Android

In its typically unconventional fashion, Google will become a subsidiary of a new company called Alphabet, which is an umbrella for other, smaller companies

Android really is the new Windows: a newly-discovered set of security vulnerability in the mobile OS has placed almost one billion users at risk of attack.

This week, Microsoft announced that it will port its Cortana digital personal assistant—a key part of Windows Phone and the forthcoming Windows 10—to Android and iOS. The news set off shock waves in Microsoft’s enthusiast communities, particularly that for the beleaguered Windows Phone platform. But this news was inevitable, and entirely consistent with CEO Satya…

Seeing defeat in mobile, Microsoft has orchestrated a series of deals to ensure that its apps and services are bundled on Samsung and other Android devices. But recent news that AT&T and Verizon Wireless would not permit this bundling has been somewhat tempered by a major new bundling deal with Cyanogen, which creates an open…

  European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday formally accused Google of violating antitrust laws by abusing its dominance in Internet search to harm competitors and consumers. Additionally, Ms. Vestager said that her European Commission was investigating whether Google forces phone makers to favor its own services on the Android mobile OS. Google controls…

With Windows falling behind Android and iOS in mobile, Microsoft has found itself in the awkward position of supporting these rival platform with mobile apps and services. Sure, it will do what it can to make Windows 10 a success in mobile. But if that doesn’t work—if Windows simply retains a dominant position with PCs…

Could the new approach to .NET, dubbed .NET Native compilation, point the way toward how Microsoft might escape the Windows Phone app trap?

Google has pulled three adware-distributing apps from its Play Store, but only after several millions devices were infected with the malicious software.

It will come as no surprise that Android and iOS continued to dominate the global smart phone market in 2014, with Windows Phone stuck in a very distant third place. But there are big questions for 2015. Can Apple’s fourth quarter gains turn into something non-temporary and reverse the firm’s historic market share slide downward?…

Our writer takes a two-week odyssey using an entry-level Android tablet to replace a Windows 8 notebook – find out what he learns along the way!