Between buying the phone and paying your phone bill, owning a smart phone can drain your bank account. So when we heard there were apps that claim to be able to make you money, we were intrigued. “It does sound too good to be true,” said Karri Baumann of St. ... Read More »
Scroll through Apple’s App Store and you’ll find a wide array of medical apps for sale. These apps offer quick fixes for everything from sleep disorder to alcoholism. You can buy an app to help treat baldness and to help remove wrinkles. “I think when it comes to apps it ... Read More »
A startup on a shoestring budget is working to clean up the Android security mess, and has even demonstrated results where other “secure” Android phones have failed, raising questions about Google’s willingness to address the widespread vulnerabilities that exist in the world’s most popular mobile operating system. “Copperhead is probably ... Read More »
Anyone who works in health care is used to researching symptoms, drug interactions and other need-to-know stats to keep patients safe and manage their care. Until recently, doctors, nurses and other health care workers would have to wait until they got to a desktop terminal to find the answers they ... Read More »
There’s an increasing trend of using Android Wear as the OS for specialty fitness wearables. At CES, Casio announced a rugged sensor-packed Wear device that also has a monochrome watch mode. Polar is continuing in that line with an Android Wear watch that doubles as an exercise wearable with an optical heart rate sensor, GPS, ... Read More »
Last night, a new cumulative update to Windows 10 build 14393 was released to Windows Insiders, dubbed KB3176929, or build 14393.10, but without a list of changes included. Now, however, that list has finally been posted, here it is: This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are ... Read More »
It’s the question that many people sitting in a dentist chair dread. “Have you been flossing?” According to the American Dental Association, only about 40 percent of Americans floss once a day. Twenty percent say they never floss at all, and 27 percent lie about it. Whether or not we do ... Read More »
Tim Sweeney doesn’t like Windows 10 or Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform, the common development platform that allows developers to create software that can run on Windows on PCs, phones, tablets, HoloLens, and the Xbox. In March he published an op-ed in The Guardiansaying that UWP “can, should, must, and will ... Read More »
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s Lahore initiative, months after the nuclear tests by the two countries, the war added the new trust deficit in the sub-continental bilateralism, reports Masood Hussain As ... Read More »
A person in a black hoodie crouches in a dark room with a bright light shining over a phone. As the light hits the phone screen, finger smudges are illuminated, revealing the owner’s password. And just like that, the hacker has complete access to the device. You’ve seen it in ... Read More »
