Trojan HongTouTou Found in Chinese App Markets
A couple of new trojan variants, “BD.HongTouTou.A” and “BD.HongTouTou.B”, have been found in alternative Chinese Android App Markets. The malware is being repackaged into legitimate popular apps like the game RoboDefense and wallpaper apps, it’s then uploaded to alternative markets and forums. The trojan is programmed for a whole slew of techniques that could make the make the issuers money or leak personal information to them. The trojan receives commands to emulate searches on search engines using defined keywords and then clicking on links like a real user had performed the search from their phone making the issuers money. The malware can monitor users communications and insert it’s... (more...)
Android Now Has The Lead In The Mobile Ad Market
For the second month in a row Android has the lead in mobile ads, which means money for developers which in turn will mean more and better apps for Android. In January, Google’s mobile OS captured 54 percent of all ad impressions seen on smartphone platforms on the network, up from 46 percent in December. At the same time, the share of impressions held by Apple’s iOS fell to 28 percent from 32 percent the prior month. [Read Full Article] Related Posts:Why Android Honeycomb Should Have Apple ScaredThe beginning of the end for Nokia?Eric Schmidt Dishes Android After HoneycombWhy Nokia’s CEO Chose MicrosoftBuy & Sell Used Androids with Swappa Read More →
Blu-Ray Videos Coming with Android Viewing Option
Blu-Ray videos are starting to come with an Android option so that you can download the video to your device. Unstoppable which just came out this week is the first movie to come with this new technology. To access Blu-ray Digital Copy on Android, users must have Blu-ray disc, a wi-fi connected Blu-ray player, Android 1.6 or higher, and the PocketBLU app, which can be downloaded free from the Android Market. Here’s the Press Release “Industry First for Blu-ray from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment as Blu-ray Digital Copy of UNSTOPPABLE available for Android With tomorrow’s Blu-ray launch of UNSTOPPABLE, the action-thriller starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Blu-ray Digital Copy... (more...)
Motorola Stops Updates to Four Older Devices
All those with Motorola devices on the new list of the abandoned phones list, at least as far as updates to Android. This list includes the Motorola Clique Xt, the Motorola i1, Motorola Flipout, and Motorola Charm. Both the Flipout and the Charm are currently (and will be forever more) at Android 2.1, while the Xt and i1 is and will now forever be on Android 1.5. Owners of these devices are more than likely going to be neither surprised nor emotionally damaged by this decision, especially since this is a basic procedure for a load of brands pushing out Android phones... (more...)
Chomp a Better Android Market Search
The Android Market search is just atrocious, I’m not sure how a search company could make a search product as bad as the search in the Google Android Market app is. But finally someone has come out with an alternative app that will search the Android Market called Chomp. Chomp returns much more relative results but seems to lack and not show anything for less popular terms. I tried searching for RSS Reader, Netflix, and Movies and all returned good results. I then tried Nagios and it returned “We couldn’t find any result for Nagios” but there... (more...)
How to Install Android on VirtualBox with Pre Installed VDI Disk
“Android”, the hot word we hear in recent tech world. Its a mobile OS which can be run on normal pc also with desktop virtualization. This post shows simple steps to install android on VirtualBox with pre installed VDI disk. There for this method will avoid extra time on downloading two ISO files, combine them and install. Just download and import in to VirtualBox and start using. I’m showing this on VB 3.2.6 with Intel Core2duo Windows 7 32Bit OS. [Read Full Article] Related Posts:Google Will Free Android OS Users from Limit... (more...)