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Newt Gingrich, American politican, does not know what “smartphone” is [Video]
Newt Gingrich, the guy who ran for president in 2012, is “really puzzled” and cannot decide “to call [smart cell phones] a ‘cell phone’ or a ‘handheld computer’”. How about “smartphone”, buddy?
Read More »![Trying to find your phone by calling it… using your phone [Comic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/05/lost_phone_oops_Comic-290x160.png)
BlackBerry CEO thinks in five years BlackBerry will be leading mobile, no one will have tablets
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins doesn’t appear to be a very big fan of Apple’s iPad. Or even the company’s own PlayBook for that matter. In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO made a couple of interesting comments about the state of industry and where he sees BlackBerry in a [...]
Read More »The MorePhone alters its physical body shape to notify you of new call, message, email, etc.
Imagine this, you’re sitting at your desk and you have your new paper thin smartphone clearly visible in front of you. It’s on silent, so it will emit no noise nor will it vibrate because it’s too thin to include a motor. How will you know when you receive a [...]
Read More »Phone and charger are as important as food and shelter? [Comic]
![Phone and charger are as important as food and shelter? [Comic]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/04/phone_and_charger_comic-290x160.jpg)
People in the past used to worry about food and shelter. Us? We care about our phone and its charger.
Read More »This unique smartphone technology can triangulate the source of gunfire
Hypothetically speaking, let’s say law enforcement receives information about a potential threat at an event. The source of the threat turns out to be a rogue sniper, who fires a weapon from afar. Being able to pinpoint the exact location from where the gunfire originated is going to take some [...]
Read More »For the first time ever, smartphones have outsold feature phones worldwide
According to industry analyst IDC’s recent sales data, the first quarter of 2013 has a very significant statistic. Smartphones have finally outsold feature phones (cell phones that are not smartphones but do more than just calls and texts — basically all non-smartphone cell phones) worldwide. However, the lead is very [...]
Read More »Samsung is a genius [Opinion]
When Samsung launched the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note in 2011, it was widely labeled as too large by tech pundits around the web. However, Galaxy Note was a hit for Samsung and helped spur the “phablet” genre, smartphones that are larger than normal smartphones but smaller than tablets. With the announcement [...]
Read More »![Awesome graphic illustrations of how we are imprisoned by technology [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/04/mouse_prison-290x160.jpg)
More adults text while driving than teenagers, according to AT&T survey
Last month we posted results of study by the American Center for Disease Control that said roughly one in every three Americans text/email while driving, with Europeans not far behind. Now a new survey suggests more adults text or email while driving than teens.
According to AT&T’s ‘Commuter Survey’ and [...]
Read More »The first cellphone was invented 40 years ago
Can anyone take a guess as to when cellphones were invented? Well it is hard to say exactly because of ongoing research and development that took place in companies and the military. However, we do know the first ever cellphone call was made on the first ever cellphone on April [...]
Read More »![What would you do if someone smashed your new smartphone? [Video]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/03/2013-03-26_225111-290x160.png)
More people in the world have cellphones than the number of people who have access to toilets
Here’s a potentially disturbing statistic from a UN report, depending on how you think about it. There are currently more people in the world that have cellphones than people with access to toilets. There are 7 billion people in the world. 6 billion of them have cellphones. Only 4.5 billion [...]
Read More »Our next smartphones might have displays made of sapphire
The crystalline form of aluminum oxide, sapphire, might be what covers the screen of your next smartphone. A report out of the MIT Technology Review says that sapphire could compete with Corning’s Gorilla Glass which is currently being used in most phone’s displays, in the very near future.
Right now, [...]
Read More »![What teachers do when they confiscate the phone of a student [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/03/confiscated_phone-290x160.jpg)
![Ever notice younger and younger kids are getting cellphones? [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/03/2013-03-17_032125-290x160.png)
Ubuntu for phones announced, first devices launching in 2014
The mobile OS market has a new challenger — Canonical has unveiled the mobile version of Ubuntu, with plans to launch devices in early 2014. Ubuntu for phones is “Mobile industry ready,” meaning it will be easy for Android makers to adapt the OS and run it on their Android [...]
Read More »Cell phone carriers are charging customers for data they don’t use, according to a study
No one on a capped data plan wants to go over their monthly — or daily or whatever — limit because overage charges are often extreme. So you would think carriers would have a system in place to ensure accurate counting of data usage,. Yeah, not so much. According to [...]
Read More »FBI was not hacked by AntiSec/Anonymous for iOS UDIDs — BlueToad, a software publisher, was
AntiSec may have frog in throat over FBI hacking claims.
When hacking group AntiSec claimed last week that they’d hacked into an FBI agent’s computer and stolen millions of iOS unique device identifyers (UDIDs), the FBI immediately denied ever having the information in question:
The FBI is aware of published
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Ads make more money on iOS than on Android, according to study by Opera
Advertising is a strong source of revenue for many digital products, may that be blogs, online magazines and newspapers, or apps. So it goes without saying publishers (websites owners, app developers, etc.) want to be able to monetize the best possible way they can. According to a study conducted by [...]
Read More »Mac owners pay more to stay at hotels, click on more ads, and bargain less than PC owners
Mac users have always been considered to be a class above the common PC users, with Mac symbolizing the status of its user; at least in the perspective of a section of the population. It may be ‘pride’ that has now made Mac users specifically targeted by service providers to [...]
Use Samsung TecTiles to automagically execute tasks on your Android device
NFC (Near Field Communication) is a set of standards which allows users to communicate between a pair of devices which have the feature enabled; by just touching or bringing both close to each other. While the technology and handsets around NFC are just starting to become [...]
iOS apps crash more than Android apps, according to a study
In the seemingly never ending fight between iSheep and Fandroids, the main crux of the “debate” usually ends up around the operating system, with each side claiming to have the better one. Is one better than the other? We likely will never find out seeing as we haven’t even defined [...]
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