Mobile Phone

It seemed like a foregone conclusion there would be a phone later this year called the “Pixel 3,” but you never can tell with Google. Today, that seems like an even safer bet. As is tradition, the first hints of Google’s next flagship smartphone have appeared in the Android open …

A few weeks earlier, we informed you that the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ on T-Mobile have actually started to get Android Oreo upgrade. It’s one fantastic news but the Note 8 owners were left hanging in the air. It’s occurring quickly as the cookie upgrade has actually just been …

Majority of all digital video usage happened on smartphones in 2015, and, per NPD Group, streaming video takes up a massive 83 percent of overall mobile data consumed. This transformation in user consumption patterns represents a huge chance for business-to-business brand names to score points in the social media feeds …

In a world where 90 percent of all downloaded apps are used once and then deleted by users, flawless onboarding is essential. It’s unlikely users will come back to your app if they don’t understand how it works or how it will make their lives better the first time around. …

  Google Voice was a wildly popular service when it launched more than nine years ago, but the company quickly lost interest. After years of neglect, Google is again working to improve Google Voice by updating its apps and rolling out new features. One long-awaited feature has just entered testing. …

  The federal government has been loath to discuss the use of rogue cell phone surveillance devices in the US. But the Department of Homeland Security has finally acknowledged that such devices are likely in operation in Washington DC. This revelation comes by way of a letter to US Senator …

One of the many accusations about the trouble with Facebook – amid its data privacy concerns and enabling of Russian trolls – is that it keeps people locked into echo chambers where access to other viewpoints are limited. This is a common problem across social media, people are beginning to …

The App Store shrank for the first time in 2017, according to a new report from Appfigures. The report found the App Store lost 5 percent of its total apps over the course of the year, dropping from 2.2 million iOS apps in the beginning of the year, to 2.1 …

Shine, an early arrival in a market now teeming with self-care apps and services, has closed on $5 million in Series A funding, the company announced today, alongside the milestone of hitting 2 million active users. The round was led by existing investor by Comcast Ventures with betaworks, Felix Capital, …

Millennials may be a bit obsessed with self-care — and it’s beginning to pay off for the makers of self-care and digital wellness apps. According to data from multiple app store intelligence firms, the category is now seeing notable growth. In the first quarter of 2018, the top 10 grossing self-care …