San Jose, California (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 Follow us on LinkedIn Acquired and developed by Google as an open source and free OS platform for mobile devices, Android has become the leading OS platform for smartphones in a short span of time. The launch of the Linux-based Android platform in the year 2008 triggered an [...]
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Windows Phone boss calls Android ‘kind of a mess’ despite being world’s biggest mobile OS
April 17th, 2013
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Everything we’ve seen so far indicates that Windows Phone 8 is barely making a dent in the consumer market or the enterprise market while Android and iOS remain the world’s two most popular mobile operating systems. Regardless, Microsoft’s Windows Phone division chief Terry Myerson described Android as “kind of a mess” during AllThingsD’s D: Dive Into Mobile [...]
Android malware infections found to have tripled in 2012
April 16th, 2013
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Anyone developing malicious software for mobile devices has set his or her sights almost exclusively on Android at this point. Mobile security vendor NQ has found that Android devices infected with malware grew from 10.8 million in 2011 to 32.8 million in 2012, meaning that the total number of infected devices tripled year-over-year. NQ also [...]
