A modified version of Android runs the whole show. It's certainly something different if nothing else.
and Android-owning doctors to share images of diseases, injuries and everything in between. Launched in 2013,
Wizard, which will now be available on ios (Apple operating system) as part of the Peak app,
It is only if you have not had a new phone for five years that it is not Android or ios,
while Pichai and Google retain control of search, ads, maps, the Google Play Store, Youtube, and Android.
the former CHROME OS and Android chief who has played an increasingly central role in Google's day-to-day operations."
Almost every new Android handset features some sort of solution for giving it a rapid injection of energy,
The first is by requiring all Android devices to have Wi-fi First intelligence built in at the outset.
The watch, until now, had been known as the Samsung Gear A. The new watch will probably not run on Android Wear,
but rather run Samsung own Tizen operating system. The time is nigh for smartwatch makers to come up with some kind of answer to the Apple Watch.
Sundar Pichai, who is Google's senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps, will become Google's chief executive.
According to the company's Securities and exchange commission filing, the main Google business will include"search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android,
its app is available on ios with Android to follow in a couple of months. Ronick says the team interviewed more than 100 other people who largely believed investing was confusing
and open Android probe The European commission today formally charged Google with violating EU competition law by abusing its dominance in search to gain an edge over specialist rivals.
The EC on Wednesday confirmed it was opening a probe into Android and whether Google has been breached antitrust law here too."
and market access of rival mobile operating systems, mobile communication applications and services in the European Economic Area,
and marketing non-Google-controlled versions of Android; and whether bundling its services with Android has hurt competition.
Google also acknowledged the EC's investigation into Android in its memo. Google has faced a number of complaints from rivals,
including over its bundling of Google apps like Youtube and Maps as well as complaints Google has blocked third-party app stores on Android.
Here too, Google says it has a strong case, since Android had lowered prices and increased choice for consumers and pointed out that Samsung's new Galaxy S6 included pre-installed apps from rivals."
"Consumers decide which apps they use and download on Android devices. Apps that compete directly with Google such as Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft office,
and Expedia are easily available to Android users; and"Many of these apps come pre-loaded onto Android devices.
Google apps, like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Play, are also available out of the box on many handsets.
The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,
How to send encrypted messages to ios, Android devices for freein related news, Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,
#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft
mobile apps and services on Android tablets. The Android preload deals, announced March 23, cover both consumer and business Microsoft apps and services.
Samsung, for its part, will preinstall Microsoft services and apps on its"portfolio of Android devices.""Samsung committed to offering Microsoft office 365
and Samsung Knox Business Pack on Android tablets, as well. Samsung announced last month it would preinstall Onenote,
Onedrive and Skype on the Glaxy S6 and S6 Edge in the coming months--some time in the first half of calendar 2015,
Samsung also will preinstall Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on"select"Samsung Android tablets,
Users who purchase new Android tablets via Samsung's business-to-business sales channels will have the option of purchasing a bundle of one of three versions of Office 365--Businesss
These hardware partners will preinstall Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on Android devices coming to market later this year.
Android distribution startup Cyanogen might be next up to forge a similar bundling relationship with Microsoft.
Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,
No new Windows phone devices beyond those already supported are able to run today's build.
Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l
IBM's new Linux mainframes SEATTLE--At Linuxcon, IBM launched Linuxone, a new pair of IBM mainframes along with Linux and open-source software and services.
IBM claims that Linuxone Emperor is capable of scaling up to 8, 000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers and that's more than any other single Linux system.
IBM also states that the Linuxone are the most secure Linux systems ever with advanced encryption features built into both the hardware and software to help keep customer data and transactions confidential and secure.
or an ios app I threw together. It was life changing, as it allowed Evan some freedom from the typical type 1 diabetes regimen at day care.
My family primarily uses ios devices, but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
I got a Motorola Droid Razr M phone and once I had the basic USB enumeration downo my phone could eethe receiver
I wrote an Android app to extract glucose data and upload it to our Google spreadsheet via the cellular network.
and continued to refine the Android app over the summer, in preparation for Evan return to school.
While Dexcom has released subsequently Share, a proprietary remote-monitoring system, it works only with ios devices.
and in early 2014, we made the C# uploader, Android app, Pebble watch, and Nightscout code open source. Subsequently,
a brain region involved in planning movements. human os iconlead researcher Richard Andersen, a neuroscience professor at Caltech,
and you can even run the sound through an ios device to use software filters and effects.
At launch tis also limited to users of Windows 8. 1 software (either desktop or mobile) so Microsoft is playing platform favorites with this early beta program.
