Google and Oracle have been going against one another in court over Oracle's insistence that Google should be paying royalties to the company for its use of Java software within the Android platform. A lawyer for Oracle Corp has crunched some numbers as part of the litigation and found that Android has generated revenue of $31 billion in its lifetime. $22 billion of that is pure profit for Google. Those figures actually sound quite impressive, that is until you dig a little deeper and compare that revenue to how much the iPhone generates for rival Apple Inc.
California has had a bill introduced into legislation that any smartphone built on or after January 1st 2017 and sold in California must be able to be decrypted by the manufacturer of that device, or the company that makes its operating system.
Apple has won a long-running patent case against Samsung, but we somehow doubt the infringing party will be too concerned, even though it has been ordered to cease selling devices that infringe upon Apple's patents in their current form.
Here's how much it costs one annually to charge an iPhone, iPad, laptop, desktop computer, Tesla, LCD TV, Xbox One and more.
A complex Android banking malware has been discovered which can defeat most voice-based two-factor authentication systems. Here's what you need to know about it.
WhatsApp has decided to drop the annual $1 subscription free across all platforms, making it a totally free service. Here are the details.
The Antutu performance benchmark top 10 leaderboard is created based on results from the company's own benchmark utility, with smartphones from all walks of life compared. The top ten is obviously the list which we're most interested in though, with the best of the best listed in order of performance. Antutu releases a new leaderboard every year, and it has just published 2015's.
Nexus 6P has joined the collection of devices that can have their Android Factory Reset Protection reset with relative ease with LG's Android phones and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 already cracked wide open.
Xiaomi's Redmi 3 is now official. It features all metal body design with a massive 4,100mAh battery, all at a price tag of just $106. Here are the details.
Google has today announced the official dates for Google I/O 2016 developer conference. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai took to various social media channels to inform the general public of the dates, announcing that this year's conference will be coming back Mountain View where it all started ten whole years ago. Google will be releasing additional details about the conference over the coming weeks and months, but May 18-20 is the date that needs to be entered into those diaries for anyone interested in attending the I/O experience.
















