Robocalls are the bane of our digital existence. We have tools, tricks and tips for battling them, but the robo-dialers just seem to get smarter and savvier. Well, we recently discovered a site that’s actually been around for a couple of years that maintains a robocall index, where it estimates monthly robocall volume in the United States. Read on and then scroll to the bottom to find out the five area codes that have the most robocalls per capita....

This is a pretty impressive smartphone and will most likely appeal to consumers looking to get a camera-centric device which doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the rest of its specs. The stand-out feature of the device is the 3x optical zoom, but there are many other features that makes it a desirable product. Let’s have a look at all of its specs: 5.5-inch IPS display with a 1920×1080 resolution resulting in 403 PPI, Gorilla Glass 4 Intel Atom Z3590 Moorefield processor – CPU Core Silvermont (4x at 2....

Word of a Galaxy A9 Pro being under the works has been making the rounds in the rumor mill, but not much has been available in terms of where the device stands compared to the Galaxy A9. That is changing today thanks to the appearance of the Galaxy A9 Pro on the GFXBench benchmark website. The Galaxy A9, which launched late last year, has top-notch specs for a mid-range smartphone, and it looks like the A9 Pro will bring upgrades to some key aspects....

Smartphone companies are not the only one fighting for your money this Black Friday. Thousands of developers have heavily discounted their app on Google Play to attract new smartphone users. If you are looking for some of the best deals on some quality apps and games on Google Play, check out our list below. Apps AutomateIt Pro: A simplified version of Tasker that allows you to automate certain day-to-day tasks on your Android device....

The Galaxy Note 7 follows an all-glass design language that Samsung first debuted with the Galaxy S6 in 2015. While the company has refined the design further with the Note 7, you are ultimately still getting an aluminium chassis sandwiched between curved Gorilla Glass from the front and rear. This makes using a case on the Galaxy Note 7 a must since there is always a risk of the rear glass shattering during a fall....

That success was further boosted when they began receiving widespread adoption in the gaming space, largely thanks to popular Twitch streamer Ninja using them as his headphones of choice. The same accuracy and transparency that helped mixers tune musical recordings could also help gamers detect enemy footsteps and locate unseen foes. Now, Beyerdynamic has gone back to the well for the DT900 PRO X headphones. Similarly marketed as “studio headphones for critical listening, mixing & mastering,” this pair of open-back cans is priced at $299, right between the $180 DT990 PROs and the $600 DT 1990 PROs....

Take control of notifications with Do Not Disturb: Marshmallow’s new notification management tools can help keep those super-personal texts from popping up at the wrong time. Get to Android Marshmallow’s hidden file manager: Check out Marshmallow’s one-stop shop for browsing managing photos, downloads, more. Use Bluetooth to improve your G location accuracy: Stuck in a G dead zone? This tip could help. Make sense of Marshmallow’s new memory manager: It’s now easier than ever to see what’s going on under the hood on Android....

Assistant acts a little differently on whatever app you happen to be using it on, but it seems is working to streamline things a little. The latest update to the app contains a reference to a “keyboard_toggle” a “type_container,” presumably adding text comms in addition to voice, much like how Assistant works in the lo app. Android lice also found some more references to Assistant for Android ar, further confirming that is hard at work to bring its digital helper to the next version of the wearable OS....

Apple has thought out its strategy and it is already prepping a digital glasses that would connect wirelessly to an iPhone and display all the information including images. The glass might also include features like augmented reality. The company is already in talks with the suppliers and has ordered a small quantity of the hardware, presumably for testing purposes. That said Apple has not ordered components in large quantities which means that the mass production is not on the horizon....

Months after it first launched Apple Music for iOS, Apple today launched the official Apple Music app for Android. The app will allow Android users to access the vast music library of Apple Music on their device. On launching the app, which is currently in beta, Android users will be greeted with an option to start their three-month trial service. For this, they will have to sign in with their existing Apple ID or create a new one and then add a payment method....

