Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China
Computerworld – Between one and four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chinese-owned server, a mobile security firm said today.
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Tablet upgrades to Android, 3G, and a 720MHz processor
SmartDevices is readying an Android 2.1 version of its Ubuntu-based, seven-inch SmartQ R7 Linux color e-reader tablet. The SmartQ T7-3G tablet offers a more powerful 720MHz processor, provides Wi-Fi connectivity, upgrades to a 4700mAh battery, and is available with onboard 3G connectivity.
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Ending del profundo y filosófico anime: ‘Ergo Proxy’. Encarecida recomendación para los amantes del género. La canción es ‘Paranoid android’, de ‘Radiohead’. Ending from the deep and philosophical anime: ‘Ergo Proxy’. Nice recommendation for the genre lovers. The tittle of the song is ‘Paranoid android’ by ‘Radiohead’.
Samsung spins $100 Android 2.1 phone for Sprint
Sprint announced a Samsung handset running Android 2.1 that sells for $100 with a two-year contract. The Samsung Intercept is equipped with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and an optical joystick, says the company.
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Yahoo drops new Android apps for Mail and Messenger
Hooking up Android’s email client to a Yahoo! account was not typically a simple affair. With Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, you could just type in your email address and password, and the Android client would set it up for you.
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HomePipe streams your iTunes to Android, other files too
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/HomePipe_streams_your_iTunes_to_Android_other_files_too’; Need another way to get your tunes (whether they be i-prefixed or not) onto your Android celly? HomePipe is the latest, a service offering easy access to files on your home computer via your cellphone. It’s been available for Apple devices for some time now, but a recently …
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Skyfire 2.0 for Android makes mobile Flash work [Video]
You can be sure that the irony of Skyfire launching their Skyfire 2.0 Flash-happy browser for Android within hours of Steve Jobs taking Adobe to task over Flash being unsuitable for mobile devices will be well noted, but don’t let that distract you from just what’s on offer here. The big news is the new “SkyBar”, which throws in automatic Flash video streaming for otherwise broken video links …
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Android on MIPS platform gains virtual emulator
MIPS Technologies announced the availability of new debug and development tools for its Android on MIPS development platform.
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ARM9-based Android tablets to sell for under $200
Archos announced two low-cost, WiFi-enabled tablets that run Android on a 600MHz ARM9 processor.
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