Mobile Stories for 2014

Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be 291
China Has More People Going Online With a Mobile Device Than a PC 58
Lenovo Halts Sales of Small-Screen Windows 8.1 Tablets Due To "Lack of Interest" 125
Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? 381
Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App 41
Chinese State Media Declares iPhone a Threat To National Security 143
FCC Approves Plan To Spend $5B Over Next Five Years On School Wi-Fi 54
Apple Gets Its First Batch of iPhone Chips From TSMC 45
Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos 231
BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones 139
All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) 60
Wireless Contraception 302
Australian Police Use Telcos For Cell "Tower Dump" of All Connected Users' Data 60
Free Wi-Fi Supplier, Gowex, Files For Bankruptcy 39
Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine 137
Apple Hires Away TAG Heuer's VP of Global Sales 67
Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi 112
FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact 128
Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video) 16
Ask Slashdot: Replacing Paper With Tablets For Design Meetings? 143
FTC Says T-Mobile Made Hundreds of Millions From Bogus SMS Charges 110
Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch 242
Improv Project, Vivaldi Tablet Officially Dead 71
Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone 67
Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing 198
On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling 42
KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices 71
Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? 146
Saudi Government Targeting Dissidents With Mobile Malware 41
What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant 286
Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works 126
Funding for iFind Kickstarter Suspended 104
Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant 249
San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App 404
First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193
Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones 358
$500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now 448
Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 365
EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement 184
BlackBerry Back In Profit 67
Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting 188
Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks 100
Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones 137
'Selfie' Helps Doctors Diagnose Mini-Stroke 47
Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' 192
Wireless Industry Lobbying Hard to Keep Net Neutrality Out 85
Why Amazon Might Want a Big Piece of the Smartphone Market 61
Nokia Extorted For Millions Over Stolen Encryption Keys 89
Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM 46
Help Crowd-FOIA Stingray Usage Across America 89
US Agency Aims To Regulate Map Aids In Vehicles 216
EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards 78
Amazon's 3D Smartphone As a (Useful) Gimmick 68
Can Google Connect the Unconnected 2/3 To the Internet? 99
Google Fit To Curate Steps, Calories, Heart Rate, Other Biometric Data 53
European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128
US Pushing Local Police To Keep Quiet On Cell-Phone Surveillance Technology 253
Starbuck's Wireless Charging Stations Won't Work With Most Devices 114
Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India 82
New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure 249
Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released 270
Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots 474
iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking 323
Replicating the NSA's Gadgets Using Open Source 47
Ask Slashdot: A 'Mavis Beacon' For Teaching Smartphone and Tablet Typing? 55
Apple Acquires Social Search Engine Spotsetter 21
Tetris Turns 30 36
US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU 272
AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming 321
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud 228
Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport 135
Sony Winding Down the PSP 85
Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? 259
Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' 711
A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z 105
HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop 121
Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps 116
Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory 154
Tiniest Linux COM Yet? 76
How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds 129
Study: Royalty Charges Almost On Par With Component Costs For Smartphones 131
Firefox OS Powered Flame Available For Pre-order; Ships Globally 109
I Want a Kindle Killer 321
Samsung S5 Reports Stress Levels Through Heart Rate Variability Measure 62
HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises 182
After Knocked-Down Damages Claim, Apple Again Seeks to Ban Some Samsung Phones 114
TechCrunch and Others On the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 136
US Wireless Carriers Shifting To Voice Over LTE 126
Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets 49
With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market 379
Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass 166
Silicon Valley To Get a Cellular Network Just For Things 42
Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside 316
The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas 205
Why Cheap Smartphones Are Going To Upset the Industry 234
Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch 238
Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War 46
For US Customers, Text Access To 911 Slowly Rolls Out 58
Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415
Phil Zimmermann's 'Spy-Proof' Mobile Phone In Demand 107
BlackBerry To Allow Rivals To Manage Its Smartphones 43
Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed 272
7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated 197
US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader 249
Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan 53
$7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online 201
How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games 115
Firefox OS 1.3 Arrives: Dual SIM Support, Continuous Autofocus, Graphics Boost 68
Take a Picture: Snapchat Settles With FTC Over "Dissapearing" Claims 51
Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones 202
In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot 427
Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable 62
The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' 243
Foursquare Splits To Take On Yelp 24
Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps 664
Google Shifts Editing From Drive to Docs and Sheets In 'Confusing' Switch 89
Can You Tell the Difference? 4K Galaxy Note 3 vs. Canon 5D Mark III Video 201
iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments 68
Figuring Out the iPad's Place 333
Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones 221
Canonical (Nearly) Halts Development of Ubuntu For Android 55
Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? 482
Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android 269
Distracted Driving: All Lip Service With No Legit Solution 184
Why Does Amazon Want To Sell Its Own Smartphone, Anyway 60
Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells 179
FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate 427
AMD Beema and Mullins Low Power 2014 APUs Tested, Faster Than Bay Trail 66
Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers 85
Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes 81
Google Mulling Wi-Fi For Cities With Google Fiber 39
iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling 386
OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone 196
How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? 200
The $5,600 Tablet 96
Google's Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones 139
How Apple's Billion Dollar Sapphire Bet Will Pay Off 195
Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field 127
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? 104
Industry-Wide Smartphone "Kill Switch" Closer To Reality 139
Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago 272
Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs 355
Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft 110
Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London 109
The Case For a Safer Smartphone 184
Amazon Reportedly Launching Smartphone This Year 38
Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial 80
Fire Risk From Panasonic Batteries In Sony Vaio Laptops 36
In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy 78
China Approves Microsoft-Nokia Deal, Gets Patent Concessions In Return 26
Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon 808 and 810 SoCs 47
Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds 227
CryptoPhone Sales Jump To 100,000+, Even at $3500 68
Google Project Ara Design Will Use Electro-Permanent Magnets To Lock In Modules 62
New MU-MIMO Standard Could Allow For Gigabit WiFi Throughput 32
European Parliament Votes For Net Neutrality, Forbids Mobile Roaming Costs 148
App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check 161
Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta 387
A Third of Consumers Who Bought Wearable Devices Have Ditched Them 180
Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses 160
Smartphone Kill-Switch Could Save Consumers $2.6 Billion 218
WSJ: Prepare To Hang Up the Phone — Forever 449
China Arrests 1,500 People For Sending Spam Messages From Fake Mobile Bases 35
Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears 198
Taxis By Algorithm: Streamlining City Transport With Graph Theory 72
Ubuntu Phone Isn't Important Enough To Demand an Open Source Baseband 137
One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation 117
Oppo's New Phone Hits 538 PPI 217
WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" 150
Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction 51
Google's Project Tango Headed To International Space Station 22
Tor Project: Fake Tor App Has Been In Apple's App Store For Months 78
A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software 199
Brazil Blocks Foreign Mobile Phones 97
Camera Module Problems May Delay Samsung's Galaxy S5 70
Harsh Wireless Conditions? Send In the Drone Hot Spot 20
Goodbye, Google Voice 166
EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger 358
Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Devices 153
How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan 104
Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? 125
Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door 81
Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices 126
Is One Laptop Per Child Winding Down? 111
Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents 406
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? 374
Yik Yak, After Complaints From Schools, Suspends Its Service In Chicago 167
Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? 194
Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat 205
Stanford Team Tries For Better Wi-Fi In Crowded Buildings 43
Samsung Galaxy Glass Patent Plans To Turn Fingers Into a Keyboard 63
Target Rich Environment: Mobile Malware in China 11
Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots 253
F-Secure: Android Accounted For 97% of All Mobile Malware In 2013 193
Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft 158
Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS 487
Open Source Tech Providing Mobile Communications In Developing Nations 20
Vodafone Foundation Launches Cell Site In a Backpack 37
Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In 179
Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California 142
Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone 162
Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority 117
Project Ara: Inside Google's Modular Smartphones 70
Crowded US Airwaves Desperately In Search of Spectrum Breathing Room 105
Scientists Demonstrate Virus That Spreads Across Wi-Fi Access Points 68
How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry 333
The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World 111
US Carriers Said To Have Rejected Kill Switch Technology Last Year 197
Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone 105
Apple Fixes Dangerous SSL Authentication Flaw In iOS 101
Google's Project Tango Seeks To Map a 3D World 49
Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 75
Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability 120
With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android 241
Major Vulnerability In Tinder Dating App Allowed User Tracking 23
How Jan Koum Steered WhatsApp Into $16B Facebook Deal 136
New 'pCell' Technology Could Bring Next Generation Speeds To 4G Networks 120
Two Ubuntu Phones Coming In 2014, Aiming For Top 50 iOS/Android Apps 141
Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks 264
Are You a Competent Cyborg? 101
Google's Definition of 'Open' 168
Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed 173
Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" 134
Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services 163
Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets 146
11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions 180
House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls 366
Foxconn Building Factories In Indonesia 75
Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM 140
LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers' 70
L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says 158
How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap 109
California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets 341
The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory 234
With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? 279
Proof-of-Concept Malware Captures Every Tap On Smartphones Or Tablets 39
Canadian Spy Agency Snooped Travelers With Airport Wi-Fi 159
The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You 52
Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? 139
Is Amazon Making a Sub-$300 Console To Play Mobile Games? 76
Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked 153
Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says 254
Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? 293
NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data 144
Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? 303
South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 138
Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store 225
Ukrainian Protesters Receive Mass Text Message Ordering Them To Disperse 233
T-Mobile Jumping Into the Check-Cashing Industry 211

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