The time has come. Dear people who use Twitter as their instant messenger of choice, your direct messages are no longer limited to 140 characters. Twitter announced today that it has removed the restriction and will begin rolling out the change to both Android and iOS.
Now Google has launched a website where it plans to show off some of the most interesting projects on Android. It’s called Android Experiments and there are already 20 apps and demos to check out.
Notifications now appear as floating messages at the top of your screen right on top of whatever it is you’re looking at, instead of popping up in the status bar.
Sansa Security today announced that the company’s Sansa Silicon was awarded the Gold award in the category of Embedded Security at this year’s 11th annual info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards.
One of the best features of Android Lollipop is the ability to have multiple user accounts on the same device. It is ideal for sharing between family members.
It’s no secret that smartphones are notorious battery hogs, with some devices having an almost embarrassing screen-on time.
When opening up a file on your Android device you get a choice of apps to handle it: you can choose to assign certain file types (like PDFs or even website links) to certain apps, just as you do on a Windows or Mac computer.
Android 5.1 is the first big maintenance release for Lollipop, fixing bugs and improving performance and stability over the original 5.0 release. As such, many of the most important changes will have taken place behind the scenes.
MediaTek has been making a bit of noise in the mobile market of late, particularly as it pertains to its recently-announced deca-core Helio X20 chip.
As the smartphone market saturates in China, India “presents the world’s largest smartphone growth potential for the next 5 years,” according to Bernstein analyst Mark Li and team.
