This Monday (21), Google released an unprecedented report on the economic and social impacts of Android in Brazil. According to the study carried out by the consultancy Bain & Company, the mobile operating system was one of the factors responsible for increasing the population’s access to the internet. Check out the ten most important points … Read more
A child from the Czech Republic helped Avast experts dismantle an app scam that moved around $ 500,000 from selling inappropriate ads. Distributed on Android and iOS, the apps in question totaled about 2.4 million downloads. A girl whose age was not revealed ran into the scheme while browsing TikTok and seeing a campaign that … Read more
The Android version of Firefox has received an improved privacy feature, which allows site tracking through page redirection to be disabled. The feature was introduced in the desktop version of the browser since last year, and has just landed on the app for Google’s mobile system. Extra protection Some tracking features use searches performed and … Read more
In a post made on Monday (28), Google promised to facilitate the use of third party app stores since the launch of Android 12. This indicates that the company is outlining changes in its policies for developers after receiving some criticism from app creators. The most striking case was that of Epic Games, responsible for … Read more
Google has expanded the reach of Play Pass, an Android game subscription service that follows the Apple Arcade model. Recently, the firm announced that the platform is now available in 24 more countries, but Brazil has not yet been covered. Announced in September last year, the Play Pass was initially launched in the United States, … Read more
Google has postponed the implementation of the new Google Play Store partnership plan in India. The measure begins to apply globally on September 21 this year, but now it will only be implemented in the country on March 31, 2022. Last week, Indian startups began organizing to protest the company’s new practices and form an … Read more
Google has made a job vacancy looking for a Security Engineering Manager who is expected to form a team responsible for finding and eliminating bugs in Android applications that handle sensitive user data. Apparently, the focus will be all apps that make use of critical data, such as banking, national services, health-related ones – such … Read more
According to a survey conducted by the company SellCell, almost 60% of Android smartphone users inclined to migrate to the iPhone 12, will do so because of the longevity of iOS, and not because of the capabilities of the device itself. Currently, the latest version of iOS has been released for devices released five years … Read more
Correios made another feature available in its application. It is now possible to pay taxes and other import duties at Digital Post Office, even if the international order has not been taxed – it is called the Postal Order, a service provided by the Post Office to release the order to the importer. In this … Read more
Google recently started releasing Gmail Go for all Android phones. Previously, only devices with the operating system in the Go edition could use the application, which brings optimizations to run on input devices. With the change, any smartphone with the operating system can download the optimized app from the Play Store. The novelty is already … Read more