Posts Categorized: Industry news

Google Touts Promising Improvements to Android Security

Android Security

With more than two billion devices running countless different versions of Android, Google’s open source mobile operating system has been no stranger to troubling security issues in the past. Version fragmentation has made it hard for Google’s engineers to deploy patches in a timely fashion, and even stock third-party software can leave some devices vulnerable… Read more »

New Mobile Devices We're Testing

New Mobile Devices

We’ve recently added a handful of devices to our hardware labs; nothing particularly surprising, but still worth mentioning: An iPhone 11 running iOS 13 (this is the base iPhone 11 model) We’ve got the iPhone 11—the regular one. Lots of people have it, so it’s kind of like our baseline. This phone packs an A13… Read more »

No More Sweet Android Names

After 9 versions of Android OSs named after sweet foods and candy (Kit Kat, Lollipop, etc.) Google is now naming the releases simply by version number, starting with the release of Android 10. Google has their reasons for doing so, and while it will certainly make our lives easier by not having to remember the… Read more »

The Windows 10 May Update Is Live

The “May Update” for Windows 10 was released this week and is now live, bringing the OS version up to 1903.  Like other big Windows 10 releases, it is following a staggered rollout, so not everyone will be updating to it right away. Checking for updates manually may jump-start the process for some users, but… Read more »