The latest mobile industry analysis from ABI Research show that that Android is still dominating quarterly shipment figures.
Its report for Q1 2014 shows Android (including the Android Open Source Project) accounting for 80% of all smartphone shipments.
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Supermarket chain Tesco is planning to launch an own-brand smartphone by the end of this year.
The news was revealed by Tesco CEO Philip Clarke during an interview with the BBC’s Wake Up to Money radio programme.
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A court in California has ordered Samsung to pay $119.6 million (£70.9 million) for infringing Apple patents. However, it noted that Samsung hadn’t infringed all of the patents that Apple claimed.
In addition, Apple was ruled to have infringed a Samsung patent and was required to pay $158,000 damages.
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Samsung Electronics has announced a new smartphone called the Samsung Galaxy K zoom.
It’s an Android device with a 10x optical zoom lens and a 20.7 megapixel sensor, along with optical image stabilisation and full HD video recording.
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Google and BlackBerry have both confirmed that aspects of their mobile software are affected by the Heartbleed bug.
Heartbleed, which became public last week, exploits a flaw in the OpenSSL software. OpenSSL is one of the options for protecting online information and preventing criminals from ‘listening in’ to internet traffic.
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