But while Android appears to have onthe so-called platform war, the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
who started selling low-cost Android-based handsets to these markets early, are doing so well.
has essentially now been won by Android. Its share is now at 83.1%on sales of 250 million units.
while Windows, Blackberry and ther OS? s all continue their declines. In real terms, Windows sales were nearly flat over a year ago on 9 million units.
when Windows phone-based devices grew quarter-on-quarter thanks to the introduction of more mid-range devices,
Here will power both desktop as well as Android and ios apps starting with Taiwan first and then adding other territories at a later stage.
Here has announced just an update that will make its mapping apps available across all Google Play markets and Android devices,
and is finally republishing a new ios app in early 2015, after pulling it in 2013.
Baidu inked a deal with France telecom to load its mobile browser on to Android devices that were getting sold in Africa.
a fake Occupy Central app that spread phishing malware in Hong kong poked a few more holes in the perceived security of ios closed system.
NET Framework and also take it to Mac and Linux. Launching a startup with rtificial wallsin place,
it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
#Amazon s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An ios App When Amazon launched its $199 connected speaker Amazon Echo last month,
The app was initially available only for Amazon Fire OS and Android, but not ios. Instead, iphone and ipad users had to use Safari or a desktop browser instead.
Today, that changes as Amazon has released now Amazon Echo for ios. Like its Android counterpart
the new ios app allows you to use your ios device as a remote control of sorts for interacting with Echo.
To get started, the app guides you through a simple set up process, after which you can use the app to control the output to Echo as an alternative to using voice commands.
Amazon Echo for ios is a free download here
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Workflow is a new app for ios that lets you create shortcuts for the things you do all the time on your phone or tablet.
You can create action extensions (a new feature in ios 8 that you can bring up by tapping the share button) that save the URL of the page youe on to Evernote
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
million registered accounts on iphone, launches on Android April 4th, 2012: Instagram sees 1 million Android signups in the first 24 hours April 9th, 2012:
Instagram hits 5 million Android users, is acquired by Facebook April 30th, 2012: 50 million users February 2013: 100 million users September 2013: 150 million users March 2014: 200 million users Considering Twitter
has added only around 38 million users since March while Instagram has added 100 million, you can expect the gap to expand
On Android, we should note, things are a little easier thanks to support for autofilling logins. ios and Windows phone,
sadly, don allow for this.)You can try the new features for yourself, for free. Dashlane users can sign up for early access,
and 15.6-inch Android tabletill be available next January. To provide content for those devices,
will eventually start using Alibaba Aliyun operating system, which includes online shopping connected to the e-commerce giant sites,
And Device Sandboxes Incoming Blackphone the post-Snowden pro-privacy Android smartphone joint venture between secure comms company Silent Circle and phone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it will be adding an app store
The feature will be powered by Canadian company##Graphite Software#s OS-level virtualization software. Speaking to Techcrunch back in October Blackphone cofounder Jon Callas indicated an app store was incoming detailing a plan##to expand its##hardened Android OS to include a curated app store experience#offering third party apps##it##has selected
and vetted/reviewed for potential security concerns. The Blackphone device and startup business is an attempt to consumerize the hard problem of security
and privacy within a familiar-looking Android##wrapper and by bolting on multiple third party services to put##secure alternatives for essentials such as##cloud storage within easy reach (as well as bundling up the cost of their initial subscription in with the phone).
Adding its own privacy-focused store to the OS is therefore a natural next step#given it will expand the utility of the device
#Mesosphere Announces First Data center OS And $36m In Funding Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project,
what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.
Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS.
This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine,
the operating system sits on top of the data center and enables administrators to treat all of the resources in the data center as a single, virtual entity.
DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu, and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
This project, led by the Linux Foundation, focuses on the control and management of network resources,
Critical portions of OVS are included now directly in the Linux kernel, and it has become an important building block in extending the network into the operating system.
Open source projects have performed also significant work on open protocols, including: Openflow. Now managed by the Open Networking Foundation,
as part of ios 7. With ios 8, Apple made its so-called said ill switchactive by default, in accordance with California regulation,
for instance, will have it on be given default that they shipped with ios 8 pre-installed. Stats from last year indicated that Apple implementation of the Activation Lock were having a significant effect,
but Apple combined ios 8 adoption rate (currently at over 70 percent) and the fact that it now on by default means that the risk associated with stealing a modern ios device is even greater.
The aim is to make smartphone theft ultimately as futile as stealing a credit card, whereby a user ancellingtheir hardware renders it ultimately useless.
