As you may recall from previous articles in this series, Windows Phone includes automatic but limited cloud upload of all phone-based photos as part of the OS. And the iPhone 4S (and other iOS 5-based devices) can be configured to one-up that...
The Christmas holiday saw a record number of activations for devices based on Google's Android and Apple's iOS, according to a web metric firm I'd never previously heard of. But Google confirmed its own success, saying that it activated millions...
There are Android tablets ... and then there are Android tablets. And if I understand Google's plan, the online giant will soon release its own Android-based tablet, much as it also has its own Android-based smart phone in addition to allowing...
Microsoft conducted an interesting contest on the social-networking service Twitter this week, offering to give free Windows Phone handsets to the five Android users who provide the best stories about their malware problems on that platform...
Attention, iPhone and Android users: Windows Phone is better than what you're using. But now you don't have to take my word for it, you can find out for yourself by trying a decent web-based Windows Phone simulator on your own phone. You're going...
Security researchers from McAfee say that malware targeting mobile devices is on the rise this year. Actually, it's just malware targeting Google's insecure Android OS that's on the rise. Both iOS/iPhone and Windows Phone remain completely...
The Android Developers site has offered its latest data on Android version adoption, for the purposes of helping developers to choose which forward-compatible version to design for. Based on the devices that visited Google's Android Market during...
It's an increasingly common refrain these days: Google's dominant mobile platform, Android, is a rip-off of other mobile platforms, and since Google doesn't even have a broad slate of mobile patents of its own, the company is effectively stealing...
