Articles about mobile technologies
Due to safety concerns over some 3rd-party USB power adapters, Apple recently announced a takeback program. You can drop off a 3rd-party iPhone, iPad or iPod USB power adapter at any Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider to have them dispose of it in […]
Kind of a slow week techwise… Yahoo Bests Google Chalk one up for Yahoo. comScore announced this week that, for the first time since May of 2011, Yahoo! had more of its sites visited in the U.S. than Google. Yahoo had 196.6 million visitors to
This is the first edition of a weekly series which will feature some of the top tech news of the previous week (or so). Netflix Profiles Netflix announced earlier this month that members can create separate profiles for each member of their household. Each family
NASA has a webpage that lists free ringtones for many of the memorable moments in U.S. space history including snippets from President John F. Kennedy speech announcing the race to the Moon, Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, Sally Ride’s take on spaceflight and
Google announced the release of Android Device Manager last week. It is akin to Apple’s Find My iPhone application. If you can’t locate your Android phone or tablet, Android Device Manager lets you ring your phone at maximum volume, even if it has been silenced.
With rumors swirling about a new iPhone (or two) and a Retina display iPad mini coming out this fall, you may be wondering what to do with your old device if you choose to upgrade. You may want to just trade it in at your
My family and I recently returned home from two wonderful weeks in Florida on the Gulf Coast. I found myself using apps on my iPhone or iPad quite frequently. Below is a list of apps that I found to be pretty indispensable. While I live
Just when you thought you’d heard everything, along comes a story like this. According to a report on KOIN 6 News; 14 month old toddler Sorella Stoute got hold of her Dad’s smartphone and, after some random clicking around, somehow managed to end up buying
I ran into this freeware when I was troubleshooting my wife’s iPhone and wanted to pass on this free goodie to all. It helps clean up junk files and give you more free space, thus speeding up your operation on either the iPhone, iPad or
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On June 14th, Microsoft announced that Office had come to the iPhone. The Office suite — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — is available in an iOS app in the App Store. ‘Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers’ allows you to view, edit and create documents.
This is the second in a series of articles related to Apple’s WWDC 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook and company took the stage at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco on Monday, June 10th for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The much-anticipated
This is the first in a series of articles related to Apple’s WWDC 2013. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and company took the stage at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco on Monday, June 10th for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The wildly
Microsoft’s Windows Store got off to a shaky start when it first opened in beta mode in 2012, with virtual shelves that were… well… virtually empty. When Windows 8 and Windows RT were officially launched toward the end of last October, the store included fewer than 8,000
My dear husband recently dropped his iPad mini and it did not go well. He chipped off the area around the Power button. As a result, he could no longer get cellular coverage due to a damaged antenna. He also couldn’t turn off his iPad
