Android may be free, but it’s worth a huge sum to Google. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Android has reportedly earned Google $31 billion since the mobile operating system’s inception, according to a stat revealed during the company’s ongoing court battle with Oracle.

Mimicker Alarm won’t let you sleep in. Photo: Microsoft

No one likes being told what to do first thing in the morning, but Microsoft’s new alarm app for Android doesn’t care. The only way to stop it once it starts going off is to pull silly faces or find random objects.

Is this Nokia’s new Android? Photo: Nokia

We’ve been waiting for Nokia to deliver a new Android smartphone since it sold the Lumia business to Microsoft, and according to recent reports, there is one in development. We don’t know when it will make its official debut, but Nokia may have leaked it early in a video published on YouTube.

HTC hasn’t given up on the One M series. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android.

HTC is expected to launch its next-generation One M10 smartphone after Mobile World Congress next month, and according to one reliable tipster, it will be powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 820 processor, and will have HTC’s new Sense 8 user interface pre-installed.

Google is already squashing the latest Linux/Android bug to be discovered. Image: Mazeo/OpenClipArt.org

Since early 2013, a raft of Linux servers, machines running embedded Linux, and even some Android devices have been open to an attack that could allow an unprivileged user or application to execute code as a root user, according to a new report.

Security researchers at Perception Point have outed an issue that was originally introduced when Linux kernel version number 3.8 was released almost three full years ago. It has yet to be patched.