Saturday, July 28, 2012

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Android this week: HTC One X+ leaked; LTE Photon Q coming; Galaxy S III sales ...
GigaOM
Last week it was Android tablets, this week was about Android smartphones. Sprint announced a QWERTY keyboard version of the Photon Q with LTE, while Samsung's Galaxy S III continues to set sales records. Can the leaked HTC One X+ slow Samsung's ...
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GigaOM
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Hits Motorola Xoom Tablet
PC Magazine
"This latest version of Android is the smoothest one yet - with an improved user interface and response to your touch, people are calling it 'buttery,'" according to the announcement. Google launched Jelly Bean last month on the Nexus 7 tablet. It has since ...
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Of Androids and Apples
Washington Post
Android works the other way. It says "yes" to everything, but rare is the app that shows the polish of the best-in-breed iOS app. Out of the box, my Android had two e-mail clients: one e-mail client and a Gmail client. But neither works as nicely as their iOS ...
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update for Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Now Available for US ...
The Droid Guy
Google's newly-acquired phone manufacturer Motorola announced Friday, July 27th, that the much anticipated Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for Motorola Xoom tablet with Wi-Fi can now be pulled down from its servers. The company, however, made it clear ...
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The Droid Guy
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update: Jelly Bean Available For Motorola XOOM
Latinos Post
The Android Jelly Bean operating system is slowly making its way across platforms. REUTERS/Stephen Lam. If you're the owner of a Motorola Xoom tablet, then you're now one of the few lucky consumers with a device that has an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ...
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Latinos Post
Tips for deduping Android contacts
CNET
Tips for deduping Android contacts. If your Android phone's address book is filled with duplicate or useless contacts, here are some tips on deduping, merging, and trimming contacts into a useful list. Donald Bell. by Donald Bell. July 28, 2012 9:18 AM PDT ...
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iOS, Android Developer Gap Is Shrinking: Report
eWeek
For the last several years, Apple's iOS mobile operating system has been getting most of the attention from software developers every time a new version comes out, in comparison with new releases of Google's competing Android OS. But something ...
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Microsoft Wins Ban on Android-Based Motorola Devices in Germany
PC Magazine
A German judge today found that Motorola's Android-based devices infringe on a Microsoft-held File Allocation Table (FAT) patent. Judge Andreas Voss found that Motorola gadgets infringe on Microsoft's patent for a "common name space for long and short ...
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OnLive Games Coming to Ouya Android Console
PC Magazine
Ouya, the Android-based gaming console that has secured more than $5 million in funding from Kickstarter, has a new partner: online gaming firm OnLive. "We are pleased to announce that OnLive will be available on Ouya at launch, extending and building ...
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Charlie Miller Strikes Again, Hacks Android and MeeGo Devices using NFC at ...
Hot Hardware
Back when Near Field Communication (NFC) technology was just becoming known, there were some who worried that it would create yet another potential attack vector for mobile devices by dint of being a wireless technology over which users would be ...
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Hot Hardware
Apple Buys AuthenTec, a Samsung Partner, for $365 Million
eWeek
The VPN "enhances the security of multiple new Android smartphones and tablets, providing users peace of mind that they can quickly and securely connect to their networks and the cloud," Authentec said in a July 16 statement, announcing the agreement ...
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Are there Android phones that accept two SIM cards?
CNET
There is currently one Android handset in the market that features dual-SIM compatibility--the HTC Desire V. Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the Desire V has a 4-inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) display and a 5-megapixel camera.
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CNET
Android phones with NFC can be hijacked via their own browser
TechSpot
New research by security specialists Accuvant has revealed at this year's Black Hat conference that the latest smartphones running Android, and equipped with Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities, can be hijacked using malicious code loaded via ...
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BT: Almost every Android device is infected with malware
ZDNet (blog)
"We analyzed more than 1000 Android applications and found a third compromised with some form of active or dormant malware," Jill Knesek, head of the global security practice at BT, said according to EE Times. "Almost every device is compromised with ...
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Android Central international round-up - July 28, 2012
Android Central
And with Samsung being not only a leading Android manufacturer, but a global Olympic partner, it's been behind many of the Olympic Android news over the past week, launching limited edition back covers and Android apps based around the games.
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Apple Continues to Fight Amazon Over 'App Store' Name
PC Magazine
In the ongoing battle between Apple and Amazon over the "app store" title, Cupertino is now demanding that Amazon produce an executive who will testify about why Amazon dropped the "for Android" tag from its full store name. As GigaOM first reported, last ...
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Android, Nokia MeeGo phones hacked using NFC
Times of India
According to the BBC, Miller, who demonstrated the work at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, showed how to attack three separate phones, namely, the Samsung Nexus S, the Google Galaxy Nexus, which both run Android, and the Nokia N9, ...
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Hacker Demos Android App That Can Wirelessly Steal And Use Credit Cards' Data
Forbes
Eddie Lee's Android phone, displaying data it has wirelessly read from his credit card. I've blocked the credit card number on the phone's screen in orange. The symbol of nested arcs on the card shows that it one of the 100 million RFID-enabled cards in ...
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Follow the 2012 Olympic games on your iOS or Android phone
CNET
There are few events quite as exciting as the Olympics. With athletes from all over the world competing for their respective countries, it's easy to get excited as you root for your country to win. Obviously, I'll be rooting for my American compatriots, but seeing the ...
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Building Android Apps in Easy Steps
iProgrammer
Simple coverage of developing for Android but limited details because of the length and format. The market for apps for mobile devices is growing fast, so many developers must have wondered about creating their own apps. Building Android Apps is another ...
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Reach Out and Hack Someone: Phone Flaw Exposed
Sci-Tech Today
Security researcher Charlie Miller said that by using near field communications, it was possible to take advantage of a new feature for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) called Android Beam, taking control of the browser through NFC. He could then direct the ...
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Sci-Tech Today
Lack of Nexus S 4G Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update Bad Sign for Verizon Galaxy ...
Gotta Be Mobile
Last week, Google started to roll out the Nexus S Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update to devices on carriers around the world. One of the most glaring omissions is the Nexus S 4G, a version of the Nexus S on Sprint. And unfortunately, the lack of an update for the ...
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InstaWifi for Android shares Wi-Fi access via NFC or QR code
CNET
If you need a quick recap on how to create NFC tags, check out Jason Cipriani's How to program an NFC tag with your Android device before you get started. The entire process will only take you a few minutes at most, and the resulting convenience factor is ...
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Ouya Gets OnLive Support, But Is It Enough?
PCWorld
First off, there are few Android games optimized for a large screen--Ouya gamers won't want to be playing scaled-up versions of games intended for smartphone screens. The console's creators will have to take a proactive approach in getting game ...
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Instapaper for Android sees a 600% jump in downloads on release of Nexus 7
The Next Web (blog)
I even argued that it was Google's best chance to jump-start the Android app ecosystem. But these things are usually hard to quantify, and selling a lot of tablets doesn't necessarily mean that the users of those tablets are going to suddenly start purchasing ...
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Blogs10 new results for Android
 
