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Mobile App Development – Offering Great Prospects for Entrepreneurs Teenage Mobile App Developers Do you know that there is an increase i n the number of teenage mobile app developers? Several big companies are encouraging the efforts of these young developers irrespective of their age and education. In 2012, a teenager based in California developed a mobile app for the Home Depot in a contest and won $10,500, which impressed a Facebook official and the company offered internship for her. Nearly seven months back, Yahoo bought a news-reading app, ‘Summly’ from a 12-year-old British teenager for tens of millions of dollars. The company also employed him and is planning to incorporate his algorithmic invention in its own mobile apps. Entrepreneurial spirit is a precious gift indeed – something that combines passion, confidence, positivity and ambition. A real entrepreneur is not daunted by the prospect of failure and is willing to embrace both highs and lows with the same p...

What Vodafone, Airtel, Idea Customers Need To Do For Linking their Aadhaar Cards Quoting of Aadhaar or UID (Unique Identity Number), the 12-digit identification number issued by the UIDAI , is now compulsory for many important tasks. These include operation of a bank account, investment in small-savings scheme and, now, using a mobile connection. Aadhaar is to be linked with mobile SIMs (subscriber identification modules) by February 6, 2018. Telecom operators are directed to complete re-verification of their customers through an e-KYC process, requiring customers to produce Aadhaar card, by February 6, 2018 , according to the Department of Telecom (DoT). Telecom companies have in the past months urged their customers to complete Aadhaar re-verification. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has said its constitution bench will start hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the Centre’s move to make Aadhaar card mandatory for availing various services and benefits of government we...

Top 10 Features of New Android Oreo Google finally announced the 8th version of Android. Android O is now officially Android Oreo preceded by Android Nougat. The all new Android Oreo of Google has entered for carrier testing in Pixel and Nexus devices. It will roll out widely to other devices very soon. Android Oreo includes all the features that were promised at the Google I/O such as Picture-in-Picture, notification improvements, scanning of all the apps in Google Play, Autofill tool that fills the personal information and passwords quickly and securely and etc. Let’s take a closer look at the prominent features that you can expect from this latest version of Android. 1. Picture-In-Picture The much-awaited picture-in-picture feature is here. It allows the user to perform multiple tasks. For example, you can check your email while video calling your friends by opening two apps simultaneously. This would look cool for phones with large screens. You need to enable this featu...

Mobile Security—How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices, Actually? Whether it’s searching embarrassing symptoms or letting curiosity win and checking out the latest photo leak, we all get up to some questionable things online from time to time—things we wouldn’t want our boss or maybe even friends to know. We aren’t ones to judge, but if you think that in this day-in-age you’re just as safe (or safer) doing all that on your smartphone as your PC, you might want to reconsider. For example, a recent study examining 10,000 mobile devices in the UK and the US, showed that 40 of the 50 top porn sites were susceptible to software that may harm your phone badly. Another security report issued by Nokia in March 2017, revealed a new all-time high in mobile device infection rates—a stunning 400 percent increase over last year! Spyware that exposes your text messages, contact lists, GPS coordinates and other data that you’d rather kept to yourself, hits both Android and iOS-run devices. Yet ...