Canada’s BlackBerry posted a surprise 6 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Thursday, as sales of its security software product rose and its patent licensing business strengthened.Read More
Google’s Pixel devices offer a car crash detection feature that uses sensors of the phone to determine if you’ve been in an accident with the help of location and audio. This feature could soon make its way to other Android smartphones. Crisis alerts and safety check features are also reportedly coming to non-Pixel phones.Read More
The new Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (APVI) has been launched by Android Security and Privacy team to manage security issued related to third-party Android vendors. The APVI has already addressed a number of security issues found with vendor partners like OEMs like Oppo, Huawei, Vivo, ZTE, and Meizu.Read More
Google has announced the roll out of Switch to Android applications for all Android 12 smartphones. The application was earlier only available for Google’s Pixel smartphones. Google had earlier announced the roll out of the application for iOS smartphones via the Apple App Store. The application will help Apple iPhone users to switch seamlessly to…
BlackBerry phones based on its proprietary operating systems will no longer be able to “reliably function” starting January 4. The company initially announced the move in September last year — years after struggling to fight Android and iPhone devices.Read More
Google, Apple has been asked by FCC official Brendan Carr to either remove TikTok from their app stores by July 8 or explain to him why they did not plan to do so. Carr alleged that the video-sharing app TikTok has collected vast troves of sensitive data about US users that could be accessed by…
BlackBerry is pulling the plug on service for its once ubiquitous business smartphones, which were toted by executives, politicians, and legions of fans in the early 2000s.Read More
Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, said European consumer organisation BEUC. “The language Google uses at every step of the registration process is unclear, incomplete, and misleading,” the group said.Read More
BlackBerry said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking for $600 million (roughly Rs. 4,490 crore) to a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the company’s patent assets.Read More
Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of on Wear OS by Google watches. The telecom network will achieve so by reducing the “chatter” between the device and the network.Read More