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How to install (or flash) ClockworkMod Recovery Touch on Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300)
ClockworkMod recovery is currently the most popular and extensive custom recovery tool for Android devices. The default Android recovery that comes with most Android devices is a bit basic in functionality and doesn’t offer many features that ClockworkMod serves a user with. Advanced backup and restore tools, USB mounting, SD [...]
[Android] What is ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery and why do we use it? [dotTech Explains]
What is ClockworkMod recovery?
When it comes to recovery for Android, ClockworkMod has been and still is the most famous and extensive custom recovery tool for Android devices. ClockworkMod, which is often abbreviated as CWM, is developed by Koushik Dutta, more popularly known as Koush. (Yes, he is the same [...]
Read More »Android tops smartphone sales in Q2 2012 with over 50% of sales
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has published details on the market share of different producers in the smartphone market. Android has broke all records as the second quarter of 2012 ended with Android smartphone sales claiming more than 50% of total smartphone sales.
The statistics, which was compiled by analyzing smartphone sales [...]
Read More »Amazon Kindle (Android) smartphone will have a 4 to 5 inches screen, according to The Wall Street Journal
We had earlier posted about the possibility of an Amazon smartphone when reports came out that Amazon has been trying to strike deals with some wireless device manufacturers to acquire the rights to wireless patents. However, we at that time we weren’t sure whether a Kindle smartphone was really brewing [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Surface tablets will have all iPad features
After Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this year, CEO Steve Ballmer, in an exclusive interview to CRN, said that Microsoft is looking forward to make life hard for Apple with the release of its Microsoft Surface tablets that are expected to hit the markets by late October.
Ballmer [...]
Read More »Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) comes to Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ devices
Putting a stop to the patient wait of Android users, Google has now announced that Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) has officially started rolling out for Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ users.
With some new and interesting features and add-ons, Jelly Bean had mostly received positive reviews from reviewers at the Google I/O [...]
Read More »Google Chrome 21 comes with native communication and cloud print support (without Flash)
In a move which most of the critics of rapid update cycle call to be one of those rare moments when major changes that really affect users get incorporated in an upgrade, Google Chrome has added native support for communication services such as webcam and microphone in its latest version [...]
Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface tablets to hit stores by the end of October
Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing the much awaited and anticipated Windows 8 operating system, along with the first Surface tablet(s) that Microsoft manufactures, by the end of October 2012. It isn’t immediately clear if October will see a global release of the products or if they will [...]
RapidShare unveils RapidDrive, a cloud storage service expected to rival Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, etc.
Hoping to make a stand in the cloud storage arena, RapidShare has stepped in with RapidDrive, a cloud storage service that will act as an active competitor for established services such as Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, etc.
Technically speaking RapidDrive isn’t a cloud storage service in of itself. The cloud [...]
Read More »BitTorrent Torque allows users to download torrents via web browser, no desktop client required
Torrent downloads and BitTorrent have been an the essential part Internet community. Several organizations rely on the services provided by BitTorrent to share downloads with other users by making use of the peer-to-peer protocol. As with any other service, or rather more than its fair share, BitTorrent also has a [...]
Firefox developer admits that everybody hates Firefox rapid updates
A Mozilla Firefox developer, Jono DiCarlo, has finally found the need to express his feelings as he posted a lengthy and well-written post which has triggered some quite interesting debates and discussions.
DiCarlo, in his blog post, points out that Firefox got it all wrong by trying to mimic the [...]
Read More »Facebook is launching targeted mobile ads based on app usage data (i.e. personal user data)
It’s not the first time that we are hearing about the social networking giant trying to peep into the lives of its users. This time around Facebook is planning is to track the usage statistics and characteristics of mobile apps that Facebook users install on their devices to provide users [...]
Europeans can finally legally resell used software
The European Union Court of Justice has upheld the right of users to resell software irrespective of their license restrictions. The court made its decision in a ruling against Oracle’s argument that the court should allow it to make provisions in the End User License Agreement (EULA) to disallow the [...]
Netflix users clock 1 billion hours of video playback in June, breaks all known and humane records
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has made a Facebook post mentioning that the Netflix subcribers watched a total of more than about 1 billion hours of video during June 2012, making it a first time in the history for Netflix:
Congrats to Ted Sarandos, and his amazing content licensing team. Netflix
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Thousands will lose Internet connectivity from July 9; but fix is easy
Thousands of Internet users are expected to face an Internet blackout from July 9, 2012 (this coming Monday). Whom will be affected, you ask? The users who’s machines are infected by the DNSChanger malware.
DNSChanger is a piece of malware developed by six Estonian cybercriminals. Over the past five years [...]
Read More »Amazon is planning to build a Kindle (Android) smartphone
After the success of the Kindle Fire, it has just been reported that Amazon is planning to set its foot into the smartphone manufacturing arena. Bloomberg notes that the news comes from ‘trusted sources’, who have been engaged with Amazon’s activities related to the planning of an Android smartphone, presumably [...]
Fat Thumb lets you “multi-touch” using a single finger on smartphones or tablets
Have you ever wished you had an extra hand so that you could do those multi-touch operations on your smartphone or tablet (i.e. use two hands) while you had your other hand busy, carrying baggage or those odd stuffs? Have you ever spilled coffee on your phone or dropped your [...]
