Mobile Stories for 2014

Pew Survey: Tech Increases Productivity, But Also Time Spent Working 82
Security Research At the Hague, Netherlands: Mobile Network and Internet Threats 16
Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes 328
Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi 67
Samsung To Discontinue Galaxy Alpha For Cheaper Galaxy A5 47
Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain 85
Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way 94
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You 61
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
Samsung Announces Production of 20nm Mobile LPDDR4, Faster Than Desktop DDR4 42
Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep 179
Goodbye, Alek's Internet-Controlled Christmas Lights for Celiac Research 21
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 132
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? 232
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die 269
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Apple, IBM Partnership Yields First Results: 10 Mobile Apps 53
Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India 40
Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices 125
Bluetooth Gains Direct Internet Access, Security Enhancements 47
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
A Case Against Further Government Spectrum Auctions 66
Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products 109
Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge 250
How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations 148
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market 193
How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything 216
Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition 101
A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship 69
Intel Core M Notebooks Arrive, Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Tested 78
Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle 189
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 120
About 40% of World Population Online, 90% of Offliners In Developing Countries 45
Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion 85
Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones 203
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer 116
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases 103
Jolla Crowdfunds Its First Tablet 56
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
Intel Announces Major Reorg To Combine Mobile and PC Divisions 75
HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile 133
NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 106
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data 60
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
US Gov't Issues Alert About iOS "Masque Attack" Threat 98
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
Popular Smartphones Hacked At Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 52
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech 91
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth 48
AT&T Won't Do In-Flight Wi-Fi After All 35
Start-Up Vsenn Emerges From Stealth With Project Ara Modular Phone Competitor 30
New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay 122
Informational Wi-Fi Traffic As a Covert Communication Channel For Malware 16
EFF Hints At Lawsuit Against Verizon For Its Stealth Cookies 81
Microsoft Makes Office Mobile Editing Free As in Freemium 98
Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214
Study: There's a Wi-Fi Hotspot For Every 150 People In the World 63
Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys 150
Will HP's $200 Stream 11 Make People Forget About Chromebooks? 232
LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest 63
Virginia Court: LEOs Can Force You To Provide Fingerprint To Unlock Your Phone 328
Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google 82
Breaching Air-Gap Security With Radio 80
How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking 415
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
Google Announces Project Ara Developer Conference, Shows Off First Prototype 66
FTC Sues AT&T For Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plan Customers Up To 90% 179
Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? 170
Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay 631
LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name 339
Taking the Census, With Cellphones 57
FCC Postpones Spectrum Auction Until 2016 31
CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones 275
Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion 117
AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads 112
Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic 206
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand 150
Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files 113
Rumor: Lenovo In Talks To Buy BlackBerry 73
Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? 108
Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts 79
Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own 172
Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? 107
Gigabit Cellular Networks Could Happen, With 24GHz Spectrum 52
Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy 131
Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant 114
Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone 252
How Whisper Tracks Users Who Don't Share Their Location 39
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers 158
An Air Traffic Control System For Drones 77
Internet Companies Want Wireless Net Neutrality Too 38
Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving 97
Samsung Achieves Outdoor 5G Mobile Broadband Speed of 7.5Gbps 36
Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 201
Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated 406
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps 92
WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording 65
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges 61
NVIDIA Launches Mobile Maxwell GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M Notebook Graphics 29
Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers 208
Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone 132
Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption 146
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots 278
Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? 209
Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi 142
Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project 40
HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet 182
LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers 153
Court Rules Nokia Must Pay Damages To Buyers of Faulty Phones In Mexico 25
Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices 427
When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone 175
Ubuntu Touch For Phones Hits RTM, First Phones Coming This Year 132
Mobile Phone Use Soon To Be Allowed On European Flights 96
Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed 304
Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? 316
BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines 71
Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 42
BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone 189
Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus 421
Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes 103
Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets 167
Apple's TouchID Fingerprint Scanner: Still Hackable 70
Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 277
Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? 253
Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days 206
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects 38
Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave 240
Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? 504
Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 264
Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS 101
Intel Putting 3D Scanners In Consumer Tablets Next Year, Phones To Follow 75
Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall 53
Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google 126
London's Crime Hot Spots Predicted Using Mobile Phone Data 64
Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only 336
Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second 122
iOS 8 Review 216
Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos 425
Browser To Facilitate Text Browsing In Emergencies 40
Chinese City Sets Up "No Cell Phone" Pedestrian Lanes 46
Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones 50
Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction 326
Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 208
iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters 222
L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband 80
Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows 352
Mining iPhones and iCloud For Data With Forensic Tools 85
Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads 405
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android 77
Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? 471
Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled 364
Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi 184
Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments 730
Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents 134
European Commission Reopens Google Antitrust Investigation 96
Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 230
Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans 108
Carmack On Mobile VR Development 60
Moto 360 Reviews Arrive 87
NVIDIA Sues Qualcomm and Samsung Seeking To Ban Import of Samsung Phones 110
New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones 137
Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone 131
Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 24
E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone 116
Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US 237
Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps 132
Wi-Fi Router Attack Only Requires a Single PIN Guess 84
Ask Slashdot: Best Phone Apps? 167
Judge Lucy Koh Rejects Apple's Quest For Anti-Samsung Injunction 30
$33 Firefox Phone Launched In India 83
California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch 233
Aussie Airlines To Allow Uninterrupted Mobile Use During Flights 51
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Interviews: Andrew "bunnie" Huang Answers Your Questions 32
Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? 299
Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope 96
New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices 215
Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS 181
EFF's Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters 82
The Biggest iPhone Security Risk Could Be Connecting One To a Computer 72
Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers Reveal Inexpensive Tor Router Project At Def Con 38
T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P 147
Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners 220
Reversible Type-C USB Connector Ready For Production 191
China Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Apologizes For Unauthorized Data Access 64
Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving 110
NVIDIA Tegra K1: First Mobile Chip With Hardware-Accelerated OpenCL 52
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data 164
Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? 427
Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia 254
China Cracks Down On Mobile Messaging 58
The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router 224
Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi 72
New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands 142
China Bans iPad, MacBook Pro, Other Apple Products For Government Use 115
Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China 82
Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" 316
T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models 127
Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors 138
Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher 151
Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now 135
Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? 171
Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 136
Hotel Chain Plans Phone-Based Check-in and Room Access 120
Nokia Buys a Chunk of Panasonic 54
Google, Linaro Develop Custom Android Edition For Project Ara 46
Is the App Store Broken? 258
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Resources On Programming For Palm OS 5? 170
Samsung Delays Tizen Phone Launch 112
Ask Slashdot: Preparing an Android Tablet For Resale? 113
Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? 544
Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus 149
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show 281
Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE 274
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
Private Data On iOS Devices Not So Private After All 101
Compromise Struck On Cellphone Unlocking Bill 77
How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response 60
'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air 115
CNN iPhone App Sends iReporters' Passwords In the Clear 40
Amazon Fire Phone Reviews: Solid But Overly Ambitious 58
EFF Releases Wireless Router Firmware For Open Access Points 56
NVIDIA Launches Tegra K1-Based SHIELD Tablet, Wireless Controller 42
AirMagnet Wi-Fi Security Tool Takes Aim At Drones 52

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