It has been a long time coming, and now it has finally happened: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is no longer the most widely used web browser in the United States. According to the latest Adobe Digital Index for the month of April, Google’s Chrome browser has unseated Internet Explorer in the U.S., accounting for 31.8% of all web browser usage during the month. Adobe’s data shows that Internet Explorer’s browser share was 30.9% in April.
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One of the problems iOS users have with the Control Center feature introduced in iOS 7 is that it can’t be customized by users to better suit their needs, unless the device is jailbroken. The settings shortcuts placed inside Control Center offer fast access to some toggles for turning on and off certain features, but the user is limited to only some predefined actions. However, that may change in the future, iDownloadBlog reports, as Apple could allow iPhone and iPad owners to customize their Control Centers.
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Apple didn’t show off split-screen multitasking features during its big iOS 8 presentation at WWDC 2014 last week but new code found in the iOS 8 version of SpringBoard shows that multitasking really is coming to your iPad soon. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith writes on his Twitter account that SpringBoard has code that will let you run two apps side-by-side at two different sizes: A fourth of full size, a half of full size and three-fourths of full size.
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Apple announced many exciting new features for iOS and OS X last week at its annual World Wide Developers Conference, but the feature that will do the most to change how we use iOS is called Extensions. As the name suggests, extensions allow apps to extend their functionality to other apps. But Apple being Apple, these extensions still face many restrictions in order to maintain long battery life and to keep apps secure. To understand Extensions, Ars Technica dug deep into the developer docs and the WWDC session videos and has provided the most detailed look into how Extensions will work.
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Do you love Samsung phones but you just aren’t feeling the band-aid-like casing of the Galaxy S5? If so then it looks like you won’t have to wait too much longer for the Galaxy F, Samsung’s first “premium” smartphone that will be made with a metal casing and won’t have any of the dimples on the rear shell that you see with the Galaxy S5.
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Smartphone accidents often lead to an annoying problem: shattered displays that are costly to replace. However, it looks like one scientist thinks there’s a solution to preventing such accidents from happening again in the future. Android Police reports that Dr. Yu Zhu from the University of Akron has found a new material that might allow gadget makers to build more durable smartphone displays.
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EA is poised to have another huge year in 2014. Although the surprise of Battlefield Hardline was spoiled before EA could take the stage in Los Angeles, Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley noted last month that the publisher was planning to show off six new games at its press conference, the EA World Premiere: E3 2014 Preview.
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There were a lot of great looking games shown off at Microsoft’s big E3 event on Monday — so many, in fact, that you might have had trouble keeping track of them all. To help you out with this, we’ve decided to compile all of the coolest game trailers and gameplay demonstrations from E3, including a trailer for Halo 5: Guardians and short gameplay demos for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Assassin’s Creed Unity. You can find all the videos posted below and be sure to check out our live blog of the event to see every single upcoming Xbox One game Microsoft showed off on Monday.
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For a while now, we’ve wondered whether Microsoft had a plan to really differentiate Windows Phone from iOS and Android and make it more than just another mobile platform. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that Microsoft is working on integrating its Kinect motion detection software into Windows Phone in a big way that could really give Microsoft a way to draw a lot more people to use its platform.
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We have seen several security flaws discovered in iOS in the past that let people bypass a user’s lock screen by using a convoluted sequence of taps and swipes. The good news is by the time enough people learn about these vulnerabilities for them to pose a serious threat, they’re often already addressed in an update from Apple. Since so many people update to the latest versions of Apple’s iOS software so quickly, threats are often minimized.
The bad news, however, is that each time one hole is plugged, a new one is discovered.
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