Mobile

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

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