Phones Archive
21 Mar 2015
Oceans (for iPad)
Oceans (for iPad) Oceans (free) is a thorough and informative iPad app that examines the effect of human activities on the world’s oceans, and presents a plan of action to manage marine resources in ways so that people can continue to benefit from the oceans’ bounty while biodiversity is preserved. The Oceans app is a
21 Mar 2015
Facebook Stickered for Messenger (for iPhone)
Facebook Stickered for Messenger (for iPhone) Facebook Messenger is perennially among app store chart leaders, despite a glut of messaging app options. The big, creative, amusing stickers the app lets you send in messages may deserve some of the credit for this popularity, as they’re not available in more staid messaging apps like iMessage and
21 Mar 2015
Camera360 (for Windows Phone)
Camera360 (for Windows Phone) The Camera360 Setup Experience The app, available in the Windows Store, is a moderate 16MB download, and works on smartphones running both Windows 8 and 8.1. I tested it on the Lumia Icon, which sports a 20-megapixel f/2.4 camera with 6-element optics. View all Photos in Gallery On first run, Camera360 plays
21 Mar 2015
HTC Appoints Cher Wang CEO
HTC Appoints Cher Wang CEO HTC chairwoman Cher Wang has replaced Peter Chou as chief executive at the Taiwanese phone maker. Chou, whose focus recently turned to product development, will transition to a strategic new role leading future product innovation. “We are seeing rapid changes in the industry, with the smartphone as our personal hub
21 Mar 2015
Chrome 42 beta brings push notifications, app install banners and more for developers
Chrome 42 beta brings push notifications, app install banners and more for developers The web is quickly becoming as powerful as native apps and Chrome 42 beta brings a number of huge features for developers to Android devices. First, it brings a new “App Install Banner” that allows websites to show a prompt to users
21 Mar 2015
Apple Watch battery life: which type of user will you be?
Apple Watch battery life: which type of user will you be? Apple promised 18 hours of battery life with “typical usage” from the Apple Watch during yesterday’s launch event, but dig deeper on its site and you’ll find a breakdown of how the new device will fare in a variety of scenarios. In testing for
21 Mar 2015
Apple and Microsoft release patches to fix FREAK vulnerability
Apple and Microsoft release patches to fix FREAK vulnerability Apple and Microsoft have released patches to fix theFREAK security vulnerability found last week in Mac OS X, iOS and Windows operating systems. FREAK — short for Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys — allows hackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected Web traffic between browsers and millions of websites,
20 Mar 2015
How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone
How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone Your Android smartphone can be a great music player — after you’ve jumped through a few hoops. There are basically two ways to indulge in your listening pleasure: 1) transfer music files to the device; and 2) access a service to stream music from the Web. The easiest
20 Mar 2015
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware
How to Protect Your Android Device from Malware Part of keeping your Android device safe is learning to recognize questionable apps. Apply the same techniques that you use to identify rogue emails from bogus financial institutions, like pixelated, poorly rendering logos, spelling mistakes, and publisher names that don’t match the official spelling or wording —
20 Mar 2015
How to Speed Up a Sluggish Android Smartphone
How to Speed Up a Sluggish Android Smartphone If getting rid of superfluous apps on your smartphone doesn’t solve the problem, reinstalling factory stock software likely will. Like rehab — or the drunk tank — for our lethargic, wrong-side-of-the-tracks smartphone inhabitant, this operation may sound like a big deal and a lot of work, and