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Master Key Allows 99% Of Android Phones To Be Hacked
05 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to Jeff Forristal, CTO of mobile security startup Bluebox Security, the Android phones that some hold so dear to their hearts, actually come with a flaw. Click through to find out more.
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Knock Yourself Out, Android Users – Here’s 15 Of The ‘Top’ Android Apps For 2013
04 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
These apps will assist you with almost everything and will also make your life easier. These are the top 15 apps for Android as suggested by TIME magazine.
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Deciding Between Whatsapp And Viber? Viber Let’s Hackers Access Your Phone
29 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Android phone users who have the Viber app have been issued warnings by security firms that there may be a bug in the popular chat application that allows hackers to bypass screen locks and take control of the phone. So how many people are at risk? 50 million, give or take.
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Pregnant, Or Trying To Fall Pregnant? These Apps Will Make Your Life Easier
29 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. But only humans do it with apps. These ten apps will aid you in your pregnancy, and make life for you, your partner, and your baby considerably easier.
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Google Reader Is Being Shut Down – Here Are The Best Alternatives
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, it isn’t good news. But you have to make the best of a bad situation. On Wednesday night, Google announced it would be shutting down its Reader product as of 1 July 2013. With the loss of Google Reader, a serious problem emerges. What will users use as an alternative reader? Step 1 – Find a new RSS […]
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Google Now Could Be Coming To iOS [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Now is arguably Android’s greatest weapon in the operating system tug of war between Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile. Harnessing the power of Big Data and predictive analytics, Google Now is a PA in your pocket, producing helpful, unprompted alerts and reminders which it creates by analysing the results of your search and browsing […]
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Keen To Hack An Android Phone? Leave It In The Freezer
08 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When Ice Cream Sandwich was rolled out by Google for Android smart devices, engineers baked a data scrambling system into the operating system, which made it a nightmare for law enforcement and forensic workers to unscramble the devices, according to the Erlangen’s Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) team. Of course, the data scrambling system makes it significantly harder […]
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Nokia Subtly Throws Down The Gauntlet To Apple [VIDEO]
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It was only a matter of time before Nokia jumped on the versus-Apple bandwagon now that their new flagship, the Lumia 920, is all but on the shelves. Instead of launching into a drawn-out tirade concerning specs and features they focused on small aspects that could actually make all the difference.
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ESPN Joins The Initial Google Fiber TV Service Package
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are half a billion Android devices worldwide. You have to believe that Google is planning to, at some stage, release Google TV for Android.
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Android Smart TV Is Cheap [VIDEO]
16 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A startup called Equiso thinks it’s going to change TV forever. The Smart TV is an HDMI dongle that plugs into your television, and essentially turns it into an Android tablet.
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Google’s I/O Keynote Pimps Nexus, Jelly Bean, & Project Glass [VIDEO]
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, we’ve had a pretty cool look at the future thanks to Google’s I/O Keynote yesterday – where they covered the new Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q media orb, and the awesome, skydiving-filled Project Glass demonstration that you’re really, really going to want to watch, after the jump.
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Google Enters Tablet Market With Nexus 7, Also Launches Glass
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google had it’s big developer conference recently, and with the rise of the technology giant, it’s exciting to see what’s coming in the future. The two most exciting technologies on display were most certainly Google Glass, a pair of wearable internet glasses. Google has also launched its own tablet, the Nexus 7, which may just give the iPad a run for its money.
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The Facebook Smartphone Is Codenamed “Buffy”
29 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More details are emerging about Buffy, apparently the codename for Facebook’s HTC smartphone which may run with Android, all the Facebook trimmings and an Opera browser. Or will it? We try sort the facts from the fiction as excitement mounts over the phone that might topple Apple.
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Instagram App For Android Reaches A Million Downloads
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Instagram for Andriod has been downloaded at least a million times in less than 24 hours. The iOS version – used on the iPhone – has been available since October 2010. But the two apps aren’t exactly alike – read what the differences are inside.
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Google Announces ‘Google Play,’ Cloud-Based Media Hub
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Another alternative to Apple’s iCloud popped up this week, with Google has announcing that it will be combining the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into a new cloud-based service called Google Play, allowing users to access all of their media across all of their Android devices.
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Secret Software Is Probably Tracking Everything You Do On Your Phone
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The Carrier IQ software, installed on most modern Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones, is supposed to record some of the things phones do so manufacturers can do quality control. Except it’s also been logging everybody’s text messages, web searches, and phone calls. Which is pretty bad.
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Got Siri Envy? There’s An App For That
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A lot of us are currently using the iPhone 4 are only now coming to terms with Apple’s reluctance to allow Siri to run on our hardware. There’s probably even a bunch of us using Android that wish we could have something similar. Well, iHave good news. There’s an app for that.
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The US Army Wants Their Gear To Be Powered By Android
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Nett Warrior,’ the military program that aims to give soldiers the tools for communications and mapping with each has been put on ice. It seems the US army have decided to cut a couple of kilograms in the solider’s kit and go with civilian technology. And they’re going Google.
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Oh Hey, Google’s Buying Motorola
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
And for the first time in years I actually have a reason to want a Motorola. Google today agreed to acquire the handset division of Motorola, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion (around 90 billion ZAR). It’s always nice to have money lying around for these little impulse buys.
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Maker Of Blackberry’s Shares Fall
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African’s just love their Blackberrys, and annoyingly rave about how cool they are, and constantly put their Blackberry pins up on Facebook, saying, “Just got my BB. Add me guys!” But RIM, the company that makes the annoying device, seems to be in quite the spot of bother.
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Stop Cyber Bullies With Bully Block
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a story that would make Oprah and every other daytime TV host giddy with delight. It’s called Bully Block and it helps the bullied collect all sorts of evidence against their cyber-bully.
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This Danish Professor Has A Robot Clone, For Some Reason
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I mean don’t get me wrong, I’d want a robot clone too, it’s just not totally clear why Henrik Scharfe, professor at Aalborg University, actually got one assembled by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan. It’s ostensibly the first android with a beard, though, so yay science.
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Want Free Condoms? There’s An App For That
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, I know, me and everybody’s grandma used ‘there’s an app for that’ as the headline, but that’s because me and everybody’s grandma have an awesome sense of humour. New York’s Health Department released a smartphone app for finding free condom distribution points via GPS on Monday.
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