If you are buying a Windows laptop for your child as a holiday present or because it’s required for school, then you need to know how to set it up with Microsoft’sparental controls to cordon off certain corners of the Internet. You can even set up time limits and sign up ... Read More »
The latest generation of smartphones comes with a panoply of apps to get you started, from email and photography to navigation, weather and video-calling services. But every one of those default apps has at least one alternative on the app stores, and there are often dozens more that can represent a ... Read More »
Carmaker Nissan launched its integrated car platform, called NissanConnect, in India on Thursday to provide users with information as well as communication features while on the go. NissanConnect has been developed specifically for the Indian market by the company and is available on mobile platforms Android, iOS, and Windowsfor Nissan’s existing and new customers. The ... Read More »
Do you order your most-used apps at the bottom of your smartphone’s screen? Are they lined up along the side for your dominant thumb’s convenience? Maybe they’re neatly packed away in folders? Or perhaps, there’s no method to your madness and your icons are placed entirely at random on your ... Read More »
Closing unused apps on your iPhone won’t improve its battery life. I repeat , opening up the multitasking window and swiping apps off the screen won’t help your iPhone get through the day. This myth that it does has persisted for years. Apple blogger and podcaster John Gruber said earlier this week it’s ... Read More »
Stop quitting apps on your iPhone and iPad … it’s making things worse Thursday, 20 Jul 2017 | 11:41 AM ET | 00:43 Somewhere along the way, someone told you to force quit apps on your iPhone and iPad to improve performance and save battery life. Stop doing that. We’ve all ... Read More »
It’s a long-held belief that force-quitting apps that are running in the background on your iPhone will free up memory and help to preserve battery life. This idea is so ingrained for some iPhone users that they will religiously go through closing down every app running on their phone by ... Read More »
Aadhaar card holders will now be able to carry their information on their smartphone, courtesy the mAadhaarapp launched by Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI). To use the mAadhaar or ‘mobile Aadhaar’ app, users need to have their phone number registered with UIDAI. Once the process is complete, they can download their details on ... Read More »
More than 70 percent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party tracking companies like Google Analytics, the Facebook Graph API or Crashlytics, warns a new study. When people install a new Android or iOS app, it asks the user’s permission before accessing personal information. Some of the information ... Read More »
Google has been caught up making several efforts to make its apps better and efficient. It recently added support for offline webpages in Chrome for Android. Now, the Internet giant has released a new feature that will enable the app to detect the URL that is lying in your phone’s ... Read More »
