Almost everybody knows the benefits that smart phones offer when it comes to streaming video, tracking somebody on a GPS, updating Facebook, calculating calories, and other useful features but what many users don’t know is that Android phones can definitely be used for education. Sure playing games is a great way to entertain a person when bored or killing some free time but they also offer plenty of tools for learning. Children to adults can all reap the benefits of some of these top Android apps and games for learning.

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A housewife or dedicated mother often has her Android phone on her at all times of the day in order to be quickly available for an emergency or just to stay in touch with friends. This sometimes busy, sometimes bored woman should take full advantage of the Android app market which features literally thousands of programs and games that can boost productivity, promote a healthy lifestyle, conjure up dinner ideas or just fling birds off a slingshot.

There are a number of things that determine which apps are right for different people. Some apps are free but others only offer trial versions and must be purchased. Some apps crash frequently and end up just taking up space on the phone. In order to find the best games and apps for housewives, the woman must know what she wants the app to do for her and go from there. Read more…

New operating systems, interactive website interfaces, and exciting new games might grab the attention of technology writers around the world, but surely, the launch of new and innovative hardware gets pulses racing quickest.

Whether it is a smart television, a computer, or a mobile phone, people love to see the capabilities that the latest pieces of hardware are going to give to them. We took the opportunity to explore some of the biggest hardware stories around, and at how we can expect to see them develop over the rest of 2013. Read more…

In most of the major cities around the world traffic jams happen everyday. Sometimes people can be stuck in the traffic for hours during working and peak hours. The condition is worse if there’s an accident, roadblock or roadworks. Being a smart commuter, you should plan your route properly to ensure your journey is smooth and hassle-free.

One of the typical ways to keep you updated with the traffic condition is listening to the car radio. The good news is that they are alternatives available to help you get the real-time and accurate traffic info. Thanks to the mobile app developers who are devoted to making our driving frustrations less. Below we’ve rounded up some helpful traffic apps, both iOS and Android, helping you to get out of the traffic disasters, get to the destination faster as well as discover and share interesting data during your driving journey. Read more…

You won’t be getting billions in government funding or grants or legendary IPOs, but consumer dollars are up for grabs if you just do a little work to be sure they come your way. According to Bob Parsons, founder and chairman of GoDaddy.com, small businesses can cash in if they just do one thing. Offer a mobile website.

Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. If you’re part of the more than 75 percent of small businesses without a mobile website, you’re missing out on business. Check out Parson’s video blog on the topic below. Read more…

Safety and security are important to everyone regardless of age, gender and place. If you are lost somewhere or encounter violent problems, it’s crucial to identity the issue and call for help immediately.

Below we’ve listed some helpful safety related mobile apps which you can use to call on resources to help you out of the dangerous situation, avoiding you to become a victim of violent crimes such as sexual assault, robbery, etc. These Android and iPhone apps are especially important for kids, women and elderly people. Read more…

Little needs to be stressed about the importance of apps, be it the personal computer, laptop, iPad, iPhone or smartphone, they have great utility and save lot of time. They also make things easy for users. In fact, apps have become such an integral part to computing experiences, that, an operating system’s success is getting closely linked to the range of apps it can support and how much is actually available in the open. That, Windows Phone 8 Store could muster in 35,000 apps to date and is still growing at an astonishing rate is something users should be happy about.

Numbers are really encouraging, but there is a downside to the whole phenomenon, and the funniest thing is that most of these apps are nothing but a replication of each other. Read more…

These days, smartphones like iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S and Blackberry can be seen everywhere. The reason to own a smartphone is obvious, it has a wide range of capabilities and functionalities to perform almost any tasks you can imagine. Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of mobile apps available on the Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play.

