Samsung Gear VR Headset
Samsung has its fingers in nearly every tech market, and now their getting in on the virtual reality headset craze. The Samsung Gear VR is possibly set to debut at IFA 2014 this September, the headset will offer mobile gamers an immersive gaming experience such as Oculus Rift.According to Sammobile, the Gear…
miniLock app makes Encryption easy!
Use of encryption is on the rise. More than ever before encryption is being adopted by criminals, governments, and wise technology users. The U.S. court systems annual report on law enforcement eavesdropping in 2013 stated that encryption foiled state police attempts to serveil criminal suspects in 9 different cases. That…
Liverail has been purchased by Facebook.
Watch out! Increase in video ads coming to a Facebook page near you.Facebook has purchased the video advertising company Liverail, reports are claiming it paid between $400 and $500 million.Facebook VP Brian Boland announced the buyout, saying that with the addition of Liverail, Facebook, will be better placed to serve more…
Installing third-party programs isn’t the minefield it was during the good ol’ days of Windows XP. But every now and then, some desktop apps still try to sneak annoying toolbars and other software past you during installation. Known as bundleware (or bloatware, as I like to call it), the options to not install these additional…
Stand back; Verizon has the masses in an uproar over yanking free data plan from Google Chromebook Pixel owners.When the Pixel was originally announced, buyers were promised 100MB of Verizon data free each month for 2 years. However, some Pixel owners recently noticed that they were losing their free data before the 2 years were…
If you’re in a coffee shop and you notice a few tables away a man is enjoying his beverage and logging into his iPad, can you steal his PIN? The answer to that question would depend on whether or not you could see his screen; thanks to new gadgets like Google Glass or smart watches…
Have you been a victim of a scam? Cybercriminals trick millions of innocent people into giving away sensitive information. Now you're wondering how “to mitigate this situation?” We all make stupid mistakes. But with these sorts of mistakes, you have to act fast to avoid disaster. What you need to do depends on how you were…
Amazon's phone on fire!
There’s a new competitor in the cut-throat world of smartphones and that competitor is already the largest e-commerce company out there. Amazon announced on June 16, 2014 that it would be introducing the Fire phone a phone that promises 3D viewing, seamless integration with practically everything around you, efficient one handed…
Electronics vendor is accused of selling signal jammers to U.S.
A Chinese electronics vendor is accused of selling signal jammers to U.S. consumers and could end up leading the market in one dubious measure: the largest fine ever imposed by the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC wants to impose fines upon CTS Technology of $34,912,500 for…
Health monitoring is all the rage in the mobile market these days as evinced by giants such as Apple and Google announcing new technologies with HealthKit and Google Fit, respectively, and the growing pile of wearable devices coming to the fore. A new technology from a team at MIT could either take that trend to…
Thousands of former Myspace users, who long ago grew up, got Facebook and forgot that Myspace was ever a thing, got an unsettling message from the undead social network over the weekend. The site is still around, like some sort of digital zombie. And it has billions of pictures from a time before the Internet knew…
You know how it goes when your phone slips from your hand onto the pavement. That display shatters, and you can either try and make the cracked screen work for a while or you can suck it up and drop some hard cash on a new handset. Either way, it’s a bummer. However, researchers at…