iPhone Addiction Dr. S, eminent psychiatrist and media specialist, today continued his campaign, alerting parents to the dangers of unsupervised use of iPads by kids. Citing a recent headline from The NY Daily News, “Hooked on the iPad: Technology Addiction Affects Children as Young as 4, Experts Say,” Dr. S restated his message that touchscreen
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Klout today announced a new program called Klout Experts. With Klout Experts, our goal is to enable every person to share their passions and expertise with the world. Klout Experts will create a path to not only increasing your Klout Score, but also to helping others by sharing your insights and opinions. Here is how
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Is your social status too low to score a free pass to American Airlines’ Admiral’s Club? Social ranking company Klout is offering a new way to boost your score: sharing opinions on the subjects in which you already have some influence, and using the data to help answer questions on Bing. In an expanded partnership with Microsoft, Klout will bring answers from its new “experts” service to the top of Bing search results. The integration, which builds on a partnership that began last year when Microsoft invested in Klout, brings crowdsourced answers to queries that search engines have long struggled to answer.
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Matt Miller is becoming a BlackBerry fan again thanks to BlackBerry 10 on the Z10. Matt has a long history with Mobile Nations as the former EIC of our Nokia Experts site (now covered by WP Central) and very well respected when it comes to the mobile space. At any given time he has plenty of devices in his arsenal and often switches between them daily. He uses everything from the Nokia N9 to the Galaxy Note II to the BlackBerry Z10
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Right now, H.264/AVC is generally regarded as the king of codecs. It’s been on the hill since around 2003, but Nokia has collaborated on a new codec that promises higher quality video at half the bit rate. H.265/HEVC is that codec that could be the next king of the hill. Around 2010 is when development of the H.265/HEVC codec began in earnest
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Planning on attending BlackBerry Jam Europe in Amsterdam? If so, you better act fast. RIM has now sent out their last call announcement for those who have not yet registered. The conference is filled with content specifically aimed at helping you build outstanding new apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform: Join Research In Motion executives in the General Session and get a comprehensive overview of developing BlackBerry 10 apps Take advantage of the valuable content, ranging from development basics to deep dive learning – view the Session Catalogue Get your technical questions answered at Ask The Experts to help you perfect your apps Visit the Jam Space where you can browse, buy, code, ask, post and more!
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This past week, HTC announced the J Butterfly for Japan. It features a 5-inch, 1080p at 440ppi. Now yes that display is going to look amazing, but what kind of battery life can you expect on that device? Especially with a battery of 2020mAh? It can’t be that good.
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Lab of the Dead is a zombie game with a that’s different that the norm. Instead of the main aim of blasting the undead until every last one of their corpses stops moving, here you’re trying to find out what makes them tick. You’re a scientist hidden in a secret base far under the infected Lab of the Dead – part puzzle, part audio-book & all Zombie infested research is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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LG Optimus G was unveiled today as the first LTE device featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad-Core processor. Raising the bar, LG built this Android smartphone around robust technologies and aesthetics; the S4 quad-core processor clocks at 1.5 GHz, with a huge 4.7-inch WXGA True HD IPS+ screen, 32 GB of storage, 13 megapixel rear camera (1.3 megapixel on LG Optimus G is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Everfriends is a virtual assistant application that aims to inject fun and humour- as well as usefulness. You get a visual animation of a secretarial-style woman, plus a number of features that can be additionally downloaded and used. These include weather reports, news, music playing, alarm clock, play games and more. Some app features are Everfriends – Virtual Assistant app you can speak to is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Blockster is a fun and addictive puzzle game where you have to remove blocks by pressing coloured drums. The game in three modes; Beat, Endless and Reverse and is incredibly easy to play. If you like your puzzle games frenetic and reaction-based, this will be a perfect match for you! Price: $0.99 Tested on: HTC Blockster – try this block puzzle game with a twist is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Alchemy Classic is a massively addictive element-combining puzzle game for Android (now available in HD version with high quality icons). If you, like so many people, have been taken by these kind of blending games- where you start with earth, air, fire, water and combine them to create a massive variety of other elements- then Alchemy Classic, a massively Addictive element-combining Puzzle Game is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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The Dark Knight Rises is the mobile gaming experience of the last installment in the Christopher Nolan directed blockbuster hit movie trilogy. An HD game created by Gameloft, it takes you into the various missions to stop villain, Bane, from destroying Gotham. Scale buildings, glide from amazing heights, use high tech gadgets, blaze in futuristic vehicles and The Dark Knight Rises – the epic HD mobile game experience for Android!
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Manilla – Bills and Reminders is a service with accompanying app that connects and collects bill information for you to manage securely in one place, similar to apps like Pageonce. If you have due bills or reward points about to expire the service can send you notifications to better manage your bills online or via your phone. Manilla – Bills and Reminders. Manage and be notified of bills, credit cards, rewards cards, magazine subscriptions & more from one app! is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Wizz Widget is actually a series of great homescreen widgets that come with a slew of additional themes to download. With a large range of widgets available, it’s a cool solution for homescreen modders and people needing extra functionality. The app is really easy to use, supported on both phones and tablets and works on Wizz Widget – nice series of functional homescreen widgets you can theme is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Rocket Music Player is an advanced audio player that supports both music and podcasts. It is presented in a slick chrome UI and boasts a heap of useful functions. Coming with a Free and fuller-featured unlocked Premium version, it’s a brilliant alternative to your native music player. Perhaps it’s killer feature, however, is that it Rocket Music Player – advanced music player app plus it syncs to iTunes is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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Fotor is an all-in-one photographic experience that includes camera, HDR camera, editing and collage functionality. As a jack-of-all-trades, it’d be forgiven for not getting some of these elements just right… and yet it does. It’s an app that is simple to use, looks gorgeous and is literally packed with features
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CellFamily aims to help family safety by offering parents an online portal and mobile app to monitor their child’s smartphone activity. It tracks call history, text messages, bad/violent words sent or received, can silence your child’s phone during designated times and more. Is this the ultimate child safety app… let’s find out in this app review! CellFamily – family safety app to monitor child’s smartphone activity online is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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On topic, off topic, or somewhere in between. You can decide how relevant this news is on your own. MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) has just introduced a new video standard called HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) or for a shorter term that you will likely see it referred to more, H.265. The next step
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BioWallet Signature is a smart security application that keeps your sensitive data safe. Like other apps we have reviewed in the past, such as SPB Wallet, it lets you preserve important info; passwords, banking information, etc. held on your device. Unlike similar apps, however, BioWallet will let you use your own signature to encrypt the BioWallet Signature – encrypt & secure passwords, contacts, files & more on your Android is a post from: AndroidTapp.com
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