An Android tablet brought back from North Korea by a tourist has provided a glimpse at some of the restrictions placed on IT users in the famously secretive country.
Most Android threats would be blocked if phones ran latest Android version, report says
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper Networks.
Sony Xperia SL smartphone coming to the UAE
Sony Mobile Communications today announced that its new Xperia SL smartphone will be made available in the UAE in early September.
Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ still suffering low adoption
Although it’s been over half a year since Google unveiled Android 4.0 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”), the platform has been adopted by just …
Android 4.0 for smartphones, tablets ready: Intel
Intel on Friday said it has readied Android 4.0 for smartphones and tablets based on its upcoming Atom processor code-named …
Apple, Google need to improve smartphone security: Blue Coat
The practice of “security by obscurity” on the Apple’s iOS needs to improve as smartphone adoption increases, according to Blue …
HTC now top U.S. smartphone vendor
HTC’s strategy of flooding the U.S. market with lots of devices and hoping some of them hit is really paying …
Samsung beats Apple in smartphone shipments – report
Samsung saw 20 million shipments of its smartphones in the last quarter, ahead of Apple’s 17.1 million units shipped in …
Android to offer better tablet optimisation for smartphone apps
Although one of the big knocks on Android tablets has been their relative dearth of tablet-specific apps, that could be …