Fake Flash Player Apps Is The New Android Plague

Fake Flash Player Apps Is The New Android Plague
Forbes
Adobe may have decided that the time has come to stop distributing the Flash Player for Android to new users via the Google Play download site, but now hackers stepped up to fill a gap in the market, offering their own fake, malware-ridden offerings.

Apple patent victory boosts Microsoft as Asian vendors scramble
Chicago Tribune
It remains to be seen if the new touchscreen-friendly and cloud computing-ready Windows 8 can prove a serious rival to Android, the world's most-used mobile software, or Apple's iOS. But mobile industry executives who had been cautiously considering ...

Amazon, Motorola, Nokia Rush to Make News Ahead of iPhone 5
eWeek
Apple is expected to introduce the iPhone 5 Sept. 12—after which it's going to be no easy feat for its competitors to grab a headline or pull attention away from the smartphone that Apple fans have been waiting for since essentially last October ...

Photo Sharing Feature Now in Skype
The Droid Guy
Although, there are plenty of photo sharing options for mobile apps, but people who mostly use Skype for chatting and want to share photos via the same service, can now rejoice as Skype announced a new iOS update for its Skype users. The new update ...

The Droid Guy

Does High Speed Broadband Increase Economic Growth?
Forbes
A new report, conducted jointly by Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries, quantifies the isolated impact of broadband speed, showing that doubling the broadband speed for an economy ...

Droid Razr MAXX 4G Features and Performance Explored
Mobile bloom News
Recently receiving a retail price reduction to a sub one hundred dollar level, the Droid Razr MAXX 4Garrived on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system in the US on January 26 of this year. With a splash resistant, Kevlar and aluminum coating and unique ...

BlackBerry 10 to Feature More Than 'Android Mojo'
eWeek
While during the second quarter of 2010 RIM had an 18.2 percent share of the global smartphonemarket to Android's 17.2 percent and Apple's 14.2, during the most recent quarter, Apple's share had risen to 18.8 percent and Android's to 64.1 percent ...

Motorola Xyboard Wi Fi gets Android 4.0.4 update in the US
The Droid Guy
Well, we are seeing the days get shorter and summer is nearing its end, but finally it seems that Motorola has kept its word and we are now hearing news of the promisedAndroid operating system update available for both the 10.1 and 8.2 Wi-Fi tablets.

The Droid Guy

I Downloaded Pirated Android Apps - Will The Feds Come Kick My Door Down?
Forbes
OK, I admit it. I've downloaded a few pirated apps from one of the websites that was seized by the FBI the other day. The apps I downloaded were probably only worth a few hundred dollars but I'm now worried that the police or FBI are going to come ...

Forbes

Samsung GALAXY Note 800: Android 4.0 3G Tablet With 10.1" Screen ...
Techtree.com
The 10.1" slate comes with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and is powered by a quad-core 1.4 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM. ... The 16 GB Wi-Fi + 3G version of the GALAXY Note 800 is available at the manufacturer's official online store for Rs 38,500.

ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity with LTE coming to Germany
By Edgar Cervantes
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity with LTE coming to Germany. posted on Aug 25th 2012 at 6:34pm by Edgar Cervantes. Share This Story. The Nexus 7 may be the hottest Android tablet right now, but those looking for an extra punch are looking ...
Android Phone Fans

Vodafone Germany announces LTE-enabled Asus Transformer Pad ...
By Amar Toor
Vodafone has announced that an LTE variant of the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 will be unveiled at IFA 2012 in Berlin next week. Branded as the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700KL, theAndroid...
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Nexus 7 quad-core overclocked to 2.0 GHz ... - Android Community
By Cory Gunther
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 4G LTE hands-on · Archos 101 XS Tablet Review · AndroidCommunity's gigantic Tegra Hub Nexus 7 Giveaway! Samsung Galaxy Beam Review · T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note Review · AT&T Garnet Red ...
Android Community

China smartphone sales Q2 2012: Samsung leads, Lenovo - BGR
By Dan Graziano
The smartphone newcomer managed to jump from seventh place in the first quarter to second place in China's mobile market. For the first time ever, shipments of smartphones in China, which reached 87 million units, surpassed shipments of ...
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Adorable Firefox For Android Video ~ Great Illustrations In This ...
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For even more random NOTCOTness, follow on Twitter!!! Adorable Firefox for Android video ~ great illustrations in this animation! *NOTCOT. Adorable Firefox for Android video ~ great illustrations in this animation! #49835 · notcouture Post: ...
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Apple-Samsung Case Shows Smartphone as Legal Magnet
New York Times
Samsung is the leader among companies using Google's Android mobile operating system. So while Apple may be suing Samsung in courtrooms from ... The roster of litigants includes Microsoft, Nokia, HTC, Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary and others ...

