Adobe retires Flash for mobiles
In early 2010 Apple announced the eagerly anticipated iPad and iPhone 4. They were hugely successful product launches, but at the same time Apple also came under increasing pressure from customers and...
View ArticleAndroid shortcuts
I’m frequently being offered app updates via Android Market. Most of these work without a hitch, but occasionally I update an app and then find that it no longer runs from an existing shortcut. The...
View ArticleAndroid 4.0 turns GET into POST
After upgrading to Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich‘ I found that some of my existing apps weren’t working as expected. On deeper investigation I discovered the culprit. When installed on devices...
View ArticleiPhone 5
An industry insider told me that sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S III sky-rocketed the day after Apple’s big reveal of the iPhone 5. Evidently potential customers were holding off their upgrades until they...
View ArticleApps Publishing Security Policy
BSkyB has become the latest high-profile victim of a security blunder which has caused them to suspend all their Sky Android applications from the Google Play app store. The hackers would appear to...
View ArticleGmail attachments not working?
I’m assuming you’ve found your way here because you too are having difficulty viewing image attachments in the Gmail app for Android? I found that thumbnail previews of images were displaying fine, but...
View ArticleCorrupted SMS on Android
For a couple of weeks I have been receiving strangely composed SMS from a friend. It was as if two totally separate conversations were being mixed together into one long message. At first I thought my...
View ArticleGoogle Play Music: Saving to SD card
Having switched from Amazon MP3 to Google Play Music, the most annoying omission in Google’s offering is the inability to save music tracks to SD card instead of internal storage. Since version 5.1 of...
View ArticleGoogle Android power saving tips
It’s a common complaint (or misconception?) that Android devices are power hungry, and some people claim not to manage a full working day from their smartphone. By my reckoning default system settings...
View ArticleWhat Innovation?
I was having a discussion with an old friend who declared that there has been no innovation in mobile devices for years now. I immediately took exception to this claim and set my mind to disproving...
View ArticleOpting-out of Google Location Server
In September Google announced their intention to comply with requests from European data protection authorities and offer a method for opting-out of their Google Location Server (GLS). Peter Fleischer...
View ArticleYou have become the new currency
I was alerted to the contents of the privacy policy for Google Payments by an episode of the BBC series – Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World – in which the presenter Jacques Peretti...
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