With the vast amount of useful content available on mobile devices one cannot simply deny consumption of it to kids, however if the viewing distance from their eyes is not ideal - which is the case most of the time their eyes are going to suffer and lead to computer vision syndrome, strain to the brain, and attacks to the cornea.

Samsung has now came up with an innovative mobile application which once installed on your tablet/smartphone monitors the distance of the user's face from the screen in the background utilizing the the front camera on the device and facial recognition technology to calculate the optimal distance. When too close to the screen, the app will block a big part of the screen and advises the child to move back using a friendly animation.

Portal is new mobile app for Apple iOS and Google Android OS users which makes transferring pictures, videos, and other files from your computer onto your phone simple. All it takes is to open the app and pull up portal.pushbullet.com on your computer and you're ready to go for easy drag-and-drop file transfers. Files are transferred over your WiFi connection. This means they don't count toward your mobile data limit and that files are transferred very quickly (even if they're over 1 GB in size). Users can transfer individual files, multiple files, or entire folders at once. Also, Pictures transferred with Portal are automatically put into your phone's Gallery.

Opera was the very first browser to offer the concept of compression-proxy for faster web-browsing on Desktop and Mobiles, Google has also started offering data-compression proxy on Google Chrome for Mobile phones and is also available to Desktop Chrome users via an official and unofficial browser extension.

Taking the technology further Opera Max is now a dedicated app for Android platform allowing data-management and data-savings features which now even supports shrinking of videos and photos on almost any app on mobile data, as well as Wi-Fi.

When you have giants like Apple Siri, Google Now and Microsoft Cortana to your competition things can be very hard to get going. SoundHound, a new app for Google Android and Apple iOS is aiming to do exactly that, challenging them at being a better "Speech-to-Meaning" engine with better performance and competence.

Hound takes speed and accuracy to a whole new level by combining Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding to become a "Speech-to-Meaning" engine. Hound understands both context and detail, this Speech-to-Meaning capability makes Hound the new way to search and do things faster without typing. Hound gives user the ability to get fast and deep results like looking up the weather, placing a phone call, sending a text message, finding a hotel matching a detailed criteria, navigating to an address, checking the stock market, searching and playing music, and even playing interactive games.

As per the demonstration video posted ahead, the Hound beats the competition hands-down with it's insanely fast results to very very complex queries.

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Social payments and mobile payments are innovative pioneers in the banking sector. The slew of social and digital product introduced by the banking sector is now channeled through which the bank can communicate with us and with which we can perform banking activities.

It has great potential, not only for the young people who use a lot of social networks and smartphones, but also people who want to get away from it cumbersome to go to an office. Axis Bank, the third largest private bank in India, is now facilitating the user in the country to transfer money instantly in a wide range of popular social services including WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, email, or directly from the phone to a friend in your contact list.

Axis bank’s new Ping Pay service is the first multi-social payment app to send money/recharge, receive money/recharge and request money/recharge. The app is available for both Axis bank and other bank customers. However, the send money feature is available only to Axis bank customers.

The new payment method can be credited in real time to a different account. The reception is fast and secure through the personal and social contact. In addition, the system is innovative and provides bank customers more flexibility and time savings in financial management.

Are you the kind of person who loves getting wake-up calls when you stay at hotels, and wish you could bring that experience into your everyday life? Now there’s an app for that: Wakie is a free mobile app that brings together a social network of friendly strangers from all over the world to give each other wake up calls. It’s a great system; in the morning it’s easy to hit a snooze button every nine minutes until you’re late for work, but suddenly speaking with a kind person you don’t know really motivates you to become alert so you can speak with them at least somewhat intelligibly.

The super popular free messaging service WhatsApp recently updated their application on Apple iOS platform seizing support for all iOS version older then v 4.3; Users on older Apple hardware are stuck with no option, but to leave the WhatsApp community as the application simply refuses to work on old iOS version.

A possible trick to be a part of WhatsApp community is to use the application on your Windows computer with comfort of your keyboard and mouse. Here is how you can install and use WhatsApp on a Windows computer.

BlueStacks would be the most widely known emulator for running Android on Windows PC, and now there is a new entry to this niche named SocketQ's WindowsAndroid. However, there is a HUGE difference between the two - unlike BlueStacks which uses a virtual environment to host Android in Windows environment, SocketQ's WindowsAndroid is a full native port of Android to MS Windows architecture.

Running Android as an native Windows application allow Android to make use of full hardware and
graphics acceleration with high performance media codecs available to Windows PC. This not only offers higher performance but also integration with Windows’ applications like Flash, Windows Media Player, etc. Do checkout the demonstration video below.

There are many caller id applications available but with free mobile app "Current Caller ID" things get smarter, the intelligent caller-id application displays extended information of not only your known contacts but also unknown callers & texters, fully enhanced with their latest social updates including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

As soon as the phone rings the utility fetches and displays recent tweets, status updates, weather conditions and location data of the caller on your screen. This is not all, the application also does some good number crunching displaying useful data visually related to your calls and text messages based on your usage history.

Want to enjoy the popular desktop Linux OS Ubuntu on your Android powered mobile device, it can't get easier than this - the free "Ubuntu Installer" app from Android Market. The application allows users to install and run "Ubuntu" inside Android - The market application installs an customized Ubuntu 10.10 image optimized for the ARM processor allowing users to run a full Ubuntu system within android. The great thing is users can make calls, text, and use other android features without having to reboot their phones.

Download links, video demonstration and features after the jump.