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CarPlay, Android Auto functionality included in all 2017 vehicles with SYNC 3

You’ll be able to use CarPlay as well as Android auto in Ford’s entire line of 2017 cars, SUVs, light trucks and electric vehicles. On Monday, the company announced that it will bring CarPlay to already-released 2017 models such as the Fusion, Mustang, and Explorer, while other models like the 2017 F-150, Focus, Edge, and […]

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Proposed California State Assembly Bill could work against smartphone encryption

For California smartphone users, this hits pretty close to home. Assembly Bill 1681, a California State Assembly bill, would ban default encryption on all smartphones. The bill, introduced in January by Assemblymember Jim Cooper, would require any smartphone sold in California “to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating […]

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Why I stopped wearing my Apple Watch

I’ve been a Mac user since 1984 and iOS user since 2007. In 2016 I’m switching from iPhone and Apple Watch to Android and Android Wear as an experiment. This blog post is one in a series from a lifelong Apple/iOS user  switching to Android. Like many of you I ordered an Apple Watch at […]

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Microsoft purchases SwiftKey, states that iOS and Android versions will continue to be developed

Microsoft confirmed via a blog post that the company will be buying SwiftKey, the developer of a popular software keyboard for Android and iOS phones—even though it already has its own software keyboard, Word Flow. SwiftKey and Word Flow allow users to slide their finger from one letter of a keyboard to another, drawing the […]

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CrashSafari.com site spreads, points out bug in Safari web browser

You’re going to want to avoid this. A recent link to CrashSafari.com has been circulating around Twitter and other web sites, the site itself doing what you thought it would do and crashing Apple’s Safari mobile web browser on your iOS device. If you tap on the link on your iOS device, your iPhone will […]