Like most companies in the software industry, Google wants to spread its Android mobile operating system to just about anywhere that'll have it.
With all the news of mobile malware, especially on Android, being on the rise, we thought we should do a little post listing some of the most critically acclaimed and popular security apps for Android devices. Check them out after the jump!
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was open-sourced to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days ago and folks from the Android modding community are had at work to port it over to as-of-yet unsupported devices. The Nexus S, which is certain to get an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) from Google itself, has already received a AOSP-based ICS custom ROM from the community. The one we’ll be talking about in this post is said to be stable enough for daily use, so if you’ve got a Nexus S available, you should definitely give this a try! Check out the details after jump!
Ever accidently delete an important file on your computer? We’ve all been there, but thanks to the availability of Recycle Bins on desktop OSes and recovery tools like Recuva, you can get your data back. Now, with a new app we came across today, you can recover deleted content on your Android smartphone! Check it out after break!
Earlier this month, Adobe made an announcement of its plans to cease development of Flash on mobile browsers. Instead, they would refocus their efforts on the Steve Jobs supported browser technology of HTML5, which can basically display the same content as Flash, but without the need of a plugin.
If the rumor mill carries anything of significance, Samsung's yet-to-be-announced Galaxy S III could boast an impressive quad-core Exynos 4412 CPU - a move which would really throw down the gauntlet to rival manufacturers.
According to a report published yesterday, Android is, unsurprisingly, deemed as the worst among all mobile OSes when it comes to security because of its susceptibility to malware.
Google Music left beta stage four days ago and was made available “to all”, at least in the United States. Today we came across a rather simple method involving Tor (the anonymity network) which enables Google Music outside the USA. Check it out after the break.
The latest and, according to some, most important update to Google’s Android OS - 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - was open-sourced just a few days ago and talented folks from the hacking and developers community have already managed to get Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) working on some of the most popular handsets. In this post, we’ll guide our readers on how they can flash ICS on a Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II. Check it out after the break!
Go figure, it seems that Honeycomb is able to run on a PC. An open source project by the name of Android-x86 has been attempting to boot the latest Honeycomb build to netbooks and laptops with some success.
