As an Operating System for smartphones, Android is a tough competitor for Blackberry and i-phone based mobile devices. this Google-owned mobile platform is used by renowned phone manufacturers such Samsung, Dell, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola for their smartphones. The Android had 25% share of US smartphone market in mid 2010. The percentage increases since then ...
Malware authors are cashing in on the Instagram-Facebook craze with their fake Instagram app for the Android platform. The fake Instagram app is actually a Trojan in disguise, dubbed as “Andr/Boxer-F” by Sophos, who discovered the malicious apps. The malware authors made fake websites that advertised the fake Instagram apps. What the evil apps do ...
Urbian's Retro Camera is a favorite, but Pudding Camera is seeing more use these days. (Credit:Screenshot by Joshua Goldman/CNET) As the de facto point-and-shoot camera reviewer for CNET, I spend a lot of time living in the world of automatic snapshots and easy post-shoot editing. While I can tell you several ways a separate point-and-shoot ...
The good news: an update to HBO’s HBO GO/MAX GO app on Friday added support for Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich. the bad news? There’s still no Android tablet support. HBO added the update to Google Play. the new features? “Now supporting Android phones running up to version 4.04 (Ice Cream Sandwich),” HBO said, ...
NEW ORLEANS–Security suite maker AVG has teamed with independentAndroid marketplace and mobile content provider Livewire to scan all the apps it hosts for malware before they are made available to the public, the companies announced today atCTIA. The deal will also install AVG’s free Android security app Mobilation (download) on devices to scan apps after ...