Mobile

Whoa, France. Take it easy. Wow. You're out of control. Fining Apple 55 minutes of revenue for secretly slowing down iPhones? Maniaques!

Prenez-vous les cartes de crédit? asks Tim Cook as he prepares to personally expense this trifling €25m

Personal Tech08 Feb 2020 | 58

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

Investigators ask Chocolate Factory to help them connect the geographic dots

Security18 Jan 2020 | 70

Relying on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mob US to protect you from SIM swapping? You better get used to disappointment

Study shows top telcos are naff at fending off cellphone number hijackings

Security13 Jan 2020 | 16

Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy as Chinese malware bundled on phones for hard-up Americans

Updated To make matters worse, uninstalling it could cause even more pain

Security09 Jan 2020 | 57

I don't want to go on the cart! Windows 10 Mobile hauls itself from the grave one last time

'I'm not dead!' insists doomed OS. It will be soon

Personal Tech17 Dec 2019 | 22

Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries, human-rights warriors claim

Updated Woke tech giants sued for 'knowingly benefiting from ... the cruel and brutal use of young children'

Personal Tech16 Dec 2019 | 66

Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators

I don't care if it's mathematically impossible, make it happen nerds!

Security10 Dec 2019 | 109

After 10 years, Google Cloud Print will finally be out of beta... straight into ad giant's graveyard

Not so much 'going gold' as 'growing cold'

SaaS22 Nov 2019 | 69

If you've wanted to lazily merge code on GitHub from the pub, couch or beach, there's now a mobile app for that

GitHub opens beta of handheld tools, unveils Arctic stunt, and other stuff

Devops14 Nov 2019 | 7

Samsung SpaceSelfie Galaxy-bearing balloon photobombs Michigan home the hard way

Phone biz refers to crash as 'early soft landing'

Personal Tech28 Oct 2019 | 15

The eagle has handed.... scientists a serious text message bill after flying through Iran, Pakistan

A bird on the band is worth more than your entire research budget

Bootnotes26 Oct 2019 | 95

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

Especially to Boris Johnson

Personal Tech10 Oct 2019 | 25

GPS cyberstalking of girlfriend brings surveillance and indictment for alleged American mobster

20 supposed wiseguys charged because one was possessive

Security04 Oct 2019 | 26

Mayor of London wants mobile providers to stick more network kit across Big Smoke's rooftops

But are landlords going to care about a template agreement?

Networks27 Sep 2019 | 4

Hey, it's 2019. Quit making battery-draining webpages – say makers of webpage-displaying battery-powered kit

Save the family joules, urge Apple's WebKit developers

Software29 Aug 2019 | 73

Just one in five UK constituencies receive 4G from all four mobile operators – research

National roaming still not a thing

Networks09 Aug 2019 | 17

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

Heartbeat rhythms could be the next biometric authentication method

Security25 Jun 2019 | 50

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Payment biz shrugs, says users are fine with sharing

Personal Tech17 Jun 2019 | 37

Hongmeng, there's no need to feel down: It's patently obvious this is Huawei's homegrown OS

It's fun to trademark your brand in CA, it's fun to trademark your brand in SK...ay

Software13 Jun 2019 | 46

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree

Personal Tech12 Jun 2019 | 50

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

Analysis No cybersecurity rules means networks are destined to be balkanized

Networks23 May 2019 | 239

Titan-ic disaster: Bluetooth blunder sinks Google's 2FA keys, free replacements offered

A pairing problem makes an account compromise possible, although improbable

Security15 May 2019 | 10

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles: Apple, Qualcomm settle patent nuclear war – as Intel quits 5G phone race

Updated iThings flogger, chip-licensing biz put differences aside, agree multi-year modem supply deal

Personal Tech16 Apr 2019 | 26

Apple redesigns wireless AirPower charger to be world's smallest, thinnest, lightest, cheapest, invisible... OK, it doesn't exist anymore

Gizmo axed because it wasn't good enough, ran too hot

Personal Tech30 Mar 2019 | 89

Huge news from Apple: No, not mags, games or TV – more than 50 security bugs to patch

Apple rolls out repairs for 51 iOS flaws, including nasty ones, plus fixes for macOS

Security26 Mar 2019 | 27

Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly

Security22 Mar 2019 | 16

Brave claims its mobe browser batt use bests whatever you're using. Why? Hint: It begins with A then D then V...

Blocking ads, analytics code gives browser an edge over, well, Edge, Chrome, etc

Software28 Feb 2019 | 57

Europe-style 5G standards testing? Consistent definitions? Who the fsck wants that, asks US mobe industry

Analysis Besides it's a security issue. Or is that just American insecurity?

