Recode reports that HTC has set up a separate business unit, called HTC Creative bs, to hle Android app development. Its first release will be a beta version of Zoe, a short-form video tool that had been exclusive to HTC hsets. On the company’s phones like the HTC One (M8), the Zoe camera mode snaps photos takes video at the same time, then lets users remix those clips into 30-second multimedia collages with music....
Huawei has a long line of Android-based smartphones out there in the wild, but as a company that’s thinking about the future, it’s also thinking contingency plans. According to unnamed sources speaking to The Information, Huawei has a team working on building its own mobile operating system, which would work just in case Huawei can’t use Android for some reason in the future. The plan is to make it so that the company isn’t wholly dependent on Android, and leaves options open if anything were to come up....
Hugo Barra, the guy who used to get up on stage every few months and talk about all the new work Google has done with Android, left Google during the summer to join Xiaomi. Xiaomi, in case you haven’t heard of them, is a Chinese handset maker that prides itself on making highly affordable devices, selling them online, and creating an Android skin called MIUI. Hugo’s boss, Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, recently gave an interview where he called the iPhone the best phone on the planet....
It has been more than a week since the Google Play edition Galaxy S4 started receiving the Android 4.4 KitKat update. Since the I9505 variant of the Galaxy S4 shares the same specs as the Google Play edition, it was just a matter of time before someone ported the GPe ROM to the I9505 variant of the S4. While the developers had some teething troubles in porting the ROM, all the issues are finally sorted and Galaxy S4 owners can enjoy the stock Android 4....
Karbonn Mobile’s company chairman Sudhir Hasija told the es of India that Microsoft has eased up regulations to open its platform up for other players. “ signed the agreement two days ago will launch a range of ndows phones in about three months,” he said. The ndows one-only devices will arrive before the dual-boot phones, but eventually Karbonn plans to pack them up with Android market them toward its business-centric, tech-savvy customers....
The main objective of this lab is to find evidence of Facebook activities from a volatile memory dump, and it’s all about knowing the format of the Facebook protocol used and that may appear in a RAM dump. Facebook can be in fact cached on disk / RAM, and an examiner could recover some evidence like the following: Comments Messages / Chats Contacts Finding out this requires identifying JSON protocol or HTML tags used for each kind of data....
It’s been a few years since Google announced Chrome OS, the Linux powered operating system that runs the company’s web browser and not much else. Since then we’ve seen various laptops powered by it, and even a small mini-computer with ports to connect your own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Today, LG is announcing that they’re going to take Chrome OS and slap it on an all-in-one PC. You know the kind I’m talking about, the screens that have all the guts buried in the back, à la Apple’s iMac....
Yesterday, a mysterious OTA update started rolling out for the LG G Watch that bumped the Android Wear build from KMV78V to KMV78Y. The update was not accompanied with any official changelog and did not bring any noticeable improvement as well, so most users were left wondering as to what it exactly did. It looks like the update is being rolled out by LG to fix the corrosion issues in the POGO charging pins that was reported by many G Watch users....
Another day, another LG G3 leak. However, this time the leak comes straight from an event in Korea where LG officially showcased the features and specs of the handset to Korean retailers. The specs seem to match up with what the leaks have suggested until now, with LG cramming the best available tech today inside a phone with relatively less bezel space than the competition. This means that the G3 will be sporting a 5....
In other words, Prime Day gave fraudsters a target-rich environment. It’s true. My wife and I were among those targeted. In our case, it wasn’t a phishing attack. The bad guys had already harvested some of our personal information. Sitrep (situation report) CHECKCARD AMAZON. COM AMZN.C SEATTLE WA ON 07/15 - $193.77 We found no legitimate charge and became convinced the charge was fraudulent. Our next step was to contact the bank’s fraud department....
ra added a baked-in arm Clock feature that was previously available only to iOS users. The app will wake you up to a station of your choice, along with album art scrolling in the background. You can then choose to keep listening to the station, or tap the snooze button to get anywhere between five 20 extra minutes more of shut eye. You can also dismiss the alarm if you’d rather sleep in that day....
It took American Express nine years after that to revolutionize the industry with the credit card imprint machine. If you were born after the mid-‘80s, you’ll probably not know that electronic readers didn’t exist. A copy of your card was made on paper. Fast-forward a few decades, and the paper method has become obsolete in favor of scanning, tapping and swiping. While simply holding your card near the reader is a great step forward, the technology comes with some danger....
If you are into video editing stuff, you might know the importance of a proper video editing tool. There’s no shortage of video editing tools on Windows 10, but most of them were complicated to use. This is the only reason why users look for ways to run mobile video editing apps on Windows PC. Compared to desktop video editing software, mobile video editing apps were simple and easy to use....
While the port brings a taste of Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Nexus 4, its the apps it packs that makes it more interesting. Unlike the Lollipop Developer preview for the Nexus 5 and 7, the leaked Nexus 6 ROM contains many Lollipop exclusive Google apps along with a Material makeover of some existing apps. This includes the new Messenger app, Google Fit and an updated version of Play Music, Gmail and Play Books with a Material makeover....
As security awareness practitioners, we need to be better than the criminals at influencing our employees’ behavior. Just like today’s digital marketing, customization is key. Tailoring your training and awareness program by employee role, responsibility and access can make it much more effective. Sound time consuming? It doesn’t have to be. Regardless of what training platform you use, you can take these steps to get the right training to the right person and be more effective....
To make a long story short, companies like Netflix need to jump through hoops to get the right to stream certain movies and shows. Often, another company will beat Netflix to the punch and buy the exclusive right to stream a show in a specific country. This means you can fall in love with a new show while you’re vacationing abroad, only to see it’s gone from your Netflix account once you return home....
Later today, OnePlus will be unveiling their much anticipated flagship killer for 2015 — the OnePlus 2. Over the last few weeks, the company has already revealed that the handset is going to be powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor, feature a fingerprint scanner, 4GB RAM, and more. With just a few hours left for the OnePlus 2 to be officially unveiled, the hype around the phone has reached its peak....
When Read Receipt is turned on, people will be notified when you read the messages they’ve sent you. Vice versa, if it’s turned on on their side, you will be notified when they read your text. It depends on how you look at them. Some people like these notifications because they give a sense of an immediate and urgent connection with others. Others hate them because they seem intrusive. The common denominator is that Read Receipts force people to reply back as soon as possible and it depends if you see this as a good or bad thing....
HP’s Android based tablets might not have met with success but that has not stopped the company from trying. Today, the company has released two tablets phablets with a 6-inch and 7-inch screen, respectively, that can also make phone calls and are meant for India. The Slate6 VoiceTab and Slate7 VoiceTab are powered by an unspecified quad-core (probably A7 based), pack 16GB of storage, HD cameras in the front and rear, front-facing stereo speakers, dual SIM slots and a microSD card slot....
That’s not the only new feature of the V10. It offers complete manual camera controls a new second screen feature. And although I’m not entirely sold on that second screen, I like ’s new smartphone. The V10 appears to be a solid phablet release I’m really looking forward to delving into those camera controls when we get the device in for review. For now, here’s a sneak peak at what it has to offer....
