Today Adobe released an update for its Flash Player 10.2 for Android. Besides the regular bug fixes and security enhancements, it brings some optimizations for Android 3.1. Say what? It’s the first time we hear of Android 3.1 and it’s obviously under way. Adobe has surely made Google angry with this because shortly after that … Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronised. The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone’s recorded coordinates along with a … Continue reading
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a broad antitrust investigation into Google’s dominance of the Internet-search industry, two people familiar with the matter said. Before proceeding with any probe, the FTC is awaiting a decision by the Justice Department on whether it will challenge Google’s planned acquisition of ITA Software Inc. as a threat … Continue reading
Nortel said that it plans to sell all of its remaining patents and applications for $900 million to Google unless a better bid emerges. With the move, Google would get about 6,000 patents covering wired, wireless and digital communications technologies. The big question is what will Google do with all of these patents. The short … Continue reading
Google has just updated the Android platform version distribution charts. Just as expected Froyo and Gingerbread market shares continue to climb, while Honeycomb is still unable to make an impact. The outdated Eclair, Donut and Cupcake continue on their march towards extinction. Android 2.2 Froyo was the biggest gainer over the two weeks since the … Continue reading
Predictably, many of the speeches at Mobile World Congress have been a response to the Nokia-Microsoft alliance. Intel and Google CEOs were disappointed, for obvious reasons, though putting on a gracious front; almost every firm that is threatened by Google and Apple welcomed the news, while Nokia itself talked of its adoption of WP7 being … Continue reading
Eric Schmidt didn’t give a ton of details about the future of Android during his MWC 2011 keynote, but he did drop one interesting tidbit: the next version of Android will “start with an I, be named after a dessert” and combine Gingerbread for phones and Honeycomb for tablets into a cohesive whole. Would this … Continue reading
Larger, faster and smarter smartphones and tablets are expected to steal the show this week at the wireless industry’s biggest trade show in Spain, signaling a new round of competition among vendors in the sector’s fastest growing and the most vibrant segments. Among the mobile devices and wireless technologies that will be on display by … Continue reading
The Optimus 3D is the LG‘s upcoming big announcement. We already got its first teaser promising something almost miraculous is coming, but here is another one. With this video the focus is on the design. According to LG, the Optimus 3D will be “The world’s first Dual Core-Multi Channel” smartphone. Whatever that means. Only Android … Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission just moved Google a lot closer to its longtime vision of “free airwaves.” On Wednesday, the FCC revealed it has tapped the search giant to be an administrator of an online database designed to match electronic devices with unlicensed TV spectrum. The decision could have far-reaching consequences for Google, which has … Continue reading
