Superbowl XLVIII is just days away, and you’ve probably got a sweet party planned. But maybe you’re working. Or, you’re stuck in a country that doesn’t worship the NFL or show it on TV. Or maybe you don’t have cable. Whatever the reason may be, you need to find a way to watch the Superbowl on your Android smartphone or tablet. There are lots of ways to watch the Superbowl on Android this year. It’s 2014 and Superbowl broadcasting networks are no strangers to mobile technology.…
Android apps use your location data to do a lot of useful things. Google Maps tells you the fastest route to get home from wherever you are in the world. The McDonald’s app identifies all the nearest McDonald’s locations. But there’s no reason for some apps to monitor your location. Some apps track your location just to deliver geotargetted advertisements, for example, while others use your location to steal your identity and perform other evil tasks. Do you want to know…
So you’ve been traveling all day. You just arrived in a foreign city. You took a stuffy airplane followed by a stuffy shuttle to get to your hotel. And now you have to wait in line at the hotel’s check-in desk before you can throw your stuff on the bed and relax. Fortunately, a new hotel technology lets you bypass that last step and go straight to your room. Instead of waiting in line when you check into a hotel, guests at Starwood hotels can simply walk by the front desk and go straight…
If you talk to some tech people, they’ll tell you that patents are killing the industry. Others say that patents are protecting it from becoming completely chaotic. Regardless of how you feel about patents, the latest news from Google and Samsung is undoubtedly good for Android fans. Google and Samsung recently announced that they have signed a “global patent cross-license agreement”. In a blog post, Samsung said that this agreement covers “a broad range of technologies and…
Nexus devices are the best way to enjoy the ‘pure’ version of Android. But just one year from now, Android devices might be a thing of the past. According to Eldar Murtazin, Google is ending the Nexus line and replacing it with Google Play Edition devices. The name ‘Google Play Edition’, however, will be rebranded to something different. Nexus line by Google is over in 2015 ;) Yes - this line will be replaced by Play Edition (current name, it will be rebranded) — Eldar Murtazin…
Over the past two decades, Google has grown from an insignificant web startup to one of the most powerful companies in the world. Google’s meteoric rise to superstardom has introduced some concerns. At first, Google was everybody’s favorite friendly search engine. Then, Google started selling advertising space on its search engine results Then it built the world’s most popular smartphone OS, bought the world’s most popular video sharing website, and made Google+ usage mandatory for…
Now here’s an interesting app that would most definitely save you from the most embarrassing times ever! Remember all those times you made a drunk call and you wish you hadn’t or that time where you were about to pick up the phone and text someone you shouldn’t have but eventually landed up still doing it. Not everyone is as iron-willed and level-headed to clearly distinguish right from wrong when they’re drunk, which is why it’s important to exercise some form of self-control when…
The creation of Twitter by Biz Stone and his two mates long ago took the world of technology by storm and is still doing so. May be not directly but through the apps that are supporting Twitter interfaces and Talon evidently being one such app. Twitter interfaces have been copied a lot and each twitter app as a client has bought to the fore different kinds of features all that are packed in to give you a solid, redefined Twitter experience to make your social media life more convenient. Each of…
Calorie Counter Today, we will be bringing to you possibly one of the best weight loss apps on the Android platform. For every individual, there comes a point in time where they realise that they are way above weight of what it used to be. Unfortunately, motivation and professional knowledge does not come as easy to everyone as it does to professional athletes. However, it does not mean that we are incapable of empowering ourselves to follow in their footsteps. Coming to our rescue is a…
Bootkit malware is an evil type of malware that burrows itself deep within your PC. You can run an antivirus scan, but you’ll only remove the tip of the iceberg: the most dangerous parts still lie just beneath the ocean and are nearly impossible to remove. Bootkits require special software in order to be removed from your system because they lie in the most core files of your PC – your antivirus doesn’t like deleting files from the core because it could permanently ruin your computer,…
