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We might soon see an Amazon Echo with touchscreen hardware, according to a leaked low-resolution photo dug up from Amazon’s servers by AFTVNews. And it could be coming as early as this month, says the source. The new Amazon Echo will be Amazon’s flagship device for this year, and will come with a 7-inch touchscreen and better-sounding…
Every year there is a barrage of smartphones released to the market, each with its own unique offering – a better camera, more processing power, greater battery life, more of this, more of that – you get the idea. But high-end smartphones aren’t cheap. A year ago, I owned an AT&T-locked Samsung Galaxy phone that…
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants to double his company’s Services segment revenues by 2020. As smartphone sales struggle all around the world along with other devices, Apple’s Services segment is the fastest growing one for the company, so it’s not really a surprise that Cook wants to double the size of the Services unit as soon as he…
The self-driving car craze has already swallowed several big names in two industries. Auto makers and tech major have all lined up to get rid of the driver from the car. Samsung, the South Korean electronics manufacturer, is the latest entrant to the self-driving car technology race. One burning question pops up here, now that…
The fifth beta of iOS 10.3.2 brings little more than fixes for SiriKit and Siri text responses, but there’s one little thing that torrent fans are sure to love – the fact that Apple has now fixed the issue with third-party VPN apps (virtual private network) that are essential for using along with torrent apps…
Every now and then we hunt around for really cool iOS 10.3 apps from the App Store that you can download for free for a limited time. Today, we’ve got three great apps for your iOS 10.3 iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch 6th Gen. +++++++ IQ Test – Pro Edition By Santiago Romani Castroman IQ…
In a recent article about Surface Phone, we covered the many reasons why the time is right for such a device to make its entry into the smartphone world. While Surface Phone as a device remains a mystery that only time can solve, the impact of a device like Surface Phone needs some digging into. The…
Uber seems to be engaging in all sorts of business practices that aren’t above board. The latest one, however, nearly wiped out billions of dollars in revenue for the car-hailing company after Apple engineers discovered one of the tricks its app was using to “fingerprint” devices so it could continue to track them even after…
Mobile phone manufacturers around the world are already on a “look East” policy. As smartphone sales in developed countries such as the United States, Canada and parts of Europe are already at high levels, the potential market lies with countries where the penetration is still low, and when it comes to size there are only…
A lot of smartphone users today have great data plans that allows them to provide connectivity to multiple devices around their home using a mobile hotspot. However, accessing the Internet this way can exhaust your limit faster than you can say “Ok Google.” Here’s a great way to continue using your mobile hotspot to empower…
Every other day there’s “breaking” news about yet another possible iOS 10.3 jailbreak, but along with genuine reports from sources like Redmond Pie are a flurry of fake and even potentially dangerous websites vying for your attention. I say to heck with iOS 10.3 jailbreak attempts! Until there’s something tangible that’s been tested and certified stable…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has transformed a software giant into a very different kind of company during his time at the helm. The focus has moved towards a “Cloud First, Mobile First” strategy, but we seem to be hearing and seeing a lot of action on the ‘cloud first’ part of that strategy; not so much…
The mobile phone world is a strange one, a place where keeping up with the inexorable march of progress means working out how to pawn a new iPhone or Galaxy device shortly after the setup screen closes. It was perhaps inevitable that Google, which released the premium Google Pixel phone in October last year, would hop on the yearly…
Despite the name that it’s been given, Surface Phone isn’t going to be a phone at all. At least, not if Microsoft is designing what they refer to as a “cellular PC” that will have all the capabilities of a PC in the form factor of a smartphone or phablet. On the surface, it’s a…
Microsoft’s obsession with Office 365 has possibly reached such a fever pitch that we can expect them to launch at least one new service every month. In one of our earlier articles – Microsoft Upping the Pace on Office 365 Features and Product Launches – we shared details on how the velocity of updates from Office 365 team…
