps and wanted Google Maps back. In fact, this is one of those rare occasions [...]

Automating Your Home With Smart Wireless Technology

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Advances in technology have affected the way we work, communicate, date and play. Now these same advances in wireless connectivity and smartphone ubiquity are helping homeowners to monitor and automate tasks in the house. Can you imagine using your smartphone to be able to turn your home lights on or off, or monitor your home [...]

[Infographic]: Are you Addicted to your Smartphone?

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We’re a society that loves our technology with a passion, and one of the pieces of hardware that’s become almost indispensable to us in recent years is the smartphone. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s basically an all-in-one mobile computer and communications device, which can play games, surf the Internet, give us directions, help us study, track [...]

Gamer’s Corner: The iPhone 5 as a Gaming Platform

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So, now that the iPhone 5 has been out for a while, and everybody’s stopped drooling over it, it’s time to answer a very, very important question (sort of): What exactly does it mean for mobile gaming? A great many websites have already detailed all the important stuff about the iPhone 5 (at least, where [...]

Five Things you should Know about the iPad Mini

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For those of you who don’t know already, Apple’s announced the next product in their iPad line…but it’s a little smaller than you might expect. Apple showcased, for the first time, the iPad Mini; a tablet PC designed to fill in the gap between the iPhone and the standard model of their iPad, and to [...]

What Apple’s Victory over Samsung Means for Consumers

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The verdict is in- according to the jury, Samsung infringed upon Apple, and must now pay the tech giant damages equal to $1.05 billion. It’s considerably less than Apple’s original asking price, but it’s still a very hefty sum. Not only that, Apple’s moving to get eight more Samsung products banned from sale in the [...]

Android Music Apps

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Most of us have used our phones as music players at some point, but we can also use them to share our tastes and get more info on our favourite artists and related music events. Here is a list of five favourite music apps for android: Last.fm This is a mobile phone optimized version of [...]

Top 10 Web Development Tools for iPhone

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Here is a list of ten web development tools that you may use on your iPhone. One is no better than the other is. The numbers do not indicate their rank or usefulness. 1. Analytics A handy little must have if you are the sort of person who is unable to gain access to a [...]

AT&T Gets Go-Ahead From FCC To Use Unused Airwaves For Mobile Internet

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Ultimately, it’s the FCC that has the final say-so on what parts of the spectrum band a wireless carrier can use. Obviously, wireless carriers want as much as they can get to serve as many customers as posisble. The FCC has officially allowed AT&T to use a portion of the 2.3GHz spectrum. Some of you [...]

Warrantless Spying Stays The Course In America

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To invoke Godwin’s Law right at the start here (because it would be guaranteed to come up anyway), yeah, um.. there’s really no way to interpret this other than a Nazi state maneuver or outright being Orwellian. Take your pick, because both apply. Warrantless wireless spying by the US government on anyone for any reason [...]

Your Friendly Reminder: Colder Weather Is Coming, Don’t Wreck Your Mobile Electronics

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I live in Florida so I don’t have to worry about cold weather (except for maybe one week a year). However the rest of the US and obviously other parts of the world have to deal with cold times coming soon, so you’d best prepare for it now. Fortunately, the preparation is quite easy. 1. [...]

Burglars Smash Into Apple Store With SUV To Get iPhones and iPads

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It’s things like this that make you really wonder if owning Apple products are really worth it or not. As you can plainly see in the above video, Apple products are valuable. So valuable that there are thieves willing to ram an Apple store with a truck just to get the merchandise and fence it [...]

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