mobile

Qualcomm Chip Upgrade ‘Gives Galaxy S9 Major Speed Boost’

Early tests indicate the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset performs 20 to 25 percent faster than last year's model, found in…

7 years ago

UK Consumers Hit By £4.6bn In Cyber Crime Last Year

Worldwide 978 million internet users lost £130bn to cyber crooks, amidst an explosion in connected home gadgets and a poor…

7 years ago

OnePlus Confirms 40,000 Customers Affected By Hack

A malicous script was injected into oneplus.net's payment page, recording card details as they were entered into the browser

7 years ago

BlackBerry Jarvis Is A Connected Car Security Scanner

The Jarvis cloud platform aims to root out security bugs that find their way into the hundreds of software components…

7 years ago

CES 2018: Wi-Fi Alliance Previews New Industry-Wide WPA3 Security Standard

In conjunction with CES 2018, the industry group behind the Wi-Fi certification label said it plans to introduce a stronger…

7 years ago

Smartphones ‘Can Be Unlocked’ Using Covert Sensor Data

Singapore researchers used sensor information freely available to any mobile app to unlock Android phones in only three tries

7 years ago

Apple Hit By Class-Action Lawsuits Over iPhone Slowdown

Three lawsuits filed in Illinois and California allege Apple 'interfered' with users' handsets, leading to a loss of value and…

7 years ago

Terrafix To Provide NHS With In-Ambulance Mobile Data Systems

An £8.1m deal is to see the British mobile computing firm supply technology for communications between ambulances and control rooms

7 years ago

Government Seeks Views On Future Of 5G, Fibre Broadband

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport consultations are to help determine how to shape a future of 5G…

7 years ago

Ofcom: Mobile Users Will Be Able To Switch With A Single SMS

A major regulatory reform will allow users to switch to a new provider via text message, eliminating the need to…

7 years ago

Broadcom Offers £99bn For Qualcomm In Biggest-Ever Tech Deal

The $130bn offer would create a dominant mobile chip player, but some say it's an opportunistic move taking advantage of…

7 years ago

Massive Data Breach Of Personal Information Reported In Malaysia

The trove of stolen data included ID card numbers and details on 46 million mobile phones, in a country of…

7 years ago

DCMS £25m Fund Aims To Develop UK 5G Technology Leadership

The department is to award match-funded grants of up to £5m each, starting with projects that can foster Britain's '5G…

7 years ago

iOS Vulnerable To ‘Shockingly Easy’ Phishing Attack

iOS' frequent authentication pop-ups, together with developers' ability to create authentic-looking dialogue boxes, spells phishing trouble

7 years ago

Botnet Launches DDoS Attacks From Thousands Of Android Devices

The WireX botnet used hundreds of infected Android apps on Google Play and elsewhere to launch attack traffic against content…

7 years ago

Worldwide Device Shipments To Decline In 2017, Gartner Warns

Tough market conditions for makers of PCs, tablets and smartphones in 2017, warns analyst house

7 years ago

Google Might Build Its Own Ad-Blocker For Chrome Web Browser

If it goes ahead with the plans, Google will block ads based on standards from the Coalition for Better Ads

8 years ago

Instagram Trials Shopping Features In E-Commerce Drive

Instagram believes its users willigness to discover and the presence of major brands on the platform are a winning e-commerce…

8 years ago

Liverpool Is The UK’s Leading City For Mobile Performance

RootMetrics ranks the home of The Beatles as the best city for overall mobile network performance

8 years ago

Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App

The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features

8 years ago

HPE Aruba Gives Mobile and IoT Networks API Flexibility

Mobile First Platform allows the integration of third-party services via APIs and delivers real-time network information.

8 years ago

Microsoft To Kill-Off Lumia Smartphones By The End Of 2016

The Redmond company is expected to replace the Lumia smartphones with a Surface-branded Windows 10 Mobile phone

8 years ago

Google Play CallJam Malware Infects Half A Million Users

The CallJam malware achieved a high ranking through deception while raking in funds through premium-rate calls

8 years ago

iPhone 7: Better Specs, Bigger Battery, Sharper Screen Rumours

Apple's next iPhone could ditch the headphone jack and sport water resistance

8 years ago

Report: Samsung To Sell Refurbished Smartphones

Samsung plans refurbished device programme to offload high-end devices returned in one-year upgrade scheme

8 years ago

Square Cements European Expansion With UK Job Postings

Mobile payments company is looking for employees in London and Dublin as services prepped for European rollout

8 years ago

BT And Nokia Strike 5G Research Deal

Companies will collaborate on 5G proof of concept trials and sniff out commercial use cases for 5G technologies

8 years ago

Alipay Strengthens European Drive With Ingenico Alliance

Millions of Chinese tourists will now be able to use their Alipay app to pay for goods across European retailers

8 years ago

Intel To Build 10nm Mobile Chips For ARM

The chip-making rivals have reached a deal that will help Intel grow its foundry business while giving ARM another top…

8 years ago

Google Begins Development Of Fuchsia Open-Source OS

Unlike Android and Chrome, Google's new operating system will not be based on the Linux kernel. The new OS will…

8 years ago