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How to stop children making in-app purchase on your Android device

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If you are concerned about your children making in-app purchases, then here is how to stop them.

  1. Locate the Play store icon on your home screen and open it.
  2. Tap on the Menu icon, then select Settings
  3. Scroll down to User Controls and select Set PIN or Password (to restrict purchases), then type in a four digit code. This code will now be needed to make changes to these User Controls.
  4. Within the User Controls make sure that there is a tick on the right hand side of the Set PIN or Password
  5. Push the Home button and the PIN is now set. You will now need the four digit PIN to purchase Apps within the Play Store.
Smartphones outselling feature handsets for the first time

Smartphones will make up more than half of all mobile phones shipped worldwide by the end of Quarter 1 this year.

Data from the 4th quarter of 2012 shows that smartphones shipments hit a record high of 44% of the overall mobile phone market of 472 million. With smartphone numbers growing by almost 40% year on year every quarter, while shipments of feature phones dropped by around 20% in the same period, this would put smartphones ahead of feature phones shipments (at 286 million vs. 211 million) during the first quarter of 2013.

Smart Devices to Exceed One Billion Sales in 2013

 

Sales of smart devices such as smartphones and tablets are poised to pass the one billion mark in 2013, as the consumerisation trend hits businesses with an “unstoppable force” according to a recent survey. Continue reading →

Transfer Contacts From Galaxy Android to an iPhone

If you don’t normally save your contacts to your SIM card, it may be frustrating  to have to manually punch in all your contacts when you start using a new phone.

But the easiest way to transfer your contact list within minutes is to follow these two simple steps: Continue reading →

iPhone 5 includes DC-HSPA

For those users not with Everything Everywhere (who were granted the 4G LTE spectrum by Ofcom), all is not lost.

Apple’s iPhone 5 has a set of 3G / 4G data connection technologies that may fill the gap in speeds that Vodafone, O2 and other carrier customers have felt they have lost out on.

The iPhone 5 uses the following 3G technologies: HSPA+, DC-HSPA and LTE. Continue reading →

Official: Android Dominate Smartphone Market

The International Data Corporation’s (IDC) today released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report for Q2 of 2012. The report shows the breakdown of smartphone operating systems (OS) in all handset worldwide shipments over the months April, May and June, covering Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, Windows 7/Windows mobile and Linux. Continue reading →

O2 Reveal How We Spend Our time On Smartphones

A recent report released by O2 UK shows how mobile phones have now become so much more than just a device to call people. The report, called All About You asked users how much time people spend doing various tasks via their smartphones.

The report also asked respondents what they used their smartphones for. The results reveal how ubiquitous these devices are becoming in everyday life, in places replacing other devices, such as alarm clocks and watches, prompting David Johnson, the General Manager Devices for O2 UK, to say: “Smartphones are now being used like a digital ‘Swiss Army Knife”. Continue reading →