Android

Epic judge orders Google to let rivals set up app stores

Chocolate Factory vows to appeal

Applications07 Oct 2024 | 19

Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods

Updated 11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says

Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 2

Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9

Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.

Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17

FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly

Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues

Legal13 Aug 2024 | 9

Cellebrite got into Trump shooter's Samsung device in just 40 minutes

Infosec in brief Also: Second-string Russian hackers sanctioned; Senators demand answers from Snowflake, and more

Security22 Jul 2024 | 63

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard

Personal Tech12 Jul 2024 | 72

Microsoft China staff can't log on with an Android, so Redmond buys them iThings

Google's absence creates software distribution issues not even mighty Microsoft can handle

Security09 Jul 2024 | 20

Google borrows from Android to make ChromeOS better

'Large portions' of droid tech stack going into laptop OS plumbing

OSes12 Jun 2024 | 7

Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm

After years of people being victimized, it's about time

Personal Tech14 May 2024 | 28

Dozens of vulnerabilities fixed in Xiaomi, Google Android flavors … slowly

Oversecure details bugs spotted and stamped since private disclosure

OSes02 May 2024 | 2

Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel

Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone – tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up

Personal Tech01 May 2024 | 22

Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide

Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions

OSes22 Apr 2024 | 35

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app

Security15 Apr 2024 | 49

Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

Another one bytes the dust

Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 8

Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model

Updated Some might say a blessing in disguise

Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12

Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from

Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 22

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

Amazon Appstore tieup fizzles out, too

OSes05 Mar 2024 | 55

Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket

Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024

Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 38

Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI

Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July

OSes19 Feb 2024 | 10

Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts

Deepfake-enabled attacks against Android and iPhone users are netting criminals serious cash

Research15 Feb 2024 | 30

HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids

FOSS Fest Apple makes this harder every macOS release, but there are ways nonetheless

OSes07 Feb 2024 | 25

India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability

Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025

Science07 Feb 2024 | 6

Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next

Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters

OSes22 Jan 2024 | 55

Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime

Updated 8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material

Research18 Jan 2024 | 7

It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too

CES Fancy a Windows laptop that's also an Android tablet or a mouse and keyboard powered by kinetic energy and solar

Personal Tech09 Jan 2024 | 28

While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again

First Look Redmond's AI assistant bounds onto Android and iOS without Bing branding

AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 17

Google coughs up $700M in Play Store antitrust suit

Gives Apple a sly nod over sideloading

Personal Tech19 Dec 2023 | 15

Android iMessage app Beeper releases working update of blue-bubbled tool

Dev claims to have fixed 'issue that caused messages not to be sent or received'

Networks12 Dec 2023 | 27

Buggy app for insulin-delivery device puts diabetes patients at risk of hypoglycemia

No fix available yet for over 100,000 Omnipod 5 customers

Software05 Dec 2023 | 62

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 11

Android VPNs to get audit badges in Google Play Store if they aren't comically crap

No promises it's actually secure, just that it doesn't do anything obviously dumb

Applications04 Nov 2023 | 26

Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites

Chocolate Factory to focus on more limited attestation for Android WebViews

Applications02 Nov 2023 | 29

Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 3

Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access

Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn't certain

OSes30 Oct 2023 | 11

Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken

Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else

Legal24 Oct 2023 | 11

GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets

More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info

Security06 Oct 2023 |

Google introduces phone-shaped housing for its AI tech

Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro out, Chrome goliath ups support to seven years

Personal Tech04 Oct 2023 | 5

US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance

We're just better, says Big G

Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29

Microsoft's Surface Duo phone hangs up, drops out of support

Remember Microsoft's first attempt at an Android foldable? Of course you don't

Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 8

Google settles another Play Store antitrust case

Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn't feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending

Applications06 Sep 2023 | 3

Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations

LOGOWATCH 'Bugdroid' goes a bit 'Village People' to become 'as dynamic as Android itself'

Software06 Sep 2023 | 32

Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps

Shifting those duties to Outlook set for next year – well, maybe

OSes20 Jun 2023 | 48

At last, Microsoft lets Windows 11 share files with Android apps

Android and Microsoft sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! But not too much

OSes13 Jun 2023 | 6

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

Victims nursing huge losses haven't the foggiest how heist happened, yet

Security05 Jun 2023 | 22

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 93

Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere

Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android

Software25 May 2023 | 7

This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it

File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1

Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 19

What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere

We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 8

Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner

That's certainly one of the stranger headlines we've written

Offbeat04 May 2023 | 66

iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS

Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped

OSes28 Apr 2023 | 39

UK Android app devs to get choice of billing system on Google Play

Updated Coalition for App Fairness calls tech giant's proposal 'a bad deal'

Applications19 Apr 2023 | 3

Huawei masters the great vanishing act as UK sales evaporate

Revenues one third of 2018 peak as US and UK sanctions weigh heavy on Chinese biz

Networks19 Apr 2023 | 28

Google: If your Android app can create accounts, it better be easy to delete them, too

Awoogah, awooooogah, new policy coming for developers

Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 14

Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle

Updated Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so

Security28 Mar 2023 | 35

Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered

Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device

Security20 Mar 2023 | 36

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

Beware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to – yikes! – $23

Offbeat03 Mar 2023 | 89