In many ways, smartphones are actually too smart. They have capabilities that few ever take advantage of and there are so many apps that there’s no way to explore a fraction of them. Smartphones can help you organize, remember, and hack life in general with their capabilities. Used properly, they can even help you make money. This video from Hack College gives us a breakdown of five different ways you can make the most out of your smartphone in a smidgen over a minute. From optimizing your actions to linking to the cloud, these hacks can take your smartphone use to another level.  …

The Apple versus Google battle has been waging since well before anyone even knew there was a rift between the tech giants. Their relationship seemed fine to outsiders for years who saw no legal battles between them and integration of Google products as default on the iPhone, including Google Maps. What was brewing behind the scenes between the last two CEOs at each company was a heated enmity. Today, the smartphone market itself is the battleground but the individual battle that intrigues most is the battle between the voice-recognizing software that turns iOS and Android into virtual assistants…

Don’t be fooled. 14-year old Santiago Gonzalez may seem like your average mild-mannered young teen who is probably owning you on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, but his skills go well beyond your standard American youth. He programs. He builds apps. Cool apps. Is thnkrtv correct in speculating that he might be the next Steve Jobs? Keep in mind, he’s fluent in a dozen program language, he is on pace to earn his master’s degree at the Colorado School of Mines before turning 18, and he dreams in code. At this rate, he’ll be taking over the world before he reaches legal drinking age. …

Your data on your computer, laptop or any other personal electronic gadget is never risk free and there is always a chance of losing your data from your device. However, there is a solution to save yourself from a disaster of losing all your data. Some people use local hardware storage for storing their data, but they may tend to lose their data even stored on a hardware storage. The use of computers, cell phones and other electronic gadgets has changed radically as they have the ability to back your data and offers cloud storage. It also offers the ability to sync multiple devices automatically. The…

Android is the strongest competitor of Apple iOS and has been giving a toughest time from the day first. Like the Android phones android app store is serving the tech savvy’s in the best possible way. It has been reported that the Android market has grabbed the shares of Apple iTunes. Most of the tech lovers know much about free android apps but this article will reveal top Android paid apps that are beneficial as well as fun for the users. DroidBox Pro: Android user can get immediate access to their DropBox account by paying only $1.99 for the Droidbox. This application offers a complete control…

Apple announced today that the App Store has had over 40 billion downloads since launching and that nearly half of those came in 2012 alone. This comes on the heals of an up and down year for Apple that is still operating in the shadows of its deceased co-founder Steve Jobs. “It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Developers have made over seven billion dollars on the App Store, and we continue to invest in providing them with the best ecosystem so they can create the most innovative…

In the information age, both time and data are money. Small business owners and entrepreneurs make the most of their time for this reason, no matter where they’re located. Life for business people on the go has been made easier in recent years with the introduction of smart phones like the iPhone, but it is difficult to wade through the thousands of applications in the app store. Here are the top five applications to help market a business while traveling: 1)     Time management Managing time is more than just putting things in a calendar to forget about them later, it is about prioritizing…

Nokia has been sliding dangerously close to oblivion for some time now. The former king of mobile phones underestimated the rapid rise of smartphones and bet too high, too long on feature phones. Now, they’re scrambling to catch up but their flagship Lumia line of phones has not been doing well. In an effort to improve their footprint and expand the datasets available to power their new Here map application, Nokia is going to offer them to iOS users. After the disastrous launch of Apple maps on iOS 6, Nokia tried to cash in a bit by comparing their maps to the maps of the two current kings of smartphones,…

Currently in the United States we have two leading cellphone operators, Android and iOS. And we all know it’s about being connected and social nowadays, so which one is the most social of the two? To start off, there are 500 million activated Android devices and 410 million activated iPhone devices. But keep in mind, there are many types of Android phones available and the iPhone only has about 5 upgrades available. Facebook takes the lead on the highest ranked social application on Android phones. Followed closely by Google+ and Instagram. However, the higher ranking social apps on iPhone are…

The New York Times is not known as a publication that looks for the silver lining in news, but they make a point that may be the only good one for Apple when it comes to their disastrous iOS 6 maps launch. Things Can Only Get Better. They certainly couldn’t get any worse. In the ongoing cold war between Apple and Google, users were hit as the first casualty. The brand new maps, brought about as a replacement to help remove a relationship between the two tech giants that has existed since the first iPhone, are so bad they’ve become comical. It’s not funny in the way that Google handled their 8-bit maps for April…