OnePlus, Cyanogen call it quits, go their separate ways

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Upstart phone manufacturer OnePlus (makers of the OnePlus One) and Cyanogen Inc are calling their partnership off. Future OnePlus devices will ship with its own operating system.

Diagnosing sleep apnea with smartphone apps

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New diagnostic apps developed by researchers at the University of Washington and Oxford University can detect sleep apnea with almost the same accuracy as traditional and expensive lab tests.

Popular mobile security app uses worthless encryption method

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New data shows that one of the more popular Android security apps, NQ Vault, uses a fundamentally flawed method of encrypting information and protecting user security. Google’s hands-off policy on these topics does far more harm than good.

Five years in: What’s next for the Apple iPad?

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So in the end, Apple proved the naysayers wrong. Five years and 250 million tablets later, the iPad turned out to be a tremendous success. But now what?

MediaTek may license AMD’s Radeon for next-gen smartphone, tablet graphics chip

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AMD and MediaTek have supposedly teamed up to build tablet and laptop solutions for the mobile space — could this be a new market for AMD?