An appeals court on Friday overturned a preliminary injunction which resulted in a Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. making the flagship “Pure Android” from Samsung and Google available again in the country.
On June 29, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose granted Apple’s request for a Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. a day after she granted another preliminary injunction – also at the request of Apple – against the Samsung …

Smartphones and tablets powered by the Google-spearheaded Android mobile operating system have been hijacked by a botnet, a Microsoft engineer has revealed.
Writing on his MSDN blog, Terry Zink says that botnet operators are controlling Android devices to send out spam.
For the uninitiated, botnets are infected computers that hijackers pilfer information from or use to either send out spam messages or to carry out actions like distributed denial-of-service attacks.
However, botnets usually are …

Malware is still on its spree in threatening Android devices as statistics had quadrupled since the first quarter, according to Trend Micro.
During the first quarter, it recorded 6,000 Android threats, and Trend Micro had predicted that it would just double to 11,000 by the second quarter. Startlingly, it reached to 25,000 samples, more than double the forecast and over four times the earlier count. The antimalware firm warns Android users of another possible increase of about 38,000 in the …

Almost 2 out of 5 Americans who buy an Apple iPhone do so after using an Android or BlackBerry smartphone, a new survey has found.
The data comes from a survey conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners which found that 38 percent of iPhone buyers switch from Android or BlackBerry, AppleInsider reports.
Furthermore, that figure is already an increase of nearly 10 percent compared to 29 percent of users saying in a similar survey conducted on February that they deflect from Android or …

Research firm IDC is making a bold forecast that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will actually overtake Apple’s iOS mobile operating system in terms of market share in 2016.
That’s four years from now but given the traction Microsoft currently has with Windows Phone, the prediction is still bold.
According to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report of the research firm, Microsoft’s Windows Phone will grow to take 19.2 percent market share in 2016 or almost quadruple the current …

Google Street View Technology In A Backpack. (Image via Google)

In the image above, even if it’s not obvious, that person carries with great enthusiasm all the technology needed to record widescreen content with Google Street View.
With a weight of 13.6 kg, the backpack in the picture is loaded with no more than 15 digital cameras, oriented in all directions in order to capture panoramic 360-degree content. Each camera has 5 megapixels, and the whole assembly contains a series of sensors …

Is Facebook Endangered?

Will Facebook sit right next to Yahoo, MySpace and hi5 among social networks abandoned by users after only a few years? According to American analyst Eric Jackson, this scenario is not very hard to believe.
The lifetime of a social network is a hard to predict matter. Historically, it seems that every website in this category had a period of glory, even of astronomical growth, followed by an inevitable decline. This was due to factors related to technological …

Using Fandango or MovieTickets apps, you don't have to stand in line to buy tickets (Image: Faisal_M (CC) via Flickr)

If you don’t like standing in line outside movie theaters for tickets, you can buy them online, or better, through mobile apps. Two apps worth noting are MovieTickets.com and Fandango.
Most theaters sell tickets through these apps. There are additional features too, such as movie trailers. For both apps, there is an additional charge of 1.25 dollars ticket fee for …

CrowdCloud LLC, a subsidiary of digital media technology company Adiant, last month released the final version of its CrowdCloud app, which uses a patent pending technology to search social media and provide curated reports for users in the 41 U.S. cities it currently covers. Other Adiant brands include the Adblade Ad Network, OptiServe ad platform, CrowdCloud Mobile Community platform, and Mani Rewards.
 
The CrowdCloud app, available for free on the iTunes store, is also now available in …

Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. (Image: Joi Ito, via Flickr / CC)

Mobile operating system Android is not crucial to the success of Google, company CEO and co-founder Larry Page claimed in court last week.
The Internet search and online advertising behemoth’s CEO took to the courtroom its current trial with Oracle to find out if Google used Oracle’s Java programming technology without proper authorization and licenses.
Reuters reported that Page, while answering queries from …