Posted at 12:26 pm PST, March 10th, 2010 by Neil Lund. Tags: Security
Looks like an antivirus firm called Panda Security has found malware on a HTC Android phone that they recently received from Vodaphone. Now I know most of use are in the US and don’t purchase from Vodaphone, but I think this is still interesting and makes me a little curious on what the creators of the malware might have in store for the rest of us. Could this problem be a global problem soon? Could we soon all need to use antivirus software on our Android devices? Here’s some of what CNET has reported on the issue-
“Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic with Google’s Android OS,” researcher Pedro Bustamante wrote on the Panda Research Blog on Monday.
“The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC via USB, her Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe as malicious,” he wrote. “A quick look into the phone quickly revealed it was infected and spreading the infection to any and all PCs that the phone would be plugged into.”
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Posted at 6:37 pm PST, March 09th, 2010 by Kevin Wright. Tags: Security
Admit it. You are guilty. Personal and professional emails that you send and receive from associates, friends, and family buzz between your Android device and the Google servers with ease, and you rarely, if ever, think about what would happen, if someday, that relation ship were to fail.
All that data is stored in “the cloud” on Google servers in what some consider the most state-of-the-art, redundant and reliable network of data centers located all over the globe. Your personal data is syncing with out a hitch. After all, if you can’t rely on what is arguably the largest, most talent rich of cloud providers in the world, who can you rely on?
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Posted at 8:27 pm PST, March 05th, 2010 by Alberto Vildosola. Tags: Stats
We told you a couple of days ago that the Apple v. HTC lawsuit is all about Android; that the lawsuit is Apple’s response to Android’s skyrocketing popularity. We now have some data to back that up, and the guys at Cupertino are rightfully worried. Quantcast – a web analytics firm – recently released some juicy statistics. Quantcast tracks mobile web consumption by OS, and they’ve noticed that Android has started taking away market share from the iPhone.
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Posted at 12:05 pm PST, March 05th, 2010 by John Walton. Tags: Devs
It’s rare that you’ll hear a software developer say anything negative about the Android platform itself. Finding a coder who will rave about what Google is doing and the implications of their mobile OS is much more common. But when it comes to running a successful app business, iPhone is still the place to be – at least for the programmers that have made a name, and bundle of cash, for themselves in the Apple App Store.
Jeff Smith is one of these success stories. His company, Smule, produced two of the App Store’s ten top sellers in 2009, and has sold 4 million apps to date. Despite making a huge chunk of change from sales and securing over $13 mil in VC, Smule doesn’t feel that reaching in to the Android realm is a safe endeavor. Fragmentation, the requirement of starting a new division and training…For Jeff, Android is more trouble than it’s worth. While I recognize that Smule is a business and that profitability determines direction, I can’t help but wonder what new ground could be broken on the Android front by such a competent mobile app publisher with such seemingly vast resources. Video after the break:
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Posted at 10:36 am PST, March 05th, 2010 by Yu Suenaga. Tags: Desire, DivX
The yet-to-be-released HTC Desire seems to have some tricks up its sleeve. Desire is one of the most highly anticipated devices since the launch of Nexus One. And the lovely Sense UI on top of already beautiful Android 2.1 – Eclair – is just like the extra toppings on the the…eclair. Now, we are finding that it will feature internal tasty treat as yet unknown, and one of them is DivX support.
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