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A new study claims that hackers have moved their attention away from PCs and web sites to new targets: mobile devices, smartphones and tablets. This intrusion of personal information moved to mobile devices because of the explosive growth these unique electronics have garnered in the past couple of years, according to a new report from…
We have a love/hate relationship with HTC’s custom user interface, Sense. It’s both very beautiful and terribly bloated at the same time, and virtually every handset running Sense is adorned by the nice, yet aging, retro clock on its main homescreen. Well, we were hoping to see some sort of design shift for Sense when…
Put on your rumor hats, folks, as we have a nice one for you today. Eldar Murtazin has once again tweeted the deets about Samsung’s plans and this time it’s concerning the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy S II. According to Murtazin’s tweet, Galaxy S II users can expect to see…
Looks like HTC isn’t wasting any time when it comes to updating its existing line of handsets to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Today on Facebook, HTC announced that the Android 4.0 update rollout would begin in late March, starting with the Sensation line of handsets. We do know that HTC’s new handset flow will…
If you like to apply custom ROMs to your Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S, you may want to turn your attention to the newest custom recovery option from ClockworkMod. Chances are that if you are using a custom recovery already, it’s ClockworkMod. This is the same ClockworkMod recovery you’re used to but is now touch-enabled.…
Mobile advertising and monetization platform Tapjoy announced that its Android Fund (which we’ve covered in the past) has grown to include more than 130 applications, making Tapjoy “one of the largest international publishers of mobile gaming apps.” The company also announced that its Android network went from approximately 171,000 total Monthly Active Users in January…
card.io, mobile commerce company which we’ve already covered in the past, released an Android SDK, enabling developers making apps for Google’s mobile platform to easily accept credit card payments. If you don’t know what card.io is all about, you should know that it allows consumers to take a picture of their credit card to process…
One of PopCap’s original developers, Roy Liu, launched a new incentives platform aimed at boosting in-app revenue by incentivizing game players with real rewards. The name of the company is Gimmie, and it unveiled its in-game incentives program in beta with ten mobile app developers and ten consumer product brands. The main idea behind Gimmie…
Google has updated three of its Android applications today, which include Maps, Listen, and Goggles. Both Maps and Listen bring small but it Goggles seems to have received most of the attention. In a nutshell, here is what all three updates bring to the table: Google Maps: Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will enter ‘night mode’…
Recently, we wrote about the progress the folks over at CyanogenMod were making on baked ROMs for the extinct HP TouchPad. Today the super hackers released CM9 for the TouchPad, but in alpha form. This is awesome for owners who are stuck with a tablet that’s no longer receiving any major firmware updates for its…