Microsoft recently launched its very own voice assistant, Cortana. Smart, sassy and a know-it-all, it's nearly as easy to fall for her as for Scarlett Johansson's AI in hit film Her.
Do things with your iPhone you never thought you could Cydia, the jailbroken alternative to Apple's app store, is a treasure trove of neat tweaks and apps for iOS 7. With messengers, ad blockers and a bunch of fixes for the iPhones inadequacies, you will find plenty to entertain and aid you with these apps.
Like podcasts, radio and music and own an Android phone? You might think that there is little point downloading a music player for Android. After all, the phone comes loaded with a perfectly workable player, and it must all sound the same coming out the headphones, right? Well, it depends.
Protect your brand new iPhone, or at least make it stand out. So you've just got your iPhone 6? I bet you're worried about dropping it, or at least scratching it?
'Cross application' data sharing makes user vulnerable, says MWR InfoSecurity. Free mobile apps that use third-party advertising code are putting users in danger of being hacked, according to MWR InfoSecurity. The firm found that ad networks were inheriting the permissions of free apps, granting them access to the address books, text messages and emails of potential victims if the network was compromised by hackers.
Put these attributes on your hit-list. Last week saw the IFA technology show in Berlin, marking the second major opportunity (following Mobile World Congress in Barcelona each February) for the world's biggest technology firms to bring their latest products to show off on European shores.
From Acer's budget entry to Sony's newest flagship, here are IFA's mobile offerings. Acer Liquid Z500 A low-cost, low-spec smartphone from Acer here, with a 5-inch screen and an 8MP camera. It comes in three colours: black, silver and green. Priced at just 149 euros (about £118), this budget phoner should be more than enough for basic smartphone use.
CBR rounds up the big and beautiful smartphones on the market right now. Yes, we've all heard it and if it annoys you you're not alone - the little portmanteau that describes a smartphone with an above average-sized screen.
Conference starts next week in Barcelona. CBR rounds up some of the products Huawei has confirmed for MWC, as well as the rumours and cryptic hints. 4.5G is what Huawei calls an evolution of existing 4G, rather than a new generation of connectivity in itself.
A rundown of some of the other music playing tools around. More and more of us are using our devices, whether desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone, to listen to music every day. However, the breadth of the programs we use to do this is very small; with many people choosing to use the iTunes software bundled with their iPod or iPhone.
Meet some of the other challengers. When you're after a new mobile phone, it can be easy to become distracted by the major players in the industry, who can spend millions on marketing and advertising. But what if you want to be different and stand out? Here are five alternatives to the usual suspects...
From social media to mobile Wi-Fi, Google has most bases covered. Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has become one of the most synonymous names in technology over the past 16 years. Starting off as a search engine pioneering the 'pagerank' method of retrieving results, Google has grown into many areas, six of which are detailed below.
Some of the technology world's lesser-known devices. Everyone wants their work to have an impact on the world, and when your work includes designing and producing the devices that people use every day, this becomes a potentially reachable goal. But what if what you produce isn't ever really that great?
From before-their-time gamers to the phone shaped like a teardrop, here are five devices that just didn't work. Most mobile phones look the same these days, and it turns out that's really not such a bad thing. Before standardised forms and fucntions and the dominance of Android and iOS, manufacturers tried all sorts of crazy things to sell phones.