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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Security firm details privacy concerns; developer tells us its side of the story

Let’s recap: Late Wednesday night (or early Thursday morning), we reported on a story published at Mobile Beat that came out of the Black Hat online security conference. At the conference, Kevin MaHaffey, CTO at mobile security firm Lookout…

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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Central Editors’ app picks for July 29, 2010

Applications — they make the world go ’round. OK, maybe not exactly, but there sure are a ton of great ones in the Android Market, and finding the right one can be a bit difficult. Take a look after the jump, as we bring you another edition of our wee…

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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Another rogue app stealing data, security firm reports

Before we start, grab your phone and your computer and hit this link : Android apps by jakeey, wallpaper.  If you have any of these applications on your Android phone, uninstall them. We’ll wait. Now you ask why did we recommend (nay, demand!)&n…

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Quick App: FlightView

If you fly more than, say, once a year, you absolutely should look into an Android travel app. And a new one to Android is FlightView. It’s got the all the basics that you’d expect from a top flight-tracking app –track by flight number, track by rout…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google to provide copy protection to Android Market applications [updated]

Google has announced that it will be rolling out a copy protection mechanism for Android Market applications when used with phones running Android 1.5 or higher.  It works kind of like this:Google sets up a special licensing server, which keeps re…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Clicker brings check-ins for couch potatoes to Android

Clicker.com has announced their Android application — social media all about video, feature films, and television.  The premise is that you can friend people, check out their viewing habits, and share yours with them.  They’ve set up a huge …

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Twitter for Android updated, is ‘faster,’ gets basic functionality

Twitter for Android — the "official" Android Twitter client — just got another update (we’re at version 1.0.2 for those playing at home), and changes include the following: Is faster than the previous version Auto refresh is …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Maps makes finding ‘places’ even easier

Google Maps just served notice to every other location-based business app out there with the introduction of "Places." A tie-in with Google Maps, it makes it super easy to find any kind of, well, place. It’s location-based, so it knows where …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

BIOS-style boot animation for your Android phone

Who doesn’t like for their Android smartphone to boot up in style? While many people are going after the ultra flashy, image filled boot animations some folks over at XDA Developers have been hard at work at quite the opposite. They have brought back t…

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25 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

PlayStation emulator released onto Android Market

Being a former N64 fanboy, this may not excite me as much as some PS1 die-hards out there, but the PlayStation has just been added to Android’s already-impressive list of game console emulators. The app that makes this all possible is called "psx…

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