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SVOne turns the iPhone into an eye test kit

Posted in Hardware on 30th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

New York-based Smart Vision Labs has created a low-cost, portable iPhone-based gadget to help people in developing countries to diagnose vision problems.

Google plans to have a ring of high altitude internet balloons in the southern hemisphere

Posted in Hardware on 24th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Within a year, Google is aiming to have a ring of balloons in the Southern Hemisphere to provide Internet service to phones on the ground.

Google and Apple to introduce default encryption

Posted in Business on 19th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Apple said that devices running its new iOS8 software would be encrypted by default, with even the company itself unable to gain access.

Smartphone microscope can be made for under a dollar

Posted in Hardware on 18th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Although the device works particularly well with the iPhone, it can reportedly also be used with most other smartphone makes and models.

Google launches Android One to bring smartphones to everyone

Posted in Software on 16th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Androids future lies not in expensive smartphones for the tech elite. Instead, its all about getting smartphones to the rest of the world.