Mobile Stories for 2016

Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei 113
Microsoft Is No Longer Selling Any Lumia Windows Phones On Its US Store 85
Android Users Are So Committed that Exploding Note 7 Did Little To Help Apple: NPD 191
Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down At 30% Battery 130
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Apple Tops Holiday Sales With 44 Percent of All New Device Activations 188
Some Pixels Have Problems 69
Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones 186
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
GM Partners With Boston Startup WiTricity To Develop Wireless Charging Technology 61
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
Nintendo Plans To Release 2 or 3 Mobile Games a Year After Super Mario Run's Success 46
Russian Authorities Are Trying To Unlock iPhone 4S From Russian Ambassador's Killer 106
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
Nokia Sues Apple, Claims Patent Infringement in iPhone and Other Devices 77
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls 66
Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally 118
Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves 118
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals 127
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 60
Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser 137
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU 113
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder 150
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? 145
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Solution Lets You Use One Phone Number Across All Your Devices 46
Bluetooth 5 Is Here 114
Former Samsung Engineers Build Smart Umbrella That Tells If It's Going To Rain 89
Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems 76
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple 100
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire 289
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
iOS's 'Activation Lock' For Stolen iPads And iPhones Can Be Easily Bypassed 54
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Motorola Has No Plans For a New Smartwatch 38
Nokia Dials Back Time To Sell Mobile Phones Again 128
Wielding Their Windows Phones, Microsoft Shareholders Grill CEO Satya Nadella On Device Strategy 157
Morgan Stanley: Pixel Phone Will Generate Google Almost $4 Billion In Revenue Next Year 66
'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away 147
Apple's Next iPhone Could Have a Curved Screen, Says WSJ 155
iOS 10.1.1 Is Causing Battery Issues For Many iPhone Users 91
Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases 66
Apple Is Working With LG On Next-Gen 3D Camera For 2017 iPhone, Says Report 29
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days 230
Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS 50
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research 196
US Regulators Seek To Reduce Road Deaths With Smartphone 'Driving Mode' 291
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Apple To Swap Faulty iPhone 6S Batteries 29
Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada 43
Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts 171
Second Chinese Firm In a Week Found Hiding a Backdoor In Android Firmware 108
Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet 41
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg 67
Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? 315
Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane 35
iOS Devices Failed More Often Than Android Units During Q3, Says Report 95
Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus 176
Mozilla Launches Firefox Focus, a Stripped-Down Private Browser For iOS 35
AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video 60
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 is Its First 10-Nanometer SoC 70
Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei 472
iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says 124
Comcast Takes $70 Gigabit Offer Away From Cities Near Chicago 79
Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns 73
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology 52
Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say 80
Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report 121
Smartphone WiFi Signals Can Leak Your Keystrokes, Passwords, and PINs 46
1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw 77
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Browser Use On Mobile Devices Exceeds PC Browsing Worldwide: StatCounter 34
Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs 48
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Increased Smartphone Screen-Time Is Associated With Lower Sleep Quality, Says Study 61
Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves 74
Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone 31
Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category 18
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
Google Is Making Android Auto Available In Any Car 50
Gmail's iPhone App Now Has 'Undo Send' and Faster Search 29
How I Freed My Android Tablet: A Journey in Reverse Engineering 79
Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Came Between Him and Bill Gates 114
A Powerful New Android Spyware Targets Business Executives 18
Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones 94
Samsung Is Cutting the Note 7's Access To Mobile Networks In New Zealand 63
Apple Takes 104 Percent of All Smartphone Profits Following Galaxy Note 7 Recall 171
Man Who Named His Wi-Fi SSID 'Daesh 21' Prosecuted Under French Anti-Terror Law 247
Scientists Develop Magnetic Ink That Can Self-Heal Gadgets When They Break 52
Future iPhones Could Fold In Half 95
Samsung Galaxy S8 Screen-To-Body Ratio Could Surpass 90%, Near Bezel-Less Design 159
Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android 220
Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion 33
Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor 116
Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone 173
Instagram's New Shoppable Photos Are a Glimpse At Its E-Commerce Future 11
Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace 56
Mobile Browsing Just Overtook the Desktop For the First Time 80
The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped 139
Tablet Shipments Decline For Eighth Straight Quarter, No Company Surpassed 10 Million Units 127
Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 81
AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says 22
Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound 109
'Robocall Strike Force' Proposal Could Stop Caller ID Spoofing 97
New Attack Can Seize Control of Drones 40
Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses 153
How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program 255
Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email 106
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Cheap Linux-Friendly Netbook? 187
Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems 152
Microsoft Offers $650 To MacBook Users Who Switch To A Surface Tablet 130
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case 139
Apple's New MacBook Pro Requires a $25 Dongle To Charge Your iOS Device 347
Apple Debuts New 'TV' Guide and Watchlist App For Apple TV, iPhone and iPad 20
WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Video Calls On Its Android App 42
Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time 74
Apple Delays AirPods Beyond Original 'Late October' Window 77
176 Original Emojis Join Van Gogh and Picasso At Museum of Modern Art 29
In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New 106
Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go 204
Apple's Annual Sales Fall For First Time Since 2001 232
Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android 143
The Phone Hackers At Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online 29
Wi-Fi Alliance Begins Certification Process For Short-Range Wireless Standard WiGig (802.11ad) 69
Satya Nadella: 'We Clearly Missed the Mobile Phone' 245
Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices 100
Apple Releases iOS 10.1 With New Portrait Mode For iPhone 7 Plus 50
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter For $30 Million 40
PayPal Payments and Notifications Are Coming To Facebook Messenger 21
A New Attack Allows Intercepting Or Blocking Of Every LTE Phone Call And Text 80
More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL 236
AT&T Buys Time Warner For $85B. Is The Mass Media Consolidating? 132
Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones 432
Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly 176
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
AT&T Considers Buying Time Warner 60
iPhone 7 Plus Qualcomm LTE Modem Significantly Outperforms Intel LTE Modem, Study Finds 44
Higher-End Smartphones Make You Happier, Says JD Power Study 126
Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb 219
32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model 159
Samsung Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Exploding Galaxy Note 7 42
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick on Microsoft Surface: 'I Just Can't Take It Anymore' 187
1 In 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Switch To iPhone 7, Says Analyst 212
WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access 315
More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones 552
Will The iPhone 8 Include Augmented Reality? 55
Apple To Obsolete iPhone 4 and Late 2010 MacBook Air On October 31 114
California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone 61
Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests 84
Apple's Redesigned London Store Has Untethered iPhones 76
Google To Divide Its Index, Giving Mobile Users Better and Fresher Content 113
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone 123
Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor 95
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
Yahoo Patents Smart Billboard That Would Deliver Targeted Ads To Passersby or Motorists 131
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies From IMDB's Top 250 List 181
Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns 88
PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide 310
Mobile VR Is 'Coasting On Novelty', Says John Carmack 51
Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices 65
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Block Tool For Cops To Surveil You On Social Media 80
UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears 106
Samsung Orders the Global Shutdown of Both Sales and Exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 126
Cyanogen Gets a New CEO, Shifts Away From Selling a Full Mobile Operating System 49
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' 210
Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing 55
AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales 54
FBI Looks Into Unlocking Minnesota Mall Stabber's iPhone 99
Two 19-Year-Olds Charged With Running Phone Harassment, Hack-For-Hire Sites 36
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death 117
Android 7.1 Nougat's Changelog Reveals Pixel-Exclusive Features Not Available To Nexus Devices 116
Nokia Makes a Play For 5G With Purchase of US Startup Eta Devices 10
Apple's Use Of 'Sapphire' in iPhone Camera Lens Questioned in New Tests 111
BadKernel Vulnerability Affects One In 16 Android Smartphones 58
Researchers Develop System To Send Passwords, Keys Through Users' Bodies 61
Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack 446
Google Fiber Is Now a Fiber and Wireless ISP 21
The Microsoft Band Is Dead 58
Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation 163
iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life 292
Fake Cellphone Emergency Alerts About Zombies and Nuclear Attacks Predicted 41
LastPass On Mobile Is Now Free 10
New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack 377
FCC Votes To Upgrade Emergency Smartphone Alerts 103
The UK's Largest Sperm Bank Is Now An App 65
Verizon Technician Is Accused of Selling Customers' Call Records and Location Data To Private Investigator 50
HP To Issue 'Optional Firmware Update' Allowing 3rd-Party Ink 81
DJI Unveils the Mavic Pro, a Foldable and Ultra-Portable Camera Drone 55
Aetna To Provide Apple Watch To 50,000 Employees, Subsidize Cost For Customers 150
FCC Official Asks Agency To Investigate Ban On Journalists' Wi-Fi Personal Hotspots At Debate 176
Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? 186
From Bicycles To Washing Machines: Sweden To Give Tax Breaks For Repairs 146
People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' 201
Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th 51
19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours 97
Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study 210
A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham 166
Microsoft Unveils $37 Nokia 216 Feature Phone 57
Comcast Will Launch a Wireless Service Next Year 50
iPhone 7 Plus Makes Hissing Sound Under Load, Some Users Complain 196
Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates 428
How The FBI Might've Opened the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone 5c 66
iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work 167
NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking 53
Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill 248
Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use 209
Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease' 204
Over 500K People Have Installed a Pokemon Go-Related App That Roots and Hijacks Android Devices 57
Samsung Formally Recalls The Galaxy Note 7 48
T-Mobile To iPhone Users: Do Not Download iOS 10 For Now 63
Samsung Stops Airing Galaxy Note 7 Commercials, Preps Early Launch of Galaxy S8 86
A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone 337
Google-Funded Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Are Scrapping Web Browsing Because Too Many People Were Using it For Porn 140
Pokemon Go's Paying Population Drops By 79% -- Still Most Profitable Mobile App In The US 91
iOS 10, Released Today, Is Causing Issues For Some Users 133
Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes 217
Microsoft To Kill The Lumia Brand In Favor of a New Surface Phone, Says Report 177
'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' 579
Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points 294
Samsung to Customers: Stop Using Note 7, Then Wait For Replacements 74
Intel Breaks Qualcomm's Hold On Apple's Baseband Chips 84

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