Science21 Feb 2019 | 32

Sprint subscribers: What do your updated iPhone and Tonga have in common? Both are cut off from the world

Dash it all... Fix rushed out after iOS 12.1.3 security patch collides with US telco

Personal Tech24 Jan 2019 | 15

Stormy times ahead for IBM-owned Weather Channel app: LA sues over location data slurp

'Privacy in the digital age is one of the most fundamental issues' says city attorney

Security04 Jan 2019 | 37

Time for a little bet on Google? App-building framework Flutter now fitted for more than phones – desktops, too

Dart-based dev tool aspires to allow the creation of software that runs everywhere

Devops05 Dec 2018 | 6

Little FYI: Wi-Fi calling services on AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon are insecure, say boffins

Subscribers using wireless calls wide open to attack

Security30 Nov 2018 | 17

Stats model: UK small biz overpays for stealth mobile plans

Obscurity hides margin, so we called in the CMA – comparison bods

Networks29 Nov 2018 | 6

UK.gov looks to data to free people from contract lock-in doom

Energy, telecoms, banking sectors in the firing line

Legal28 Sep 2018 | 27

Boffins bypass password protection with pilfering by phony programs

Google Instant Apps still needs a lot of work on security

Security26 Sep 2018 | 6

Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag

iPhone XS, XS Max and XR coming soon, and Apple Watch gets a major update

Personal Tech12 Sep 2018 | 114

Qualcomm demands blueprints to Intel chips used in Apple iPhones

Enough with the foot-dragging, mobile processor'n'modem giant rails in patent feud

Personal Tech01 Aug 2018 | 10

Facebook's React Native web tech not loved by native mobile devs

Updated Walmart had trouble getting its iOS and Android devs to embrace the web

Devops26 Jul 2018 | 27

What could Facebook possibly do next to reassure privacy fears? Yup – make a dating app

F8 We have all been trolled

Personal Tech01 May 2018 | 58

No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now?

Security20 Apr 2018 | 15

UK mobile customers face inflation-busting price hike

Look guys, everyone's doing it

Networks16 Feb 2018 | 47

Google's cell network Project Fi charged me for using Wi-Fi – lawsuit

Ad giant billed subscribers for Wi-Fi data, punters claim

Personal Tech07 Feb 2018 | 22

Qualglumm: Still no royalties from Apple, tax hits, EU fine, flat sales

Investors give shares a bumpy ride... and settle on no change in after-hours trading

Networks01 Feb 2018 | 2

We have standards, says 3GPP as group starts to lay groundwork for 5G

Analysts predict 400 million users by 2022

Networks21 Dec 2017 | 15

Android flaw lets attack code slip into signed apps

Janus bug leaves APKs vulnerable to poisoning

Security08 Dec 2017 | 19

Phone fatigue takes hold: SIM-onlys now top UK market

♫ "Boredom, boredom, boredom, b'dum b'dum" ♫

Personal Tech22 Nov 2017 | 105

Boffins: We can identify you by your typing, and we're gonna sell the tech to biz, govt – yay!

Gee, thanks

AI + ML09 Nov 2017 | 61

Funnily enough, when Qualcomm's licensees stop sending in their royalty checks, profits start going south

As Apple 'threatens' to ditch Qualy modems altogether

Personal Tech01 Nov 2017 | 20

Virtually everyone in Malaysia pwned in telco, govt data hack spree

46.2 million stolen accounts, thousands of medical records put up for sale by crooks

Security01 Nov 2017 | 13

Sky mobe ad featuring beefcake Tom Hardy banned for being 'misleading'

'Once it was the hot, new model. Not any more'

Personal Tech25 Oct 2017 | 17

Fancy fone folks filched fast file flinging, filing fumes: Now Essential accused of slurping wireless chip secrets

It's Andy Rubin v Tony Fadell

Personal Tech17 Oct 2017 |

Google backs up Firebase with a second realtime NoSQL silo

Cloud Firestore aspires to scale better

Databases04 Oct 2017 |

Mobile stock trading apps riddled with security holes

Did someone just nick your shares?

Security26 Sep 2017 | 9

Crap cracked fat-attack Pact app chaps slapped in pact backtrack infract

US watchdog raps breach-of-contract brats for retracted transacts

Applications21 Sep 2017 | 14

Chief digital officer and sales director leave O2 amid ongoing shake-up

Roles yet to be filled

Networks21 Sep 2017 | 7

Uber Cali goes ballistic, calls online ads bogus: These million-dollar banners are something quite atrocious

Updated Advertising firm sued by taxi app maker

On-Prem19 Sep 2017 | 51