Both countries also had set up a technical working group to establish statistical measurements of the green economy, according to a joint statement released Tuesday by Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment. The group would discuss the use of environmental-economic data to facilitate policy decisions and reporting. The Singapore-Australia green economy agreement outlines principles and cooperation across seven key areas, including trade and investment, green and transition finance, as well as clean energy, decarbonisation, and technology....

From best to worst: the tech giant Microsoft’s Edge browser lasted 14:20 minutes on the drums, while the tech giant Google’s Chrome web browser survived for 12:32 minutes (13% less than Edge) and Firefox held only 7:15 minutes on the drums (49% less than Edge). The results have already been worse for Chrome: in another test (which included Opera) made in 2016, the Edge was 70% longer than the Google’s Chrome browser, surviving for 7:22 minutes on the drums, while Chrome held only 4h19min and it was the worst of the four....

BlackBerry has formally announced that BlackBerry Messenger, an over the air messaging client that’s been BlackBerry only since the days when men looked to the sky and wondered if they would ever fly like the birds, is finally going to go cross platform this weekend. Android users will get to use BBM this Saturday, and iOS users will get to use it on Sunday. Unfortunately, the announcement came roughly around the same time that The Wall Street Journal published a piece saying BlackBerry is going to fire 40% of their employees in an effort to stay alive....

There are hundreds of services where users can enjoy their favorite tunes and create their own playlists, but one other thing that the Internet has given birth to is sharing. The concept of sharing music is not new, and we’ve seen it for years, way back in the day when we made mix tapes and played them on our Sony Walkmans. Now, although sharing has moved to the digital world, its basic concept has not changed....

If you’re in the US and have recently received one or more SMS messages from your own phone number, you are not alone. Verizon customers in the US seem to be the worst hit, but reports suggest other carriers are also battling the issue. Here’s how these weird texts work and how you can stay safe. The Verge reports that people receiving texts from their own numbers are receiving spoof messages....

In the mailbag this week: Can I install Windows 11 on my not-very-old Surface PC even if Microsoft says it’s incompatible? And why can’t I say no to driver updates from Windows? If you’ve got a question about any of the topics ZDNet covers, one of our team of editors and contributors probably has an answer. If they don’t, we’ll find an outside expert who can steer you in the right direction....

The three newfound malware fits in with the group of auto-establishing adware. These malware have the capacity to root any Android gadget and introduce itself into the framework application. This defilement makes it for all intents and purposes difficult to uproot the malware and it could even make due after the influenced gadget have been wiped out through a processing plant reset. ‘Android Malware’ Which is Impossible To Remove From Infected Devices The Lookout report expresses that the programmers behind such malware just infuse the malignant code into the substance of well known applications and after that repackage them, prepared to transfer on a host site....

In 2014, Google unveiled its in-car system, which it called Android Auto. It has quietly gone back into the shadows, so to speak, since then, but it looks like Google’s ready to get attention for it all over again. Today, Google unleashed the official Android Auto app into the Google Play Store as a free download. It’s available for devices that are running Android 5.0 or higher only, and if you don’t have an in-car system that supports Android Auto it’s effectively useless, but at least the app is finally here....

Back in May, it was revealed that the next version of Android, Marshmallow, boasted a new “Dark” system theme, which made plenty of people excited for the new option. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that particular setting has made it into the final, public release. As initially reported by Android Police, a response to a question posted within Android M’s issue tracker by a Googler states that the Dark theme isn’t available: So, just like that, the Dark theme has been booted from the official release of Android Marshmallow, and now Android users who were looking forward to that feature have to wait a bit longer....

As expected, Google’s Android O Beta program is now live for compatible Pixel and Nexus devices. While Google had released the first Developer Preview of Android O back in March, it did not update the Android beta program with Android O as the OS was still in very early stages of development. Android O Beta program is available for the following devices: Pixel Pixel XL Pixel C Nexus 6P Nexus 5X Nexus Player...