Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Turning off data roaming mobile when travel abroad.

Switch off data roaming and iCloud mobile to avoid a Mass Mobile Bill before Travelling Abroad. The best way is unlocked your mobile before your travel or buy a cheaper unlocked mobile, then when arrived to your destination buy a local prepaid SIM Card with enough Data Mobile, like (150 Country Minutes, Unlimited Texts, 250 or 500 MB Data), and install in your smartphone just during your holidays. Do not forget to use Free Wi-Fi at your hotel and hotspots available at library, restaurants and pubs.

Use the internet connexion hotspots only when necessary and for a short time in public places, so you prevent hackers or crackers will not see your photos, contacts and private conversations on your mobile, and always disconnect the Wi-Fi public after use.

Recommended use with Intelligent Data Teams:

BlackBerry devices with version 10.0 operating system , iPhone and Android devices NOT compress data , so they may cause unexpected consumption on your bill . Devices with BlackBerry operating system to version 7.1 if you compress the data .There are apps that constantly generate data consumption as Twitter , Facebook, Messenger , Skype, applications and Weather Forecast Maps etc. . , As always keep the connection open and some are updated even when running in the background . Sign only when you will use and remember to close the session if you will be unavailable for a while.
   
    
There are applications that offer free content storage for your photos , music , videos and documents in general , such as Dropbox , iCloud, Google Drive, among others , which can generate consumption data to be used if you do not have a WiFi connection. We recommend you take precautions when deciding to use : Data benefit from free WiFi zones and make sure the connection is really this way , check the user manual of your computer/mobile.
   
    
If you have an Android device we recommend see " Google Play Store" different applications available through which you can control and monitor your data consumption , such as: "Traffic Monitor" and " Monitor Data Traffic " .


ARE YOU USING ROAMING?: prevents unexpected data consumption on your invoice:

     CONNECTED IN MOBILE DATA or DATA only when you require.


     NETWORKS BY USING Wi-Fi: make sure you have an effective connection, since all consumption outside of these networks is charged.
Make sure that when you go to use Free Wi-Fi, first switched off your mobile data.


     Before traveling can DISABLE MOBILE DATA or DATA on the menu of your mobile device by following these steps:

         Android: Settings / More Settings / Mobile Networks / data connection Disable / Uncheck Data Roaming.

         iPhone: Settings / General / Network Before driving off "Data Roaming" option

         BlackBerry operating system to version 7.1: Manage Connections / Mobile Network Options / Before driving off "Data Roaming" option
 

         BlackBerry operating systems version 10.0: Settings / Network Connections / Mobile Network. Before driving off "Data Roaming Services" option 

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

TechCrunch: Top Stories of the Day // February 24, 2014




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Today's Top Stories // Feb 24, 2014

Darrell Etherington

The Samsung Galaxy S5 Leaks In A Big Batch Of New Photos Ahead Of Official Announcement

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Natasha Lomas

Nokia Forks Android In Mobile Services Push — $122 Nokia X Will Also Be Lumia “Feeder”

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Ingrid Lunden

Messaging Giant WhatsApp, Now With 465M Users, Will Add Voice Services In Q2 Of This Year

Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp -- acquired by Facebook last week for $19 billion -- announced that the messaging giant is finally moving into voice -- a... read more

Darrell Etherington

Watch Samsung’s ‘Unpacked5′ Galaxy S5 Announcement Live

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John Biggs

The Samsung Galaxy S5 Is Coming… But Why Are They Announcing It In Barcelona?