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
a new ios software framework that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. Researchkit lets people take tests like saying hhhto detect vocal variations, walking in a line,
With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
An ios app called Signal is a project out of Open Whisper Systems, a not-for-profit collective of hackers dedicated to making it harder for prying government eyes to get a hold of your information.
For those who want to share with their friends on Android the community organization currently has two Android apps Textsecure
and Redphone that need to be combined to do the same thing as Signal does on ios. Textsecure is the text message solution
and Redphone is encrypted the phone-call solution. The plan is to combine those two into one Android app for Signal users.
Recent security breaches and other events have prompted a number of apps to emerge that promise encrypted communications between mobile phones.
Whatsapp recently incorporated Open Whisper System code into the Android version of its app. e want as many people as possible to have embedded the capability within their apps
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
#Square Cash Integrates Touch ID To Send Money Using Your Fingerprint Square Cash Square Venmo competitor that lets you use the app to transfer money to other people has added a new feature to its ios app that some might say is long overdue:
which points to corresponding apps on ios and Android respective app stores. The app is designed to help drivers determine their actual income taking fuel costs
This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
when theye away from home using Apple TV (generation 3 or later with OS version 7. 0 or later),
the company is also now offering up a brand new version of its Insteon+app for ios 8. 1 or later,
and are running ios 8. 1 or later. Set up and discovery is handled automatically just by tapping,
the readings it takes are more scientifically rigorous than those achieved by the current crop of Android Wear-powered devices,
Compelation ios app beta is normally invite-only, but it opening signups for the next 24 hours to let Techcrunch readers give it a try.
however though that will change later this year as Subway begins to advertise its mobile ordering and payments app for ios and Android.
it moving to integrate Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout into the Subway application as another checkout option, alongside the app support for Apple Pay and Android Pay.
including Apple Pay and Android Pay, that the businesses themselves will want to support. t the end of the day,
You will be able to use a setting in ios to quickly switch from carrier to carrier right on the ipad
But one shopper tries it by taking out his Android phone and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal.
AT&T, and Verizon is touting its support of more than 80 Android phones and the ability to pay at retailers including Mcdonald, Subway, and Walgreens.
Apps for iphone and Android are in the offing but for now the only way to use it on a smartphone
Izhikevich s startup Brain Corporation based in San diego has developed an operating system for robots called Brainos to make that possible.
Some U s.-based defense contractors are openly advertising positions for people with Top Secret/SCI clearance to create offensive exploits targeting iphones, ipads, and Android devices.
and mobile operating systems, it can basically spy on the whole world at a level no other country can.
So far aimed only at devices running Google s mobile operating system Android the new system also expands the company s vision for mobile voice-operated functionality that competes with Apple s Siri and Microsoft
Chang said the company was interested in eventually rolling out the new features to devices based on Apple s ios operating system
We re focused naturally right now on Android he said but Google users are on all different platforms and that s really important to us.
Facebook for example has launched a program called App Links designed to help spread the practice on both Android
and ios devices and a well-funded startup recently announced its own plans for a search engine focused on searching inside apps (see A Search engine for the App Era
During yesterday event in Seattle, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the Fire Phone black handset that runs a modified version of Google android system and looks pretty similar
That effort has seen already the data use of Facebook main Android app drop by 50 percent.
last year, the company released the software to app writers for ios, the operating system used in iphones and ipads.
And now the first apps are said coming el Kaliouby. utistic kids have trouble reading and understanding social and emotional cues,
which runs in the background on Android devices, waiting for the moment to pop up with timely information about traffic patterns
and Android but with Google ability to leverage big data. With Oslo, the company is trying to take advantage of the information that its customers have poured into various products,
Where his predecessor Steve Ballmer clutched the fading Windows operating system like a frayed security blankethe ios version of Office appeared four years after the iphone debutadella has acknowledged the company need to move on,
Firechat makes use of a feature Apple introduced in the latest version of its ios mobile software ios7 called multipeer connectivity.
He hopes to enable many more Internet-optional apps with the upcoming release of software tools that will help developers build Firechat-style apps for iphone or for Android Mac and Windows devices.
and North korea says Mattt Thompson a software engineer who writes the ios and Mac development blog NSHIPSTER.
Open Garden s main product is an app that allows Android devices to share their Internet connections (see Could You Spare Some Internet access?.
