The National Security Agency (NSA) has made a public release of a secure version of Google’s Android platform, called SE Android. The new version aims to target Android’s security gaps. Based on SE Linux, a similar project done for Linux in 2000, the new version takes steps in increasing security, such as isolating apps in [...]

Sony has confirmed its plans to upgrade to the newest version of Android. Known as Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest update will soon be available specifically on the Tablet S and the Tablet P. Sony did not specify when the update will be available, but these devices will be among the first tablets to be [...]

Verizon, reportedly the world’s leader in 4G LTE, has been hit with another network outage, the third one in December. Verizon customers around the nation are reporting widespread outages of the newer 4G wireless service. In addition, customers who couldn’t access the 4G network say that 3G performance isn’t acting up to par either. Complaints [...]

Google has announced that they will be launching a beta program called Android Training. The program will be a collection of classes to help developers make better mobile apps for Google’s mobile operating system, Android. Google has noted that public opinion has placed Android apps below Apple apps on the rung of popularity. The Android [...]

Intel Corp. has confirmed that it will be reorganizing several of its business units in order to form a mobile and communications group. The new department will be responsible for the firm’s mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. Intel’s new Atom product is hoped to be integrated with wireless baseband within the next two years, [...]

The Google+ train has been steadily gaining more steam since its launch earlier this year. This time, Google has announced that their video chatting service, Hangouts, will become available on mobile phones. Unlike different video communication services, Hangouts was one of the first to allow for talking between more than one individual at a time. [...]

Research in Motion’s new operating platform won’t be called BBX, after all. The new smartphone and tablet system will be renamed BlackBerry 10. RIM was issued a temporary restraining order from the Federal Court in Albuquerque, banning the company from using the name BBX. BBX is already a trademark of a New Mexico-based software firm, [...]

Facebook has signed Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to manufacture a smartphone, codenamed Buffy, that has the social network integrated at the core of its Android OS . The question now is; will anyone care to have a Facebook phone instead of simply a phone with a Facebook app on it? The first Facebook phone project, [...]

Verizon has already reputedly won the race to 4G LTE. As its new network turns one year old on Monday, the company has also announced its plans to trade spectrum licenses with Leap Wireless. Verizon says Leap will purchase 12 MHz of 700 MHz/block spectrum in Chicago from Verizon for $204 million, while Verizon will [...]

Research in Motion announced last week that it plans to bring security and management features—once only available on BlackBerry devices—to Android and iOS phones and tablets. The new software, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, will let businesses control BlackBerry’s security features on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.  Among the features Mobile Fusion will offer are management and [...]