Category: Google and Android

Citing increasing demand from large websites (perhaps Facebook?) Mozilla’s Firefox developers decided to reconsider adopting the superior but not so ubiquitously-supported image format WebP. Hallelujah, I thought, not

It may not be a bad decision, but it is not financially fruitful for Google if it was planning to extort money from its baddies Microsoft, Apple and

The war is on snitches. Microsoft is releasing a new Android app that helps Android users make the switch to Windows phones by showing them that they can

Most of the privacy advocates think Google Glasses invade privacy. I agree with them to some extent, but public picture taking or video recording is not illegal at

In case you didn’t know ZTE is the fourth largest producer in the world. That’s a boatload of Android phones and tablets that are about to be adding

Q&A with Eric Schmidt hosted by WSJ’s AllThingsD, it’s long so here are the takeaways. An audience member notes that Windows Phone chief Terry Myerson of Microsoft just

“A Nice Piece of Glass” — This is totally awesome. Look out for Google fanboys claiming this is the next best thing since sliced bread. Now I have to

I haven’t tried it — I can’t, somehow they managed to make the thing incompatible on Nexus phones — but even if I could I would keep my

It was revealed in 2009 that with just five requirements, one of which is a cold beer, another being a freely-available piece of code called SSLstrip, you (or

First things first. I don’t have a Blackberry Playbook, HP Touchpad (I sold it). I don’t have Android Tablet with ICS or up installed. I sold them on