Mobile

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

TalkTalk plans to bail on mobile in major shake-up for beleaguered biz

Three reported to be 'interested' in a deal

Networks06 Sep 2017 | 29

Google ARCore brings augmented reality to relatively small audience

At least it doesn't require a bleeding-edge PC and costly goggles

Software31 Aug 2017 | 8

Apple iCloud Keychain easily slurped by cops, ElcomSoft claims

Credentials stored in the cloud succumb to forensic software

Security22 Aug 2017 | 4

Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

The Chocolate Factory's mobile operating system comes with saccharine emoji filling

Software21 Aug 2017 | 85

No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court

Judges frown upon fishing for incriminating data on phones

Security18 Aug 2017 | 50

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

Analysis A behind-the-scenes look at the cat and mouse game played by publishers and devs

Software11 Aug 2017 | 218

Parents claim Disney gobbled up kids' info through mobile games

Who's the guy that just got sued for invading privacy? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Security05 Aug 2017 | 44

Google tracks what you spend offline to prove its online ads work. And privacy folks are furious

Watchdog goes to court to open up black box system

Legal31 Jul 2017 | 106

KA-SHING! Three's daddy Hutchison flogs telecom unit for £1.4bn

Hong Kong’s richest man just got a bit richer

On-Prem31 Jul 2017 | 1

Cellphone kill switches kill cellphone snatchers

Mobes no longer worth stealing, San Francisco DA declares

Personal Tech28 Jul 2017 | 21

You know what’s not so throttled at O2? UK sales. They're up 2.6%

Firm chips away at debt after Three flog-off squashed

On-Prem27 Jul 2017 | 7

US border cops search cloud accounts? Ha ha, nope, negative, no way, siree – Homeland Sec

Uncle Sam says it won't trawl through travelers' phones

SaaS14 Jul 2017 | 37

Good news: Samsung's Tizen no longer worst code ever. Bad news: It's still pretty awful

TVs, phones, watches, you all get Sammy's bugs

Devops12 Jul 2017 | 51

Twitter will no longer snaffle data allowances on Virgin Mobile

Please, for the love of god, keep your plans switched on!

Legal10 Jul 2017 | 20

Say hello to Dvmap: The first Android malware with code injection

Trojan deletes root access to dodge detection

Security09 Jun 2017 | 15

Facebook shares own tools to trap bugs before they break code

Test management and debugging at scale become a bit less daunting

Devops24 May 2017 | 3

Realm opens up to Windows apps

Better late than never

OSes16 May 2017 | 4

That YouTube ad boycott had square-root of sod-all effect on Google's insane cash machine

License to print money renewed in full, thanks to mobile

On-Prem28 Apr 2017 | 12

TalkTalk HackHack DuoDuo PleadPlead GuiltyGuiltyGuiltyGuilty

Met cops gloat after pair admits to pilfering subscriber records

Security27 Apr 2017 | 28

Half of mobe, broadband customers unhappy with how complaints handled

Tsk tsk, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, tsk tsk

Networks12 Apr 2017 | 3

Confirmed: TSA bans gear bigger than phones from airplane cabins

Air travel to the US from eight countries appears to be affected

Security20 Mar 2017 | 109

Lyft drops $27m on the table to make annoying driver lawsuit go away

Settlement conveniently avoids deciding whether app-cabbies are employees

On-Prem17 Mar 2017 | 10

MAC randomization: A massive failure that leaves iPhones, Android mobes open to tracking

Analysis Security flaws smash worthless privacy protection

Security10 Mar 2017 | 97

Toxic Uber sued after driver allegedly tried to rape passenger in car

Taxi app maker liable because its cabbies are interchangeable with robots, lawsuit claims

Legal24 Feb 2017 | 37

O2 daddy Telefónica reports 12.5% drop in UK sales

Blames it on weak pound

On-Prem23 Feb 2017 | 10

US judge halts mass fingerprint harvesting by cops to unlock iPhones

Analysis Uncle Sam's vaguely worded raid warrant knocked down by the Constitution

Security23 Feb 2017 | 47

Booming Android ad revenue shows it’s no longer the poor cousin

Mobile ad boom favours the happy app

Software22 Feb 2017 | 14

Corpse of US anti-spying law unearthed, reanimated, pushed blinking into the sunlight

