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Screen Pinning ... What happens when you want to lend a friend or  young family member  your phone—but don’t want them rooting through your private information or posting to your social media accounts?  Screen pinning lets you be generous without giving up your privacy. Pinning one app to the screen means that your phone will only run that app until someone enters the lock screen code or use your finger print again. Essentially, the user won’t be able to access any other parts of your phone without your consent. Screen pinning is easy to set up. Follow these steps: Open Settings , go to the Security menu, and enable screen pinning .  Now close all the running apps by tapping the Overview tab (square navigation button) and clicking on close all apps. You can skip this step but it will save you lot of confusion if you close all running apps before pinning the one you want to share. Once you’ve done that, now launch the app your friend needs to use. ...

How secure is your mobile phone? Beyond the Android vs iPhone debate, what are your options for providing better smartphone security for yourself or your company? Mobile devices have become both integral and ubiquitous in everyone's lives, and so they have attracted the interest of criminal hackers eager to steal your vital information. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself. Three Layers of Security As  InfoWorld  notes, all smartphones have three basic elements of security. Your first major task as a mobile user is to become aware of these layers and enable them in your devices: Device Protection: Allowing remote data "wiping" if your device is ever lost or stolen. Data Protection : Preventing corporate data from being transferred to personal apps running on the same device or personal network App-Management Security : Protecting your in-app information from becoming compromised. Smartphone security depends not only on the phones, but also on ...

Smartphones  can do so much fun stuff which you might never know. Frankely speaking, I was also unaware of most of these smartphone features untill I researched the hidden things these phones can do. So lets start with the most amazing thing I learnt today. One thing we need to understand is that smartphone or for that matter any computing machine does not understand our language. Neither do we speak the machine language. So to communicate with each other, we need an interpreter. The operating system which not only performs the role of interpreter between humans and machines but also does various other functions like it manages the machine resources, provides a user friendly interface to interact with the machine, manages and runs all other programs etc etc. The most common computer operating systems are WINDOWS, LINUX and MAC. The most common Operating Systems (OS) on smartphones are the Android, Apple OS, BB OS and Windows. Now coming back to smartphone tricks and specia...

Smartphone, the biggest invention of mankind poses a real and a massive threat to its security. In this article, we will see few of the major security issues posed by the smartphones. With regard to hardware issues, the biggest threat to yourself is the phone battery. Make sure you do not talk or use your phone when it is being charged. Secondly, if your phone keeps heating up then get it checked from the service center before it explodes in your hand, pocket or while its pressed against your ear. With regard to software issues, whenever you are downloading an application, a popup will usually appear asking your permission to access various folders in your phone and also access to mic, camera, GPS, contact list etc etc. Did you wonder why this app needs access to these utilities on your smartphone? An alarming proportaion of Android applications can find and open private photos on your phone, track your location, copy all your contacts, and even use mic and camera of y...

Smartphones are full of brilliant innovations that make our lives easier, from always knowing where you are with GPS to making video calls to anyone in the world from almost any location. Besides making phone calls, most smartphones can perform following common functions: 1. SMS - Short Message Service 2. Taking pictures and making videos and sharing these instantly with family and friends. 3. Use of social media sites 4. Use of web based messaging apps 5. Use of search engines 6. Watching music audios, videos and movies 7. Playing games 8. Clock and alarm functions. 9. Making your schedules, taking notes and posting reminders. 10. Educational and research function 11. Voice recording. 12. Word processing, powerpoint presentations, other office apps. 13. Using maps and GPS function for directions - navigation 14. Online shopping 15. eReader, reading of books, newspapers, magazines etc. 16. Emails 17. Remote control 18. Use of Compass to find Qi...

Qualcomm Tech , a US giant in network innovations is all set to launch 5G connectivity program with its Snapdragon X50 modems. 5G capable smartphones will probably be available in the market by 2019. When? 5G internet standards were in discussion for a long time and still, the research work is ongoing. Live trials of the 5G NR standard are planned to be paraded by the end of this year, with some of the 5G supported devices rolling out by 2019. This leads us to believe that the 5G compatible flagship smartphones and headsets of some of the biggest manufacturing companies will be available in the market by next year.  What will 5G bring to the table? Speed : Top-end 4G networks, known variously as 4G+, LTE-A or 4.5G, can deliver  peak download speeds  of 300Mbit/s. By comparison, 5G promises to offer speeds in excess of 1Gb/s, with many estimates placing it closer to 10Gb/s. To place that in context, you will be able to download - not me...