• Carriers have a sneaky new way to add more bloatware to your Android phone

  Leave it to wireless carriers to come up with new ways to give you something that you never asked for. Forbes contributor Matt Hickey reports that a company called Digital Turbine has pioneered a new service called Ignite that will let mobile carriers install additional software onto your Android…

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• [Deal Alert] Get Unlimited Mobile Cloud Backup From IDrive For $10

  Normally the IDrive mobile backup service is $5 a year for unlimited data backups. (Not to be confused with the desktop version , which is considerably more expensive.) But today you can get a lifetime of backup service for just ten bucks. StackSocial is running the promotion , which will be…

• Samsung Galaxy S6 could launch alongside Galaxy S6 Edge with curved display [RUMOR]

  Despite slowing smartphone sales and a management reshuffling going on at Samsung, Mobile Chief JK Shin came out unscathed with his job intact. This is either good or bad news depending on who you talk to, but with his back against the wall, we're hoping next year's Galaxy S6 will the best Shin…

• Lollipop isn't making a dent in Android usage numbers (yet)

  Now that Android 5.0 Lollipop is finally rolling out to devices around the globe, you might be wondering just how much of an impact it's making on the Android ecosystem. The short answer: not much. Google has released its latest Android usage stats, ...

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• Starting next year, Google will automatically deduct as much as 25% tax from apps sold in Europe

  Android developers: starting next year, Google will automatically deduct VAT from all apps sold in the EU. The good news? You no longer have to do it yourself.

• Verizon Galaxy S4 gets small performance-improving update

  Verizon is now starting to roll out a new software update for the Samsung Galaxy S4 . The update, which is delivered over-the-air, fixes a VPN connectivity issue and also delivers a fix for the intermittent power cycle problem. All in all, it's a fairly small update, but definitely worth the…

• Verizon's Galaxy S4 Gets A Small OTA Update To Fix A Power Cycle Issue

  If your Samsung Galaxy S4 on Verizon has been randomly rebooting, you might want to check for a system update. No, it's not getting Lollipop, but Verizon says that this update does fix "the intermittent power cycle issue." Translation: before this update the phone crashed. Now it will…

• Firefox for Android grabs an update, brings support for mirroring to Chromecast

  Firefox for Android has nabbed an update today, and it brings a whole host of goodies and fixes. The biggest new feature is that Mozilla's browser now supports mirroring to Chromecast, after initially gaining support for the streaming device back in October.

• Google's Santa Tracker 2.0 Slides Down The Play Store Chimney

  'Twas the first of December, when in the Play Store Came an app that we'd all seen just one year before . A Santa tracker made kids really keen with a sizeable update for Twenty-Fourteen. Google Santa Tracker's new interface lets you keep up with Saint Nick's overnight race.…