Security software vendor Symantec yesterday wrote that it had found two android applications that used the ‘master key vulnerability’ in Chinese marketplaces. Although both applications (used to find and schedule medical appointments) are valid, they have been modified by hackers. “Norton Mobile Insight – our system for harvesting and automatically analyzing android applications from hundreds…
At 12 PM ET, Google will hold the much awaited android breakfast with Sundar Pichai (Senior Vice president in charge of Android, Chrome and Google Apps). Since Google sent out invitations to members of the media, we have been anticipating about what this event is going to be all about. The fact that the Google…
You can now use your android phone or tablet to contribute to charity and help solve the world’s greatest challenges. The initiative, through a volunteer computing software developed at the University of California, Berkeley, called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing) will enable owners of android phones running android 2.3 or higher to participate in…
Security researchers have detected two applications that make use of the master key vulnerability on the Google Play Store. This was coming, at least most researches would have bet on that. The master key vulnerability was exposed some two weeks ago by Bluebox Security specialists who had discovered it earlier in the year (February) and…
A new android app that allows you to get paid just for unlocking your android phone launched yesterday on the Google Play Store. The app, locket, appears to introduce a cool new approach to mobile advertising. With one swipe, you can either open an ad or unlock your phone the way you’ve always done. Whichever…
Pending two years of corporate investigations, South Korea’s fair trade commission has today exonerated Google of any wrong doing and neutralized claims that the Search Company unfairly restricted re competition in the online search market by making their service default in android powered smartphones. The complaint had been tabled before the commission in 2011 by…
I have always thought that the 1990s tectonic battle between Microsoft’s internet explorer and NCC’s Netscape Navigator was the crash of the giants. In the first half of 2013, we witnessed HTC and Samsung launch their most ingenious smartphones ever – the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4. Each handset is its own best….
In a move designed to extend its user numbers in a nation where more than half a billion people are netizens, China’s number 1 search engine giant signed a much revved about deal to buy android app store 91 Wireless, for $1.9 billion. This is the largest acquisition deal ever by the Chinese search engine…
Although not entirely the best, Audible has been a pretty good android app that lets users listen to the books they wish to enjoy. This app is developed by Audible, Inc., an Amazon affiliated company. Recently, Amazon must have finally realized that although users prefer to hear their books to reading them, it is still…
Google announced its plans to retire the latitude location sharing service come August 9. The news came at such a time when the tech giant was also announcing a better, improved Google Maps App for users across the mobile community. After the demise of Latitude, Google will shift their location sharing focus on their social…