Category: Mobile
Twitter Tightens Security Measures To Counter Account Hacking
Twitter announced on Wednesday that they will start implementing new security measures to counter hacking following several high-profile breaching in the past few months. The popular messaging service said that they are going to implement a new verification method when a user signs in, which was specified as a form of two-factor authentication. The new [...]
Facebook Looking To Dominate On Android Phones With Their “Home”
Facebook is looking to take centerstage in the mobile computing market not with their own phone, but a heavily tweaked Android operating system that was unveiled by the company on Thursday. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled what they called “Facebook Home” or a collection of applications that focus around the social networking website, [...]
Two Steve Jobs Era iPhones Set to be Released Soon
The next two versions of the iPhone may have been developed during the time of Steve Jobs, a report in the San Francisco Examiner said. If the report is to be believed, it said that Apple’s government liaison Michael Foulkes admitted that the next two iPhones that will be released by the Cupertino company “preceded [...]
iPad Mini Trademark Application Of Apple Denied By US Patent Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office denied the trademark application of Apple for their highly-popular iPad mini tablet, citing that the Cupertino-based company submitted a weak argument. In a decision that was penned earlier this year but was just published recently, the US Patent and Trademark Office gave Apple until July 24 to submit [...]
Saudi Arabia Looking To End Twitter Users Anonymity
The government of Saudi Arabia looks dead serious in its bid to crack down social networking website as recent reports suggested that they are mulling ending anonymity of for Twitter users in the country. The Arab News Daily reported that the government is looking to limit the access to the popular social networking site only [...]
BlackBerry Chief Says 100,000 Native Apps Will Be Available In Time For US Launch
BlackBerry is lagging behind their competitors when it comes to the number of available applications for their device, but company CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the number of apps will grow soon. In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Heins promised that the number of apps in their BlackBerry App World will reach the [...]
Samsung Admits It’s Working On Smart Watches
While rumors have been flying around about smart watches for quite some time now, this one is different as it comes straight from Samsung mobile, executive vice president Lee Young Hee. During an interview with Bloomberg Hee admitted that the South Korean electronics giant has been working on a smart watch for a very long time. “We’ve [...]
Support For Windows Phone 8 & Windows Phone 7.8 Ends Next Year
Microsoft has published in its support page that support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 mobile operating systems will end in 2014. The decision to end support depends on Microsoft’s End of Lifecycle policy, which it describes as follows “Microsoft will make updates available for the Operating System on your phone, including security [...]
Angry Birds Toons Animated Series Debuting On March 16
After moving on to Angry Birds merchandise and physical games Rovio Entertainment is now ready to take the next big step. The franchise has announced that the coming weekend will see the premier of Angry Birds Toons, an animated series based on the two warring factions, the birds and the pigs. On March 16th [...]
Sony Xperia Tablet Z with LTE landing in Japan on March 22nd
Sony has given the tablet world a very good competition. it has set really high bars when it comes to tablet hardware with it Xperia Tablet Z. The company announced the tablet in Japan in late January. It was exclusive to Japan for some time, but recently at the Mobile World Congress event, the company [...]