Tech giant Google has temporarily reversed its decision to revoke Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei’s Android operating system license, which would have crippled its ability to compete with Samsung in the smartphone market.
Tech firm Google has cut ties with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei Technologies and will no longer license its Android operating system to the company. One industry expert called the move an “instant kill switch” to Huawei’s desire to overtake Samsung in the global market.
Reuters reports that in yet another antitrust issue, Google is being investigated over allegations of using its Android mobile operating system market dominance to block rivals in India.
As many as 50 malicious apps were discovered to have bypassed Google’s security checks and were available for download on the Google Play store, leading to many millions of installs on Android devices.
Major apps on Google’s Android smartphones are still reportedly sending data to Facebook, even if the user doesn’t have a Facebook account.
The New York Times published an article recently titled “Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret” which provides an insight into how much data is collected by smart devices.
An app currently available on the Google Play Store allows users to report incidents of religious “heresy” to the Muslim-majority Indonesian government.
According to recently published internal documents, Facebook executives predicted a public backlash over an update to the company’s Android app which would send call and text data to Facebook.
Andy Rubin, the Google executive who was responsible for the Android operating system and was accused of sexually assaulting a Google employee, was quoted in an article by the New York Times as telling his ex-wife “you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”
Nearly 90 percent of apps analyzed in a report sent data directly back to Google, while 42 percent of apps also sent data to Facebook.
Google will reportedly soon be charging phone manufacturers to pre-load Google apps such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps on their devices for the E.U. market.
The Justice Department is considering a probe into potential anti-competitive behavior with their Android OS product.
Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”
Google informed GunBroker on September 3 that its mobile app would be blocked from the app store Google Play.
“Hundreds” of apps for Google’s Android platform failed to disclose third-party analytics and advertising services within them, which collected personal user information, according to a report.
Google’s Android phones collect almost ten times more data about users than the Apple iPhone, according to a report.
Google is reportedly tracking your physical movements with your smartphone even if you select privacy settings which are supposed to stop it from doing so.
The European Union has fined Google $5 billion for “denying rivals a chance to innovate” through its Android operating system.
Hollywood star Will Smith released a corky video this week of him on a romantic date with “Sophia,” a humanoid robot that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia last year.
Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.
Even when disconnected or in airplane mode, phones powered by Google’s Android operating system still track your every move.
A stealthy cryptocurrency miner hijacks Android phone processors and then pushes the devices to their literal breaking point.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.
Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.
Apple and Google are set to introduce a new series of “gender-neutral” face emojis in an update.
Elon Musk is trying to raise $100 million to launch a manufacturer of nice cyborgs that do not become Terminators.
More than 500 Android apps were found to secretly contain spyware, resulting in their removal from the Google Play store, according to a report.
Twitter and Amazon’s massive earnings disappointments Thursday shocked Wall Street and bashed the tech indexes that have been hitting incredible all-time-highs over the last month.
Jeff Bezos is less than $4 billion shy of passing Bill Gates as the richest man in the history of planet Earth.
A report claims that ultrasonic audio in advertisements is being used to activate user tracking features on Android apps.