So we know with certainty that we'll hear about the Samsung Galaxy S5 today - whether it's a launch or something else we're not quite certain, but assume most... read more

Natasha Lomas

Next-Gen YotaPhone Follow-Up Unveiled, With Full-Touch E-Ink Rear Screen

Russian mobile-making startup Yota Devices has just unveiled the next generation of its dual-screen smartphone, the YotaPhone. As with the current first-gen... read more

Steve O'Hear

Nokia’s Forking Of Android Could Benefit Google

Back in October last year, I first heard rumblings that Nokia was working on an Android handset. "Devs rumor but rather solid, not confirmed by eye," said my... read more

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CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Epic, $19B Acquisition of WhatsApp

It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more

Gillmor Gang: WhatsApp, Doc

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — bask... read more

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In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, VegasTechFund’s Jen McCabe joined us in the studio to talk hardware,... read more

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

TechCrunch: Crunch Daily.


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Today's Top Stories // Feb 17, 2014

Frederic Lardinois

Ok Google

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Alex Wilhelm

As Mt.Gox Implodes, Rival Bitcoin Exchanges Remain Surprisingly Stable

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Sarah Perez

Anonymous Messaging App Blink Arrives On Android

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Alexia Tsotsis

Basis In Acquisition Talks With Everyone

Looks like Google might be ticking off a box on its wearables shopping list, or someone else might be. Basis Science, the company behind the Basis Health... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft Launches Smart Visual Studio Add-On For Code Snippet Search

Whether you are a seasoned programmer or a beginner, chances are you spend a lot of your time looking for code snippets on Stack Overflow and similar sites.... read more

Pankaj Mishra

Siemens Launches $100M Fund To Back Startups Aiming To Disrupt Manufacturing

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Sarah Perez

Tidy Organizes Your Smartphone Photos Into Albums With Just A Swipe

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Fly Or Die: Beats Music

Beats Music is the latest of many streaming music services to hit the scene, pulling from some of the best parts... read more

CrunchWeek: Comcast’s $45B Time Warner Cable Bid, Bye-Bye Flappy Birds, Snapchat’s Smoothie Hack

We're at the end of a week where snow was on the ground in 49 out of the 50 states in the U.S. What better way... read more

Gillmor Gang: Lip Sync

The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — Boy, the way Glenn... read more

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

3 More Cool Things Your Android Can Do.



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3 More Cool Things Your Android Can Do

Anthony Muzonzini
We have done a couple articles on some of the cool things you can do on your Android phone on this site. In this article we have more cool things you can do on your Android. Some of these features might not be entirely exclusive to the Android Operating System though but they are still cool and convenient at the same time.
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Android / © AndroidPIT / Androidify

Create Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot

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Use Your Android Phone as a Hotspot / © AndroidPIT
Just because you can’t make a connection to a local wi-fi hotspot at an airport or perhaps a coffee shop doesn’t mean you should give up hope. There is a mobile hotspot feature on most smartphones nowadays that allows users to create their own wi-fi cloud which allows you to share a connection with other wi-fi enabled devices within the vicinity. This means you can share an internet connection you have on your phone or tablet, perhaps through a data plan with your service provider, with these other wi-fi enabled devices. In order to do this on an Android phone you would have to make sure that your data is enabled and then go to the settings in your phone. After this click on “Tethering & Mobile Hotspot” and then check the mobile hotspot box. You should now be able to connect to a mobile hotspot from your phone and share an internet connection.

Make Payments Using Your Mobile Phone

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Use Your Mobile Phone to Make Payments/ © kumolos.com
You can make payments using your mobile phone if it is NFC enabled. Using an app such as ISIS mobile wallet, you can virtually store your credit or debit card on your phone and use it to make payments with your mobile phone. You just tap your device to a payment terminal and you are ready to go.

Use Your Phone to Identify Music

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The Shazam App / © AndroidPIT
Using apps such as Shazam or SoundHound you can now identify music wherever you are with the press of a button. If you ever hear a song on the radio or in a club that you really like but you don’t know the name of, you can simply use the app and it will give you the name of the song in seconds. If you are someone who like old school music like me, you may find this app very useful indeed.

