Motorola Teases The Wooden Backed Moto X Once Again Looks Like They Ll Miss Christmas

Motorola’s flagship 2013 smartphone, the Moto X, may only be on sale in North America, but that limited geographic footprint has allowed the company to focus on offering customers levels of device customization that the mobile industry has never seen before. You get to pick the color of the front of your phone, the back of your phone, the ring around the camera lens, the buttons, everything! But there’s one customization that Motorola promised that they’ve yet to deliver....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 262 words · Antonio Gonzalez

Moving Beyond Employee Surveillance In Transportation

Literally, someone is always watching: That’s the state of affairs in the commercial driving sector, where many advanced camera-based safety systems like video telematics and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) live stream 24-hour views into the vehicle. The predictable result is that professional drivers often have an unwelcome sense that someone is always watching. Is it any wonder the sector is facing massive worker shortages? “From a privacy perspective, recording everything a driver does and allowing drop-ins can leave drivers feeling spied-on at work,” says Yoav Banin, Chief Product Officer at Nauto, which is utilizing assistance technology to reduce monitoring and put the power in the hands of the employee....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 613 words · James Wilson

Nbn Could End Up As A 100Mbps Network And The Accc Thinks It Might Be Too Quick

For 12Mbps, 25Mbps, 50Mbps plans, NBN is putting forward the same type of model it currently uses, where each plan has an allocation of CVC included – often around 6% of the marketed speed or lower – and would see excess capacity at AU$8 per 1Mbps per month to retailers. For plans at 100Mbps and above, a flat access fee each month is paid. While the flat price plans are set to increase at a rate of the consumer price index (CPI) plus 3% initially, and the greater of CPI or 3% later, which is higher than the pure CPI increases on the bundles, the ACCC believes excess usage charges will steer retailers towards the 100Mbps plan....

December 13, 2022 · 4 min · 678 words · Sara Elliott

Nbn To Spend Au 750 Million Upgrading Fixed Wireless To Be Millimetre Wave 5G Capable

As part of the upgrade, all users will be able to get up to 100Mbps speeds with 85% of the network capable of 250Mbps, have busy hours at minimum speeds of 50Mbps, 120,000 homes will shift from satellite to fixed wireless coverage, and those left on satellite will see off-peak quota-free window expanded from midnight to 4pm each day by mid-year. The program is expected to take two and a half years, at which point satellite users will see data quotas boosted to 90GB....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 321 words · Vicki Shaddox

New Malware Crosses The Ocean To Infect American Phones

Even worse than rapidly spreading malware, however, is malware that moves silently. A recent security threat has been compromising millions of Android devices across India without users even knowing it’s hit them. Behind the scenes, it quietly copies itself and replaces trusted apps with compromised versions. What’s more, the threat has moved across the ocean — and has already started infecting phones right here in the U.S.! With so many devices falling victim to this malware, security researchers around the world are encouraging internet users to stay safe and avoid online spaces where the virus is known to be lurking....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 621 words · Deshawn Billingslea

New Moto G Goes Official With A 5 Inch Display For 179

Besides the new Moto X, Motorola also unveiled the successor to the Moto G — its highly popular budget phone running a near stock build of Android. The new Moto G sports a bigger screen and only slightly updated internals, which differentiates it from its predecessor. The new Moto G comes with a bigger 5-inch 720p LCD display and a higher resolution 8MP camera. Apart from that, it sports the same exact specs as the its predecessor including a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and 1GB of RAM....

December 13, 2022 · 1 min · 173 words · Johnny Horn

Night Mode And Dark Mode Might Not Make It To Final Android N Release

In a surprising twist of events, the much hyped and much talked about Night Mode and Dark Them will most likely be shelved for now in the upcoming Android N release. During Google I/O, Dan Sandler was reported as saying that the night mode and dark theme’s performance was not up to mark and they did not meet the standards that Google has put into place for features in this release....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 392 words · Willard Ross

Now Anyone Can Have A Verified Twitter Account

The social network Twitter said that it will launch an online application to check accounts, which allows users to recognize public figures and organizations as authentic. The verification allows proving the involvement of a Twitter account with any person or public institution, such as celebrities or even government organizations. As it is important to note that while the request is accessible to any user, meanwhile none of this can guarantee that you will get the blue badge....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 281 words · Joseph Stevens

Official Xposed Framework For Android 7 0 7 1 Nougat Now Available

More than a year after Google first released Android 7.0/7.1 Nougat, an official release of Xposed framework for the OS is now available. The developer of the framework, rovo89, has been working on Xposed for Nougat for almost a year now. He had provided intermittent updates on his progress but never provided any release timeframe for the final release. The delay did lead to the release of an unofficial version of Xposed for Nougat, though it was buggy and not compatible with many of the existing modules....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 252 words · Paula Bordley

Oh Look Another Moto X Leak

Motorola is going to start selling a new phone sometime around October called the Moto X. According to the specifications that have been leaking around on the internets, it’ll be a midrange device. You can almost say it’s a slightly better Nexus 4, actually. Anyway, photos of the Moto X have been leaking longer than I’ve been alive, and today there’s a new photo that’s supposedly the first photo of the X fully assembled....

