Samsung’s custom user interface for Android smartphones is called TouchWiz. Some folks think the color scheme, custom apps, and other tweaks Samsung makes to Android make the operating system easier to use — others find it ugly and cumbersome. But it turns out that it could also be dangerous to surf the web using TouchWiz. […]
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Apple iPhone 5 has been jailbroken
The iPhone 5 runs the iOS 6 operating system and it’s the first device to ship with an Apple A6 processor. But neither of those things has stopped hackers from figuring out how to jailbreak the new phone. Grant Paul (@chpwn) has posted a few pictures showing his jailbroken iPhone 5. Jailbreaking an iOS device […]
Pocket for Android now lets you listen to saved web pages
Pocket is an app that lets you save web pages to read later, and then view streamlined versions of those sites formatted for a mobile device. The service used to be called “Read it Later,” which is more descriptive… but also a bit more of a mouthful. Now Pocket has updated its free Android app […]
CyanogenMod 10 to feature Quick Message SMS enhancements
Developer Dan von Tonder is working on a new feature for CyanogenMod 10. It’s called Quick Message, and it’s a notification tweak that makes it easier to respond quickly to text messages received on a phone running the popular CyanogenMod version of Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Quick Message gives users the option of displaying […]
Grooveshark returns to Google Play Store, now with free internet radio
Online music service Grooveshark lets you stream pretty much any song at any time… for free. That’s because, unlike competitors Spotify and Rdio, Grooveshark has a post-music-first, ask-for-permission-later approach. That’s probably why the company faces lawsuits from four major US record labels… and it’s also a large part of the reason Grooveshark’s mobile apps were […]