Apps and Software

BERLIN — Users of an email service backed by the German government will soon be able to rely on strong encryption of the kind that used to be the preserve of geeks and hackers, officials said Monday.

From April onward De-Mail, an email service available to anyone in Germany, will feature end-to-end encryption based on the Pretty Good Privacy system.

PGP is considered one of the safest encryption standards for secure email, but it's notoriously complicated. De-Mail, which is also used by German government agencies, will use a browser plug-in to encrypt messages while they're in transit, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry. ...

The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were only officially announced last week, but preorders for the new smartphones are reportedly breaking company records already.

While Samsung was recently dethroned as the leader of smartphone sales, preorders from mobile carriers for the latest Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are sky-high.

“Samsung received some 20 million preorders for the S6 and S6 Edge — 15 million of S6 and five million of the S6 Edge from mobile carriers, worldwide. This is the record,” an unidentified "top executive" told The Korea Times.

This refers to preorders from mobile carriers, not consumers, so it's tough to tell how this will stack up against the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models' sales. (The new iPhones sold more than 4 million units in pre-orders in their ...

With Apple's long-awaited Apple Watch event just around the corner and all the awesome tech coming out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.

Luckily, each weekend, we round up our favorite new and updated apps, so you won't miss out.

This week's list includes Imgur's redesigned app, an Android app to take better selfies and one of the most beautiful Wikipedia apps we've seen yet.

Check out the gallery, below, to see all the apps that made our list of top picks. And if you're looking for more, take a look at ...