Cyber Thieves Are Hacking Victims Through Mobile Apps

Popular apps on your smartphone can be convenient and fun, but some also carry malicious software known as malware, which gives hackers easy access to your personal information. A security firm found that between 75 and 80 percent of the top free apps on Android phones or iPhones were breached. The number jumps as high as 97 percent among the top paid apps on those devices.
So fellow mobile users be careful where you download your apps from. The only word of advice is stick to your trusted app developers and providers.



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5 best new features in Android 6.0 Marshmallow!!

Here are some of the things you will be missing while your manufacturer works to update its devices to Android 6.0 in the coming months..




Google Now on Tap

Google Now is already one of the best things about Android (and iOS, if you download the Google Search app), but it’s getting a huge shot of adrenaline in Android 6.0. Dubbed “Google Now on Tap, the new feature adds information from third-party apps to the pool of data Google Now will sift through and act upon.
Hold the home button while in any app and Google Now will analyze it instantly. Here’s an example of how it might be used: your friend texts you with “Hey let’s go to Dante’s Pizza tonight.” Holding the home button will trigger Google Now on Tap, which might show you the restaurant on a map, let you know what its hours are today, and link you to some reviews.
It’s an awesome feature, and it pushes Google Now even further ahead of the competition.



Doze

First things first: Android 6.0 promises huge improvements where battery life is concerned. Using a combination of hardware sensors and software tweaks, phones and tablets running Marshmallow will know when they’ve been sitting idle for a period of time, and they will disable some background processes and other battery-hungry features while they’re not in use.
You’ll still get notifications, but battery life will be stretched out substantially by this new development. If your phone is sitting idle on your desk next to your computer all day, there’s no reason your battery should suffer like it does now.


 
Cut, Copy, Paste

This might seem like a small change, but it’s going to have a big impact on the way you use your phones and tablets.
In earlier versions of Android, selecting text would open a series of buttons at the top of the screen, and many people are still confused about what each one does. In Android 6.0, selecting text or a photo will pop up a menu directly above your selection with the words “cut,” “copy,” and “paste,” just like iOS. This makes things much easier since your finger is obviously already right there as you make your selection.



App Backup and Restore

Switching to a new phone or restoring an existing phone that you wipe is a huge pain with Android devices. Beginning with Marshmallow, however, that’s going to change.
When an Android 6.0 device is idle and connected to Wi-Fi, it will automatically backup app data and settings to Google Drive behind the scenes. If you ever wipe your phone or switch to a new one, you’ll finally be able to quickly and easily restore all of your apps as they were previously.




New App Permission Structure

There’s another feature Android borrowed from iOS, but this time it also improved upon it.
Currently, it’s all or nothing with app permissions until you install some third-party tweaks on your Android device. In Marshmallow, however, you can pick and choose which permissions each individual app gets. So, for example, if you want to install Facebook but you never want the app to have access to your camera or location, you can do that now.
The only bad news here is that killing individual app permissions in the early days of Android 6.0 will cause some problems. Developers have to update their apps in order to ensure that they keep functioning properly with certain permissions disabled, and that will probably take a while.

 Click HERE to learn more about Android Marshmallow!!

Top 5 Phones With The Highest Radiation!!

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With the new research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, some types of cell phones may be giving you too much exposure to harmful levels of electromagnetic radiation.



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The Biochemical Journal just published a study that finds that just a single use of certain types of cell phones for only 15 minutes can trigger brain cell changes that contribute to a cancerous cell division.



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Dr. John Bucher, Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, National Toxicology Program, stated:“As of now, with only 10-12 years exposure, and use increasing dramatically, there is a concern of an increase in brain cancer, related to use.”



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With this of course being newer findings, we are sure that there will be many more tests done in the near future. One thing you can be sure of and that is I am going to start using hands-free devices instead of putting that handheld microwave up to my ear as much as possible. Who knows where this research will go and what kind of impact it will have on the future of the cell phones.



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Phones can be harmful.. start using your hands-free and click the link below for more info!!
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Google to launch Android M this year, here's what to expect!!

Although the newest Android version, first codenamed L, then baptized Lollipop, rolled out roughly 12 months, Google is already putting some final touches and tweaks on its New Android OS called Android M (or Android 6.0). Android 5.0 Lollipop might have only arrived to 10 percent of devices so far, which means KitKat is still the most popular Android OS to date but attention is now turning towards the next version which is expected to arrive today at Google's I/O, with improved notification features, as well as better battery management.

Here's what i've heard so far about Android M.


Battery management
Google is rumored to be developing the way Android checks your location, as well as how it manages RAM, to improve battery life on Android M.   

