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Yup, it appears that everybody loves those cute and weird monsters. There is no denying the obvious -- the Pokemon Go game is a big hit in the United States mobile market. But how big exactly? The makers of this new augmented reality game has not published any official figures yet, but that has not stopped others from trying to measure Pokemon Go’s phenomenal success (so far).
Last week, researcher Gal Beniamini uncovered a flaw in the full disk encryption scheme of Google’s Android mobile operating system. Basically, such flaw made Android powered devices vulnerable to decryption. When news of this flaw broke out, it appeared to be some sort of a groundbreaking discovery. But it turned out that Qualcomm had told Google about the vulnerabilities back in November of 2014 and February of 2015.
According to report published by Neowin, hackers can use break into tens of millions of Android powered mobile devices by way of full disk encryption, thanks to a series of security flaws associated with Android kernel issues and Qualcomm chips.
Qualcomm has just revealed that it is optimizing its Snapdragon lineup of chips in order to be able to run Google’s Project Tango augmented reality technology. Indeed, the largest builder of processors in the world has stated that its Snapdragon 652 and Snapdragon 820 processors both have support for Tango, a type of technology that grants mobile users the ability to use any smartphone or tablet device with animated information overlaid on the real world.
Lenovo has just held its yearly Tech World conference in the city of San Francisco in California. In front of a live audience both physical and online (event was broadcasted live), Yang Yuanqing, the chief executive officer and chairman of the Chinese tech giant took the stage and personally announced new products. Here is the rundown:
Based on developer stats for early June, the newest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system has now breached 10 percent. By now powering more than a tenth of all Android devices, Android Marshmallow showed a significant improvement over the 2.3 percent it registered in March early this year.
Lenovo officially completed its acquisition of Motorola back in October of 2014 for a sum of $2.91 billion, but fast forwarding to more than a year later, it appears that the move is not paying off as nicely as initially planned by the Chinese mobile giant.
Every year in the beautiful city of San Francisco in California, usually in May or June, Google holds its Google I/O, an annual conference focusing on software, web, and mobile technologies. This year, the tech giant once again offers a fresh round of announcements and updates regarding its products as well as the latest in technological trends and breakthroughs. Scroll down for the rundown.
For some time now, Google has always made Nexus and Pixel C factory images available for those users can just can not wait to get the latest updated versions of the tech giant’s Android mobile operating system (also, for those who are looking to acquire means for an alternative restore). But it bears noting that when it comes to Nexus and Pixel C factory images, they are complete system images, which means that when getting them, the user will usually have to wipe his Android device.
Regulating bodies in the United States now want to gather more information about how phone makers and wireless carriers go about dealing with security issues in mobile devices. At the same time, the feds want to know why fixes for bugs and vulnerabilities take too darned long be deployed. Indeed, both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have sent letters of inquiries to more than a dozen firms, collecting data about how mobile manufacturers and network operators handle security updates.
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