He argues that the spread of cheap Android phones across the world will make mesh networking feasible.
and piloted driving system at the Consumer electronics Show (CES) in Las vegas. The virtual cockpit unveiled by Audi at the CES is based on the Android platform;
#and my company, Metaoptima Technology. olescope#comprises a mini-microscope that attaches to a smartphone, an app (ios, Android,
The module is ideal running open-source Linux using the TI AM335X SDK Essentials Version 7. 0. The DT7837 runs Linux 3. 12 with customer loadable kernel
modules LKM to expose the onboard hardware to Linux user space applications via virtual file interfaces s
The device is connected to smart phones (ios and Android) via Bluetooth 4. 0 and the users can read real time measurement data from an easy to use but highly sophisticated app.
or point of a finger. eyesight's software can be integrated easily at any level of the device chipset, operating system, camera module,
The app will only be available for Android phones because that is what just about everyone has in countries where it is designed to be used.
One instance when you might want to use the new chips instead of flash would be to store operating system files that are required every time you boot up your machine.
Researchers also have tried limited studies that gather data from apps on Android phones. But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research
Molescope comprises a mini-microscope that attaches to a smartphone, an app (ios, Android, or web compatible) and a cloud-based analytical platform called Dermengine.
like most major Android phones, you can also unlock it with an implanted device just by holding it.
The app currently only runs on ios, with an Android version in the works e
which can be compatible with any Bluetooth Smart device, regardless of whether its Apple, Android,
Researchers also have tried limited studies that gather data from apps on Android phones. But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research
Geli Energy Operating system and Energy management applications will be used to manage the microgrid. Las Positas College in Livermore will be the site of the flow batteries installation,
since last June. he app is currently available for download on ios and Android. With the the new Bridj app
The app can be found in both the Apple and Android app stores. It allows users to book their trips hours
The firm says it is a'defense-grade secure workspace solution for ios and Android devices that keeps all corporate email, browsing,
documents and applications encrypted, contained, and UNDER IT control no matter who owns the device.''It will enable smartphone
and the Bluetooth chipset firm has combined its in-the-home wireless mesh network technology with Android Wear to allow home control
Android wear will provide this. The demonstration will be connected part of CSR CSRMESH enabled home at CES in Las vegas, January 6-9th,
The Croatia-based company has been working on the device and ios app development for two years.
An Android app will be introduced in April l
#Robot arm controlled by quadriplegic intentions Californian researchers have linked a robot arm to the brain of a quadriplegic man,
The first use of the predictive sensing technology is in Qi Android smartwatch launcher, Qilaunch Wear.
and can be added to any application or operating system. The interface consumes less power than current touchscreens,
and not be able to tell if it a human or an android. I think we are very much approaching that. hat Blade runner future may seem more dystopian than utopian to some.
an Android release, packaging and decorating improvements, and an updated framework for software development that meant to make it easier for both software
#Google throws nearly a billion Android users under the bus refuses to patch OS vulnerability When it comes to providing security updates for previous products,
Some, like Microsoft, tend to provide security updates long after theye stopped selling an operating system (Microsoft only stopped providing WINDOWS XP support last year.
refusing to patch bugs in Android 4. 3 or prior, even when those bugs could expose critical vulnerabilities on nearly a billion devices.
The flaws in this case affect Android 4. 1 to 4. 3, aka Jelly bean, which began shipping in mid-2012
and was the primary version of Android through late 2013, or roughly 14 months ago.
Up until quite recently, Google has patched aggressively problems in Android Webview rendering engine. Before Kitkat (Android 4. 4
all versions of Android used the version of Webview found within the Android Browser for rendering HTML webpages.
With Kitkat and Lollipop, Google updated the operating system to use a Webview plugin derived from its Chromium project.
When Security firm Rapid7 discovered a new exploit in the Android Browser version of Webview,
it contacted Google to inform the company that Android 4. 3 and below were vulnerable.
Google response and policy change are raising major eyebrows. Specifically, the company states that: If the affected version of Webview is before 4. 4,
and Motorola to provide you with an updated version of our operating system. This is hilariously impossible.
and Lenovo provide you with a free update for our operating system. The disparity is even larger
The average phone or tablet buyer has no way to upgrade their operating system unless the carrier provides an OTA update,
and fragmentation has been a major problem in Android ecosystem over the years but there a difference between acknowledging the difficulty of maintaining security updates for the entirety of one user base
Pushing OEMS off open-source Android One obvious reason for Google to stop fixing Android Browser problems is that the company is aggressively moving to get OEMS to stop using Android open-source features
and getting rid of the Android Browser is a key facet of moving away from an Android that actually maintained and useful.
No, Google isn killing Android it just ensuring that the only parts of the program that get feature updates, capability improvements,
on the grounds that the desktop and laptop OS company wasn moving fast enough S
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