HTC explains decision to skip Android 4.0 for Desire HD: we'd rather ...
By Jon Fingas
HTC dampened a few spirits when it dropped the Desire HD from its Android 4.0 upgrade list. The company might feel your pain,
Engadget
T-Mobile myTouch and myTouch Q hands-on ... - Android Community
By Cory Gunther
Today we have our hands-on the newest editions to T-Mobile's growing smartphone lineup. What we have here are two brand new Huawei smartphones but branded as.
Android Community
Motorola Infringes on Microsoft's FAT patent, German Android Devices
By Justin Crouch
The Mannheim Regional Court has ruled in Microsoft's favor regarding the FAT patent. What is FAT? FAT stands for File Allocation Table, a legacy file system still widely used, mostly for backward compatibility. The German court has granted a ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates
Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean factory images for Nexus 7, Nexus S and ...
By Chris Smith
Google has made the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean factory image builds available for various Nexus devices including the Nexus 7, the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus.
Android Authority
The Most Common Words in Android and iOS App Names
By Casey Chan
If you ever searched for an app on the App Store or Google Play, you would see an endless list of crappy apps with similar names just tagged as HD or LITE or FREE or PRO. Everybody wants to call their app the same damn thing! Here are ...
Gizmodo
Linux Today - Support for Apple iOS over Android for enterprise ...
eChannelLine: The big news is that Apple's iOS took a dramatic lead over Google's Android in the enterprise app space.
Linuxtoday.com
LG Nitro HD to receive Android 4.0 update at last, AT&T says | The ...
By Kimber Streams
AT&T announced today that its LG Nitro HD will finally get Android 4.0 and a new UI skin, Optimus 3.0. We reviewed the Nitro HD when it launched back in December, and were impressed by the...
The Verge - All Posts
Microsoft wins injunction against Motorola Android devices over FAT ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
According to the decision, Motorola's Android devices infringe on Microsoft's File Allocation Table (FAT) patent. The FAT patent covers a multiple file name referencing system that stores multiple file names (both short and long names) in a ...
IntoMobile
Lenovo Performs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Magic
By Adam Mills
Lenovo has released vanilla Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its IdeaPad K1 tablet.
Gotta Be Mobile
Casio unveils two rugged Android tablets designed for business ...
By Tyler Lee
If rugged Android tablets are your thing, then you might be interested to learn that Casio has debuted a pair of rugged Android tablets aimed at the enterprise sector, or business users who find that they have to travel to [...]
Ubergizmo


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