2015 is inching closer each day, and as this year draws to an end you will find the best of 'everything' of 2014 - be it apps, cars, cosmetics, movies etc. - on the Internet. As websites try and wrap up their best efforts of this year, Google is not going to wait for any acknowledgement as the search engine giant has released its own "Best Apps of 2014" list.
Motorola is running a Cyber Monday 2014 deal on its flagship smartphone of this year, the Moto X second-generation. Moto X is widely regarded as one of the best smartphones around, and while it was great at full price, it's about to become even better.
With $130 worth of free Android apps floating about at the moment courtesy of Amazon, it's a great time to own a device running Google's mobile software. As it transpires, the Black Friday bonanza also means that it's a pretty decent time to upgrade your hardware, and if you want to snap up a new Android smartphone, we've scoured the Web to source some of the very best deals going.
So, with Thanksgiving now upon us, it's likely that many of you have already spent a great deal on new smartphones, tablets, and of course, food and drink. But app devs are also joining in the shenanigans of today and the rest of the weekend, making huge price cuts that allow app shoppers to snap up some incredible bargains, and having just brought you a long list of paid iOS apps gone free, we're back with another run-down of Android apps to be had at no cost.
The White House has announced that President Obama has signed the E-Label Act which will now allow all electronics manufacturers to place digital stamps of certification labels on their devices as required by the FCC, instead of the usual physical etching on the product itself.
Google has a history of packing in small little surprises from time to time in some of its services. Android users wouldn't be too new to the whole Easter Egg feature which Google hides away in its mobile platform, but did you know that it cleverly packed in a fun little gem in the Chrome browser? It's a retro styled game if you were wondering.
Flagship mobile products tend to outsell those preceding year-on-year, but in the case of Samsung's Galaxy S5, it's struggling to eclipse the achievements of the Galaxy S4. Having been launched at the Mobile World Congress back in February to a mixed reception, it enjoyed solid early sales numbers, but with Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus having proved a thorn in the side of the Galaxy Note 4, it appears that even the S5 has not managed to hit the heights.
Concepts of unreleased and unannounced smartphones are always popular, and contrary to popular belief not just when they're for iPhones. Flagship handsets from the likes of Samsung and HTC are great concept fodder, and it's the latter that is the subject of one of the latest to pop up on our radar.
Google's Nexus 6 is a very large, very Motorola device in terms of design, but away from the finish, the powerful underbelly and the slick general performance, its Android Lollipop software does include one or two intriguing new quirks of its own. Notably, it bundles full-disk encryption as standard, a feature that cannot be disabled on any Lollipop device without flashing a new ROM, and while this isn't necessarily a bad thing, some new benchmark readings suggest that the negative impact on performance is considerable.
It's not often that you get to make your own design and have it printed onto a pair of shoes, but that's exactly what Adidas is making possible with the miZX Flux service. Originally announced earlier this year, the service is now live in the United States with select other countries set to also join in the fun at a later date including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
