New York Times

Will forcing employees to use Android actually improve the miserable app?
ZDNet
More often than not, I use the mobile version of Facebook on my phone and Nexus 7 instead of theAndroid app. Although Facebook updated its iOS app this week and finally brought together the separate camera, messenger, and platform apps, the Android ...

iOS 6 Release Date: The Wait is Almost Over! What You Need to Know Ahead of ...
BostInno (blog)
In addition to the release of the new iPhone, the iOS 6 release date, Apple's latest and greatest mobile operating system, is expected to be the 12th as well. We have known about iOS 6 since since it was announced at WWDC but have had to sit and wait ...

BostInno (blog)

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx 4G Spec Breakdown
Mobile bloom News
But rather than leave well enough alone, consumer electronics and smartphone manufacturerMotorola tasked their Motorola Mobility smartphone designers and engineers to make a good thing even better. They were trying to follow-up on the incredible sales ...

ITC ruling leaves one patent on table in Apple-Motorola dispute
CNET (blog)
The country's top trade agency handed Apple a mixed ruling today in its dispute with Google-ownedMotorola Mobility over patents covering 3G wireless technology. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Apple did not violate three Motorola ...

App of the Week: Pinterest for iOS and Android
ABC News (blog)
The iPad, iPhone, and Android apps launched a week ago and gives you the flexibility to pin from anywhere you are whenever you wish. The layout is simple, displaying tiled images that cascade in columns down the screen. You can swipe from left to right ...

ABC News (blog)

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA Update For Samsung Galaxy S3 T-Mobile Variant ...
International Business Times
At a time when Samsung is expected to release the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update - the newest version of Google's mobile operating system - for its Galaxy S3smartphone Aug. 29, it appears that owners of the T-Mobile version of the device can already ...

International Business Times

Quad-core LG Optimus G E973 shows up in live photos
Unwired View
Just yesterday, LG unveiled that it's getting ready to release a new Android smartphone that would feature a second-generation quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU. And today it looks like photos of the handset – expected to be called Optimus G ...

Will FaceTime on coming iPhone 5 crash LTE networks?
Tehran Times
Imposing data sharing plans with set fees for specific numbers of gigabytes a month -- and penalties for exceeding the set amounts -- could help top carriers AT&T and Verizon avoid data capacity overload problems on their 4G LTE, and even 3G, networks ...

ITC decides Apple didn't violate Motorola WiFi patent after all, tosses ...
By Jon Fingas
Trouble looked to be brewing for Apple last April: an International Trade Commission judge made an initial ruling that Apple infringed on a standards-essential Motorola WiFi patent, raising the possibility of a trade ban if the verdict held true. The fellows in Cupertino ... Prices. Type Smartphone; Operating system iOS (5); Screen size 3.5 inches; Internal memory 16 GB; Carriers (US) AT&T, Other; Dimensions 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 in; Weight 4.8 oz; Discontinued 2010-06-24. see all specs → ...
Engadget

Android this week: Apple v. Samsung; Nikon Android camera; $15 ...
By Kevin C. Tofel
I'll be looking into the potential implications on this, but my early take is that Samsung won't be the only handset maker found to infringe upon Apple's patents as all Android devices use these features. I'm also concerned that current Samsung phones will be modified via a ... Here you can run a full version of Android. Why would you want to? This opens up the opportunity to run third-party imaging or social networking applications to edit or share photos with the integrated Wi-Fi.
GigaOM

Engineers Detail Extensive Efforts to Rewrite Facebook iOS App ...
By Jordan Golson
Facebook employee Jonathan Dann has written a blog post detailing how the company's iOSengineering team designed earlier Facebook for iPhone apps and the extensive coding that was required to rewrite the new Facebook 5.0 app.
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

'Wall Street Journal' Offers Free Wi-Fi in NYC, San Francisco
By Lauren Indvik
From now until the end of September, 'The Wall Street Journal' is offering free Wi-Fi to residents of New York City and San Francisco. ... The Wi-Fi network is available through more than 1,300 hotspots labeled “The Wall Street Journal Wi-Fi.
Mashable » US & World

Facebook reportedly “forcing” employees to use Android phones in ...
By Tyler Lee
As we had reported a couple of days ago, Facebook for iOS was given a pretty big update which hopefully will sit well with iOS users. Unfortunately the Android version of the Facebook app has yet to receive the same [...]
Ubergizmo

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