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Global handset maker, Nokia is reportedly planning to make a comeback in the highly contested smartphone business with the launch of Android smartphones and devices in the fourth quarter of this fiscal. Microsoft and Nokia’s non-competent deal expires at the end of this year and Nokia China’s Mike Wang says Nokia will stage a comeback in the ever competent smartphone business. Nokia’s comeback devices will be manufactured by HMD Global, a Finnish company started by former Nokia employees, the Indian Express reports. Also Read: Hopes Alive For Come Back Of Nokia And BlackBerry HMD Global...

Over 900 million Android devices are affected by ‘high-risk’ Quadrooter flaw, warns security company Check Point Software Technologies. Android devices are affected by the “high” risk privilege escalation vulnerabilities, dubbed “Quadrooter”. Adam Donenfeld, the firm’s lead mobile security researcher who found the flaws, said the vulnerabilities in greater detail at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Four previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities found in Android phones and tablets that ship with Qualcomm chips could let a hacker take full control of an affected device. An attacker would have to trick a user...