Apple’s Tumultuous Relationship With Bitcoin Apps
Over the past several years, Apple has removed, denied, or otherwise prevented a number of Bitcoin-related apps from being available to users on the App Store. Most recently, the company required the developers behind Gliph — a secure messaging app that also allowed users to transfer…
CyanogenMod to encrypt text messages by default with latest update
Android users worried that the government is spying on their smartphone now have a new privacy option: CyanogenMod. Starting with today’s nightly 10.2 build, the custom firmware will encrypt SMS and MMS messages sent to any device using the TextSe…
Good Old Games now offers money back guarantee for games you can’t run
For all the convenience digital games sales have brought us, they’ve come at the cost of the return policy. Buy a downloadable title you don’t like? Tough noogies, kid – no take-backs. Well, unless you bought from Good Old Games. To help stem cust…
Microsoft accounts now let you flag suspicious activity before it’s a problem
Internet account security is frequently a black box; you may not know that something’s wrong until there’s a notification email or a credit card bill. If you use a Microsoft account, though, you now have some preventative tools. A new security u…
Download Android 4.4.2 to Your Nexus Devices Now!
It didn’t take long for Google to update the Nexus family yet again. We got the Android 4.4.1 update last week, and this week we get Android 4.4.2. We have the downloads below for both the Nexus 5 and the Nexus 4, but we do know that some have reported seeing the update on the […]
Former iOS Chief Scott Forstall Surfaces After Quiet Year of Traveling and Philanthropy
Apple’s former SVP of iOS software Scott Forstall has largely remained out of the spotlight since officially leaving Apple at the beginning of the year, but Amir Efrati from new technology site The Information has some news on what Forstall been up to….
iPhone 5s and 5c come to Straight Talk and Net10 on December 13th
Cost-conscious iPhone 5s or 5c buyers will soon have a pair of fresh choices for prepaid service. Tracfone has announced that both Straight Talk and Net10 will sell Apple’s latest smartphones through Walmart on December 13th. As with unlocked de…
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 to bring LTE and 64-bit support to emerging markets
We knew it was only a matter of time before Qualcomm came out with its own chipset capable of supporting 64-bit, but we figured it’d be in something a little more… high-end. The Snapdragon 410, however, is a 28nm SoC that seems to be focused mor…
Google Glass gets unofficial WordPress support
Google Glass may never be able to give you x-ray vision, but its list of supported features continues to grow. PR firm, Weber Shandwick, has released an unofficial plugin for the futuristic eyewear that allows owners to publish content to any Word…
Download Google Hangouts 2.0.216 with Group Messaging Toggle and MMS Fixes
A new update for Google Hangouts just surfaced online, and it brings little features as well as bug fixes. You will now be able to turn group messaging on and off with a toggle button, but make sure you really want to do this, because it will disable it completely. MMS gets a bug fix […]
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