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In our recent APK/website teardown, we unearthed Android’s upcoming remote device lock functionality through Google Play Services, and now it has quietly gone live in the Android Device Manager. Just head to the management interface and you’ll have a new Lock button. Click it, and your lost device can be secured instantly. The functionality is Continue Reading →

Twitter has chosen to list on the New York Stock Exchange as it moves ever closer to becoming a public company, The Street is reporting based on its own sources. Twitter reportedly intends to sell between 50 and 55 million shares at a price between $28 to $30 each, bringing in around $1.5 billion for Continue Reading →

If you had problems receiving emails or opening attachments with Gmail on Monday, you weren’t the only one. Google says that Monday’s Gmail outage delayed 29 percent of all emails sent from 8:54AM to roughly 7:00PM ET, with an average delay time of 2.6 seconds. But one and a half percent of emails saw a Continue Reading →

If there’s one thing to be learned from Apple’s mobile services, it’s that they’ll almost certainly never be supported on rival platforms. However, that doesn’t stop third-party developers from engineering their own techniques in order to break into Apple’s walled garden. A case in point: Android developer Daniel Zweigart, who recently launched a Google Play Continue Reading →

Burning Man has become a meme. A fast moving, rapidly expanding, global meme. That was my take away from being at Burning Man this year. It has moved beyond the San Francisco Bay-area word of mouth, organic growth of the 1990s and the 2000s, and blown up into a phenomenon. I first became aware of Continue Reading →

Distimo’s new August survey offers yet another snapshot of just how quickly Google Play is narrowing the gap behind iOS in app revenue generation. Last March, the split between the two platforms was 75% – 25%. By August, that split had tilted to 65% – 35%. This means that Google Play now generates more than Continue Reading →

The passcode can’t die yet. The iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you’re asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb while you slumber and read all your texts, call logs, emails, and more. Apple confirms that a dead thumb won’t Continue Reading →

Apple has finally take steps to better cater to the children who have adopted its devices, and especially family favorite the iPad, with the launch of a Kids App Store. Arriving this week alongside the launch of iOS 7, the Kids App Store store is not a separate mobile application, to be clear, but is Continue Reading →

Quietly, gradually, but clearly Apple is building platform lock-in into its iOS products, with some features that are deeper than just a rich third-party software ecosystem. FaceTime Audio is the latest of these, VoIP calling built on the back of its FaceTime video chat service, which is tightly integrated to the phone app to make Continue Reading →

Twitter filed with the SEC for an initial public offering last Thursday, and although speculation about Twitter’s future began immediately, the social networking site has yet to announce when it will actually go public. According to Reuters, that day might be less than two months away. One source told Reuters that Twitter could raise over Continue Reading →