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Google Alleges India Antitrust Body Copied Parts of EU Order on Android Abuse

Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal papers show. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $161 million for […]

Google to Appeal India Antitrust Ruling on Android

Alphabet’s Google said on Friday it will appeal the Indian antitrust watchdog’s ruling that ordered the tech giant to change its approach to its Android platform and imposed a fine of $162 million for anti-competitive practices. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had said in October that Google leveraged its dominant position in markets such […]

Android Phones with eSim

Android Police is made possible by readers like you. We might receive an affiliate commission if you buy something after clicking on one of our website’s links. Keep reading. eSIMs, or embedded SIMs, have been around for a while. They are the only means of tethering your LTE smartwatch to a mobile network. Today, however, […]

Google Pixel Watch: Future of Android Watches 

Coming out on Octpber 13th, the Google Pixel Watch is the newest addition to Google’s growing roster of tech gadgets. Fans of Google products can now enjoy a high-tech and sleek looking smart watch that, although isn’t exactly aligned with Google’s other product designs, but it is a universal, clean sleek design that can fit […]

Android Is Based on Linux for the Following Reason

Android and Linux are two moguls of the software universe. Android is widely used on smartphones across all budget levels. While the Google acquired entity of Android seems to single-handedly operate the majority of smartphones today, the software driving it is a Linux-based software. Android is based on Linux for the following reason, flexibility. Linux […]

iOS vs Android Developers: Security or Freedom 

If you are an aspiring app or software developer, you will undoubtably come across a fork in your career path early on: What is it that iOS vs Android developers do that is so different, and which career path is better?  iOS vs Android Development: Considering your Choice  When making the choice between becoming an […]

Apple and Android Phones Hacked by Italian Spyware, Google Says

An Italian company’s hacking tools were used to spy on Apple Inc and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet Inc’s Google said in a report on Thursday. Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of the targeted devices, the report […]

DuckDuckGo’s latest feature stops Android third-party trackers

The privacy-driven tech firm, DuckDuckGo brought Friday to Android’s OS a new feature to prohibit passage from hidden third-party trackers to access its Android platform. Named “App Tracking Protection for Android,” will follow Apple’s Tracking Transparency tool, and its beta version will mirror the iPhone maker’s iOS controls. “The idea is we block this data […]

Android’s apps trail users’ device interaction, research finds

Google, device manufacturers, and third-party apps could be probing deeper into users’ on-device habits by creating a tailing road to survey their every interaction through Android’s apps OS, a Trinity College’s study revealed. Data breaches and password leaks have taken the world by a swoop the minute a global conceptualization broke out that no one […]