Bill reintroduced to crack down on location snooping

Security16 Feb 2017 | 9

2016: Snapchat loses $515m... 2017: Snapchat rips veil off $3bn IPO

'AND WE MAY NEVER MAKE A PROFIT,' laughs photo-spaff app maker all way to the bank

Applications03 Feb 2017 | 33

MNOs will lose 5G rewards to new entrants if they will not share networks

Analysis Even in rural Australia, sharing is resisted

On-Prem02 Feb 2017 | 5

VPN on Android means 'Voyeuristic Peeper Network' in many cases

Researchers spot bad behavior abounding in mobe apps

Security28 Jan 2017 | 25

Google tests Android Instant Apps streamed on-demand to mobes

No more waiting for exploitive, data-gobbling applications to download

Applications25 Jan 2017 | 14

Silence is golden: How Google hunts Android malware in the wild

When mobes and gadgets stop verifying app installations, you're gonna have a bad time

Applications18 Jan 2017 | 20

Digital transformation?! Your boss's PowerPoint New Year resolution, deconstructed

Dear Leader flips eye-popping Uber and Tesla figures

On-Prem18 Jan 2017 |

Uber's self-driving cars can't handle bike lanes, forcing drivers to kill autonomous mode

Hmm.. our software breaks the law? Ah, well, just ship it

Science19 Dec 2016 | 73

Persistent ad and dialler trojans found on 28 Android phones

Mostly landfill Androids from odd places, but Lenovo makes the list too

Security14 Dec 2016 | 26

Beancounter nicks $5m from bosses, blows $1m on fantasy babe Kate Upton's mobe game

So that's how Game of War can afford her

Personal Tech12 Dec 2016 | 49

Sights of the Realm: Mobile app DB hooks up with IBM Watson for image, text, face recog

And the code's on GitHub

Databases12 Dec 2016 | 3

Oi, you, no flirting, no touching in the back of our rides, sniffs Uber

Taxi app maker's stiff no-sex policy grows, thrusts rules in our faces amid Xmas party season

Personal Tech08 Dec 2016 | 42

Android-rooting Gooligan malware infects 1 million devices

At an estimated rate of 13,000 smartphones a day

Security30 Nov 2016 | 22

Inside Android's source code... // TODO – Finish file encryption later

Android 7.0's crypto sauce is 'half-baked' and Google promises to make it better, soon

Security29 Nov 2016 | 21

Hey techbros, make an airplane mode but for driving for your apps – US traffic watchdog

Technology industry already hitting the brakes on distracted driver push

Software23 Nov 2016 | 35

Not fake news: Facebook reinvents SVG

Keyframes lets mobile devs slim their Adobe After Effects animations for apps

Software23 Nov 2016 | 15

FYI Apple fans – iCloud slurps your call histories

Want to keep your call records private? Disconnect from iCloud

SaaS17 Nov 2016 | 27

Secretions on your phone reveal your secrets

Chemistry laughs at your strong passwords

Personal Tech15 Nov 2016 | 10

EasyJet rides digital and mobile on Brexit currency pressure

Incubator partnership unveiled

Legal15 Nov 2016 |

Google knifes Eclipse Android Developer Tools

Android Studio 2.2 beckons, because what choice is there?

Software03 Nov 2016 | 15

The Rosetta Stone of chatbot APIs: Upstart touts software bridge

If you want to build code for lots of platforms, don't shoot the Message.io

Science03 Nov 2016 | 1

WebAssembly: Finally something everyone agrees on – websites running C/C++ code

Native code spec gets buy-in from major browser makers

Software31 Oct 2016 | 80

MPs want Blighty to enforce domestic roaming to fix 'not spots'

Don't fence us in, sings British Infrastructure Group

Legal31 Oct 2016 | 55

No nudes, bloated apps, Android sucks and 497 other complaints about Apple to the FTC

Exclusive We asked US watchdog to reveal formal gripes against Cupertino

Personal Tech28 Oct 2016 | 44

Google gobbles startup that claims its tech is like a mind reader (gulp)

Chocolate Factory has acquired Eyefluence to watch you watch VR

Science25 Oct 2016 | 4