It’s not quite ready for prime time, but Google’s early efforts to compete with Twitch look promising. Rumors of Google’s intent to compete directly with Twitch have finally started to wander into reality through an upcoming service called YouTube Gaming. The goal is to be be quite similar to YouTube…
Asus to launch the Zenfone 2 Deluxe, Zenfone 2 Laser, Zenfone Selfie, Zenfone Max Android phones in India
What’s more exciting than the launch of a new Android smartphone? The launch of a whole bunch of new Android smartphones, of course! At its ZenFestival in Delhi, India, Asus showed off the latest additions to its ZenFone family of Android handsets. These are the stylish Zenfone 2 Deluxe, the camera-centric…
Your Android phone’s battery life could allow it to be tracked across different sites
A feature belonging to the HTML5 Battery Status API allows a website to know how much battery life is remaining on a device being used to visit it. The feature reveals battery life remaining for devices using the Chrome, Firefox or the Opera browsers. Among the data revealed by the…
Hackers can remotely lift fingerprints from Android devices, but not Apple’s Touch ID
The annual Black Hat Security Conference offers a chance for hackers and security gurus to gather and share their latest finds. With a number of new smartphones having been announced over the past week and more on the way very shortly, Black Hat might have slipped under your radar. For…
Apple fans go wild over Android 5.0
Apple fans are going wild over Android 5.0. A Dutch humor troupe took an Apple iPhone, dressed it up with Android 5.0, and told people walking down the street that they were looking at iOS 9. One iPhone user said that iOS 9 (really Android 5.0) made things easier once…
Apple fans go wild over Android 5.0
Apple fans are going wild over Android 5.0. A Dutch humor troupe took an Apple iPhone, dressed it up with Android 5.0, and told people walking down the street that they were looking at iOS 9. One iPhone user said that iOS 9 (really Android 5.0) made things easier once…
Google commits to launching Android security updates for Nexus devices once per month
Following the recent discovery of the Stagefright vulnerability, Google today announced that, from now on, it’s going to roll out over the air security updates to its Nexus devices once per month (in addition to platform updates, whenever these are ready). The following Nexus models are included here: Nexus 4,…
This Nintendo smartphone concept packs 4G LTE, runs on Android and can even read DS cartridges
If you’ve long dreamed of a day when Nintendo brought out its very own gaming-focused smartphone, then a new concept created by German design firm CURVED/labs may seem torturous. With a 4.5-inch display, 64 GB of on-board storage and running on Google’s Android, the ‘WiiPhone’ isn’t particularly striking at first…
Samsung announces plans to launch monthly Android security patches
In the wake of the Stagefright vulnerability discovery, Samsung has just announced that it will soon launch a new Android security update process. In a nutshell, this is Samsung’s plan to make sure that Android vulnerabilities are being patched as soon as possible, without the delay that usually occurs between the…
Apps and tools every Android power user should have on their device #2
Last week, we showed you some of the fundamental apps for Android power users. Just as we told you back then, pushing the limits of the OS with an app might sound like something “too good to be true” to the regular and uninitiated Android user, but with Android, anything…