Tag Archives: phone

Android has overtaken Windows as the most popular computing platform in the world. That’s thanks in part to how fast new features have been added. Google is always making tweaks and coming up with new features for Android, and OEMs like Samsung and LG can add their own stuff on …

Check your kid’s phone for this app, ASAP: Wishbone, a popular quiz app for kids, tweens and teens, has been hacked, according to a report from Motherboard out this morning. The hack involved 2.2 million email addresses as well as 287,000 phone numbers, many of which are from kids under …

Samsung has successfully collected almost all the Galaxy Note 7 devices it sold last year, save for a few stubborn (and reckless) holdouts who don’t want to give up their explosive phones. That leaves the company with millions of high-end smartphones in storage, and the hardware is still perfectly good. …

Excited to get Google Assistant on your Android phone? Until last week, it was only available for Google Pixel phones. Now, it’s rolling out slowly to Android phones beyond that. Here’s how it may come to your phone or why it might not be on it already. Google Assistant is Google’s new digital …

Back before the iPhone was a gleam in Apple’s eye, Nokia was the smartphone vendor everyone was trying to beat. For over a decade, Nokia dominated the smartphone and feature phone markets — and one of the devices that cemented its position as an early leader in the cell phone …

For the uninitiated, Nokia used to be a big name in smartphones in the years just before the iPhone arrived on the scene. It sold phones and tablet-like devices running Symbian, Maemo, and other platforms that have since bitten the dust. These devices were hugely popular for the time, though. …

Kashin / Shutterstock.com On Thursday, some AdWords advertisers received an unexpected email from Google explaining upcoming changes to the phone numbers that appear in ads. The change affects campaigns that use both call extensions and location extensions. Google has expanded exposure for ads that include location extensions over the past …

In spite of the rough last couple of years, BlackBerry is not dead yet. In fact, it’s trying something completely different to remain alive. BlackBerry announced recently that it would partner with phone manufacturer TCL for all its hardware, while it provides the software. The first few examples of this partnership …

Business management is like a seesaw swing. Sometimes you are on top and sometimes things are the other way round. No matter how hard you try, you can’t completely get your employees under your control. Employees can benefit your company a lot but if they go wrong somewhere, intentionally or …

We’ve all come a long way, the good people and the black hats and the tech we all depend on. It used to be rainbow tables and dial-up, and most people weren’t online at all. Now your stuff connects to the Internet and phones home — often whether or not …