A team of academics has found eight vulnerabilities in the Android operating system's VoIP components. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to make unauthorized VoIP calls, spoof caller IDs, deny ...

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Google Hangouts, Google’s IM client and the replacement for Google Talk, has gotten a massive set of updates, which are slowly trickling out to users. The biggest news of the bunch is Google Voice ...

Google today rolled out the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, called Android 2.3 or “Gingerbread.” The update includes support for mobile payments, VoIP calling, one-touch copy ...

Did you feel it? Something scary happened this week. Google pulled the plug on public access to its XMPP network. Holy tech jargon, Batman! That sounds like a bunch of nonsense, I know. But the switch ...

Facebook has finally released the Android dialer that it was recently rumored to be working on. The “Hello” dialer displays Facebook-based information about who’s on the other end of an incoming call, ...

After years of stagnation, Google Voice relaunched in early 2017 with redesigned mobile and web apps, as well as the guarantee of “regular” updates. VoIP calling functionality was still missing on ...

Google today rolled out the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, called Android 2.3 or "Gingerbread." The update includes support for mobile payments, VoIP calling, one-touch copy ...