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Feb 5, 2014

Five of the best Android apps made for your child and family

Charles West

If you're a parent like myself, then you'll be able to relate to the importance to having apps made with your child in mind. Luckily, there are many Android apps that fit the

ANDROID PHONES

Feb 4, 2014

Moto X Gallery ported to Nexus 5

Rajesh Pandey

Towards the end of January, Motorola released their updated Gallery app for the Moto X and other DROIDs on the Play Store with a completely new UI and new features.Since the Moto X itself

APPS

Feb 4, 2014

Instagram for Android gets an unofficial Holo makeover

Rajesh Pandey

With Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Google Holo'fied Android and gave developers a design guidelines to follow for their apps. Since then, most of the popular apps on the Play Store have received

APPS

Feb 3, 2014

Leaked screenshots show Samsung’s S Health app with flatter interface

Charles West

New leaked screenshots show Samsung's updated S Health app with a flatter user interface. The new images surfaced on the web thanks to mobile site, Sammobile. Judging from the captured photos, the fitness application'

APPS

Feb 2, 2014

Chainfire’s Pry-Fi prevents Wi-Fi based location tracking and data mining

Rajesh Pandey

Recently, there has been quite an uproar about the breach of privacy in the technology world. According to Chainfire, the developer of SuperSU and other popular apps on the Play Store, it is very much

APPS

Jan 29, 2014

BlackBerry Messenger to add support for an ancient version of Android next month

Stefan Constantinescu

Mobile messaging apps are a dime a dozen. Chances are you have at least one installed on your phone, whether that be WhatsApp or Viber or LINE or Google Hangouts. BlackBerry is considered to be

APPS

Jan 28, 2014

Twitter updates the Android app, makes uploading photos easier, surfaces new tweets

Stefan Constantinescu

Twitter has just pushed out an update to their Android app that sadly doesn't fix the difficult to look at user interface, but hey, at least they added two new features. The first is

APPS

Jan 27, 2014

Pushbullet hits version 13.2, now syncs your Android notification drawer with Chrome

Stefan Constantinescu

Pushbullet is one of those few applications that I can't stop raving about it. When it launched however many years ago, it let you push whatever website you were looking in Chrome to your

ANDROID PHONES

Jan 24, 2014

Pedometer uses the Nexus 5 built-in hardware to count the steps you have walked

Rajesh Pandey

A relatively unknown feature that Google has introduced in Android 4.4 KitKat and Nexus 5 is an in-built pedometer. Like the iPhone 5s, the Nexus 5 has a dedicated motion co-processor that

ANDROID TABLETS

Jan 22, 2014

3 games that I’m currently playing on the Nexus 7

Rajesh Pandey

I was never really into playing games on my Android devices until I got the Nexus 7 late last year. The 7-inch form factor combined with an excellent display and all that horsepower under

APPS

Jan 22, 2014

Datzing wants to be iBeacon for Android

Stefan Constantinescu

Apple launched something called iBeacon last summer that allows store owners, museums, anyone really, to interact with iPhones via Bluetooth low energy. So say you have an iPhone in your pocket and you're in

APPS

Jan 22, 2014

Motorola’s Moto Migrate app gets updated, it can now copy iCloud data to your Android phone

Stefan Constantinescu

Pretend you're an iPhone user for a second. You want to switch to Android for one of a multitude reasons, so you've started doing some research, finding replacements for your most used apps,

APPS

Jan 21, 2014

Next version of Android will break most of the root apps

Rajesh Pandey

With Android 4.3 and Android 4.4, Google made it tough for root access to work properly, thanks to some major underlying security changes and SELinux. It looks like the next version of Android

APPS

Jan 20, 2014

Xposed module brings transparent lock screen to your Android device

Rajesh Pandey

Xposed framework and its modules have been among the greatest innovation of the Android community in recent times. The framework when coupled with modules can bring nearly all the features that we see in a

APPS

Jan 17, 2014

OUYA founder leaves, interpret that as you will

Stefan Constantinescu

Remember OUYA and how there was a time when some people seriously believed that cheap Android powered consoles would take over gaming and disrupt the incumbents, Sony and Microsoft? Yeah, those were the days. According

APPS

Jan 16, 2014

Rdio for the web gets in-stream messages, now free in US

Kelly Hodgkins

Competition in the streaming music scene is heating up. Spotify has been making its service more affordable and soon we will have a heavyweight like Beats music kicking off its own service in the next

APPS

Jan 16, 2014

Video: Samsung launches “Eyes on the Road” in attempt to reduce distraction induced accidents

Stefan Constantinescu

It's Thursday afternoon, you're driving home from work, and you get a text message. For some strange reason, you think that said text message is more important than controlling a two thousand kilogram

APPS

Jan 16, 2014

Pandora updates its Android app with Personalized Station Recommendations

Kelly Hodgkins

Pandora is known for its ability to take your favorite artists and build a station that is suited to your personal taste in music. Now, a new feature expands upon these recommendations by offering you