Saturday, March 12, 2011

Android

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Nexus S a lean, mean Android machine
Toronto Sun (blog)
One of the key differences between Android and competing BlackBerry and iPhone devices is Android phones are made by a variety of different manufacturers – HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG, Sony Ericsson and more. It's a confusing grab bag of different ...
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Flash 10.2 heads to Motorola Xoom, other Android devices March 18
VentureBeat
The next major update for Flash on Android mobile devices, version 10.2, will hit the Android Market on March 18, Adobe announced today. That's good news for owners of Motorola's Xoom tablet, as it launched without Flash support two weeks ago. ...
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VentureBeat
5 ways to protect your Android phone from malware
BetaNews
By Tony Anscombe | Published March 11, 2011, 1:32 PM Why is Android encountering challenges where the iPhone isn't? Apps available for download on the Android Market aren't screened as stringently as they are on other public stores such as Apple's. ...
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Samsung Galaxy II out with Android 3.0
Gadgets Reviews
These new Android based tablet smartphones are out with better screens, content and most importantly, speed. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 runs on Google Android 3.0 operating system nicknamed the Honeycomb and comes with a 1GHz dual-core processor. ...
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Identify Birds With iBird Pro for Android
PCWorld
However, the ability to photograph the location of a bird sighting, along with Android's ability to stamp the photo with GPS location data, would be a useful feature for serious bird watchers if it were properly implemented. Also, the ability to export ...
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Android Market is hacked by Malware?
Brandimposter.com
Android operating system is attacked again by viruses that are considered dangerous. After the previous virus targeting attacked the handset. Currently, the target is a direct application store, the Android Market. According to reports of security ...
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Market version of Android Market security app detected to have malware
Social Barrel
Experts from the antivirus company Symantec have found as alternate market version of Android Market Security Tool, which instead of performing anti-virus functions is loaded with malware for data theft from the owner of Android-Smartphones and Tablet ...
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Pwn2Own: Chrome, Android, Firefox own; Safari, IE8, iOS, BB get pwned
Afterdawn.com
So far, hackers have not been able to exploit Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome, and the mobile Android OS. Victims of the contest include Internet Explorer 8, Apple Safari 5, iOS 4 and BlackBerry. All the security researchers who manage to exploit ...
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Afterdawn.com
Swype for Android Updated, Includes Support for New Devices and More
Phandroid.com
by Kevin Krause on March 11th, 2011 at 4:03 pm Before I go any farther, I must preface this news by saying the new update only applies to those who have Swype installed via the Android beta program. For those of you counting yourselves among those ...
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AOL Music launches Play, a social music player for Android
Mobiputing
AOL has launched a new music app for Android called AOL Play. It's the first time the company has launched a product first on mobile. Other AOL mobile apps such as Mapquest, Finance, or AOL Instant Messenger started out as desktop software before the ...
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