Mobile Stories for 2015

Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? 129
Time Warner Cable Owes $229,500 To Woman It Would Not Stop Calling 215
Jolla Spins Off Hardware Business 44
Two-Pounder From Lenovo Might Be Too Light For Comfort 134
Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone 93
Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware 84
TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking 85
Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber 56
SMS Co-Inventor Matti Makkonen Dead At 63 31
European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions 37
Disney Bans Selfie Sticks 177
iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch 191
Lenovo Could Remake the ThinkPad X300 With Current Technologies 219
WiFi Offloading is Skyrocketing 152
Wi-Fi Router's 'Pregnant Women' Setting Sparks Vendor Rivalry In China 207
Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free 85
"Invite-Only" Ubuntu Mobile-Powered Meizu UX4 Goes On Sale 51
Google Takes Over NYC's Free WiFi Project 68
The Town That Banned Wi-Fi 529
Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election 292
Samsung Fixes Cellphone Keyboard Vulnerability 41
Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules 272
5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union 81
Planned Sequel To Fairphone Promises an Ethical, Repairable Phone 83
Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack 104
North Korea Blocks Data Access For Foreigners 28
Santander To Track Customer Location Via Mobiles and Tablets 130
UW Researchers Prototype Sonar-Based Contactless Sleep Monitoring 40
Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 204
Is BlackBerry Launching an Android Phone? 113
Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK 122
South Korea Tracks Mobile Phones Over MERS Outbreak 20
5G Is On Its Way, But Approaching Slowly 86
Researchers Power a Security Camera With Wi-Fi Signals 59
Microsoft Hasn't Given Up On the Non-Smart Phones It Inherited From Nokia 66
AMD Launches Carrizo Mobile APU With Excavator CPU Cores, Integrated Southbridge 46
LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? 131
Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard 67
Nokia Shifts To Selling Back-End Systems To Mobile Networks 40
An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets 95
Ask Slashdot: What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? 133
Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now 39
Uber Revises Privacy Policy, Wants More Data From Users 144
Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode 83
Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI 106
GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles 76
A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot 248
Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners 86
Hackers Can Track Subway Riders' Movements By Smartphone Accelerometer 69
Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices 90
San Bernardino Sheriff Has Used Stingray Over 300 Times With No Warrant 104
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? 313
Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source 51
Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage 92
Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside 108
Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone 134
Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android 111
Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results 113
Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral 618
Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results 35
European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google 198
FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones 211
The Decline of Pixel Art 175
Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' 200
Fastest 4.5 Watt Core M 5Y71 In Asus T300 Chi Competitive With Full Core i5 CPUs 48
Centimeter-Resolution GPS For Smartphones, VR, Drones 63
Ubuntu May Beat Windows 10 To Phone-PC Convergence After All 125
Apple's Plans For Your DNA 101
Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant 216
Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer 434
Ask Slashdot: Most Chromebook-Like Unofficial ChromeOS Experience? 99
US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices 94
Patent Issued Covering Phone Notifications of Delivery Time and Invoice Quantity 60
Apple, IBM To Bring iPads To 5 Million Elderly Japanese 67
LG G4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 Benchmarked 45
Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps 223
Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights 263
RealTek SDK Introduces Vulnerability In Some Routers 35
Meet the Firmware Lead For Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone (Video) 25
China's Tencent Launches Smart Hardware OS To Rival Alibaba 22
Alibaba Looks To Rural China To Popularize Its Mobile OS 20
Has the Native Vs. HTML5 Mobile Debate Changed? 161
Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet 160
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? 484
Turning a Smartphone Display Into a Biometric Scanner 16
Patents Show Google Fi Was Envisioned Before the iPhone Was Released 31
iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area 117
Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs 86
Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis 256
Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up 78
Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service 112
Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested 174
Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps 73
Wi-Fi Attack Breaks iPhones By Locking Them Into an Endless Loop 1
'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today 356
Baltimore Police Used Stingrays For Phone Tracking Over 25,000 Times 83
Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone 134
Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? 350
John Gruber On Third-party Apple Watch Apps: They Suck and Are Really Slow 138
Cyanogen Partners With Microsoft To Replace Google Apps 179
Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament 237
Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display 152
The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data 212
LG's Leather-Clad G4 Revealed In Leaked Images 39
Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype 140
Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz 55
Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices 179
Intel's Core M Performance Is Erratic Between Devices 85
1+ Year Running Arch Linux On a Lenovo Yoga 2 Chronicled 74
Dell Expands Intel RealSense Tablet Lineup With 10.5-Inch Venue 10 7000 2-in-1 22
Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns 73
LG Will Lend You a Free Phone If You Talk About It On Social Media 22
Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? 86
Mobile 'Deep Links' and the Fate of the Web 26
Smartphone-Enabled Replicators Are 3-5 Years Away, Caltech Professor Says 117
Google In Talks To Create International Roaming Network 25
Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part 277
Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets 62
Forking Away: OnePlus Introduces Android-Based OxygenOS 38
Apple Posts Guided Tours of the Features and Functions of the Apple Watch 94
The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network 42
Google: Less Than One Percent of Android Devices Are Affected By Harmful Apps 91
Court Refuses To Dismiss AT&T Throttling Case 105
Verizon Subscribers Can Now Opt Out of "Supercookies" 82
It's Time To Open Your Eyes 136