Apple vs HTC: UK judge invalidates Apple patents, rules HTC doesn’t infringe
Recently, a US court had ruled out Apple’s request to bring an emergency ban on the import of HTC devices in the country, which Apple claimed to have violated a number of Apple’s patents. At the same time, Apple had filed lawsuits against HTC in UK and Germany (the German [...]
Want free but ad-supported mobile Internet? Now you can get it… if you live in the UK
Free internet is one of the ideas which is most liked by Internet users but one which has failed most of the time it has been tried in different forms in different countries. The focus is now on UK, where Samba has just launched a free advertising-supported 3G Internet service [...]
Google Nexus Q teardown shows it is not “entirely” made in USA
We had earlier reported Google Nexus Q is made in USA. The details of Nexus Q were revealed at the Google I/O 2012 developers conference last week, courtesy of a “Designed and Manufactured in USA” tag at the bottom of the device. Obviously Google’s move to manufacture Nexus Q in [...]
Read More »Italy forces Apple to either provide free 2 year warranty or risk closure of operations
It is customary for companies to provide consumers with free one year warranties on electronic gadgets. Italian law dictates companies must provide consumers with free two year warranties on products. Apple seems to not want to comply with Italian law. Apple has previously been fined by the Italian AGCM competition [...]
Google patents the ability to identify faces in videos
In today’s Facebook world, tagging faces/people in photos is nothing extraordinary. But what about videos? That, is seems, is Google’s territory. Google has recently acquired a patent for identifying persons in video content, a patent that can potentially give the search giant an ace in the hole in the arena [...]
Read More »Google Now shows off its brilliance in a series of 47 questions, proves it can challenge Siri
Google Now is a fresh feature added in Android 4.1 platform (Jelly Bean), first put to display in the Google I/O 2012 developers conference. An obvious Siri challenger, some were skeptical of how well Google Now would perform while others were confident in Google’s ability to pound out a useful [...]
Read More »Apple vs HTC: Apple’s request to ban HTC devices (again) has failed
Apple is a name that has been in the headlines for quite some time now, with Apple seemingly trying to sue all the possible Android manufacturers. “Apple vs HTC” had recently seen a US court blocking HTC from using the patents assigned to it by Google.
The latest development in [...]
Read More »Request to lift ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus denied; Google and Samsung have a fix in the works
Acting on the lawsuit filed by Apple against Samsung accusing the latter to have violated Apple’s intellectual property, last week a US court judge, Lucy Koh, had granted an injunction, banning the sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the US.
Samsung, of course, filed an appeal against this ban. The [...]
Read More »Gingerbread is the most used Android platform; Ice Cream Sandwich currently third with 10.9% share
Android Developers Dashboard has been updated with the usage details of different Android platforms by users. Primarily prepared to be a reference for developers to help decide on their future programming plans, the newly published chart show that Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is currently the most used Android platform.
Gingerbread tops [...]
Read More »Apple pays $60 million to finally own “iPad”
We have been witnessing a number of lawsuits being filed by Apple all over the globe against its competitors; an action which has been getting bad comments from all over, with even a section of the lawyers blaming the system and other lawyers for providing patents for silly things and [...]
Firefox OS is an open source mobile OS based on HTML5 by Mozilla
If you have been following Mozilla or Firefox closely, you might have already been familiar to the “Boot to Gecko” project by Mozilla. Mozilla has been working on a mobile operating system that is intended to be synonymous to complete freedom. As a result, Mozilla is now in the final [...]
Windows 7 is the most used OS, has over 50% market share
With Windows 8 on the horizon, Windows 7 has become the most used operating system in the world, recently surpassing the 50% mark in June 2012.
According to StatCounter, Windows 7 had overtaken Windows XP back in the mid-September 2011 to become the most used operating system. However at that [...]
Read More »VLC officially arrives on Android
VLC media player, one of the most loved media players that has been around for sometime as many desktop users’ default video player application, has now been officially ported to Android. VLC had earlier been ported to Android by some unofficial sources and while those ports get get quite a [...]
Gmail introduces ability to set custom image as background
Gmail had already introduced the ability to use different themes for inboxes back in 2008. In an official blog post by Greg Bullock, a Software Engineer at Google, said that Gmail is now rolling out more customisability to the Gmail interface.
Gmail users will now have the ability to select [...]
Read More »Google Analytics goes mobile, releases app for Android, allows developers to track app stats
Google Analytics has been and still is one of the best tools for advertisers, developers, as well as webmasters for analysing user activity to provide better content and services to users; and to generate statistical data for products and services.
As many Android developers have been requesting, Google has now [...]
Read More »Verizon introduces data sharing plans with unlimited talk and text [USA]
Verizon Wireless (a USA telecom company) has kept its promise of providing ‘Share everything’ plans for their users. What makes these new plans different than other plans is they come with unlimited talk and text and shared data; that is to say, data that is shared among all devices attached [...]
Facebook’s ‘@facebook.com’ e-mail change results in lost e-mails and corrupted address books
As Ashraf had reported on June 26th, Facebook had changed the e-mail address of all its users to ‘@facebook.com’ from the original primary e-mail address. The move did bring in lots of criticism from all classes of Facebook users and it was also condemned by a large number of dotTechies, [...]
Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and many other Amazon customers hit by severe electric storms
It was once again proved that no online service can be relied on 100%, regardless of how big that service may be. Amazon’s cloud services, which are a major competitor in cloud computing, were hit by severe storms (natural) which resulted in a number of popular online services going offline [...]