Goodbye Windows Phone. It’s almost too painful to watch you go. Last year Microsoft admitted that it was no longer releasing new hardware and features for its Windows Phone OS. With that death sentence, Microsoft has been slowly leading Windows Phone to its demise. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it’ll stop accepting new app submissions for …
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Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the years following the 2007 introduction …
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Trading in or selling your old mobile device? Wipe it the right way to reduce the risk of personal data falling into the wrong hands. Remember that no method apart from physically destroying the device and its storage is 100 percent foolproof — data may still be recoverable with the right tools. These tips are for the three main mobile …
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Across New York City, more cops are staring at their phones. On a single day last week, 5,500 NYPD officers logged in and clicked on 39,000 notifications. They’re not distracted from work, though. Those notifications were 911 calls. Enlarge Image Inspector Anthony Tasso, the commanding officer of the NYPD’s Strategic Technology division, logs into his phone using his police ID. …
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