Google Unveils the Chromebit: an HDMI Chromebook Dongle 50
Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet 128
Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison 198
New Screenshots Detail Spartan Web Browser For Windows 10 Smartphones 62
Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail 306
Facebook Successfully Tests Laser Internet Drones 59
Big Vulnerability In Hotel Wi-Fi Router Puts Guests At Risk 40
Facebook Makes Messenger a Platform 48
Researchers: Smartphone Use Changing Our Brain and Thumb Interaction 45
Android's Smart Lock Won't Ask You For a Password Until You Set Your Phone Down 127
Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids 353
For Boot Camp Users, New Macs Require Windows 8 Or Newer 209
Ebola-Proof Tablet Developed By Google Set For Deployment In Sierra Leone 50
Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety 82
Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins 148
Google 'Experts' To Screen Android Apps For Banned Content 139
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? 385
Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity 47
Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones 86
How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret 140
Cuba Approves First Public Wi-Fi Hub In Havana 33
Fujitsu Could Help Smartphone Chips Run Cooler 51
Intel Will Reportedly Land Apple As a Modem Chip Customer 77
The Internet of Things Just Found Your Lost Wallet 108
Why Apple Won't Adopt a Wireless Charging Standard 184
Google's Pricey Pixel Gets USB-C and a Lower Price 139
Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch 450
CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices 119
SpaceX Worried Fake Competitors Could Disrupt Its Space Internet Plan 115
Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones 148
Google Announces Android 5.1 172
Lenovo Still Shipping Laptops With Superfish 127
Energy-Generating Fabric Set To Power Battery-Free Wearables 40
Ultralight Convertibles Approaching Desktop Performance 161
Inside Bratislava's Low-Cost, Open Source Bike Share Solution 37
EU Free Data Roaming, Net Neutrality Plans In Jeopardy 71
Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials 340
Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough 445
Flaw In GoPro Update Mechanism Reveals Users' Wi-Fi Passwords 35
Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices 124
Blackphone 2 Caters To the Enterprise, the Security-Minded and the Paranoid 59
Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications 194
Jolla Partners With SSH To Create Sailfish Secure 30
Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly 95
Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC 235
Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots 187
BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding 59
Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware 210
Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China 85
Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? 136
UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology 71
Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints Or Give Up Cellphone 134
In Florida, Secrecy Around Stingray Leads To Plea Bargain For a Robber 246
How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette 290
Intel Core M Enables Lower Cost Ultrabooks; Asus UX305 Tested 70
L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program 139
Apple Will Let Users Test iOS Beta Versions For the First Time 54
Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan 237
Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs 266
Samsung Takes On Apple Pay By Acquiring Mobile Wallet Startup LoopPay 62
How NSA Spies Stole the Keys To the Encryption Castle 192
New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users 118
Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video) 71
Apple Patents Head-Mounted iPhone 55
Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details 57
Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi 73
Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 148
Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone 232
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones 85
Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone 100
Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps 128
Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches 190
FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops 85
EU Parliament Blocks Outlook Apps For Members Over Privacy Concerns 24
Alibaba Bets $590 Million On Becoming Smartphone Player 50
The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware 177
Dell Venue 8 7000, "World's Thinnest Tablet" With Intel Moorefield Atom Reviewed 120
Kickstarted Firefox OS HDMI Dongle Delayed, DRM Support Being Added 106
Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps 140
Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call 136
What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? 422
Facebook Brings React Native To Native Mobile Development 78
Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes 84
ARM's Cortex-A72 and Mali-T880 GPU Announced For 2016 Flagship Smartphones 85
Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop 167
Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? 223
Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash 113
Samsung Set To Launch Mobile Payment System With Galaxy S6 At MWC 82
Mobile G-SYNC Confirmed and Tested With Leaked Driver 42
Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops 123
Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates 120
Reverse Engineering the Nike+ FuelBand's Communications Protocol 78
US Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $44.9 Billion 91
UK Broadcaster Sky To Launch Mobile Service 32
Dell 2015 XPS 13: Smallest 13" Notebook With Broadwell-U, QHD+ Display Reviewed 118
Canada Upholds Net Neutrality Rules In Wireless TV Case 98
The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One 307
Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug 46
FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots 129
Getting Charged Up Over Chargers at CES (Video) 33
Modular Smartphones Could Be Reused As Computer Clusters 82
Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 579
For New Yorkers, Cablevision Introduces a Wi-Fi-Centric VoiP Network 43
Twitter Moves To Curb Instagram Links 114
WhatsApp vs. WhatsApp Plus Fight Gets Ugly For Users 192
Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile 83
Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10 158
TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband 54
Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps 307
Google Plans Major Play In Wireless Partnering With Sprint and T-Mobile 101
DARPA Wants Atlas Robot To Go Wireless 19
Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software 229
Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis 63
UK ISPs EE, Virgin and Vodafone Back Net Neutrality 36
Could Tizen Be the Next Android? 243
Researchers Use Siri To Steal Data From iPhones 55
Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? 489
Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones 65
Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies 105
Ask Slashdot: Can I Trust Android Rooting Tools? 186
The Free Educational Software GCompris Comes To Android 75
Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads 50
Ask Slashdot: What Tablet and Software For a Partially Sighted Person? 63
'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind 66
Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data 67

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