An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks…
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Samsung to U.S. Supreme Court: Ruling in Apple’s favor would inspire a new breed of patent troll
For the first time in more than 100 years the Supreme Court will take on a design patent case…
IDC: Worldwide tablet market expected to rebound in 2018 as Apple iPads come out of a slump
The decline of the worldwide tablet market is set to continue for the remainder of 2016 as year-over-year growth…
Remember Xiaomi? How Apple killed the ‘Apple Killer’
What a difference two years makes. In late 2014, the financial media became obsessed with a small smartphone company called Xiaomi…
Google’s Android platform has a serious flaw
Google’s Android 7.0 is finally here! It looks smooth and makes several improvements…
Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android combine for record 99.1% smartphone market share
Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 344 million units in the second quarter of 2016…
Google launches Apple FaceTime killer ‘Duo’
Google and Apple have battled each other for years for primacy over mobile users…
Are fashion designers undermining their own products by supporting Apple?
In the ongoing legal wranglings between tech giants Apple and Samsung, a group of fashion industry luminaries…
‘Quadrooter’ security flaws said to affect over 900 million Android devices
Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and tablets allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected device…
Dieter Rams, Norman Foster, and 100+ of the world’s top designers side with Apple in Samsung patent case
Star designers are being pitted against tech titans in the latest episode of Apple’s legal battle with Samsung…
Black Hat 2016: Apple’s iPhone destroys Android phones in security
Apple iPhones are killing their Android counterparts on the mobile security front…
Apple to U.S. Supreme Court: Samsung stole our patents, should end its appeals and finally pay up
Apple innovated; Samsung copied…
Apple asks U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Samsung for infringing iPhone patents
Apple Inc on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd..
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Samsung’s appeal of Apple design patent case on October 11th
Back in March, the Supreme Court stated that it would hear Samsung’s appeal in the company’s never-ending design patent battle…
Over 10 million Android phones reportedly infected with Chinese malware
At least 10 million Android devices have been infected by malware called HummingBad…
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone is nine years old – and still no significant malware outbreaks
Apple started selling the Apple iPhone nine years ago today…
Why the iPhone knockoff peddlers hate ‘The Crutch Of Android’
Apple is the only major tech gadget company that makes the whole widget…
China’s Apple iPhone-knockoff maker Xiaomi banned from peddling phones in India
China’s rising tech star Xiaomi has hit a snag in its plan to challenge Apple…
U.S. DOJ asks Supreme Court to overturn ruling that favored Apple over Samsung’s iPhone copying
The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that had favored Apple Inc over Samsung…
U.S. jury finds Google didn’t need Oracle license for Android’s Java code, defeating $9 billion claim; Oracle vows appeal
Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle Corp.’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business…
Google is delays support for Android knockoff of Apple’s 3D Touch
The 3D Touch knockoff will not be part of the initial Android N release and will have to wait…
Google’s flawed Android is essentially unfixable
The search and mobile giant on Monday released its monthly round of Android security fixes…
Google removes Android app made by the Taliban from its Play store
Google has removed an app made by the Taliban from its Play store…
Apple suggests Federal Circuit panel violated U.S. Constitution in patent fight with Samsung
Apple Inc has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its reversal of a $120 million jury verdict…
Supreme Court to hear Samsung appeal in Apple patent case
The Supreme Court has agreed to referee a pricy patent dispute between Samsung and Apple…
Android malware hits Aussie bank customers, iOS users unaffected
New malware that targets Android banking apps of Australia’s big banks has been detected…
Why Google Play sales still can’t keep up with Apple’s App Store
Google has faced criticism for not doing enough to monetize its Google Play business…
Obama nominates Lucy Koh for Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
Lucy Koh, a federal judge in San Jose who has refereed Silicon Valley wars over patents and employment…
Samsung wins appeal in patent dispute with Apple
What happens when a company like Apple enters a market an totally disrupts it? Either the law is applied justly or the entire industry that faces annihilation bands together to steal Apple’s IP while working protect each other…
85% of mobile device failures occur on Android, with Samsung leading the way
The overwhelming majority of mobile device failures come from handsets running the Android operating system…
Apple discourages Supreme Court from hearing Samsung patent petition, calls case ‘legally unexceptional’
Apple this week attempted to dissuade the U.S. Supreme Court from hearing Samsung’s request for review…
Android’s weakness continues to undermine Google
Android is a BlackBerry clone that was hastily rejiggered to mimic iPhone at the last minute. Obviously, mistakes were made and corners were cut…
Google is suffering from a raging case of Apple iPhone envy
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his lieutenants have signaled to colleagues and outsiders that the company wants…
More than 90% of Android devices are running out-dated, insecure operating system versions
More than 90% of Android devices are running out-dated versions of the mobile operating systems, leaving them highly susceptible to vulnerabilities such as Stagefright…
Dangerous new zero-day flaw affects more than two-thirds of all Android devices
If exploited, an attacker would be able to execute code and extract cached security data, which can include encryption and authentication keys…
Apple gets a sales ban on patent-infringing Samsung phones
In the latest round of the Apple v. Samsung patent war, US District Judge Lucy Koh on Monday granted an Apple motion for permanent injunction against devices…
Google urges U.S. Supreme court overturn Apple v. Samsung patent infringement ruling
Google has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Samsung’s appeal of its patent loss to Apple over the copying of iPhone technology…
Pope Francis to hold rare tech industry meeting with Google’s Eric Schmidt
The 79-year-old pontiff is clearly not naive when it comes to the power of technology. The internet, he once said, is a ‘gift from God’ because of its ability to offer…
Samsung urges U.S. appeals court to overturn $120 million patent verdict for Apple
A jury in 2014 made the South Korean company pay nearly $120 million to Apple Inc. for infringing three patents…
Google Android’s VP of design says Apple’s iPhone interface is ‘heavy and burdensome’
Google’s Matias Duarte has a problem. In the next ten years he wants to replace the computer on your desk and the phone in your pocket…
Samsung asks U.S. Supreme Court to throw out $399 million award to Apple for infringing patents
In its patent dispute with Apple, Samsung is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a digital-age look at an issue…
Windows Phone and Android are failures
Windows Phone? Android? They’re both dead. Apple CEO Tim Cook holds all the cards…
