Feb 26, 2013

Firefox handset OS to challenge Google, Apple

Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in midyear its Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Mozilla, which campaigns for open development of the online world, showed off the first commercial version ...

Android 'fragmentation' leaves smartphones vulnerable

Feb 8, 2013

Android 'fragmentation' leaves smartphones vulnerable

In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony text messages to Android phones — a practice called “smishing” that can ensnare consumers in fraud. Google’s security officials replied in minutes, ...

Jan 8, 2013

World's first tabletop computer for 'interpersonal' use unveiled

Lenovo on Sunday unveiled a home tabletop touch-screen computer aimed at turning typically solitary online activities into family affairs. The Chinese computer colossus proclaimed the arrival of the “interpersonal PC” with the debut of the IdeaCentre Horizon Table in Las Vegas, where the Consumer ...