Tag: Google

August 22, 2019

Google on Thursday revealed that the next generation of its mobile operating system, previously called Android Q, will be ditching the dessert monikers that have been a part of its system updates for years. It will simply be known as […]

August 19, 2019

The Google Play Store is the main hub for Android apps, but spend a few minutes on it and you can easily stumble across malicious apps containing adware or worse. It looks like Google is making it harder for this […]

August 9, 2019

Huawei has officially announced HarmonyOS, the operating system it was rumored to be developing to replace its reliance on Android. In China the software will be known as Hongmeng. The company says the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can […]

August 8, 2019

With Google’s final Android Q beta now out in the wild and the final Q release likely just days away, the question on everyone’s mind is: When will my phone get the upgrade? (Okay, that — and also: Will they […]

August 5, 2019

After insisting for months that the company preferred to continue relying on Google’s Android mobile operating system in its handsets, despite a lingering US ban that precludes Google from allowing that to happen, Huawei appears to have finally succumbed to […]

August 2, 2019

As of 2020, Android users will start to see a list of non-Google search-engine providers that they’ll be able to choose from when setting up an Android device. The new setup process is the next phase of Google’s response to […]

July 30, 2019

After Google unexpectedly “leaked” an official image of the Pixel 4 in June, the company threw another curve ball by releasing a video on YouTube about the phone’s face unlock and motion-sensing capabilities. While we can only speculate why Google […]

July 30, 2019

A new family of ransomware designed to attack Google’s Android mobile operating system utilizes SMS messaging to spread, researchers say. On Monday, cybersecurity professionals from ESET revealed their investigation into the new malware, dubbed Android/Filecoder.C, that earmarks the end of […]

July 26, 2019

The US Justice Department’s antitrust investigation into tech giants may not be the only one faced by Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. A new report says that eight US states are considering separate antitrust actions of their own. The states […]

July 26, 2019

We’ve seen it over and over with the Pixel series: Google can’t sell the flagship, at least not at that price. The original Pixel suffered from severe stock shortages. The Pixel 2 didn’t, but it still didn’t do as well […]