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Microsoft Patent Could Turn Your Entire Phone Into a Screen Microsoft Patent Could Turn Your Entire Phone Into a Screen

The market for smartphone cases is huge. So huge, in fact, that there is even room for an iPhone condom holder case. But what if you didn’t need to buy a case to show the world that you are a …

X-Ray Vision Could Soon Be Coming To Your Smartphone X-Ray Vision Could Soon Be Coming To Your Smartphone
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Were you ever fooled by those stupid X-ray glasses as a kid? You know the kind, the glasses with the hypnoswirl lenses that promised you would be able to see through anything. That kind of stuff never went anywhere, but …

Android App Developers Like Action Movies [Infographic] Android App Developers Like Action Movies [Infographic]
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Android development has had a rough time of it over the past few weeks. There’s been reports of developers jumping ship and just losing interest in the platform. All this information has come from surveys that looked into developer interest …

Android Malware Being Spread By Text Messages Android Malware Being Spread By Text Messages
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Android is pretty great, but we all have to admit – the operating system is pretty vulnerable to malware. One of the latest and particularly nasty attempts at infecting users was through a seemingly legitimate copy of Angry Birds Space. …

Cross-Screen Ads on TVs, Mobile Devices Increase Ad Potency Cross-Screen Ads on TVs, Mobile Devices Increase Ad Potency

People who grow up with mobile technology might not be able to pay attention to anybody else or anything for a sustained amount of time, but there’s certainly one thing they’re noticing when they’re juggling between electronic devices: ads. A …

Transparent Devices On the Horizon Transparent Devices On the Horizon

Want a see-through cellphone you can wrap around your wrist? Such a thing may be possible before long, according to Rice University chemist James Tour, whose lab has developed transparent, flexible memories using silicon oxide as the active component. In …

Growing Up With Mobile Technology Dampens Your Emotional Radar Growing Up With Mobile Technology Dampens Your Emotional Radar
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Right now is one of those peculiar moments in human development where generations can be divided into a before-and-after category with regard to a significant development in technology. Immediately, all people alive these days will fall into one of two …

Smartphones & Tablets Go Hand & Hand With TV Smartphones & Tablets Go Hand & Hand With TV

Nielsen just released the results of their study on smartphones and tablets and how often we use them in conjunction with television watching. They looked at users behavior in the US, UK, Germany, and Italy. I think what they found, …

Smartphone Popularity Linked To Increase Of Identity Theft Smartphone Popularity Linked To Increase Of Identity Theft

Face it: the world has been changed by the omnipresent pocket bulge known as a smartphone. Once upon a time, people indexed phone numbers of their friends into nature’s smartphone, i.e., your brain, but seriously, can you actually recite a …

Share The Android Dev Console With Your Team Share The Android Dev Console With Your Team

The Android team provides developers a nifty dev console where team leader can track various metrics of their app. This allows them to see how the app is doing while being able to manage various specifics all from one place. …

Half US Wireless Subscribers are on Smartphones Half US Wireless Subscribers are on Smartphones

Nielsen has revealed their latest numbers for smartphone usage and we have officially reached the 50% mark. Last year in february, the number of smartphone users was only at 36%. Essentially, almost 70% of all new cell phone wireless plan …

Canada Surpasses 10 Million Smartphone Users Canada Surpasses 10 Million Smartphone Users

According to a report by eMarketer, smartphone users in Canada will surpass 10 million in 2012, while the penetration rate will grow closer to 50%. eMarketer also predicts that Canada will rival the U.S. in smartphone users, in regards to …

NCAA Tournament’s 1st Round Sent 20% Of Web Traffic To Mobile Devices NCAA Tournament’s 1st Round Sent 20% Of Web Traffic To Mobile Devices
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The math of the NCAA Tournament isn’t really on the side of the basketball fans, especially in the first round of the tournament: 32 games, several of which are played simultaneously, for 1 pair of frenzied, starving eyes. Unless you …

Ads In Mobile Apps Could Pose Security Risk Ads In Mobile Apps Could Pose Security Risk

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that including ads in mobile applications (apps) poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official Google Play market, researchers noticed that more than half contained …

Smartphone Owners Want Larger Screens Smartphone Owners Want Larger Screens
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Remember back in the good old days when everybody was wanting to make all of our cellphones smaller? People want them to get bigger again, or says a new survey. The fine people at Strategy Analytics just published a report …

Wi-Fi Only – Hold The Apples Please! Wi-Fi Only – Hold The Apples Please!
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In a recent poll of prospective tablet buyers a significant percentage of respondents, over 18%, said they planned on buying a tablet not manufactured by Apple. This is surprising given the buzz around the New iPad, and the $100 price …

Toilet Texting and You [Infographic] Toilet Texting and You [Infographic]

How many of you take your smartphone with you when you go to the bathroom? How many of you text while relieving yourself? Don’t lie, because if the upcoming infographic is true, a lot more of you do than don’t. …

High-Tech Crapper Via Smartphone High-Tech Crapper Via Smartphone

Devices like smartphones and tablets have made the web more accessible for everyone. Many of us spend hours reading emails, shopping for products, scanning social networks and countless other things that don’t need mentioning here. But one thing we will …

Smartphones Continue To Grow In Popularity Smartphones Continue To Grow In Popularity

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that smartphones continue to grow in popularity. A new study by Pew research reveals the ownership trends in different demographics. Overall American ownership of smartphones stands at 46%. Interestingly, this number is larger …

Mobile Ads Don’t Motivate Americans To Make Purchases Mobile Ads Don’t Motivate Americans To Make Purchases

According to the latest research from Nielsen, American consumers were least likely to make purchases online after viewing mobile ads. Only 20 percent of Americans owning smartphones made purchases on after seeing an ad. As a comparison, In German, 34 …

Americans are More Likely to Use Tablets for Making Purchases Americans are More Likely to Use Tablets for Making Purchases

New research from Nielsen has found that smartphone and tablet owners from the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany are more apt to make online purchases on their PCs after viewing ads on their mobile devices than Americans. Italians were the …