Security
As smartphones continue to be used for almost anything these days, security is something which grows ever-more important. Google recently introduced a "find my phone" feature to Chrome, and a "kill switch" option in Android 5.1 to make stolen phones useless, and now it seems like it will include one-touch login for supported apps in Android M.
Check one of my posts which explains the "find my phone" in detail if you missed it.

Improved Notifications
A little bird told me that Google is working hard on how to improve notifications and unify them across all platforms. 

Android Wear
There is no doubt Android M will undoubtedly bring some improvements to how smartwatches and smartphones interact. 

Smart Home
Now this will be an increasingly important feature of Android, with complete control over your connected devices at home and in the office via Nest and other third-party makers.

I dont know about you but i cant wait to get all the facts about android M because the wait is killing me, i'll put up another post dedicated to Android M after its official launch which is just a few hours away.

Run Multiple Whatsapp Accounts on Your Android Phone

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WhatsApp is one of the most popular messenger app that also lets you share pictures, videos, music files and so on. By now, everyone of us have WhatsApp in our smartphones. I prefer WhatsApp among other messaging apps like Viber due to its simplicity and instant messaging service.

Although each and everything is quite handy in WhatsApp, but "What’s the most disturbing part that you came across?" For me it is:
If you run dual SIM in your Android smartphones, you might be willing to enjoy two separate WhatsApp account for your two different telephone numbers on your smartphone. Isn’t it?

However, this is where WhatsApp puts limitations on its users. WhatsApp users can not use more than one WhatsApp account on their mobile devices.
 But all that is about to change because I am introducing you to one Android app called OGWhatsApp which allows users to run multiple WhatsApp accounts on a single smartphone.

OGWhatsApp is an Android app that allows you to use two separate WhatsApp accounts on your single Android device without any need to root your Android device.

While running your normal WhatsApp account on your smartphone, you can follow some simple steps (below) in order to run a different WhatsApp account on the OGWhatsApp.

Follow these simple steps to go:

Step 1: Take a complete backup of your WhatsApp data and restore it.
Step 2: Delete all the WhatsApp data by going to Settings>apps>WhatsApp>Clear Data.
Step 3: Rename the /sdcard/WhatsApp directory to /sdcard/OGWhatsApp. You can use any file manager    for Android to do this task, or from Windows.
Step 4: Uninstall your original WhatsApp app from your Android device.
Step 5: Now install OGWhatsApp in your Android smartphone.
Step 6: Once installed, remember to verify your old number that was previously registered with the original WhatsApp to OGWhatsApp. That is it.
Step 7: Now re-install the official WhatsApp for your other number from the play store.

Now enjoy two separate WhatsApp accounts for both cellphone numbers on your single Android device without even rooting your Android device.


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Opera updates its Mini Browser for Android

“Opera Mini’s dramatically redesigned interface achieves a native Android look and feel,” says the company in the press release it sent out.

While this overhaul does indeed bring the look and feel of the Mini broswer closer to other offerings on Android, it is not a Material Design makeover; instead, what’s here still very much references Opera’s previous design efforts.

Besides the design overhaul, the company has also added several significant features to the browser, including a new private browsing mode, an interface that scales with higher resolution devices, the option to optimize the interface for thumb navigation and a data counter that keeps track of one’s browser usage.

If you reading this, the update should already be live on the Google Play Store.

 

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Use Google to find your lost Android phone by typing "Find My Phone"

Run a search for your Android phone via Google, and its search engine will pinpoint the phone's location on a map. And the feature even works with a lost tablet.

We've all lost our mobile phone at one point or another -- sometimes in our homes, sometimes in the car and sometimes out in the wild unknown. Now instead of searching everywhere to track it down, you can rely on Google for help.
A new feature unveiled on Wednesday lets you search for your Android phone or tablet using Google's search engine on your PC, as long as you meet the right criteria.


Google recently brought parts of the Android Device Manager to Google search. When you're signed in to the same Google account on your phone and PC, all you have to do is type "find my phone" into Google and your top result will be a live Google Map with the locations of your Android devices.
The new feature only allows you to call your phone. You can't use the Google search result to wipe your device or lock it like you can inside Android Device Manager.

Here's how it works:

• First, you have to make sure you're logged in to the same Google account on your PC's browser that you use on your phone. You must also be sure to have the latest version of the Google app installed on your phone.

• Now type the phrase "find my phone" into Google's search engine on your PC. In response, Google displays a map like the screenshot above that attempts to zero in on the location of your device. Give it at least several seconds, and you should eventually see a location on the map that's accurate to a certain distance.

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