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Google recently released an Android app called Trusted Contacts, which essentially works as a personal security app. The app – currently not available for iOS devices – lets you curate a list of trusted persons to whom your location can be sent during an emergency. The service itself is very similar to a lot of…
When it comes to making a statement, Apple’s products have always had the edge. The most modern offices typically have iMac desktops and MacBook Pro laptops for their employees; high-end users typically choose a Mac over a Windows-based PC; an iPhone is a fashion statement in itself, for that matter. But where gamers are concerned, the…
According to Morgan Stanley, Google Pixel – the high-end smartphone launched exactly two months ago today by Alphabet Inc. – will generate $3.8 billion in revenues for the company in 2017. Google Pixel retails at $650 and above, and to net close to $4 billion Google needs to move as many as 6 million units of…
“People who are serious about software make their own hardware”. – Steve Jobs That statement is true on several levels. Writing a piece of code is one thing, but the performance of that software is going to be directly dependent on the performance of the hardware that is going to run it. Can you run…
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has outdone itself with the Xiaomi Mi Mix that was launched last month in a surprise announcement. The “Chinese Apple” smartphone company has managed to create a truly stunning effect with a full ceramic body and almost bezel-less front, giving it high ratings from reviewers. Here are some of the features and…
Microsoft HoloLens is expensive. Period. At $3000 for the Development Edition and $5000 for the Commercial Edition, it sits pretty high up above its poorer cousins in the virtual reality world. You can buy Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset for $599, and even Microsoft itself is working with third-party suppliers for $300 units. Agreed that…
Apple launched Apple Pay in Spain today, supporting cards from partner institutions Banco Santander, Carrefour, Ticket Restaurants and American Express. Apple Pay was first launched in the United States in October 2014, and in a little over two years the iPhone maker has steadily rolled out its mobile wallet out to 12 more countries. In…
Google Pixel, Alphabet’s latest entrant in the luxury end of the smartphone world, is off to a flying start in India. According to research firm Counterpoint, Google Pixel, launched on October 25 in India, has already captured 10% of the premium smartphone market. Source: Economic Times Apple is still the leader of the segment with…
There are hundreds of smartphone manufacturers around the globe. The list of mobile phone manufacturers page on Wikipedia runs for nearly 13 pages, so it’s clearly a competitive market. Considering this omnipresent competition, one might be tempted to think that is an extremely profitable business to be in. After all, smartphone vendors shipped 343.3 million…
Earlier today, popular iOS calendar app Fantastical 2 received an update – 2.3.1 – that brings Touch Bar support for the 13 and 15-inch models of the MacBook Pro 2016. Once you update the app to this latest version of this calendar app, you’ll be able to quickly swipe and scroll through to a specific…
This past weekend we’ve been busy covering various deals for Black Friday through Cyber Monday, so it’s finally time to unveil this week’s paid iOS apps for free, for a limited period. As always, these apps are being given away for free by independent developers, so we don’t know when they’ll revert to their normal…
When the infamous hacking group Pangu demoed its iOS 10.1 beta 1 jailbreak at Mosec 2016 in Beijing in July, which Apple promptly fixed on the beta 2. That led to the team quickly releasing a semi-tethered iOS 9.3.3 jailbreak. No further word has been received about an iOS 10 jailbreak, but we gather from other…
The Mozilla Foundation via The Mozilla Corporation has just released a new mobile browser called Firefox Focus, which makes private browsing on iOS devices a breeze. The iOS app is for anyone that wants to prevent websites from tracking their usage, so if online privacy is what you’re after, then this might be the ideal…
After having legendary game creator Shigeru Miyamoto unveil Super Mario Run at the iPhone 7 launch on September 7, Nintendo has finally announced that it will release the game on the iOS platform for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches running iOS 8.0 or higher, and is expected to be available from December 15 – about a…
In a blog post late last week Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker made it very clear that Alphabet (Google’s parent company) isn’t going to take the European Unions allegations about Android lying down. In April 2015 the EU raised certain objections to Google trying to muscle in on the fact that…
