Articles for July 2014

In line with changes to consolidate and simplify the Google privacy policy, Microsoft has been busy updating their own policies lately. The most recent update made a few things much clearer for users of the various Microsoft web sites and apps. ... Read more

LG's KizON wristband is a Wi-Fi and GPS equipped gadget with 36 hour battery life, 125MB Rom and 64MB RAM and most importantly, with One Step Direct Call feature. ... Read more

One of the main Chinese broadcasters labeled iPhone as a threat to national security. ... Read more

In order to promote aviation security, Homeland Security and the US Transportation Security Administration enhance security procedures on flights to the US, and the new set of rules doesn't allow uncharged and turned off smartphones aboard planes. ... Read more

One of the most useful features in the entire history of Windows OS, is System Restore. This can be used to remedy a variety of different situations, such as a faulty driver that prevents your system from running properly. ... Read more

The ongoing battle for smart phone dominance rages on with Samsung taking a pot-shot at Apple's iPhone history of poor battery life. Their latest advert for the Samsung Galaxy S5 shows supposed Apple users tied to the wall charing their iPhone 5S. ... Read more

With the ongoing race for improvement in the digital device space, each year devices are released with better features. 2013 was the year of 1080p “Full HD” and 4G LTE communications. 2014 may be the year of the LG G3. ... Read more

Microsoft is running into technical difficulties with its Azure cloud hosting platform due to a lack of available IPv4 IP-based addresses to assign. Customers have started noticing that the IP addresses for cloud servers are not in the USA. ... Read more

Eager to step out from the shadow of its ever popular Mozilla Firefox web browser, the Mozilla organization is stepping boldly into OS apps that run on Android as well as its own upcoming Firefox OS. ... Read more

Trying to avoid censorship, access websites for adults, contact your source for another big article, or protect your location from an abusive partner? NSA has you marked, analyzed and labeled. ... Read more

The Chinese jailbreaking team Pangu (also on Twitter) released their iOS 7.x jailbreak on 23 June this year. The jailbreak is now at version 1.1.0 and works on iOS 7.x including the latest iOS 7.1.2. ... Read more

It used to be that when a new Apple iOS operating system was released to much fanfare at a developer conference, the audience was wowed with a sense of everything being so clever and so new. Not anymore. ... Read more

Malwarebytes is digging deeper than their previous software offerings by looking for ways to offer more. Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit is their answer to the risks of modern applications running within Windows being weak points for hackers. ... Read more

Google has a secret project in the works that presently is going by the name, Quantum Paper UI. The intention behind this project is to help unify how apps will look in the future across Android, iOS, web sites regardless of form factor or platform. ... Read more

Amazon.com continues its march into all areas of online retail and consumer hardware offerings with their Amazon Fire phone device. This will initially be launched on the AT&T US cellular phone network with other networks surely to follow. ... Read more