Mobile Stories for 2015

Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone 50
New York Begins Public Gigabit Wi-Fi Rollout 107
Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem 154
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone 165
Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard 401
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions 100
Marc Andreessen Describes Vision of 'Ambient Computing' 106
ASUS To Include AdBlock Plus On All Phones and Tablets In 2016 189
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile 189
Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles 30
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? 181
EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk 27
Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR 36
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
Lenovo ThinkPad Stack, a New Take On Modular Mobile Peripherals 72
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones 174
Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 30
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
Hackers Get Lazy, Build Trojan On Top of Android Rooting Utility 53
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps 121
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide 503
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Cortana Coming To iOS, For 2000 Beta Testers 39
Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 412
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 225
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? 508
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses 49
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
Google+ Redesigned 91
Microsoft's Plan To Port Android Apps To Windows Proves Too Complex 131
How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds 67
Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad 337
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices 75
An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs 75
Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack 107
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices 223
Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service 69
Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS 96
With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS 166
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data 622
How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine 69
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
LA's Smart LED Street Lights Boost Wireless Connectivity 75
Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables 206
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
First Remote-Access Trojan That Can Target Android, Linux, Mac and Windows 63
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi 138
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
Sprint Signs First Direct Roaming Agreement With Cuba 17
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service 94
Report: Google To Fold Chrome OS Into Android 104
Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery 111
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
Chase and MasterCard Jump Into Mobile Payments 56
The IRS Has Stingray Devices 83
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC 224
What Might a $50 Tablet Inspire? 169
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist 212
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 104
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book Reviews 152
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones 225
Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone 242
Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London 162
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person 127
LTE 4G Networks Put Androids At Risk of Overbilling and Phone Number Spoofing 113
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive 190
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly 153
Deja Vu: Microsoft's 2015 Surface Book Ad and Apple's 2014 'Your Verse' iPad Ad 71
Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? 200
Experts Have No Confidence That We Can Protect Cars and Streets From Hackers 97
FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary 173
Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? 161
802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance 77
Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise 161
Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle 136
The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App 166
Over 10,000 Problems Fixed In Detroit Thanks To Cellphone App 159
Microsoft's Mission To Reignite the PC Sector 267
World's First 5G Field Trial Delivers Speeds of 3.6Gbps Using Sub-6GHz 55
Barnes & Noble Has Been Quietly Refreshing Its Nook Hardware 31
Google Helped Cause the Mysterious Increase In 911 Calls SF Asked It To Solve 166
Not All iPhone 6s Processors Are Created Equal 262
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps 90
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi 173
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Advertising Malware Affects Non-Jailbroken iOS Devices 69
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones 144
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
Sprint To Begin Layoffs, Cut $2.5 Billion In Expenses 55
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China 109
Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices 123
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity 147
iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills 182
Amazon Launches 'Flex,' a Crowdsourced Delivery Service 145
Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More 208
Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit 111
Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be 164
iPhone 6s's A9 Processor Racks Up Impressive Benchmarks 213
FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage" 151
Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' 143
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop? 237
South Korea's "Smart Sheriff" Nanny App Puts Children At Risk 54
Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack 246
Microsoft and Others Mean Stiff Competition For Apple iPad Pro 279
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? 191
AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones 123
Appeals Court Bans Features From Older Samsung Phones 69
One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store 241
D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys 67
Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password 170
iPad Mini-Style Specs, On the Cheap, In Android-Based ASUS ZenPad S 8.0 87
Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake 324
Google Partnering With Indian Railways To Provide Wi-Fi Hotspots 26
Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? 174
Purdue 'HUSH' Tool Promises 16% Battery Life Gain For Wasteful Android Phones 80
25 Years Ago, a Meeting Spawned Wi-Fi 75
Using a Smartphone As a Virtual Reality Controller 13
GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar 91
Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most 279
Seeing 2.4 GHz Radio Waves 43
Apple Product Event Highlights 508
Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time 102
WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets 345
Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone 80
Proposed MAC Sniffing Dongle Intended To Help Recover Stolen Electronics 120
Porn-themed Android Ransomware Takes Your Picture Before Asking For Money 108
Amazon Reportedly Aiming For the Low End With a Loss-Leader $50 Tablet 111
Vulnerabilities In WhatsApp Web Affect Millions of Users Globally 67
Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? 283
Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist 100
Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps 77
20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware 74
Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209
Despite Reports of Hacking, Baby Monitors Remain Woefully Insecure 109
Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen 117
Intel Launches Onslaught of Skylake CPUs For Laptops, Hybrids and Compute Stick 54
Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? 190
Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale 42
OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? 123
T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data 346
Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? 146
Ask Slashdot: Best Data Provider When Traveling In the US? 142
A Courtroom Victory For Microsoft In Cellphone-Related Patent Suit 14
Arro Taxi App Arrives In NYC As 'Best Hope' Against Uber 155
French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' 456
Former Apple CEO Creates an iPhone Competitor 143
Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority 84
Since-Pulled Cyanogen Update For Oneplus Changes Default Home Page To Bing 87
Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation 137
Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive 194
Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness 588
Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It 61
Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers 113
Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 157
In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes 213
Samsung May Release an 18" Tablet 177
Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps 80
Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router 198
Mobile Phone Data Can Track the Spread of Infectious Diseases 21
Apple Launches Free iPhone 6 Plus Camera Replacement Program 68
Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops 89
A New Take on Wearable Devices 29
Google Targets Low-Cost Android One Phone At African Markets 43
Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? 435
Sprint Drops Two-Year Contracts 112
FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi 188
The Promise of 5G 158
The Realities of a $50 Smartphone 141
New Rules From the FCC Open Up New Access To Wi-Fi 64
Motorola Quickly Shows Next Moto 360 Smartwatch, 'Flat Tire' Display Lives On 44
Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? 138
Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition 46
Hands On Samsung's New Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5 At Unpacked New York 77
Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? 208
Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone (And the Network) 145
Samsung Researchers Propose 4,600 Micro-Satellite Space Network 75
Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes 163
Ubuntu Phones Now Available Worldwide (On Some Networks) 45
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs 105
HTC Doesn't Protect Fingerprint Data 66
Chinese Tech Companies Building Factories In India 104
Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices 155
Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? 133
Google Fi: Simple Until It's Not 51
Verizon Ends Smartphone Subsidies 155
ProxyHam Debunked and Demoed At DEFCON 38
Samsung To Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates For Android 126
Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia 200
Fuel Cells Promise To Reduce Carbon Emissions of Mobile Base Stations 25
Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies 194
Samsung Woos Developers As It Eyes Tizen Expansion Beyond Smartphones 80
In Korea, Smartphones Use Multipath TCP To Reach 1 Gbps 50
GasBuddy Has a New Privacy Policy (Spoiler: Not As Customer Friendly) 113
Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens 59
NVIDIA Recalls Shield Tablets Over Heat Risk 27
Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones 92
OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS 154
EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People 132
KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile 44
Researchers: Mobile Users Will Trade Data For Fun and Profit 21
Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call 60
Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach 40
Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads 129
US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private 179
Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One 405
A Month With a Ubuntu Phone 118
Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? 227
Meet "London," Marshall's First Android Smartphone 67
A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android 44
Lenovo ThinkPad W550s: Heavy, But a Battery That Lasts Nearly All Day 79
Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators 62
Nokia Wants To Make Phones Again 111
Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip 184
Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train 674
Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu Laptops In India 77
Google Photos Uploading Your Pics, Even If You Don't Want It To 217

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