India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder OSes21 Oct 2022 | 3
Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised This and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human Personal Tech06 Oct 2022 | 17
Check out this Android spyware, says Microsoft, the home of a gazillion Windows flaws While issuing an emergency patch for Endpoint Configuration Manager Cyber-crime22 Sep 2022 | 7
Open standards body for digital wallets announced Open Source Summit No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Off-Prem16 Sep 2022 | 5
Google fined $4b after Euro court snips 5% off earlier price Search giant’s appeal lands flat as fine imposed for anticompetitive practice in Android search Legal14 Sep 2022 | 16
Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads Developers say this is not the privacy protection it's made out to be Security30 Aug 2022 | 39
Microsoft looks beyond the US with Windows Subsystem for Android Realizes there's a big beautiful world out there and sets sail for Japan Devops19 Aug 2022 | 25
Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible' Legal12 Aug 2022 | 14
Microsoft thinks there are people on 2G networks who want to use Outlook Offers 5MB Outlook Lite App that works on phones with only 1GB RAM Applications03 Aug 2022 | 42
Cell, Wi-Fi can work for Windows 11 on Surface Duo Windows Phone is dead, long live Windows on a Phone Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 2
Microsoft teases Outlook Lite for Android What are the 'main benefits' of Outlook? Whatever they are, that's all you'll get Applications04 Jul 2022 | 33
The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA Interview Freedoms eroded, iOS-Android duopoly under fire, chip sources questioned – it's all an opportunity for this phone Personal Tech02 Jul 2022 | 34
Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000 Legal01 Jul 2022 | 9
End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at postmarketOS aim to revive it Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers OSes15 Jun 2022 | 41
Hardware flaws give Bluetooth chipsets unique fingerprints that can be tracked While this poses a privacy and security threat, an attacker's ability to exploit it may come down to luck Research10 Jun 2022 | 6
To cut off all nearby phones with these Chinese chips, this is the bug to exploit Android patches incoming for NAS-ty memory overwrite flaw Research03 Jun 2022 | 28
Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones First Look De-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges Personal Tech02 Jun 2022 | 35
Predator spyware sold with Chrome, Android zero-day exploits to monitor targets Or so says Google after tracking 30+ vendors peddling surveillance malware Research24 May 2022 | 6
Upgrading to Android 12.1 ... in Windows 11: Telemetry disabled by default Dev Channel Insiders get Windows Subsystem for Android updates OSes23 May 2022 | 4
Google shows off immersive maps, AR-flavored search, Pixel 7, and more Google IO Your essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 10
Microsoft closes Windows LSA hole under active attack Plus many more flaws. And Adobe, Android, SAP join the bug-squashing frenzy Patches11 May 2022 | 8
iOS, Android stores host more than 1.5 million 'abandoned' apps That's more than the total that are actively maintained, study claims Applications10 May 2022 | 33
Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary Offbeat04 May 2022 | 41
Google releases beta version of Android 13 'Tiramisu' Chocolate Factory's latest mobile code confection refines permissions and error reporting OSes27 Apr 2022 | 22
Google bans third-party call-recording apps from Play Store Apps pre-installed in the device will still be able to have call recording functionality Applications22 Apr 2022 | 38
Google 'Switch to Android' app surfaces in iOS App Store After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply Personal Tech20 Apr 2022 | 26
Microsoft's huge Patch Tuesday includes fix for bug under attack April bundle addresses 100-plus vulnerabilities including 10 critical RCEs Patches13 Apr 2022 | 15
Russian devs plan alternative Android app store after Google Play bans paid apps Claim NashStore will help Russians access common apps from May 9 SaaS30 Mar 2022 | 10
The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google Opinion Android messaging heist isn't the action of a well company. Let us help Security28 Mar 2022 | 106
Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that And it's right more often than rapid antigen tests Personal Tech23 Mar 2022 | 28
Samsung updates its most popular smartphone range The mid-range A-Series matches top-end models for software updates Personal Tech18 Mar 2022 | 25