What do you think about these 3 things you can do with your Android phone? Do you have any suggestions of your own? Please leave us a comment below and we will get back to you.
Source: Verizon Wireless


Top apps for your new Android smartphone

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Top apps for your new Android smartphone

Loie Favre (translation)
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Did you just open a present this holiday season to discover a brand-spanking new Android smartphone? If you did, well you’re a lucky duck and now it’s time to start having some fun with all the amazing Android apps that are available in the Google Play Store. A fair warning though, many are a waste of time, so here are the ones that all new AND continuing Android users should install.
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Finding and managing files: ES File Explorer File Manager

Depending on the brand of shiny new toy which you pulled out of the tissue paper, you may or may not have a file explorer, but this is something indispensable for Android users and the app for this purpose which may have been pre-installed on your device may not suffice. To start, we highly recommend getting ES File Explorer File Manager which is really intuitive and easy to use and is available in a variety of languages.

Music player for heavy and heavy listeners alike: Poweramp

Here’s an Android multimedia player whose functions will make your head spin. Whether you always have earphones glued to your ears or you just want to listen to music on your phone once in a while, there’s a huge chance that Poweramp could be made for you. It’s easy to use, filled to the rafters with functions, supports a huge number of file types, has different skins, an equalizer….need I say more?
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Poweramp is available for a free trial for 15 days and afterwards you’ll have to pay. If you want to try a free app that does the same thing, check out Winamp, which is equally as stable and has a simple user interface.

Watching videos: VLC

You might have heard about VLC Plus Pro thanks to its PC version. Even though this version isn’t yet 100% complete, we consider it to be a super useful app and one of the most effective for movie watching on your Android tablet or smartphone. The application allows you to add subtitles, it will adopt to your screen size and to top it all off, it is extremely user-friendly. Nonetheless, the app, as it is still in its beginning stages, can sometimes be a little buggy. If you don’t feel like testing a new up-and-coming app, then try MX Player.
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© VLC

Saving your files with a backup app: Helium

Though I’m sure you could survive without this next app, we strongly advise using it. It will allow you to save your apps, data, SMS, contacts and pictures in the occasion of theft, loss or other unfortunate circumstances. Backed up apps will also be retained in the occasion of sending your smartphone back to be repaired by the manufacturer, during which case it comes back a clean slate, all data lost. With Helium, it’s easy! Simply check the apps that you would like to save and choose backup.

Taking notes: Any.Do To do list

Smartphones are one of the rare things that you carry along with you at all time and comes in handy for quickly ‘jotting down’ notes or thoughts throughout the day. Any.Do is a well-rounded app: it organizes for you, while helping you out. I you choose the word ‘grocery’, Any.Do will suggest a sentence like ‘go grocery shopping’ or ‘go grocery shopping for...’’ and all you have to do is click on the contact icon to add the name of the person. This is just one of the great examples of how Any.Do can be useful in your every day life. If you get hooked on this app, you’ll never let it go.

Keeping up with the Joneses: Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Instagram

Here we’ve grouped all of the most popular social networking apps. These are obviously all available for Android and are often updated. Facebook and Twitter also have widgets that allow you to be ‘in the know’ with your friends in a more in your face kind of way. Instagram has also integrated video to make some cool short snippets. Skype allows you to place calls via mobile data or Wi-Fi. But just for your information, these aren’t the end all and be all of social media apps, there are more coming into the limelight, like Viber, Vine, Cinemagram, Line, Wechat…

Getting in touch: WhatsApp

If you don’t know WhatsApp, then you have probably just acquired your first smartphone! This app has become the bread and butter for iOS and Android users worldwide. With instant messaging, photo transfers, sounds, groupe conversations, most are using it on a daily basis and as a replacement for the common SMS or text message. Though it’s not the only app of its genre (nor is it the best), you are sure with WhatsApp that you will be able to keep in contact with most of your friends and family.

