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July 7, 2016
Cracking encryption is a topic of perpetual fascination. Congress has made several efforts to legislate it. The FBI tried to force Apple to do it. New messaging apps…
Read articleJuly 6, 2016
Now on Tap was one of the marquee features of Android Marshmallow when Google first announced this update to its mobile operating system last year (which is now…
Read articleJuly 5, 2016
Silent Circle, the maker of encrypted messaging apps and a security hardened Android smartphone, called Blackphone, has discontinued its warrant canary. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
Read articleJune 30, 2016
Google is bringing long awaited multi-stop directions to mobile with its new summer update. Travelers can now hit as many tourist traps as they want on their cross country…
Read articleJune 30, 2016
Another brick in the wall for the mobile ad-blocking wars: Yandex has opened up its Android browser to third-party ad blocking extensions. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
Read articleJune 15, 2016
The third tech war will be fought over messaging. And it will be fought everywhere. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
Read articleJune 14, 2016
Surround and conquer is Facebook’s new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook…
Read articleJune 9, 2016
At Google’s I/O conference last month, the company introduced the concept of “Instant Apps” – a way of more quickly downloading apps by breaking them into small, runnable…
Read articleJune 2, 2016
Running out of room on your smartphone is a problem many mobile consumers have today, thanks to sizable photo, video, and music libraries saved on their device. That…
Read articleJune 1, 2016
There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Google will end up building its own phone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had sort of an answer on stage at…
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