A look at some of the actionable data Carrier IQ collects, including location information of a single device user. (Credit: Carrier IQ) Your Android-based smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart argues in a video posted earlier this week. In the nearly 20-minute video clip, Eckhart show... read entire news →

If Google was just starting to forget about the Android malware threats from earlier this year, now it has another security headache: Researchers at North Carolina State University just discovered a new vulnerability in some of the most popular Android phones being sold today. The security flaw, described in detail in this white paper, is speci... read entire news →

Like Google, Nokia wants to bring mobile mapping indoors. Photo: Mike Isaac/Wired.com In what may have been the most modern version of Manifest Destiny to date, Google spent the better part of the last decade mapping the great outdoors. And on Tuesday, the company announced its intention to continue that quest, only indoors. Naturally, there will... read entire news →

An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn&39;s nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy. The reason for this invasive Android app seems reasonable enough at face value. Even though it&39;s sort of t... read entire news →

SAN DIEGO and PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics Inc. (LG), a global technological force in mobile communications and Box, a leading cloud content management provider, today announced that LG would be the first handset maker to offer 50GB of free cloud storage via Box for Android on all LG Android mobile devices. L... read entire news →

HOUSTON, Nov 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Integration with Cognos Business Intelligence enables business leaders to easily automate reports --Easy-to-use wizard conversion process simplifies consolidation onto BMC's unified, enterprise-wide workload automation solution Today, BMC Software /quotes/zigman/69106/quotes/nls/bmc BMC +0.03% ann... read entire news →

Google is bringing its mapping technology to the great indoors. With the launch of Google Maps 6.0 on Tuesday, users of mobile devices running Android OS 2.1 and up will have the ability to use Google Maps not just to get directions to an IKEA, Macy&39;s inside mapping will work similarly to its outside mapping. A little blue dot will move along ... read entire news →

HELSINKI, Nov 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Futuremark(R), the world leader in performance benchmarking software, today announced that it has started development of 3DMark(R) for Android(TM) (working title), with the aim of bringing the industry standard gaming performance benchmark to Android powered tablets in 2012. Companies involved in the m... read entire news →