While we enjoy the ease and convenience the smartphones bring to us, they seem to have one common drawback: short battery life. Most of the smartphones’ battery can only last for 1 or 2 days, and it’s obviously insufficient. While engineers are still exploring new ways to improve both the battery life and battery lifespan, we should acquaint ourselves with some basic battery-saving knowledge. Here are 13 proven and effective tips you can use to save and prolong your smartphone’s battery. Read more…

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device – this phenomena in today’s IT business culture is on the rise and not likely to abate anytime soon. By most measures many IT managers have embraced (at least to some extent, anyway) employee use of their own devices at work for a number of reasons, including saving the company money on expensive hardware expenditures, increasing employee morale, and as one CIO put it, BYOD being “a great way to recruit and retain young talent.”

This paradigm shift seems especially prevalent in IT start-up enterprises. CIOs, managers and other decision makers within these new organizations may be more adept at addressing the phenomena and all it entails provided they are forthright in their assessment and understanding of it. Read more…

Every teenager knows that almost all mobile phones are divided into “iPhones” and “Androids”. Older people still remember the ordinary mobile phones, “dialers”, and perhaps Symbian and Windows Phone. And where did all the other mobile platforms go? Are there any devices available based on them? Thanks to the efforts of manufacturers, Android smartphones got a great screen resolution and looks like a “spade”. Since the race for the pixels is on, we will point out, what is the maximum resolution and the diagonal of the screen used in phones (tablets do not count) on one platform or another.

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Angry Birds is one of the most successful mobile games the world has even seen. The app was created by Finnish developer Rovio Entertainment. Since its first release for Apple’s iOS in December 2009, the app has achieved over a billion of downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions. FarmVille, CityVille and Zynga Poker, on the other hand, are popular social games developed by Zynga in 2009 for Facebook and other social networking sites. They were all once the most popular Facebook game by daily active users.

In conjunction with the recently released Angry Birds Star Wars app, we would like to present a beautiful infographic about Angry Birds and Zynga’s social games. Read more…

When is the last time you went to the gym or fitness class? How do you plan your daily food to achieve your nutrition goals and get healthy? Well, everyday we spend many hours working in front of the computer and mobile device and we tend to stay away from exercises and neglect our basic health needs. All too often, we take our health for granted until something happens. With the advancement of mobile technology, your smartphone and tablet computer can do a lot far more than just making a phone call, texting, web browsing and gaming. There are tons of apps can be downloaded from Apple App Store and Google Play for almost any purposes.

In today’s roundup, we’ll be focusing on health and fitness related mobile apps. Here’s a list of 34 iPhone and Android apps that will help you stay healthy. Read more…

These days mobile phone is not only used for making a call or texting, there’s a lot more things to do. Thanks to the hundred of thousands of apps available on App Store and Google Play, you can almost do anything with your iPhone or Android based phones. Today we’ll be focusing on vehicle-related apps that help you to get the right direction, access to real-time traffic information, find the cheapest gas stations, and even listen to your favorite music during your drive.

Below you’ll find 30 very helpful iPhone and Android apps for better driving. Did I tell you ALL of these apps are FREE? Read more…

Kids these days are pretty friendly with the newly developed technical gadgets. Parents have gradually started trusting their kids with the smartphones or tablets. But can you assure you that children trust the adults in downloading the best apps for them?

Well, here is a list of the some wonderful apps that can make the touchscreen gadget really fascinating for the kids. Different educational, gaming, phonic apps have been developed for the kids as their world exists surrounding these apps. Read more…

Looking for Siri-like functionality on your Android smartphone? Look no further, below we’ve compiled a list of Siri alternative Android apps for you to choose from. Siri is a cool voice assistant exclusively developed for iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices. The voice assistant enables users to perform a variety of tasks in a completely different way. Instead of tapping the screen, you can just speak to the phone to make voice dial, send text messages and emails, search the Web, create appointments and reminders and even post your status updates on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.

Although Siri can only be used on Apple devices, the good news for Android users is that there are many voice assistant apps available on Google Play for free download. So just go through the list below and choose the app that best suits your needs. Read more…