Articles Tagged with android

Spinpod Makes Time-Lapse Photography Possible On Your Smartphone

Time-Lapse Photography On Your Smartphone

Unless you’re a professional photographer, or a skilled amateur, capturing high-quality time-lapse photography on your smartphone is probably something just out of your reach. Luckily, two Ph.D. candidates from the University of California have created a new accessory for your smartphone that makes the process a whole lot easier. The device is a highly portable… Read more »

Samsung Galaxy Brand Overshadows Android

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The Samsung Galaxy brand has started to overshadow the Android brand. A Gartner report highlights how Apple and Samsung together dominate 52 percent of worldwide market sales. “The success of Apple and Samsung is based on the strength of their brands as much as their actual products,” said Anshul Gupta, a principal research analyst at… Read more »

‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’ Coming To Android, iOS This Year

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While we all wait for nuggets of information regarding Grand Theft Auto V to surface, Rockstar announced something to make the wait a bit more bearable. In celebration of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City‘s 10th anniversary, Rockstar will be releasing a port of the controversial open world classic on Android and iOS at some point… Read more »

‘FinFisher’ Spyware Can Take Over iPhone, Android Smartphones

FinFisher Will Spy On your Smartphone

FinFisher malware is capable of infecting iPhone and Android Smartphones and tablets while taking over their components in order to spy on users and now the program is spreading. According to researchers at the University of Toronto the spyware can secretly turn on a users microphone, track a phones location and even monitory activity including… Read more »

Mars Rover Curiosity To Appear In Angry Birds Game

Mars Rover appears in angry birds game

Rovio’s Angry Birds continues to be one of the most popular games on the market, and NASA’s Mars Rover has been a hot topic in its own right. Now the two are teaming up, and the well known NASA craft will make an appearance in an expansion of Angry Birds Space. The expansion is titled… Read more »

Facebook To Employees: Android OS Should Be Your Mobile Priority

Facebook Makes Employees Use Android App

The new Facebook iOS app was released on Thursday and with it came vastly faster speeds and better integration for built-in iPhone hardware. With that mobile hassle out of the way, Facebook is now asking, urging, and even ordering employees to jump over to Android devices. So why the change in directive? According to Business… Read more »

Election Apps Invasively Collect Your Personal Data

Election apps from both candidates collect personal information

Though President Obama and Mitt Romney are going head-to-head in one of the most contentious elections in US history and are dramatically divided on nearly every issue, but the two have at least one thing in common: Their election apps intrusively suck up your personal data. Though millions of US voters are downloading smartphone apps… Read more »