Android Leftovers
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Next Four Years in Mobile - Highlights from my brand new forecast
Talking about those handsets and the older PC industry. This year sees the installed base of Android based smartphones grow past 2 Billion in use. Thats more yes than all personal computers including tablets, on all operating systems they use (mostly Windows obviously). This year sees the overall handset (dumbphone and smartphone) installed base pass the level where half are operated by touch-screen (as many 'featurephones' are also touch-screen operated like the Nokia Asha series of featurephones/dumbphones).
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5 Things to Know About the Nexus 7 Android 5.1 Update
Back in March, Google started pushing out the Nexus 7 Android 5.1 update, an update that brings feature tweaks and bug fixes for Android 5.0 Lollipop problems. Thing is, many Nexus 7 users remain on Android 5.0.2 Lollipop. We’ve started to see new Android 5.1 Lollipop details emerge in recent days and today, we want to take an in depth look at Google’s roll out.
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Automatically Ignore Annoying Callers with Android Contact Settings
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Android apps to run on Windows, Macs and Linux
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Google Opens Android-to-Chrome App Porting to All
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Here's how to run Android apps on Chrome with Google's new tool
Eventually, Google hopes, you’ll be able to run potentially millions of Android apps within Chrome or Chrome OS once they’re formally ported over. But you can get make that vision start to happen today—with a new Google tool called ARC Welder.
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The one app every single Android user needs to install immediately
BGR has a long and winding relationship with Amazon, mostly because we have exclusively leaked every single piece of hardware the company announced from the first Kindle straight through to the Fire phone. Amazon refuses to work with us as a result, and we suppose that’s understandable. Of course, we’re still big fans of many of the services Amazon provides, and we use several of them ourselves regularly.
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The Periscope app for Android is coming soon
The latest craze in mobile apps is live video. A couple of weeks ago an app called Meerkat rose to massive popularity on iOS, but then along came the Twitter-backed Periscope. Like Meerkat, Periscope is an app that allows users to easily share live video. Periscope is a much more fleshed-out and feature-rich app. You can leave messages on streams, like streams with a heart, and watch replays of old live streams.
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Dual for Android and iOS puts a new twist on two-player gaming
It's like Pong meets Space Invaders, and the only way to play is up-close and personal.
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Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Android 5.0 Lollipop Release Update: S5, S4, S3
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Consumers withdraw U.S. lawsuit against Google over Android app limits
Plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc (GOOGL.O) on Friday withdrew their case accusing the search engine company of harming smartphone buyers by forcing handset makers using Android operating system to make Google's own applications the default option.
The class action lawsuit, filed by two smartphone customers in May 2014, was dismissed on Feb. 20 by U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California.
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Google Says Android Malware Cut in Half
Google said Thursday that malware infections on Android devices have been cut in half in the past year following security upgrades for the mobile platform.
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US Department of Defence adopts 'NSA-proof' Blackphone devices
THE US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE (DoD) has started rolling out Silent Circle's 'NSA-proof' Blackphone, despite FBI claims that encryption is a "huge problem" for law enforcement.
Silent Circle chairman Mike Janke revealed during an interview with NextGov that the company has been providing the DoD with a job lot of highly encrypted smartphones in a trial for soldiers and staff to use for work and play following a year of secret testing.
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Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on 'NSA-Proof' Smartphones
The Defense Department has rolled out supersecret smartphones for work and maybe play, made by anti-government-surveillance firm Silent Circle, according to company officials.
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Even the Pentagon wants 'NSA-proof' phones
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Pentagon Rolls Out ‘NSA-Proof’ Smartphones
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