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We took the time last week on our Android customization series to talk about Google’s tool to help you locate and secure a missing Android device. Android Device Manager is one of the easiest to use ...

It’s absurd that in the year 2025, there isn’t a quick and universal platform-independent way to send text and files between a phone and a computer. You always have to rely on some mix of texting apps ...

If you’re reading a story on your phone and you want to read it later on your computer, or you need to see content you’ve been viewing on your phone on your computer’s bigger screen, there’s a simple ...

While it's possible to send short message service notifications to cell phones through an SMS gateway provider, these services can end up costing hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars over the long ...

Microsoft first brought the feature to Android users, but now folks on Windows 10 Mobile can also get phone notifications synced to their Windows 10 PCs. The new feature was just added as an addition ...

Leave the phone in the other room and send texts with a full-size keyboard This article describes how to send a text from a computer to a cell phone. The iMessage app on your iPhone or iPad is also ...

In my writeup earlier of the elements of today’s Apple announcements of interest to news app developers, I mentioned that there was a reference on Apple’s site to the new ability of websites to send ...

"Lost time is never found again," as Benjamin Franklin once said -- and sharing your Google calendar is a modern-day way to make sure that no time is wasted and that all of your business associates ...

Google’s choice to eliminate voice search and a notifications center from its latest Chrome browser probably means one of two things for PC users: either Microsoft’s own Windows 10 features have won, ...