Great all-around game: Clash of Clans

Clash of Clans is an excellent mobile game. It combines strategy, action and management and what’s more, it’s multiplayer. Its success is probably in large part due to its easy usage and the lack of ads. Not only that, you don’t need to be constantly connected and need not fear having to dish out tons of cash in order to actually progress: Clash of Clans has multiple platforms and has more than a million players around the globe. You develop your own village and join or create clans to become the lord of your guilde.

Working with documents: Quickoffice

If you want to open documents, edit them as well as view spreadsheets, give Quickoffice for Android a try, it’s sort of like Microsoft Office for PC. You are able to use your smartphone, or better yet a tablet, to rework your docs, slide presentations or graphs. Obviously, working with office docs on your computer is a lot more ergonomic, however if you buy yourself an attachable Bluetooth keyboard for Android, it’s almost like you are sitting at your good old desktop again.
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Being tech, apps and Android savvy: AndroidPIT

Evidently, you can’t forget about installing AndroidPIT to keep on top of all your Android, smartphone, tablet and app news, as well as take part in the forum and discover lots of new stuff to do with your device.
What other applications have you installed with your new smartphone?
(originally by Joséphine Dusol)

Friday, October 25, 2013

Imprimir desde Android: el PC deja de ser necesario




Imprimir desde Android: el PC deja de ser necesario

Imprimir desde Android: el PC deja de ser necesario

La impresión desde móviles y tabletas está llegando a Android de la mano de Android KitKat 4.4, ¿por qué ahora? Analizamos los motivos tras esta...

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La impresión desde móviles y tabletas está llegando a Android de la mano de Android KitKat 4.4, ¿por qué ahora? Analizamos los motivos tras esta novedad.
Android 4.4 ha introducido de serie la impresión desde teléfonos y tabletas. La impresión móvil, ya disponible a través de Google Cloud Print, permite enviar a imprimir documentos abiertos en las aplicaciones de Android, como Quickoffice y Drive. Hay escenarios en los que imprimir desde el teléfono o la tableta tiene mucho sentido:
  • Imprimir un documento para un compañero desde fuera de la oficina
  • Tener impresas entradas de un concierto para recogerlas en el acto
  • Imprimir un SMS, un correo o un artículo desde la cama o el sofá
  • Enviar una foto a la impresora a los padres mientras estás de viaje
Sin embargo, también es cierto que imprimimos cada vez menos. Según datos recientes, las ventas de impresoras están bajando año tras año, algo que coincide con el auge de los documentos electrónicos y el deseo -muy ecológico- de gastar menos papel. El mundo de la impresión doméstica parece estar en crisis.
Entonces, ¿por qué Google ha optado por integrar la impresión ahora en Android? Para entenderlo, tenemos que alejar la vista y analizar el contexto en toda su amplitud.

Un empujón de Android para ayudar Chrome OS

Para Google, el escenario ideal es el B: impresoras independientes y en la nube
La venta de los Chromebooks, ordenadores portátiles cuyo sistema operativo es Chrome OS, está empezando por fin a despegar en los Estados Unidos y otros países, pero no hay que olvidar que tienen limitaciones importantes que les han impedido alcanzar una cuota de mercado todavía mayor. Una de ellas es la impresión: Chrome OS no puede hablar directamente con impresoras a través un cable USB como lo hacen Windows y Linux. Tiene que enviar los documentos a impresoras conectadas a Internet.
Al igual que ha ocurrido con otras innovaciones, como las apps de Chrome para el escritorio, el objetivo de la impresión a través de Internet es darle a Chrome OS algo de lo que carecía: capacidad para imprimir cualquier documento sin necesidad de controladores propietarios en sus dispositivos. Con semejante salto, Google evita así un complicado y costoso problema, que es la negociación con decenas de fabricantes.
Cloud Print es la única forma que tiene Chrome OS de imprimir documentos (fuente)
Que el mismo tipo de impresión llegue a Android es algo más bien colateral, un síntoma más de la convergencia Android-Chrome OS. Unidos por problemas comunes, ambos sistemas se están convirtiendo en uno solo gracias a Chrome, que es a la vez navegador y "pseudonúcleo". En el proceso, Android, caballo de batalla de Google en la arena de los sistemas operativos, no duda en apoyar a su primo en la nube.

