A group of technology companies including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle has complained to the European Commission about Google’s mobile internet strategy.
The 17 companies are calling themselves FairSearch and describe Google’s distribution of the Android platform as “predatory”.
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The UK’s Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation to find out whether some free web-based games and mobile applications for children are breaking the law.
It’s particularly concerned that games may include a ‘direct exhortation’ encouraging children to make a purchase or persuade their parents to buy advertised products for them, as this is illegal under consumer protection regulations.
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Samsung Electronics has released a new ‘phablet’ device with a screen that’s larger than the forthcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone and the pen-equipped Galaxy Note 2.
The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 is an Android-powered handset with a 6.3-inch screen, a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and an 8 megapixel camera.
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Podcast - 10th April 2013
We start this week's podcast by talking about Facebook Home, the new Android-based service from the social network.
We then move on to discuss quarterly figures, a departure at HP, a mobile acquisition for Cisco, some WiFi research, the end of BBM Music... and much more.
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There’ll be 1.4 billion mobile devices with HTML5-compatible web browsers at the end of this year, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
That would represent an annual increase of 87%.
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