Monthly Archives: February 2012

Preview: Sony Xperia P

Preview: Sony Xperia P

Sony Xperia P Sony’s latest Android phone is the Xperia P, an attractive, mid-range device. • Sony Xperia S preview • Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc S review The Sony Xperia P is just the second phone to be launched by Sony Mobile. In October last year Sony paid Ericsson US$1.45 billion to buy out...
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Preview: Sony Xperia P

Preview: Sony Xperia P

Sony Xperia P Sony’s latest Android phone is the Xperia P, an attractive, mid-range device. • Sony Xperia S preview • Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc S review The Sony Xperia P is just the second phone to be launched by Sony Mobile. In October last year Sony paid Ericsson US$1.45 billion to buy out...
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AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

Who says Android is the most insecure mobile OS around? Not the National Security Agency, which is conducting a pilot of 100 Motorola smartphones running the Android OS that it says are already good enough for its employees to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field. “There are vulnerabilities in every OS,”...
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AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

Who says Android is the most insecure mobile OS around? Not the National Security Agency, which is conducting a pilot of 100 Motorola smartphones running the Android OS that it says are already good enough for its employees to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field. “There are vulnerabilities in every OS,”...
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AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

AdVoice: NSA Testing Motorola Android Smartphones for Top-Secret Calls

Who says Android is the most insecure mobile OS around? Not the National Security Agency, which is conducting a pilot of 100 Motorola smartphones running the Android OS that it says are already good enough for its employees to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field. “There are vulnerabilities in every OS,”...
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Android Market App Statistics Boosted With New Metrics

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Feb. 28 said it has improved application statistics in its Android Market to help publishers get a better handle on how users are accessing and interacting with their applications. Launched nearly a year ago, application statistics make up a set of dashboards in the developer console that shows publishers’ installation download...
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How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone

A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the RSA security conference today showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google’s Android operating system could give an attacker full remote control of your phone. Once George Kurtz and colleagues from security startup CrowdStrike were done, they could...
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StumbleUpon for Android updates, adds Beam

StumbleUpon for Android updates, adds Beam

The new StumbleUpon app for Android shows off new features, a polished interface, and NFC capability. (Credit: Screenshot by Jaymar Cabebe/CNET) Apparently, new phones, tablets, and other hardware aren’t making the only news coming out of Barcelona, Spain, this week, as popular social discovery engine StumbleUpon has just released its newest Android app. A...
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How a Bad Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone

A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the RSA security conference today showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google’s Android operating system could give an attacker full remote control of your phone. Once George Kurtz and colleagues from security startup CrowdStrike were done, they could...
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Lookout for Android

Don’t be fooled by the appealing green interface and non-alarmist vibe. Lookout Premium for Android ($2.99/month, direct) offers powerful, triple-threat protection against almost anything that can go wrong with your Android device, which currently means malware, device theft or loss, and apps that access more personal information than you realize. Traditional security companies with...
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