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I've been playing with the idea of getting an Android Wear smart watch for some time now. Specifically I had set my mind on the Moto 3...

One of the most useful Android apps - Wifi Web Login - stopped working with Android 5.0/Lollipop. The reasons seems to be that Lollipop no...

One thing that has annoyed me, since Sun started this, was that the Java Installer / Updater would not only have crapware like the Ask Tool...

Now that everyone rushes to tell us how they always knew that Google Glass had been doomed to fail from the very beginning, I just want to n...

While I was trying to access my broken Nexus 5 , I managed to get keyboard/mouse/touch access via the debug bridge ( adb ), but from time ...

As noted a couple of days ago , I broke my Nexus 5 and managed to get a backup via adb . Finally, UPS managed - as usual with their secon...

So, the other day I decided to drop my beloved Nexus 5 - display first - on a concrete (or stone, whatever) floor, right in the middle of V...

Earlier this week I had a good discussion and exchange with Max  - mainly on the Moto 360 watch, but also on a lot of Android / phone topic...

I have two podcast devices: an iPod Nano, where I have the less time sensitive podcasts, because I only synch it through iTunes every s...

Ok, not strictly a technical topic. But a couple of weeks ago I stumbled over the Serial podcast . Serial is a new podcast from the crea...

Finally a Google Calendar Provider for Thunderbird/Lightning has been released that's based on the gdata api, and not just a network XM...

The other day, I noticed that Google Maps rendering on my Chrome (v 36.0.1985.125) on Windows (7) was so broken, that Google Maps essential...

It is described all over the internet, so let me repeat it here :) To USB debug your Nexus 5, first enable USB Debugging in the Developer...

Frequent readers - or close followers - of this blog will know, that the share feature (SEND intent) is one of my favourite features on And...

So, I finally did it. The lack of Android updates and the (inevitable) decline in battery duration - my HTC One S was already 2 years old...

A couple of weeks ago, I enabled Google Now notifications in my (desktop) Chrome browser. One thing I noticed, that on the weather card t...

What should my next Android be? HTC One M8  As much as I hate HTC for dropping further support on the One S, they still have the bes...

Just discovered this: Enter timer in the Google search or awesome bar of your favorite browser, and Google will present you a nice little...

With all the (justified) uproar about the NSA and GHCQ, which should actually be an uproar against the Telcos and ISPs (and backbone provid...

A couple of months ago, the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) opened their data for Google (maps). Whether this can be already considered ...