by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

The standard way to develop apps for Android is to use Google’s software development kit (SDK) together with Java and XML. Although the SDK is free, there is a learning curve for those who aren’t proficient in Java or…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Those hackers and developers in the USA who are keen to get hold of a less restricted edition of the HTC One don’t have long to wait. During the recent Facebook Home event, a HTC spokesperson revealed…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

New research from security specialists Bitdefender suggests that as many as one third of free Android apps access and upload your private data (including your phone number) to third parties. Issues around privacy and security are constantly with us in…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Google will refresh the Nexus 7 this summer and in doing so it will switch from using NVIDA’s Tegra 3 to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. According to two different sources, who have spoken to Reuters, Google…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Computer related privacy is one of those areas where if a tech company gets it wrong, the failure is normally quite spectacular. This, plus the fact that Google is huge, makes the job of Privacy Director…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

It isn’t hard to think of a dozen films where at some point in the story a tracking device is placed on a person, car or ship so that someone can keep tabs on them….

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Google has big plans for Android, not just for Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie but also for future versions after that. One possible feature that Google are toying with is the ability to take photos…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

There are those that like using smartphones and there are those that like taking them apart! The iFixit team falls into the latter category and this time they have the HTC One in their sights….

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

There are a couple of things that appear in the title of this post which you don’t normally see side-by-side. There are plenty of Android smartphones available for $275 (and much less). There are also smartphones with…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Retro gaming is proving to be big on Android and there are a plethora of games which emphasize 8 bit graphics and retro game play. Here  is a new app that harkens back to the classic Nintendo Duck…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Retro gaming is going strong in 2013. Recently Namco made Pac-Man free after 33 years and now SEGA has announced at the 2013 Game Developers Conference that it will be releasing the original Sonic the Hedgehog game for Android. The…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Google has been pushing its VP8 codec for a couple of years now, and together with Vorbis audio encoding, the two codecs are the base of the royalty-free WebM format (also known as RFC 6386)…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Some of the biggest names in American telecommunications, including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Comcast and Microsoft, have released an inconclusive report about how the US government should enforce (by law if necessary) cyber security controls in the communications…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

Steve Kondik, the founder of the alternative Android firmware CyanogenMod, has left his job at Samsung. A little over 18 months ago, Steve joined Samsung Mobile with the hope of “doing something cool in the real…

by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

It only took 33 years, but at long last Pac-Man, the classic video game which was first launched as an arcade machine game in 1980, is free to play on Android. The game’s owners Namco…