ESPN made a bold move this past week. America’s largest sports network recently entered discussions with mobile careers to absolve the app and its users of all data charges. ESPN is owned by Walt Disney Co., which is apparently “knee-deep” in discussions with at least one major wireless carrier in the U.S. These discussions have the goal of subsidizing data rates for ESPN users, which means that content provided through ESPN.com and the ESPN app would not count towards a user’s data…
With all the recent revival in excitement around the Star Trek franchise with JJ Abrams’ latest epic reboot sequel, the Android app market has been flooded with a ton of cool Star Trek apps that will make all you Enterprise officers, Vulcans and Klingons jump in joy. We bring you a set of essential Star Trek apps that will make all you Trekkies fall in love with your awesome space franchise all over again. Moving straight in to the apps, let’s start with Paramount Digital Entertainment’s…
The Android platform offers a host of travel apps each with unique features that guide you to exactly go wherever you want to go. Adding to this collection is another ingenious virtual companion for your trips named The Traveler. The Traveler is one such Android app that carries the features of a typical travel app to help tourists as well as localities and adds a great feature to it as well. And that includes sketching the place you just visited. The Traveler is a trip journal combined with a…
Back in the day, my friends and I would have group chats on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and perfectly plan out our evenings in college. Life was simpler back then. Today, I have to text multiple friends at the same time and coordinate plans in a more awkward way. That’s because I now own an Android phone instead of a BlackBerry. Fortunately for crybabies like me, BlackBerry has finally decided to release BBM for Android and iOS devices. The release is apparently coming up this summer, and…
Android smartphones are supposed to make you more productive. But sometimes, when I spend hours browsing through the Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter apps on my phone, I miss the days when all I could do on my phone was play Snake. Yes, technology is supposed to make us more productive, but sometimes it seems like it just gives us more distractions. Get your mind back on track with these fantastic checklist and to-do list apps currently available on the Android app store: Google Keep I…
Android is the world’s largest mobile operating system. It’s also open-source, which means it can be freely edited by anyone and anything. But when Google created Android, it borrowed heavily from tech companies around the world. As you may have heard, Google is involved in a number of different legal battles for precisely this reason. But Google has already fought and lost some Android-related battles, including one with Microsoft a few years ago. Specifically, Google used…
One of the most confusing annoyances with Google Earth is that it didn’t have Street View, the popular street-level service included with Google Maps. Well, thanks to a recent Android update, things have changed. Today, Android users can spin the globe with the fingertips while accessing StreetView with a single tap. The Google Earth update occurred last week and it added more than just StreetView. Android users can now access an altered interface – layers are on the left hand side of…
As you may have noticed, Android doesn’t have FaceTime, the popular video chatting service available through iOS. And if you didn’t notice Android’s lack of FaceTime, then some smirking Apple fan may have pointed it out for you. But instead of giving up and saying ‘Okay, iOS wins’, I need you to stop right there. In fact, there are plenty of good FaceTime alternatives for Android, and they tend to be a lot more powerful – and less restrictive – than FaceTime. Skype Skype…
DROID SPLITTER Droid Splitter as the name suggests, is an Android app that specializes in splitting objects and files on your device. Many a times you are unable to transfer a file through the IM messaging platform and thus can’t send an important file at a crucial time. Droid Splitter gives you an option to choose the size of the split file or the big file that you want to make pieces of. You can split the size by chunk and by size. All you need to do is choose the source file and…
With the evolution in growth of the internet generation and rise of social networking, global connectivity has made us pay an unspoken price for it. We are talking about the massive lack of privacy that has come with the boon of informational abundance. Every action we take or discussion we partake in leaves an irrevocable digital imprint online that is tracked by large corporations, which can sell your private info to other businesses or can be hacked and manipulated by dangerous cyber…
