Yikes! Android apps covertly sending user data to advertisers

Sep 30, 2010
According to a new study by Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs, several popular free Android apps have been sharing personal...

Google exec says Android not ready for tablets

Sep 10, 2010
This is an under-the-radar story that seems to matter quite a bit. Hugo Barra, director of products for mobile at Google says that the Android...

Talking Android!

Aug 13, 2010
If you can't be bothered to push a button (or, let's be honest, if you're driving a car), Android phones can now work on Voice Action. Use a set...

Suddenly everyone's talking about Blackberry!

Aug 3, 2010
In a smart phone world where iPhone and Android are Lennon and McCartney, Blackberry is George Harrison, hanging in the background, the quiet one. ...

The new LPad is here!

Jul 30, 2010
That's not a typo. The LPad is a knockoff of the iPad made by the Chinese company TESO. Best of all, it can run on the "Andriod" operating system...

Microsoft paying developers to build apps for Windows Phone 7

Jul 14, 2010
Microsoft is getting ready to make a big push in mobile but it obviously isn't going to have very many apps at the time of launch. Nowhere near...

For public good, not for profit.

Now everyone can build Android apps

Jul 12, 2010
Google rolls out a free software program called Google App Inventor for Android today that lets anyone create apps for the Android platform. It...

Android can kill remotely

Jun 25, 2010
Kill apps that is. The app store for the Android mobile platform identified two apps that it says violated the store's terms of services. They were...

Tech News In Brief - 5/24/10

May 24, 2010
Zuckerberg announces impending changes at Facebook - Doesn't apologize for making privacy settings so difficult. It's really more of one of those, ...