Android (Operating system) 'free' applications complete person data to ad systems, study finds

Android: can 'free' apps access user information?   Advertising networks utilized by apps in Android devices will get access to user data, consistent with an investigation by a UK data security company.MWR Infosecurity found that a major range of the highest fifty "free" apps that generate cash for the developer and advertisers...

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Ofcom wants mobile phone expenses to contain less surprises

Ofcom does not want mobile phone customers to be shocked by high bills: internet usage while abroad is major cause of big bills. Mobile phone customers are going to be allowed to line their own limits on what quantity they pay, below measures come into being by Ofcom.In a review of surprisingly high bills, the telecommunications regulator found...

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Mobile carriers face a future without text messaging as data apps take over

Endangered species? A mobile phone with a text message. Just past the safety gate for the world's largest mobile trade exhibition in Barcelona, executives of huge mobile carriers could not avoid walking past a booth they'd in all probability rather not have seen: it had been for "Pinger," alittle California company that gives free texting within...

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Android on fire at Mobile World Congress, but not just for westerners

Google's Android logo has been ubiquitous at Mobile World Congress 2012. As Google's govt chairman Eric Schmidt ready to require the stage for his Tuesday Mobile World Congress keynote, journalists within the US were receiving an email from Apple inviting them to the iPad three launch event. It's safe to mention the link between the...

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Mobile World Congress 2012

Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky.   This has been described as Microsoft's create or crack year. Present-day occurrence is probably the major vital new product launch for Microsoft since Windows one.0 introduced a graphical interface in 19...

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Motorola Mobility under fire in smartphone patent battles

Motorola's new smartphone, the Droid 4. Motorola Mobility (MMI), the struggling Android handset maker that's being bought by search large Google during a $12.5bn deal, has return underneath attack from a German court and from Microsoft over its use of patents in legal fights.In a key call within the ongoing smartphone patent wars, a German court...

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Nokia Lumia 900 in white hands-on

What will we are saying, white sets are somehow a lot of pleasant to behold than the everyday black slabs we tend to see. Nokia's shiny N900 is not any exception; actually we're all in a very heated discussion concerning precisely that color we'd select and that theme makes it look best. Device color aside, there is nothing new here, however we...

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