With Google I/O rapidly approaching, the tech public is expecting the announcement of Babel, the new unified messaging client that should hopefully unite all of Mountain View’s chat services under one roof. With all the disparate messaging services available these days, it’s nice to see someone trying to bring everything together. Quite frankly, messaging these days is absurd. Right now, we personally keep separate apps for SMS, reddit, Facebook, Google+, Skype and WhatsApp ...

Android has never been known for its secure operating system, with analysts predicting malware on the platform to hit unprecedented heights in 2015, overtaking Windows PC malware. BadNews is a new malware bug found by security researchers running tests.  While 35 apps were added to the Google Play store without malware but in a recent update they came with malware ridden code hidden inside. BadNews for Android users Bitdefender, the security researchers, found three more apps out of the 32 found previously. Google has since removed all these apps from the store, ...

Hello, and welcome to the very first TechNorms device review. We've been in the business of helping you root, modify, and hack your Android phone for a while now. However, we feel there's more to do. Say you're looking for a new phone. What should you buy? That's where we come in, once again. We decided to cast a critical eye at some of the latest (and not-so-latest) gadgets on the market. We're going to sort out the winners and losers so nobody ...

Making decisions, even on a small scale, is sometimes hard. Most people will look to friends, family or even the Internet for moral advice and feedback on what they should do. Seesaw is a new app allowing you to crowdsource different answers and feedback from the community. This can be anything from what shoes to buy to if you should go to university or get a job. The app is currently run by a small startup team, named Seesaw Decisions Corporation, who work in San Francisco. This is ...

Google Now is a powerfully unique service which allows you to access relevant information, exactly when you need it. Over time, the application will memorize your daily routine, and will eventually offer you useful information about your journey to work, upcoming appointments, and so forth. Google Now used to be a luxury available for Android users only, until now. On April 29th 2013, Google finally launched its popular Google Now service across iOS devices, via its Google Search app - a move which could change the ...

Hello, and welcome to the 42nd edition of the Weekend Games Corner. This is our weekly column where we find the latest and greatest mobile games for your playing pleasure. We pick a game for Android, iOS, and Flash so that no one feels left out. Well, no one except Windows Phone, but that doesn’t count. Cheap shots aside, we’ve picked some interesting and fun games this week for you to play. These titles are unique, clever, and free to play. Picking ...

Swype is the original innovator in typing. A few years back, the creators of Swype came up with the truly brilliant idea that you should be able to type by dragging your finger from key to key instead of by hunting and pecking. It sounds silly but turns out to be surprisingly intuitive. After trying out the swipe keyboard built into 4.2, we can’t go back. Today Swype takes another step forward toward bringing swipe tying to the masses. After a ...

Android really shows is strength in its flexibility. Where iOS can be more limited because Apple can’t or won’t do modifications, Google has no such qualms. Everything within the system is fair game under the open-source rules of engagement. It’s how we have creative tweaks like Facebook Chat Heads. Along those lines, two Israeli Android developers named Lior Iluz and Dor Schaike made an app we definitely will not see on iOS anytime soon. Overlays takes a widget and displays it over the ...

The iOS store is teeming with great weather applications and the new ideas coming from developers on how to display and digest weather information overlaps anything we have previously seen. Yahoo! Weather has a big hill to climb to reach the top - it needs the information Yahoo is well known for and a design edge to rival the new diverse weather apps on the market. In Yahoo! Weather we see a lot of the redesign of the company, from the old Yahoo where you could display information in any ...

We’ve spent plenty of time bashing themes on Cydia, but it’s always good to focus on the ones that aren't completely awful. Jaku (Japanese for tranquility) is a well-designed theme that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest on Cydia. The creator, William Szilveszter, spent more than a year perfecting each icon to make it “absolutely perfect.” The theme was compelling enough to make us reach out to Szilveszter. We briefly talked to him about themes, customization, and iOS ...