Nokia came out of nowhere and surprised us all last summer when it released its first Android app. Following the sale of its phone business, Nokia was suddenly an Android developer… and the company’s first app was terrific and innovative. Z Launcher has been updated a few times since it first debuted, but one of Nokia’s biggest updates yet will be released today, finally bringing users’ most requested feature to Z Launcher.
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Apple’s WWDC 2015 event is almost upon us, but the iPhone maker won’t have any new hardware to show off just yet. Instead, Apple will unveil iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 on Monday alongside other software initiatives. To tide over the wait until the next iPhone release, one fan has created a new iPhone 7 concept video that reimagines two major iPhone features.
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The pirate TV service that has the Internet buzzing is just getting started, according to the developers behind the project. Dubbed cCloud TV, the service launched late last month and delighted cord cutters with the ability to stream pay TV channels including HBO, ESPN, Showtime, TBS, AMC, Comedy Central, TNT, FX and more without paying. Following a brief legal scuffle that temporarily took cCloud TV offline, the site’s creators have reached out to BGR to clarify how the service works and to discuss some exciting new features coming down the pike.
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Happy Friday! It’s time to get some more paid iPhone apps that are completely free to download for a limited time. Today we’ve scrounged up nine different apps that you can get on the App Store right now for absolutely nothing. Let’s check them out below.
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In this week’s episode of The BGR Show podcast, Jonathan and Zach about WWDC 2015 predictions and hopes, Apple’s maybe amazing new music streaming service, and why Jonathan should buy his family iPhones for Christmas again. Because the 100 layer lasagna at Del Posto isn’t worth it.
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Samsung on Thursday rolled out two brand-new commercials that take jabs at the iPhone while simultaneously hyping up the Galaxy S6 edge. The commercials are typical Samsung fare, with the same narrator we’ve come to know and love sarcastically mocking all of the features that the iPhone lacks.
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2015 has been another banner year for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, but following the surprising success of Daredevil on Netflix, superhero fans are just as interested in Marvel’s television plans as they are in the future of the Avengers.
Unfortunately (though understandably), the TV projects take a backseat to the films, but Umberto Gonzalez at Heroic Hollywood appears to have shared some inside information regarding the future of Marvel on the small screen earlier this week, and it’s even more complicated than you might have expected.
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A new massive data breach has been confirmed, and this time it’s not a major financial institution or retail chain hit by hackers. Instead, it’s the U.S. government’s HR department, where hackers successfully stole personal data for at least 4 million federal workers.
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Facebook’s mobile app is notorious for draining your battery and consuming tons of data every month. Because of this, the company has come up with a new app called Facebook Lite that will deliver the essentials of the Facebook experience while significantly reducing the amount of power and data it consumes compared to the regular Facebook app.
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Apparently, looks can kill. In a very real story that we assure you did not originate from The Onion, a terrorist from ISIS recently took a selfie of himself and posted it online.
Shortly thereafter, U.S. Intelligence, which heavily monitors social media accounts from ISIS members and supporters, managed to pinpoint an ISIS headquarters building in Syria by using the selfie photo as a reference point.
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