China Operating System, or COS as it’s become known, is poised to take on foreign-born operating systems that are gaining control in China. That’s the word from China’s Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which, along with the Chinese government and company Shanghai Liantong, announced COS on Thursday to customers across the …
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Yet another company is offering a gold-colored smartphone, according to a sales listing on e-commerce site ePrice. The online-shopping site on Tuesday published images of a gold-colored LG G2. According to Android Headlines, which was first to discover the listing, ePrice is selling a 16GB model for approximately $500, while the 32GB version goes for about $560. Related stories TV …
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Alibaba, the e-commerce company in China that has established itself as one of the country’s most successful online firms, is headed to mobile, according to a new report. Alibaba plans to launch a mobile-gaming service that could be integrated into both its messaging application and its e-commerce service, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people who claim to have …
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Facebook has acquired Indian startup Little Eye Labs, the social network’s first acquisition of a company in that country. Little Eye Labs announced on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Facebook. In April, the company officially released its tool, Little Eye Labs for Android, which analyzes and optimizes Android application performance for developers. The terms of the deal were …
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Qualcomm might have an important stake in the mobile space with its Snapdragon processors, but it’s focusing at least some of its time on Ultra HD and in-car “infotainment” going forward. The company on Monday announced the Snapdragon 802 processor, a system-on-a-chip offering designed for smart TVs, smart set-top boxes, and smart digital media adapters that support the next-generation high-definition …
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The popular Chromecast dongle from Google, which costs $35 and allows consumers to turn their “dumb” TVs into Smart TVs through the HDMI port, will soon have a competitor. Netgear on Monday announced the NeoMediacast HDMI dongle, a device that, like the Chromecast, connects to a television’s HDMI port and provides access to applications. Netgear’s technology uses the Android SDK …
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Once upon a time, AT&T wanted to own T-Mobile. Now it wants to destroy its competitor. AT&T will offer T-Mobile customers up to $450 per line to switch their service to its network, the company announced Friday. It will give customers $200 credit for every line they transfer from T-Mobile. That credit will be available only to those customers who …
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Abu Dhabi-based Advanced Technology Investment Company plans to drop $10 billion into GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor factory in New York, the company has confirmed. Speaking to Reuters in an interview published on Friday, ATIC CEO Ibrahim Ajami said that the $10 billion investment will be made over a period of two years. The funds will be used to expand the chipmaker’s factory …
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That was it; we are officially closed. Thank you all for the past years! — Symbian Signed Team (@SymbianSigned) January 2, 2014 Nokia’s plan to stop supporting Symbian and MeeGo apps has been completed. The end of support for Symbian- and MeeGo-based applications in the Nokia Store is officially here, the company said Thursday on its Symbian Signed Twitter account. …
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Sonic the Hedgehog, the longstanding Sega mascot, has driven to iOS. Sega on Thursday announced the launch of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for iOS. The game, which has been available on traditional game platforms, including the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, since 2012, has been modified to work with Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Like the console version, the game …
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