Top 10 Security Tools For Your Smartphone

What would you do if you misplace your mobile phone, or worse still, had it stolen? Would you even know where to start to get it back, and what about all that personal data that is linked to your phone? If this has ever happened to you, you know what a nightmare it can be. Although there are some good Samaritans in the world, more than likely they’re not going to be the ones who would steal your mobile device. So what can you do to minimize the effects of a stolen smartphone? You can start by installing some form of security for your device. With all of the mobile apps readily available for use (and many for free), there’s really no excuse...

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15 Android Ice Cream Sandwich Tips You Should Already Know

Not all too long ago, Google released the next great upgrade to the Android mobile operating system, version 4.o codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich”, or ICS for short. While in the meantime Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” has been released, most phones are still using Android Ice Cream Sandwich or will be updated to it soon. Therefore, most people will be interested about what cool tricks ICS can bring to the table. I have to admit though, even I didn’t know everything on this list before I did my research. Take Screenshots Did you know that you can easily take screenshots with your ICS device without installing an additional app?...

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Motion-based smartphone UI possible within the year with Leap Motion

Pretty soon, we can control our computers, tablets and smartphones this way. Without the three-fingered gloves, of course. (Promotional image for Minority Report, 2002) Touchscreens are currently the preferred way of interacting with smarphones and tablets. But mobile devices are a fast-evolving lot, and we have seen how QWERTY keyboards, stylii and even numeric keypads have been popular UI choices just a few years back. Touchscreen alternatives are already in place, such as speech-recognition present in Apple’s SIRI and various Nuance-led efforts in Android and other platforms. In the future, we might also consider motion control....

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Google Adds 13 New Languages To Google Voice Search

Google has updated its Google Voice Search and added an additional 13 new languages, which means that Google Voice Search now supports a total of 42 languages in 46 different countries. The new languages added to Google Voice Search include Swedish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Catalan and many more you can see the full list of additional languages below. New languages added to Google Voice Search. IcelandicNorwegianRomanianSerbianSlovakSwedishBasqueBulgarianCatalanEuropean PortugueseFinnishGalicianHungarian You can find out full details about the latest version of Google Voice Search over at the Google Blog...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 In Action (Video)

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 went on sale in the US yesterday, and now Samsung has released a hands on video of the device and we get to see some of the features on the new Galaxy Note 10.1. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 features Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and the devicefeatures a quad core 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos processor and 2GB of RAM. Other specifications on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 include a microSD card slot, USB 2.0, Bluetooh 4.0, WiFi Direct, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, on the front of the device is a 1.9 megapixelcamera for video chat, on the back there is a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus...

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Search Engine History [INFOGRAPHIC]

Search Engine History [INFOGRAPHIC] During the early development of the web, there was a list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains. As more webservers went online the central list could not keep up. On the NCSA site new servers were announced under the title “What’s New!” The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie. The name stands for “archive” without the “v.” It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded...

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Google upgrades Maps for Android, includes new public transit features

Google's mapping service for mobile devices is getting an upgrade as the Internet search leader braces for new competition from iPhone maker Apple.The improvements center on listings for public transportation options in nearly 500 cities around the world. Wednesday's update includes suggested routes and departure times for more than 1 million stations worldwide, about 50 percent more than a year ago. At some stations, Google will provide indoor directions to help riders navigate the system. To highlight what it sees as a competitive advantage, Google is offering its latest improvements only on devices running its Android operating software....

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Live Like a Refugee: The UN’s Eye-Opening New App

Photo: UNHCR Make room on your smart phone between Shazam, Angry Birds, and Instagram for the most realistic “Survivor” story out there: The new app released by the United Nations’ High Commission for Refugeescalled “My Life as a Refugee.” This easy-to-play, visually stimulating, interactive app includes all the war, natural disaster, rape, and murder of the most intense games. The only difference is that navigating this labyrinth of violence is whatrefugees all over the world have to do on a daily basis just to survive. Based on the lives of three characters, Merita, a 27-year-old married, pregnant mother of two; Paulo,...

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Animators Bring Life To The Boneless

Animators love to make realistic-looking creatures. Duplicating the look of most vertebrates -- whether people, mice or marmosets -- is a well-established art. Making an invertebrate, like a jellyfish, look realistic is another matter. Karen Liu, Jie Tan, and Greg Turk from the Georgia Institute of Technology presented a paper at SIGGRAPH 2012, detailing a new method of building animated characters, one that makes it a lot easier on the animator, and a lot less expensive. PHOTOS: Video Game Fails Instead of treating bodies as frameworks of bones, they programmed "muscles" that would change a character's shape. They also included an algorithm...

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Follow TV Trending Topics on iPad

Boxfish iPad App: Free Remember the days of flipping through channels to find out who was talking about what? For me, fervently hitting the recall button on the remote to watch two shows at the same time was almost a game to see how good my commercial-avoiding skills were. Programming menus from Verizon Viewdini and Xfinity have made those times a distant memory. Now you can add the Boxfish iPad App to the list. If TV guide and Twitter made a programming baby, Boxfish made be it. It surfs through the closed captioning of 3,600 TV stations and creates a live feed of what's being said. The stream of data is constantly updated,...

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Are Sound Waves the Future of Mobile Marketing?

Your Starbucks runs and concert visits will soon be more interactive. Imagine the luxury of walking into a coffee shop and receiving a personalized drink deal on your smartphone or tablet upon entry. Or, receiving an automated mobile thank-you note for watching a film, exactly an hour after leaving the theater. Thanks to Sonic Notify technology, activated by audio, our smartphones are getting smarter. So smart, in fact, they’re interacting with elements in your surroundings to bring you relevant media. By installing Sonic technology into apps, companies can trigger mobile notifications at precise times or specific locations. Co-founders...

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