The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group has banned the use of all smartphones in Barawe, Buula-burte, and Elbur areas of war-ravaged Somalia. Residents in these areas have been warned that if they are found with a smartphone they wil...
For a very long time, scientists have been looking for renewable sources of energy and researching ways for conservation of energy. While we may not have come across substantial gains in the science of energy conservation that cou...
A court in Washington, D.C. has ordered The US Department of Homeland Security to reveal details on exactly how “Standard Operating Procedure 303” works. With this procedure Homeland Security is able to shut down wirel...
The European Commission has just decided that they will allow the use of 3G and 4G networks vis-a-vis mobile devices during flights. This goes above and beyond the ability to use electronic devices during takeoff and landing ̵...
The American Federal Communication Commission (FCC) informed cellphone service companies to begin allowing customers to freely unlock their phones at the end of their contractual obligations. According to FCC chair Tom Wheeler, th...
If you’re a Firefox fan living in the U.S. hoping to get your hands on one of those Firefox smartphones running the Firefox OS, then you’re out of luck. Apparently, Mozilla has no plans at the moment to launch Firefox OS in Americ...
Motorola has announced the Moto G, an entry-level alternative to its flagship Moto X smartphone. The Moto X was already considered affordable compared to other high-end devices on the market, but the Moto G takes that idea even fu...
Smartphones and tablets with their apps have made many parts of life quite easy, but avid readers often complained that no such app has been released that caters to their needs. Nate Weiner, the founder of Pocket, has achieved jus...
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been known to monitor activity without anyone knowing about it. (Or, at least, without anyone knowing about it prior to Mr. Snowden’s leaks.) It’s the thing that has gotten them into so...
Through Gogo’s new Text and Talk service, it has become possible to text and even talk while on flights. The news, which was announced Friday by Gogo, indicated that those who wished to have the ability to text or talk while...
Many Android users swear by custom firmware CyanogenMod, and routinely go through the not-so-user-friendly process to get it installed (flashed) on their devices. That process has now been made easier with the release of the offic...
What keeps people hooked on smartphones are apps. As if people outside classrooms weren’t already addicted to apps, Google is taking a step further by launching Google Play for Education Store today. With Google Play for Edu...
Gartner, a firm that specializes in market research, predicts that in only a few years, businesses that adopt the use of Google Glass could be saving themselves up to a billion a year. With the range of things Google Glass is capa...
In today’s world, technology controls every part of our lives. It has encroached every realm of human thought and human life. The world has become quite centralized by technology; everything seems to be monitored or controll...
Internet is what the world revolves around these days. People don’t meet their friends physically everyday, but they talk through internet every day. Computers were used for chatting and for various other purposes, but now s...
