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You may have felt bombarded with permissions and other privacy management concerns almost all the time. Permission to access contacts list. Permission to access photo library. Permission to use location information. Permission to use email login information. Quite frankly, you may be feeling kind of overwhelmed already.
Not many may realize this, but Skype, one of the most popular chat messaging platforms existing in the world today, is actually not a decade old. To celebrate its birthday, the company has revealed that it will be offering group video calling on mobile devices powered by Android, iOS, and even Windows 10 for Mobile, absolutely free of charge.
Samsung has published its financial projections for the last quarter of 2015, and it appears that the South Korean tech giant is still continuing to recover. However, its latest numbers did not do well enough to meet expectations set by industry analysts. In its report, the company stated that it is expecting to post a profit in the amount of $5.1 billion on total revenues of $44 billion for the final three months of 2015.
Both Facebook and Google are at the top of their games, with Facebook the undisputed king of social media while Google lording over the search engine arena. Now, as both companies are trying to expand beyond their respective milieus, some conflict was bound to happen as their interests begin to overlap with each other’s. Of course, as this intensifies, perhaps the first casualty would be their business relationship -- everybody knows that Facebook’s mobile app for the Android platform is currently available at the search giant’s Play Store.
Over the past several months, various new smartwatch offerings that are powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system for wearable devices have been launched in the market. Some of these smartwatches run the gamut from the tech focused (Motorola's Moto 360 and the Huawei Watch), to the fashionable (the Tag Heuer Connected Watch and the Fossil Q Founder).
Google has just announced that it will be donating up to a million dollars to certain projects centered on special education, in collaboration with nonprofit DonorsChoose.org. This is part of the tech giant’s efforts to kickstart Android Pay, the mobile payment system that the company developed and launched in the United States in September earlier this year.
Some Android users may already be familiar with Opera Max. It is a mobile app that basically helps owners of Android powered devices to minimize their data usage across various apps and services on their handset. Well, today the creators of the app have introduced a new feature, which music lovers will no doubt be delighted to hear about.
Google is offering a mobile users a way in which they can still enjoy using mobile apps but without needing to download them on their mobile devices. So how does this work exactly? To illustrate, here is a scenario: If a mobile user searches for hotels with the use of Google’s mobile app on a smartphone running on the tech giant’s Android mobile operating system, he will basically be offered search results from various sources around the Internet. However, the user will also see information displayed from mobile apps such as Hotel Tonight, for instance.
Microsoft had announced earlier that Cortana, its personal assistant (the company’s answer to Apple’s Siri and Google Now), would try to go head to head with the competition by offering cross platform support, including via both Android and iOS.
According to a new study conducted by University of Cambridge from the United Kingdom, almost 90 percent of all Android powered mobile devices are at risk because of the Android device makers’ failure to deliver patches.
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