December 13, 2022 · 1 min · 181 words · Steven Figueroa

Macos How To Record Internal Audio During Screen Recording

In Summary While Quick Time Player on macOS can record contents of the screen, it cannot record internal audio of your Mac during screen recording. The default options that you get is to either record no audio or to record audio using the external mic. In this guide, we will tell you how to record internal audio on Mac. For all things related to Apple and macOS, you can visit our dedicated macOS hub....

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 834 words · Bobby Krumm

Line Updates Its Android App With Voice Call Functionality

According to TechInAsia though, a 30-day plan will cost users around US $0.06 for making calls to mobile phones, while calls to landlines will set users back by US $0.03, under the PAYG (Pay As You Go) plan. The iOS version of the app is yet to be updated to receive similar functionality. Line had announced its intention of releasing its voice call feature towards the end of last month....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 72 words · Robert Wetzel

Meet Ruuh Microsoft S Latest Chatbot For India

Microsoft has already filed for a trademark for Ruuh on March 15 according to which the chatbot will talk about the area of interest primarily evolving around Chatting, Bollywood, Music, Humour, Travel and Browsing the Internet.[stories-so-far title=”Also Read” post_ids=”77000, 78596″] Tay.ai was the first chatbot that was created by Microsoft Research and Bing Teams and was designed keeping in mind 18 to 24-year-olds. The ugly turn of events resulted in the Tay being trained by the users to act racist before it was eventually taken down by Microsoft....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 220 words · Diane Colbert

Micromax Yu Ace Introduced With A 4 000Mah Battery For Rs 5 999

The new Yu Ace is powered with MediaTek MTK6739 quad-core chipset and has 2GB of RAM. A 3GB RAM variant, which will cost Rs 6,999, is expected to arrive later. It features a 5.45-inch HD+ screen with an aspect ratio of 18:9 and 2.5D curved glass. There’s 16GB of onboard storage which can be expanded with a MicroSD card. In addition to a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, the phone also offers a software-based face unlock feature....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · Christian Patterson

Miui 9 Features Previewed Three New Themes Simpler Rom And More

The MIUI 9 will, for starters, feature three new default skins for you to choose from – “No Boundary” which brings a minimalistic look to your home screen, “Color Fantasy”, and “Cool Black”. All of these will abandon the text below dock’s icons for a more elegant aesthetic. Xiaomi also mentions these names can change at the time of the launch. Additionally, there will be a new lock screen shortcut which you’ll be able to access by swiping right....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 336 words · Alicia Peterson

Mobiles With 7 Day Battery Life Assured By Fuel Cell Maker

Mobiles With 7 Day Battery Life Assured by Fuel-Cell Maker This technology turns hydrogen into electricity and it leaves Water Vapor as By-Product. It unfurls rapidly at a bigger scale to direct commercial power generators used by various businesses which also includes the furniture retailer, Ikea and Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley in order to lessen emissions and assure electricity supply. Chief executive of Intelligent Energy, Henri Winland, said in an interview that “This fuel cell powered smartphone could make its way in market within two years if the partnership goes to plan....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Lola Berggren

Moto G4 And Moto G4 Plus Receiving The Android 7 0 Nougat Update In India

Motorola today announced that it has started rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus in India. This makes the Lenovo-owned company the first in the world to roll out the Nougat update to any of its smartphones. Motorola has already posted the official release notes of the update over at their website detailing the changes introduced by the latest version of Android and the new additions made by the company....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 219 words · Bonnie Gooden

Moto G8 With Snapdragon 665 And Triple Rear Cameras Announced

Moto G8: Design and Display The Moto G8 features a plastic back on the rear with a distinct pattern and splash-resistant design. Towards the front, it has a 6.4-inch HD+ Max Vision LCD display with a punch-hole design on the top-left to house the front-facing camera. The G8 comes in two color options: Blue and White. Moto G8: Performance At its core, the Moto G8 is powered by the Snapdragon 665, which is an octa-core processor built on the 11nm manufacturing process, with Adreno 610 GPU, coupled with 4GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 64GB of eMMC 5....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · Humberto Lewis

Motorola Edge And Edge Plus With 90Hz Oled Display And Triple Rear Cameras Announced

Motorola Edge Plus Display The Edge Plus features a 6.7-inch curved OLED panel with an FHD+ resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. The display comes with a hole-punch cutout on the top left to house the front-facing camera. And it also includes an in-display fingerprint scanner for authentication. Besides, the panel comes with HDR10+ certification to offer better colors with enhanced contrast. The Edge Plus comes in two colorways: Smoky Sangria and Thunder Grey....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 630 words · Dana Croom

Motorola One And Motorola One Power Android One Handsets Announced

Motorola today unveiled its new budget handsets under the Android One program: the Moto One and Motorola One Power. Both phones are strictly budget oriented and pack internals that matches their price. First, let’s talk about the Motorola One. The handset features a 5.9-inch notched IPS HD+ LCD at the front. It is powered by a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 chipset and packs 4GB RAM along with a microSD card slot....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 278 words · George Morley