Android apps use Digital Rights Management to prevent people from installing paid apps without paying for them. DRM for Android apps limits how a user can manage his apps and what media files those ...

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Developers finally got their hands on the final version of the Android Wear SDK at Google I/O last month, and have set to work building apps for Google's smart watch platform. Wear apps don't work ...

To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

Google has never used the walled-garden approach to app distribution that Apple uses. If you want to make an Android app and hand out APKs on your own website, that's totally fine by Google. There's a ...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 38 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include digital rights management (DRM) tech for playing protected content in the HTML5 video ...

Thankfully for Kindle fans, Amazon is rolling back some of those changes, and will be bringing back the ability to download e-books as EPUB files in early 2026. However, not all e-books will be ...

Google has never used the walled-garden approach to app distribution that Apple uses. If you want to make an Android app and hand out APKs on your own website, that's totally fine by Google. There's a ...