Intune out of tune after an Android 12 update? Help's coming Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow SaaS08 Mar 2022 | 2
Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations StreetComplete told people how they could fund development, now it's not allowed to Software02 Mar 2022 | 49
Samsung shipped '100 million' phones with flawed encryption Academics found TrustZone-level code could not be trusted to keep secrets Security23 Feb 2022 | 22
Google expands Privacy Sandbox to Android Web giant shocked, shocked, to find misuse of data going on in here Security17 Feb 2022 | 17
Critical 'remote escalation' flaw in Android 12 fixed in Feb security patch batch This is the final software update from Google for the Pixel 3, 3 XL, too Security09 Feb 2022 | 19
Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much Legal07 Feb 2022 | 23
Android devices, demand in China help keep Qualcomm from worrying too much about losing Apple Oh, yeah, and Windows on Arm. Who could forget that? OSes03 Feb 2022 | 3
Google dips into India Digitization Fund for telco Bharti Airtel Pledges work on 'mutually agreed commercial initiatives' – such as figuring out how to use 5G Off-Prem31 Jan 2022 |
Indian government floats idea of home-grown challenger for Android and iOS May not be the smartest move seeing as alternative OSes crater – and Google promised to spend billions in India OSes27 Jan 2022 | 10
Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app Visitors have to install it 14 days prior to arrival in China until their departure Security19 Jan 2022 | 37
Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly OSes05 Jan 2022 | 24
Of course a Bluetooth-using home COVID test was cracked to fake results The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test was connected to the internet of woefully insecure things for a while Security22 Dec 2021 | 25
Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911 Woman tells El Reg she discovered the bug during a granny emergency Software09 Dec 2021 | 109
Amazon Appstore melts over Android 12 'Snow Cone' Running the latest version of Android? Appstore apps no longer work Software02 Dec 2021 | 16
It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified Security30 Nov 2021 | 5
AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords Science30 Nov 2021 | 30
Huawei's AppGallery riddled with malware-infected games Updated Cynos.7 trojan found its way into 9.3 million downloads Security25 Nov 2021 | 20
Microsoft admits Samsung phones under Intune mobile device management are dropping out of compliance Auto-restart or manual update requires manual interaction to bring a gadget back to the light Software12 Nov 2021 | 8
Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms' Move over 'dog ate my homework', there's a new excuse in town Personal Tech09 Nov 2021 | 58
Google's special Android for India revealed Two months late is better than never in a supply chain challenged-world, and means it is out in time for Diwali Personal Tech01 Nov 2021 | 1
Don't super-size me – China defines rules for 'super-large' platforms Creates category to control what we call a superapp for antitrust behavior and more Off-Prem01 Nov 2021 | 6
Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them Personal Tech19 Oct 2021 | 24
Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out Updated Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Networks13 Oct 2021 | 62
What do iOS and Android have in common? Their apps suck at privacy, boffins say Plus 'widespread potential violations of US, EU, UK privacy law' as an added bonus Applications30 Sep 2021 | 21
Don't look a GriftHorse in the mouth: Trojan trampled 10 million Android devices Pushy code pressured people to sign up for premium services, netted 'millions of euros' Security29 Sep 2021 | 9
Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet Bork!Bork!Bork! I'll show you 'highly targeted' Bootnotes29 Sep 2021 | 70
One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it Updated Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it' Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 203
How many Android containers can you fit on your VM? Interview The Register speaks to Canonical about running the OS in the cloud PaaS + IaaS23 Sep 2021 | 1
Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future This could very well be the last release based on 16.04 OSes22 Sep 2021 | 2
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated Interview FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework Software22 Sep 2021 | 6
South Korea fines Google ₩207 billion for forking up attempts at creating Android variants LG and Samsung probably aren't smiling – and not only because that sum translates to a tolerable US$177M Software14 Sep 2021 | 6