Impresión 2.0: el PC es un intermediario prescindible

De momento, el PC todavía es necesario para mediar entre la Nube y millones de impresoras obsoletas, incapaces de ver más allá de su red local. Pero, en cuanto el cordón umbilical que une la impresora al PC se corte, el ordenador personal será "inútil" a la hora de imprimir. ¿Y qué mejor manera de mostrar esto que con la impresión desde una tableta o un teléfono Android?
Al potenciar la impresión a través de la nube con la ayuda de Android, Google está sentando las bases para una revolución en el mundo de la impresión doméstica. Las que estén listas para imprimir desde la nube no requieren controladores ni tampoco la presencia de un PC. Son dispositivos independientes que Google puede aprovechar sin tener que pasar por Windows, Mac o Linux.
La implicaciones de la impresión en Android, pues, son enormes, pero no tanto por la utilidad de una función que, con el tiempo, se ve reducida a ámbitos cada vez más concretos, sino por el gesto de desafío que supone hacia el escritorio tradicional, dominado por un sistema de impresión anticuado. Google quiere abandonar ese modelo porque obstaculiza su crecimiento: en la nube no hay sitio para los controladores.
Marcas como HP ya están vendiendo impresoras capaces de imprimir sin PC (fuente)
Al mismo tiempo, Google se sitúa en una posición única de cara a revitalizar el mercado de las impresoras personales. A raíz de la llegada de la impresión desde Android, es muy posible que veamos una explosión en el número de impresoras capaz de conectarse directamente a Internet sin necesidad de un PC. Liberadas de su dependencia, las impresoras tendrán así por delante una prometedora segunda juventud.

¿Qué opinas de este movimiento de Google?

Friday, August 30, 2013

"Android está lleno de virus", indica gobierno de EE.UU.


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"Android está lleno de virus", indica gobierno de EE.UU.

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Según un documento redactado por diferentes agencias estadounidenses de seguridad, los dispositivos Android son los más vulnerables ante los ataques e infiltración de programas maliciosos debido al gran número de versiones con las que cuenta este sistema operativo.

En la investigación llevada a cabo por el Departamendo de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU. y el FBI, se evaluó a varios sistemas operativos móviles como iOS, Symbian y BlackBerry OS para encontrar su nivel de vulnerabilidad al software maligno conocido como malware.

Los resultados del estudio encontraron que un 79% del software malicioso impactó en dispositivos Android, mientras que un 19% atacó al sistema operativo Symbian, un 0.7% a tabletas y teléfonos de Apple, 0.3% a teléfonos inteligentes con Windows Mobile y un 0.3% a móviles BlackBerry.

Según el estudio titulado "Amenazas a dispositivos móviles que usan el sistema operativo Android", gran parte del malware va dirigido al 44% de los usuarios Android que siguen usando la versión Gingerbread (2.3.3/ 2.3.4/ 2.3.5/ 2.3.6 y 2.3.7), que desde su lanzamiento en 2011 sufrió de diferentes brechas de seguridad que fueron corregidas en versiones posteriores.

Uno de los objetivos de la investigación es encontrar que tan desprotegidos se encuentran los dispositivos móviles que usan sus empleados debido a que estos manejan datos sensibles de seguridad nacional. Asímismo, el informe recomienda actualizar el sistema operativo de sus tabletas y teléfonos inteligentes, además de descargar software antivirus y verificar el origen de las aplicaciones que se descargan para protegerse de probables amenazas.

En resumen

El problema con el sistema operativo Android, mismo que se encuentra en una gran parte de los dispositivos móviles de gama baja, media y alta, es su gran fragmentación o número de versiones que complican la tarea de establecer una plataforma uniforme que garantice seguridad ante el gran número de ataques de software malicioso.