Tag: Android
by Gary Sims, 1 month ago
A professor of computer science from the University of California, Davis has been doing research into security vulnerabilities in Android apps and has discovered that some apps are exposing interfaces which could be used for malicious purposes. Although the research…
by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago
Oh, Microsoft. When will you learn? Today, at All Things D: Dive into Mobile, Microsoft’s head of Windows Mobile, Terry Myerson, had some choice words for competitors. Among his statements were his musings on Android,…
by Andrew Grush, 1 month ago
In recent years Android has certainly expanded well beyond just the smartphone, finding itself on televisions, set-top boxes, tablets and even cameras. What you might not know is that when Android was first conceived, it…
by Robert Triggs, 1 month ago
Speaking at a conference today, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has stated that Google is now witnessing a pretty astonishing 1.5 million unique Android activations every day. This confirms the expedited growth we’ve seen in Android over the…
by Andrew Roach, 1 month ago
Over the past year, smaller tablets have stolen the show away from their bigger brothers, with many models, such as the Nexus 7, topping the bestseller lists. However, the 7-inch tablet craze could be over,…
by Andrew Roach, 1 month ago
Whilst Android has become a standard platform on most mobile devices, it has still yet to really integrate itself within the computing world. However, this could be all set to change thanks to a new…
by Andrew Roach, 1 month ago
With Android devices eating away at Apple’s dominance of the tablet market, there has been a lot of talk about when Samsung might announce details about their next tablet. Well, Greek site Techblog has apparently leaked…
by David Gonzales, 1 month ago
Where do you see the Earth in terms of Internet connectivity five years from now? If you ask Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt for his opinion, he’ll tell you that in five years, even more…
by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago
Do you have an Android tablet? According to a survey by Pew research, 25% of adults have a tablet of some sort, and the iPad is clearly leading the way. We’re not worried about them,…
by Nate Swanner, 1 month ago
The ‘apperating system’ is a great concept, that much is clear. It has some concerned, as it could ask for permissions on your device that may be suspect, but the idea is phenomenal. We’re all…
by Andrew Grush, 1 month ago
Rollingrck/flickr It looks like Android just added a new skill to its résumé, fighting crime. Last summer the New York Police Department began quietly rolling out a new pilot program that would equip officers with…
by Bogdan Bele, 1 month ago
A recent Raymond James survey has asked customers, among other things, what device they would never use, the options being BlackBerry, iPhone, or Android devices. BlackBerry gathered quite a few of the respondents’ votes in…
by Mike Stenger, 1 month ago
Despite Android growth leveling off in the U.S., it’s still the number one mobile OS worldwide. Handset Detection recently analyzed 35 million Android devices in seven countries across four different categories: Top models, top screen…
by Chris Smith, 1 month ago
With air-related travel security at an all-time high, a security expert and pilot reveals that airplanes can be hijacked with help of an Android phone and additional software that can take advantage of the dated…
