Google appears to have reversed its earlier decision to ban ad blockers from the Google Play store – a move which had seen the company pulling apps like Adblock Fast and stalling the updates for others, like Crystal’s ad blocker. Now, following an appeal from Rocketship, the developers behind Adblock Fast, Google has re-approved and republished its app to Google Play. The decision represents a change in course for Google...

Just days after it shot to the top of the Play Store, Android's newest ad blocker has been removed for violating developer guidelines. Called Adblock Fast, the plug-in from startup Rocketship Apps worked within Samsung's mobile browser thanks to a partnership with the phone maker, which opened an API this week allowing third-party developers to build content blocking features for the preinstalled Samsung Internet app.

The problem comes down to industry commoditization.

Like many, I run my business from my smartphone. Recently, I stopped getting notifications of new emails. In some cases,…

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum announced Monday that the company is dropping the service’s annual subscription fee in an effort to remove the barriers some users faced in using the service. As far as a new business model, WhatsApp says it will explore ways businesses can use the service to connect with individuals, but said the goal is to avoid spam and unwanted advertising.

Google's promotion gives Android Pay users a free Chromecast for making 10 payments with the app.

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Remember when trying to transfer your iTunes library to an Android device was impossible? Well, times have changed.

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Android is the most popular mobile OS on the planet, and Google has brought the OS to cars, watches, and televisions. And, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Google will soon be bringing Android to yet another form factor: desktop and laptop computers. Re-architecting Android for a mouse and keyboard is going to require major changes to the smartphone operating system, but Android is actually much farther along that path today than most people realize.

LG seriously has something quite formidable here with the V10. Sure, it has some features that folks might perceive as novel, such as that secondary screen, but if we’re to look at the overall picture, the LG V10 is a new direction that hopes to strengthen LG’s place in the landscape.

I believe Samsung is really on to something with the 18-inch Galaxy View tablet.

At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler. The latest release isn’t yet ready for all developers, but you can get a preview of the first feature now in the Canary channel. After two years of development, Google released Android Studio 1.0 in December 2014.

Word on the street is that Google is in talks with chip manufacturers in an effort to gain more control over the chip design process. Clearly the company is striving to patch up the fragmented Android ecosystem, but is this a step toward becoming more like Apple?

Google today launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store for Android that will make it easier to read comics on your phone and tablet. The company also..

I put Google's latest version of Android to the test on my 2013 Nexus 7 tablet and I liked what I found.

The Priv is an (other) attempt by Blackberry to hit some kind of great middle ground: A phone so secure it is trusted by company IT bosses, but pleasurable and simple enough so that normal people - ie the workers - want to use it.

OmniRAT spying software is designed to give criminals full remote control of devices, from phones to desktops.

Alphabet’s Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile-operating system, a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing.