There are many scientific theory behind the perfect wake-up call - elements of which have trickled into many of the Google Play Store's alarm-based titles. Despite Google's recently re-branded app farm already housing many different wake-up utilities all boasting a certain quirk or element of uniqueness, Agens AS has decided to have another crack with his currently free Morning Routine app.
Samsung's Taiwanese branch has confirmed that it will begin retailing Windows Phone 8 smartphones as soon as October. Responding to the questions of reporters, Samsung Taiwan has noted that it would not be introducing Windows Phone 7 (Mango) in Taiwan, instead looking towards the introduction of Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) handsets this October.
When it was released in 2010, the iPad was labeled as “a large iPod touch” and predicted to be a market failure by many (including a younger, more naïve version of myself). As it turns out, the fact that it is a large iPod touch is precisely what makes it so darn awesome, especially for non-tech-savvy people like my mother.
If you're in ownership of an HTC One S, you'll probably be pleased to learn that it's been rooted courtesy of - as usual - XDA developers, or, more specifically, forum member paulobrien.
Phillippe Starck, a highly-regarded and respected contemporary designer, has revealed in an interview that he's been aiding Apple with a new product set for release in the next eight months, which he describes as being "revolutionary".
Last week, we reported of a strain of malware in the wild that, although described innocently as Rovio Mobile's latest addition to the Angry Birds series, was indeed the Legacy Native (LeNa) malware first seen last fall, and has the potential to remotely gain root access to Android users' devices.
Jailbreaking an iOS device brings a number of well documented advantages to the table. It includes things such as gaining full control over software installations on the device, as well as being able to easily manipulate app file names and strings to change the default behavior, look and feel of how the whole thing works. On the whole, the additional control that jailbreaking gives users can only be a good thing, but with that being said, there are certain pitfalls to be wary of.
Back in February, Apple was ruled to have infringed patents owned by Motorola Mobility regarding its iCloud / MobileMe e-mail push notifications structure. The fruit company lodged a subsequent appeal, but that was today rejected, meaning users now have to either set their device to refresh emails at specific times, or, worse still, open the Mail app and fetch new email manually.
While there are many great Twitter clients helping us voice our <140, quickly upload pictures and check up on what everybody else has to say, there's a glaring lack of proper Twitter management apps out there.
Apple has today pushed out an update for OS X which it hopes will close hole that allowed the Flashback Trojan to infect over half a million Macs. The update, named simply Java for OS X 2012-003, comes after over 600,000 Macs were infected by the Flashback Trojan at its peak, leaving third party developers to put together various apps for diagnosing and then cleaning infected systems.
