4 Black Friday tech deals we don’t expect to last till tomorrow
It’s hard to believe that Black Friday is almost over when there are still so many amazing deals going on right now. We know that retailers like Amazon, Best Buy,…
Are mobile phones altering our brains?
By Amanda RuggeriFeatures correspondent Getty Images Our daily smartphone habits bring many benefits in our lives, but they also have some drawbacks in terms of how they are rewiring our…
‘Made in India’: As mobile phone sector logs meteoric growth, Ashwini Vaishnav reveals numbers
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnav, took to social media platform X to announce achievement in the mobile phone industry. In a post, he revealed that the Indian…
Opinion: Cellphones have taken over our schools, and it’s been a disaster for our kids
Naomi Buck is a Toronto-based writer. This week, in a time-honoured tradition, kids across Canada will pack up lunches and pencil cases and, with some combination of trepidation and excitement,…
RCMP phone tracking continues despite privacy concerns
Open this photo in gallery: Members of the RCMP Gang Enforcement Team speak to the occupants of a car during a stop in Surrey, B.C., on May 31, 2019. Between…
Google leans on AI to take on Apple’s iPhone dominance
Apple and Samsung should take a glance behind them. Google’s AI business might just make its phones competitive. The company on Wednesday announced its latest phone models, the Pixel 8…
Apple plans to make messaging between iPhones and Androids easier
In a major reversal, Apple Inc. plans to adopt a technological standard next year that will allow text messaging to operate more smoothly between iPhones and Android devices. A women…
AI Assistants Need to Know a Lot About You to Work Best. Is That OK?
Digital assistants have existed for years; after all, Siri debuted on the iPhone 4S in 2011. But early voice-enabled helpers were initially limited in their functionality, sometimes struggling to produce…
How To Win The Uphill Battle Of Workplace Distraction
Focus is a problem. On average, people work for only three minutes before getting distracted or … [+] interrupted — and then it takes an average of 23 minutes to…
Meet The Man Who Made The First Cell Phone Call Ever As A Customer
The man who made the first cell phone call ever as a customer, David Meilahn. John Koetsier The first cell phone call ever by a customer started with a stolen…