We may be on the eve of Google I/O, but that doesn't mean that the company is going to hold news back for its big opening keynote. Hot on the heels of the news that Glass is now available for order in the UK, Google has also announced that new units will ship with extra RAM and a larger battery, two changes that have apparently come about as part of the public beta the company has been running for quite a while now.
Google's I/O developers conference is just hours away, and for a number of months, it has been speculated that the Big G would take the wraps off the next sugary-sweet flavor of Android. Given that I/O is the company's biggest event, it makes sense that one of its flagship products should be detailed at its keynote event, and according to reports, that is exactly what will happen tomorrow.
With Google I/O right in front of our face, speculation is understandably rife as to what the search and Android giant will have to say. New versions of Android are usually on the agenda at Google's big developer outing, and we see no huge reason why this year's event would be any different. With that in mind, the next version of Android could be just around the corner, and with the next letter in the alphabet-based naming convention used for Android being 'L,' we may have our first real look at what it is going to look like.
When Microsoft bought Nokia, many understandably thought that the latter's brief flirtation with Android would come to an end. After all, Microsoft makes its own mobile operating system and having its own hardware to run it on made perfect sense. Why compete with yourself by letting Nokia make Android phones? Right?
If history has taught us anything, it's that persistent rumors tend to have some kind of foundation to them. That's why we aren't surprised to see more information pertaining to the speculated Nexus tablet from HTC coming into the public domain.
With Apple said to be stepping up its work to bring a smartwatch of its own to market, it's safe to say that Samsung has already put its stake into the ground as far as wearable technology goes. Already having launched more watches and wearables than any company needs to, Samsung is said to be set to bring not one, but two more to market sooner rather than later and is expected to debut at least one of them at the upcoming Google I/O event.
The long-awaited, albeit incremental Android 4.4.3 update was only officially released a couple of weeks back for folks on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones, along with the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets and Google Play Edition devices. Already, though, the Big G has deemed it necessary to push Android 4.4.4, and the reason for this swift update is to fix a lurking security bug discovered shortly after Android 4.4.3 dropped.
Yo, the brainchild of an Israeli developer who managed to scoop an impressive $1 million in VC funding for his app that simply lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, has enjoyed a very encouraging start in its first couple of days as an iOS and Android instant messaging app. But even though its position at fourth on the App Store's list of freebies is good news for Yo founder Or Arbel, the launch has proven a bit of a double-edged sword, with a number of security bugs allowing a hacker to, for example, discover the phone number of a fellow Yo user.
Never the ones to miss a good game and movie tie-in, Hasbro has released its latest iOS, Android game on the App Store and Play Store, respectively.
Android's long and storied malware history is almost a thing of folklore at this point. Google's open approach to the way Android is distributed as well as the ability to side-load apps has left its platform wide open for all kinds of mischievous shenanigans, and even though security updates keep rolling out of Google, the issue of device security isn't going to go away overnight.
