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Google faces anti-trust charges for ‘abusing Android phone dominance’
Google has been charged with abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system in deals with phone makers and mobile network operators.
Google pushes into mobile payment with Android Pay launch in U.S.
Google’s Android Pay rolled out Thursday to U.S. customers in more than 1 million locations, becoming the latest system to allow consumers to tap...
Android porn app Adult Player secretly snaps users - and blackmails them
Security researchers have discovered a new type of mobile malware that pretends to be a porn app, but secretly takes photos of users and then locks their...
Samsung and Google to issue ’ biggest updates ever’ for Android flaw
Google and Samsung will release monthly security fixes for Android phones, a growing target for hackers, after the disclosure of a bug designed to attack...
Google ‘polishes’ Android system to make those phones even smarter
Google has unveiled how it plans to introduce virtual reality to the classroom and to YouTube this year, as well as the much rumoured new photo-sharing...
Two new paths for Android: Developing nations and ‘material design’
The first initiative, Android One, aims to make smartphones more than a First World problem.
Japan unveils Kodomoroid—the world’s first ever robot newsreader
Scientists have unveiled what they claim is the first newsreading android—with a sense of humour to match her language skills.
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