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Google brings Nexus ‘experience’ to unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4

Sure, Google is rolling out big numbers and the expected streaming music service. (See the Merc's live blog.) But a tweet by the Merc's Brandon Bailey from the I/O conference today was particularly intriguing: "Google selling unlocked Read More →

Microsoft’s patent deal with Foxconn parent means more money from Android

Microsoft may be competing against Google's Android, but it also makes money from it. And a new patent settlement with China's Hon Hai means that the software giant continues to reap benefits from an industry in which its own products Read More →

Google double-whammy: Android complaints in Europe, plus Microsoft ‘Scroogled’ ads run anew

Gargantuan Google is again playing whack-a-mole with complaints over its business practices. Calling Android a "Trojan Horse," rivals of Google have urged European regulators to look into the Silicon Valley giant's dominant position in mobile. The rivals, including Microsoft, Oracle and Read More →

On privacy and messaging and the new Facebook phone

Yes, we know. We take a risk when we engage in online communications. Still, let us just put on our privacy party-pooper hat for a moment. As we watch the Facebook Android announcement, which takes an HTC smartphone Read More →

New Facebook phone will actually be the third from HTC

A Facebook phone of some kind may finally be on the way. But it's actually not the first. Say what? Facebook yesterday invited members of the media to come to its headquarter next week to "see our Read More →

Android targeted, Apple vulnerable as mobile malware is on the upswing

Thanks to the growing capabilities of smartphones, we all have a little computer in our pocket. But the flip side to that is that smartphones may soon be plagued by the bane of computers: Malware. The first malware to specifically target Read More →
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