Tired of your power naps running away with more time than what you had planned for? We've all been through the occasion where our 15 - 20 minute nap turns into hours of sleep just because you hit that snooze button. iOS developers at Phase4 Mobile have recognized this slight problem that can ruin your entire day, and have released Power Nap HQ to make sure your nap cycles are well measured from now on. More details to follow, right after the jump.
BlackBerry, once a superpower in the mobile industry, has lost its way quite spectacularly in recent years, and at present, seems a fallen giant bereft of ideas. With the Canadian outfit unable to sustain a decent market share amid swathes of smartphones and tablets running iOS and Android, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that the maker of the PlayBook is currently on its knees. At no point has BlackBerry's demise been more obvious than during the 2013 takeover bid by Fairfax Financial, a deal that ultimately did not materialize. But now, it seems another company has seen some value in a takeover bid, and that company is Samsung.
It's been yet another busy day apps-wise for Google, and having rolled out a new Classroom app for iOS and Android users, the company has also taken the wraps off a major update to its Translate app. Notably, there's a great new feature that can automatically translates words as they're detected using a mobile device's camera.
The education market serves as an attractive prospect to enterprising companies like Apple and Google, and the latter has just rolled out a new 'Classroom' app for iOS and Android. The mobile app does require a Google Apps for Education account, but provided you can meet this prerequisite, details and download links can be found below.
What do you get when you stuff an Xbox and PlayStation in one casing? A PlayBox. A chunk-full of the best of both platforms, the PlayBox is designed like a laptop, packing its own display as well. More on this hybrid that is bound to have any avid gamer drooling over it, right after the break.
What if Apple was to reproduce the original Macintosh in 2015, 31 years later? Looks like the designers at Curved Labs have the answer. Head on after the jump to read all about it.
It has been a while since Microsoft announced that it will be dropping the Nokia branding on all future Lumia devices. With the Lumia 535 out, the Lumia 435 and 532 Windows Phone devices have been announced as well, and we take a closer look at the details, right after this jump.
Apple’s recent release of the fourth iOS 8.2 beta is the latest in a long line of betas that have been given plenty of attention by those carrying iOS 8.x devices that simply refuse to behave themselves. With expectations high for fixes across the board as well as the ever important performance boost, all eyes are on beta 4.
There has been a marked increase in smart products over the past few years, and at no point has this been made more obvious than at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. As well as the usual spate of announcements and keynotes from the major brands, many fascinating products were on display, with a deluge of smart home products taking center stage. Frequent travelers, meanwhile, tend to rely on the power of their smartphones for checking in, processing boarding passes and generally getting around with ease, but a new smart suitcase by the name of Pluggage could make the generally cumbersome task of dragging around, locating and retrieving our belongings a whole lot easier.
Only yesterday, Apple rolled out iOS 8.2 beta 4, and as well as the usual performance tweaks and bug fixes, we got a little closer to finding out how Apple Watch will integrate with the Mac maker's mobile software. Within the Bluetooth settings, we saw how users will easily be able to connect to their wearable, and we also saw instructions alluding to a companion app. Now, thanks to the dogged work of one Apple dev, we have an even better idea if what we can expect from said app.
















