Nokia has stepped into the boxing ring between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. In an interview with Pocket lint, Niels Munksgaard, a Nokia director, explained how the younger crowd are tired of their iPhones and Android devices.
A developer from the Android modding community has managed to boot the latest version of Android - 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich - on Motorola’s recently released DROID RAZR, Redmond Pie has learned.
Prevent Facebook From Tracking Browser And Location History With Tinfoil For Facebook [Android Only]
Facebook has earned bad rep for the way it tracks user-data. Just recently, reports were published regarding Facebook’s use of active cookies that track which websites users visit even if they are logged out of the actual website! For privacy-conscious folks, plugins for browsers like Chrome and Firefox do exist which aim to stop Facebook from this on the desktop and we recently came across an app on Android which aims to do the same. Details after the jump!
In a recent post on avast! Mobile Security BETA app, we promised that we’ll be discussing the growing perception among smartphone enthusiasts that Android is an insecure mobile operating system and that it is prone to malware, just like Windows is on the desktop. This perception is, for the most part, a product of the hype created by certain security solution-providing companies and the blogosphere itself.
Samsung has released another ad in their series of The Next Big Thing ads in which they specifically target Apple’s iPhone and iPhone enthusiasts.
When Google first took the wraps off its Honeycomb release of Android at CES in January, the world sat up and took notice - was Google going to finally do to the world of tablets and the iPad what it did to the smartphone market? Would Honeycomb kick start the Android tablet space and create some competition for the runaway success Apple was enjoying with the iPad?
When Flipboard stepped up their game by releasing an iPhone app for their self-titled reader, we knew someone would want to steal their thunder somehow.
Twitter for iPhone and Android has had a major overhaul today, with both versions of the social networking app seeing plenty of changes both under the hood, and up front.
According to a report published earlier today, popular iPhone photography app Instagram is being readied for Android. Details after the jump!
There is a growing perception among the smartphone enthusiast crowd that Android is an insecure mobile operating system which is riddled with viruses, trojans, rootkits and what have you, and that an Android phone will be open to these malicious pieces of software unless and until you install an antivirus. While some parts of this perception are completely wrong (we will discuss them in a separate post), we still believe that it is better to be safe than sorry and that is exactly why we’ll be talking about an supercharged new security app from avast! for Android after the jump.
