Although Apple, Microsoft and Google (the recently launched Google Drive) all have cloud-based services, Dropbox is definitely the most popular cloud service out there as well as being amongst the first to be launched. The large numbers of competitors ensures that the very best cloud service possible is provided and the amount of free storage [...]
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Facebook has made it a routine to introduce annoying new features every now and then. Based on the face that the Facebook user count is approaching 1 billion, it is least bothered by the fact that a certain feature is not generally liked by the public. We have seen that in the past with the [...]
Today, we can contact anyone we want, but we can’t always choose not to be contacted by certain people. Seeing a call from a pesky relative or friend, or even some unknown number prank calling gets pretty annoying sometimes, especially when you’re already waiting for a call by someone else. The ignore button is there, [...]
Cloud storage is used by pretty much everyone these days. Being able to access your files from any device anywhere is definitely convenient. Everyone is familiar with Dropbox and how it works. Then there are other cloud storage options from companies like Apple (iCloud), Amazon (Cloud Drive) and Microsoft (Skydrive). With so many other companies [...]
The popular jailbreak tool, Redsn0w, has been updated to version 0.9.10b7- the seventh beta of the current Redsn0w tool. This version is obviously a result of the iPhone Dev team’s hard work. New features have been implemented. Additionally, preliminary support for an exciting new feature has been added, making it likely that the feature will [...]
Fragmentation within Android remains a big problem for Google. Where Apple’s software updates are comparatively uniform, only a miserably percentage of around 1% Android devices are currently on the latest and supposedly greatest Ice Cream Sandwich. This percentage is bound to increase though, as official ROMs begin to arrive in increasing numbers. Another one is [...]
The wait is over for non-carrier Samsung Galaxy S II devices. Unlocked devices can now finally download and install Ice Cream Sandwich on their handsets. Phones tied to carriers were first in line for the software update, frustrating users who owned devices that were otherwise.
After the release of Android 1.0 Beta in November of 2007, the Android operating system has seen numerous updates. Each update, generally, brought bug patches and improvements with it. The last update, more commonly known as Ice Cream Sandwich, v4.0.4 was released in March this year. So far this version has received mostly positive feedback [...]
Samsung has started sending out invitations for an event slated to be on May 3rd. The event invitation simply states May 3rd as the date when you can ‘come and meet the next Galaxy’.
OMGPOP’s ‘Draw Something’ is the number 1 paid app in the iTunes App Store currently. The game has had an impressive surge in popularity recently and in just 50 days has been downloaded over 50 million times. If there is any other game that has been this big a hit, it is the bird throwing [...]
I use HTC Sensation and I love my smartphone. With root access and custom ROMs, I get a thrilling experience of owning an Android running device. The only thing I don’t like about my HTC Sensation is the battery time? It sucks, to say the least. I have to charge it almost twice a day [...]
Boeing, an aerospace and defense corporation, is surprisingly developing a mobile device. Apparently the company didn’t have enough on its hands what with burgeoning commercial airline production and satellites etc, so it decided to foray into developing a secure Android device as well.
Whether you prefer Android OS, iOS or some other platform the truth of the matter remains that Android is hardly a cohesive, unified experience. This is not a bad thing, of course. Android is slightly chaotic, with a multitude of apps available for everything you could possibly want. Unfortunately though, not all of these apps [...]
Sony has started shipping its Xperia SmartWatch in the United States. The SmartWatch is essentially a tiny display on your wrist, acting as a watch, which acts as a companion screen to your handset (and is not a replacement for the handset itself), designed to allow users to ‘break free from the single screen experience’ [...]
Popular app Instagram is rolling out updates at an incredible rate, after being released for Android just last week. The artsy photo filter app has now been updated for the third time and this third update brings with it support for the not too long ago launched HTC One X.
Following Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, there have been a great number of angry tweets on Twitter and rapidly increasing traffic on websites that allow users to save/download all their Instagram pictures as well as several online ‘threats’ that users are going to delete their Instagram accounts. Some users have expressed fears that Instagram will change, [...]
