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Google is slated to unveil its new Nexus 5 smartphone and accompanying Android 4.4 KitKat operating system any day now. While its too late for the Mountain View giant to take suggestions, here's what we'd like to see in the new Google Nexus/Android flagship combination.
Information about the surveillance programs employed by the National Security Agency keeps being published from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. This time it's email and instant messenger lists that the U.S. agency is slurping up.
So what's going on with Android 4.4 KitKat? Google has yet to give the public or press any in-depth concrete details regarding the latest version of the Mountain View search giant's mobile operating system, but it seems the first bits are beginning to trickle out. Google announced Monday that there will be some changes to SMS in Android 4.4 KitKat.
Despite privacy concerns, Google is moving forward with a plan to bring Google Plus users' endorsements into its advertising - including displaying their names and profile pictures. Google is calling the ad scheme, "shared endorsements."
It's looking more and more like Google will finally unveil the brand new Android 4.4 KitKat operating system in the coming weeks. How soon, you ask? According to the latest reports, it could be as early as Oct. 15.
Apple and Microsoft's mobile operating systems have increased their market share percentages in Australia, but it is not enough for first place.
Android 4.4 KitKat is still veiled in a shroud of mystery, but that hasn't stopped tenacious tech junkies from piecing together the operating system from little bits. While no features have been officially announced for the next Android version, it looks like Android 4.4 KitKat will bring changes to both the Downloads user interface and Location Settings.
Google's Android platform became the sole mobile operating system to see an increase in the market share in China.
Microsoft's Windows Phone has reached double digits in the smartphone operating system market share in the United Kingdom (U.K.).
Microsoft's mobile operating system encountered its highest ever market share percentage across the five major European markets.
Internet access and affordability remains a big problem, not only in the U.S. but especially across the world. In some developing countries - comprising billions of people - there remains to be very practical, widespread internet access at all.
Google's Android platform has secured the top position of the most-utilized smartphone operating system in the United States.
Microsoft seemed reminiscent about the 70s when it launched it's own search engine version of the famous Pepsi Challenge last year, which it called the "Bing It On Challenge." Much like the soft drink ad, Microsoft's marketing videos had a spokesperson ask random people on the street to do a side-by-side, blind search-test between Bing and Google.
The smartphone operating system market shares have been calculated for America's top two mobile carriers, and it is a tight battle between Apple and Google.
Google's Android has maintained its position as the top mobile operating system market share in the United States (U.S.), but it saw a decline in the process.
