Apple has made its first homescreen widget for the Apple Music Android app. One of the core philosophical differences between iOS and Android is their treatment of the homescreen. Apple believes in keeping things stripped back and simple, ...
Most mobile phone users have never heard of Tizen. Neither have car owners or anyone with a fridge. Samsung Electronics Co. wants to change that. The South Korean electronics giant is in a quiet push to make its Tizen operating system a ...
A smartwatch from Samsung Electronics, the Galaxy Note III from Samsung, an Acer smartphone that can shoot 4K video and a Sony one with a 20-megapixel sensor, plus a plethora of tablets and TVs are all expected at this year's IFA consumer ...
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Nokia has won an injunction against the sale in Germany of some HTC handsets that infringe on a power-saving technology for mobile phones. The District court of Mannheim ruled on Tuesday that HTC infringes on a Nokia patent for power ...
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The Android operating system has been cleared of patent infringement in a case brought by Nokia against Android smartphone maker HTC. Nokia on Friday lost two patent suits it brought against HTC in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, ...
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Twinword, Inc. has unveiled its new level testing service, called "Levelpump". Levelpump compares your knowledge of vocabulary against a database of associated words in order to assign you to the proper English vocabulary level. SEOUL, ...
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Casual games like Angry Birds and Where's my Water? are fun and work well on smart phones and tablets. But more complex games (such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour) that we used to see only on larger platforms ...
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The worlds of TV viewing and handheld computing come together in the new RCA Mobile TV Tablet (Model DDA850R) introduced next week at the International CES as the electronics industry's first dual-tuner mobile TV. This device will include a ...
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You can always find some gaming news at CES. And this year, that news isn't minor: Nvidia has announced a new hand-held gaming console called Project Shield that can run both Android and PC games. How does it do this? First, it's an ...
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Google has introduced stricter rules for applications on its Android mobile operating system to reduce the number of malicious apps in the Google Play app market and improve its reputation. The revised Google Android developer policy ...
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Google's mobile operating system(OS),Android,has been targeted again by malicious malware,which causes the device to send out spam SMS messages. The infected malware,known as SpamSoldier,has been hiding in free versions of popular Android ...
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The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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More than 50% of devices running Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) have unpatched vulnerabilities, opening them up to malicious apps and other attacks. Security provider Duo Bulletin assessed 20,000 Android devices worldwide ...
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Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet