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Microsoft has been positioning itself as a software company the last couple of years. The company has been releasing apps for Android and iOS as it tries to expand its business beyond what we have known it for. The company has just expanded its portfolio with the release on the News Pro app for Android. The app has over 1 million topics that users can choose from depending on their interests. Users will be able to sign in to the app from LinkedIn and Facebook and they will receive news that revolve around their work interests. Quite a neat feature…

If you were expecting to see Android Wear 2.0 out in the wild this year, you will be disappointed as the OS will not be rolling out until 2017. This is because Google has just made the third Android wear 2.0 developer preview available and went ahead to reveal that this preview will be around till early 2017. This means that the final release will not happen until Google is happy with the developer preview and that will not happen until 2017. In a statement, Google said, “We’ve decided to continue the preview program into early 2017, at which point…

We have been talking about the Huawei Mate 9 for about two months now. This is the next phablet from the company that we told you will be unveiled sometime in November. We were sure about the month but not the exact date of its unveiling until now. Huawei has sent out media invites to an event scheduled for November 3 in Munich Germany and that is where we expect to see this phone. The press invite says Huawei will share its “latest innovations and exciting advances” but does not categorically say it’s the Mate 9 only. We are only…

Xiaomi is currently working on the Mi Note 2 that it might release sometime next month. This is according to an analyst, Pan Jiutang, who said the company will introduce two phones at the end of next month (October). This will be a about a month after the company launched the Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus. According to Jiutang, the two smartphones that Xiaomi will be unveiling next month will be the Mi Note 2 and its bigger brother, the Mi Note 2 Pro. He went ahead to say that Xiaomi will offer the phone in more than a few color…

Google’s new smart messaging app, Allo, is blowing up and it seems like nothing will slow it down. The app was officially released last week and has already been downloaded over 5 million times from the playstore. This comes just a few days after we told you that it had crossed the 1 million downloads mark. Google Allo is currently one of the most popular apps on the play store right now and this can be attributed to the great PR work inside Google and also some of the smart features the app comes with. This is not just another…

BlackBerry has had a tough time the last couple of years. The company has been struggling a lot as more and more consumers prefer to go with Android and iOS. This has been the case for as long as I can remember and when Blackberry released its first Android smartphone, the Priv, we knew that things were clearly not good and the future was not bright. To make things worse, BlackBerry has come out to say that it will not make its smartphones in house but will rather outsource the process to its partners. This was confirmed yesterday in a statement…

If you are on Windows phone/Windows 10, then you know that Instagram is one of many apps that were missing from the platform for a very long time. Even though Instagram has been around for a while, the app only landed on Windows 10 Mobile in April this year. Instagram has been avoiding the Windows Phone ecosystem for reasons unknown to us but finally decided to embrace it this year. Even with this, the experience Windows 10 Mobile get from Instagram cannot be compared to the one Android and iOS users get. Instagram for Windows 10 users have not been…

Even though Android Nougat is out, there are still devices out there that are running on older iterations. One such device is the OnePlus X that has been running Android Lollipop ever since it was launched back in 2015. OnePlus normally customizes Android into OxygenOS and this means that people using its devices do not feel entirely left out when new Android iterations roll out as they have a different experience from the get go. When the OnPlus X was launched, the phone came with Android Lollipop and the company said that it is upgradeable to Marshmallow. Well, Marshmallow was…

If you are an avid reader of TechArena, you may have seen our coverage of the soon to be announced Huawei Mate 9 smartphone. We have been talking about this phablet for the last couple of months as we await its launch in November. Huawei has been mum about the Mate 9 but information about the device has been leaking online for the last month or so. The latest leak about the Mate 9 has revealed that it will come in three variants. One variant will have 4GB of RAM with 64GB of internal storage space and will be available in three different…

In today’s world, working from 8 to 5 is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and as our work habits change, so do the devices we use to get the job done. To prepare for this new era of mobility, Microsoft and its hardware partners have developed several new security features to help keep your data safe. Using Windows 10 devices in combination with the sixth-generation Intel Core vPro processor, you can work wherever you are while ensuring your information is kept secure and private. So how exactly do the new Windows 10 devices protect your information? Here are four features that…