The latest data from Gartner shows that smartphone shipments increased by 9.1 percent yearly in Q1, 2017 to 380 million units. The growth in the market, however, benefitted Chinese OEMs like Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo the most, with the market share of leaders like Samsung and Apple dwindling. While Samsung continued to be the world’s biggest smartphone OEM in Q1, 2017, its shipments declined by 2.6 percent. The company’s market share fell to 20....

In Summary Undesired/unused files and leftover files from uninstalled apps can take up too much disk space on your system and degrade its performance over time. Disk cleanup and optimization software help deal with this by assisting you in cleaning up your disk space and optimizing the system performance. Cleaner One Pro is a disk cleanup utility that helps you manage and free up storage space on your system to prevent it from slowdowns....

The Microsoft Surface Pro 8, a sleek and capable tablet-laptop hybrid device, is currently on sale. If you visit the Redmond giant’s online store, you can grab a Surface Pro 8 with a price of $999, saving at least $600 on its typical starting retail price of $1,599. Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time But Microsoft has several models of this 2-in-1 on sale, including a $799 version that is $400 for Black Friday 2022....

Facebook is releasing a dedicated gaming app tomorrow. Due to COVID-19, everyone is trying to do something that can keep everyone to stay home. So Facebook has launched its new app where people can play games, Organise virtual tournaments, Live streams and much more. The best thing about this app is that there will be no ads. So you won’t get any annoying ads while playing. Currently, the app is available for Android devices soon you will able to see it on ios also....

This update was announced by Facebook on Friday and is available on the world’s leading mobile operating system, Android. However, Facebook didn’t said when it will roll this feature to Apple’s iOS. To add multiple accounts in Messenger you will have to visit Messenger’s Accounts section in Settings. Also, you can protect your multiple accounts (if you have added), if you want to protect your privacy, you can do it too....

Now, the FBI has issued a warning about smart TVs and hackers. Keep reading to find out what the problem is and how to protect your family. Your TV could actually be watching you If you’ve purchased a TV in the past couple of years, there’s a great chance it’s a smart TV. That means it connects to the internet and you can use it to watch streaming services and apps....

The new spying rule “rule 41” of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure will grant powers to the judges over the US (United States) to issue search warrants for the law enforcement to the remotely access devices that are using privacy tools and the users of those privacy tools like TOR and VPN may become the prime targets of the US government’s hacking team. According to the sources, as this “rule 41” from Federal Rule Criminal Procedure clearly explain the rules for the criminal accuser....

Version 5.0.13 is hitting devices over the next few days (you can grab the A now if you’re impatient), bringing deeper hues, reworked animation, more app curation. The makeover is identical to leaked images from September that gave us a peek at the new look. The Action Bar, which houses the page title, search bar, triple-bar navigation button (often called the hamburger icon) is now morphed together with the page categories....

According to the Beijing court “The case was opened at the request of a production that accuses Apple of violating its exclusive rights to broadcast the film on the internet”. As the film deals with Chinese citizens fighting against Japanese troops in northern China in the early 1930s. As well as the applicant also sued the developer and operator of the application Youku HD, available in the Apple App Store, which it accuses of enabling users to see the movie, causing “huge economic losses”....

Has it been years since you updated your router? We put together a quick quiz to help you choose the perfect model for your home and needs. This is a must if your connection is spotty and your router isn’t equipped with the latest security standards. Tap or click here to take our router-finder quiz. Even if your firmware is up to date, your router is still vulnerable to attack....

That’s because Chrome 46 includes new CSS animation features several A tweaks that should speed up animations page load times. The Chromium blog outlines how developers are able to animate any graphical object without as much complex javascript code. The update also includes optimized image loading other web development capabilities that should enable faster web performance. And as usual, this update comes with a bunch of unspecified “stability fixes.” Chrome for Android 46 should be ready waiting for you in the ay Store....

When a cookie has secure flag set, it will only be sent over secure HTTPS, which is HTTP over SSL/TLS. This way, the authentication cookie will not be disclosed in insecure communication (HTTP). It turns out, however, that an insecure HTTP response can overwrite a cookie with secure flag in modern browsers. As a consequence, insecure HTTP traffic can have an impact on secure HTTPS traffic, which doesn’t look good from a security point of view....

One business currently feeling the pressure is Apple, as it sees three of its key suppliers suspend production because of Shanghai’s latest strict lockdown measures. According to Nikkei Asia, the lockdown affects Pegatron, the company that’s responsible for the manufacture of some 20% to 30% of all iPhones, Quanta, a notebook manufacturer involved in assembling MacBooks, and Compal Electronics, which assembles iPads. These are Apple’s three key products – the most important being the iPhone – and the company will be keen to see production resume as soon as possible before this hurts sales....

Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time The deal features an unlocked smartphone and comes in four colors: green, pink gold, phantom black, and phantom white. Underneath the case you’ll get a long-lasting 3,700mAh battery that uses 25W fast-charging so when your battery gets low you can get back to being on the go faster. You’ll get a 50MP camera that also shoots imagery in stunning 8K video....

After all, if your web browser defaults to Expedia every time someone types in an “E,” your plans will be found out. Are you traveling soon? Tap or click here for some travel safety tips. Plus, saved searches eat up memory on your hard drive. So how do you go about clearing your search history? Did you know you can do this for your browser and favorite social media sites?...

Thankfully, you can make your own disinfectant wipes right at home. Here’s a list of materials and cleaners you’ll need, and how to assemble the wipes so you can keep things clean and virus free. What you can and can’t use for disinfectant wipes To make anything, you’ll need the right ingredients. Homemade disinfectant wipes are no exception. The basic parts of disinfectant wipes are a cleaning agent, water, and absorbent material that will make up the wipe....

At one point of time, Samsung was known to include IR blasters on its flagship Galaxy S devices. While an IR blaster might seem like a small feature to have, it comes in incredibly handy for daily use since it allows one to control all electronic appliances around them right from an app on your smartphone. However, the last time Samsung included an IR blaster on its device was with the Galaxy S6 in 2015....

Most of the victims, which included at least 37 journalists, royal family members and activists, used iPhones for daily activities. Leveraging on this, cybercriminals deployed a zero-clicks campaign through Apple’s iMessage system. But fears are spreading that it wasn’t only high-profile people who were targeted. There is a good chance that everyday citizens got caught in the net. Fortunately, a new tool is available to scan your device to check for this spyware....

Sure, you could use a plain old scanner to do it, but who wants to scan documents one by one? Then you have to organize and file them manually. It’s a huge task if you go the old-fashioned route. With the Rapid Receipt scanner, you can get it done so much faster — and better. Here’s how: Scan virtually anything Quickly scan stacks of various-sized paper receipts, invoices, business cards and even extra-long pages....

Do Have a Quality Website One of the first impressions you’ll make on your customers is when they visit your website. Often, people will check to see if a business has a website before even setting foot in their store, and if you don’t have a nice design and simply layout you may risk losing business. Prepare to invest in your website so that customers can find information easily and get quick answers to questions they may have about your products or services....