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This Android App Gives an Alert When Your Phone is Tracking You
Advertisers have wormed their way so deep into our smartphones that some of us have begun to worry whether we’ll ever be able to take a step out of our homes again without a bunch of strangers knowing about it. Location tracking has become a common feature for many third-party apps, but one group of developers wants to give Androidusers the opportunity to understand the privacy risks of these apps.
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Dell cooks up an Android PC on a HDMI stick
Dell's Wyse division, takes a HDMI stick, adds some Android, mixes in some thin-client sauce, and bakes up a new kind of portable PC.
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How Nokia's fake Windows phone could save the real one
Something very interesting is going on at Nokia: The company apparently believes that the look, feel, and underlying services of the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system may be more important than, well, the OS itself.
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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone
At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview. His most interesting comment? Apple should release an Android handset.
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Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
Canning Windows Phone and using Android would be a huge mistake.
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How the EFF is securing your Android web surfing experience
Android users worried about the security of their mobile Internet browsing in light of all the advanced spying practices recently revealed by Edward Snowden’s leaked documents, should know the Elec...
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Does this leaked image finally reveal the Galaxy S5's design?
In addition to Samsung’s Galaxy S5 teaser that seems to reveal the phone’s new TouchWiz UI, a purported design render of the handset has also been posted online. Sonny Dickson, whose leaks have pro...
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Is Microsoft possibly bringing Android apps to Windows Phone a good thing?
It’d probably be an understatement to suggest Microsoft is having trouble getting more developers to fill their apps store with the goods users are looking for. Unfortunately they seem to have found themselves in a classic “chicken or egg scenario” — users won’t come to the platform unless there are apps, but developers won’t develop apps if there are no users.
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A Few Things to Learn from the Moto X
I've always had a bit of a bias towards Google. I got the G1, the first Android phone ever publicly released, when it first came out just because of who was behind the software. A bit of time...
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What Google really means when it calls Android 'open'
Google loves to woo app makers to Android by whispering the sweet sounds of 'openness' and 'open source' in their ears. While that's not entirely accurate, they heed the call for good reasons. Read this article by Seth Rosenblatt on CNET News.
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Six Clicks: 2014's top Linux desktops
After years of talk about the Linux desktop becoming important, it finally is. But thanks to Chromebooks and Android PCs, it's not the Linux desktop we expected.
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Did you know Samsung could buy Android first, but laughed it out of court?
The year is 2005. There are no smartphones, at least not by today’s standards. Carriers control not just what apps run on your phone - they try to curate search results on phones, pushing ringtones first and relevant results last.
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My Problem with Pebble: It’s Still Too Much Work
I recently started using my Pebble smartwatch again after a few months’ hiatus. With the recent launch of the Pebble Appstore for iOS (and Android, in beta), it seemed like a good time to give the watch another try.
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Samsung to debut Gear 2 smartwatch with Tizen, not Android
The Korean electronics giant will use the wearable device to push its own software and services instead of those from Google.
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Debunking four myths about Android, Google, and open-source
Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux.
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Chrome OS and Android may be top desktop Linux distros in 2014
Will Chrome OS and Android dominate the Linux desktop in 2014? Plus: The Chinese version of Linux (Red Flag) has been discontinued, and the anatomy of a Linux system.
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RiskIQ claims malicious Android apps up by almost 400 percent on Google Play
RiskIQ, an Internet security company, claims that malicious apps have grown by almost 400 percent on Google's Android Play store.
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External Blues: Google Has Brought Big Changes To SD Cards In KitKat, And Even Samsung Is Implementing Them
In recent years, Google hasn’t exactly been known as particularly hospitable toward SD cards with regard to its Android operating system. This theme is mos... by Cody Toombs in Editorials, News
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ATAP Project Tango – Google
New android 3D scanning phone project.
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Here’s An Actual 3D Indoor Map Of A Room Captured With Google’s Project Tango Phone
We broke the news yesterday that Google was producing a prototype 3D sensing smartphone called Project Tango. We also broke down the capabilities of the..
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