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Bouncing malware from Android Market

The battle between malware writers and those trying to make their life miserable is a never ending one, will forever be a never ending one. The nature of the battle field makes it so. The bad guys will always find a way, sooner or later, to penetrate the security wall around an application. And as [...]

Published by on February 3, 2012 6:58 am
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Is Android Evil?

You thought Android was open? The Android governance model consists of an elaborate set of control points that allows Google to bundle its own services and control the exact software and hardware make-up on every handset. All this while touting the openness rhetoric that is founded on the Apache permissive license used in the Android [...]

Published by on April 16, 2010 6:58 pm
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How Android Security Stacks Up

Today’s smart phones have all the speed, storage, and network connectivity of desktop computers from a few years ago. Because of this, they’re a treasure trove of personal information–and likely the next battleground for computer security. What makes smart phones attractive–the ability to customize them by downloading applications–is what makes them dangerous. Apps make the [...]

Published by on April 1, 2010 12:05 am
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Search your Android phone with written gestures

As mobile phones become increasingly powerful and can store more data, we’ve introduced new methods of search to get you to your content faster, such as search suggestions or search by voice. But sometimes, typing to get to the right search suggestion takes too long, and you may be in a quiet environment where speaking [...]

Published by on March 3, 2010 9:17 pm