Android
Here's everything I've done tagged with Android
Don’t Shoot The Facebook Messenger, Just Yet
The one thing social media is good for is spreading info like wildfire—whether it’s true or not. The latest scare to hit the web is over Facebook Messenger. From now on if you want to get Facebook messages on your phone, you need a separate app. That’s not the bad news. It’s the Terms and Service that are freaking people out. Is Facebook Messenger really as bad as everyone thinks?
Read the rest >Screw The Roses, Stop And Look Up Once In A While
Smartphones have taken the world by storm. No longer in the hands of the few, thanks to Android they are in the hands of the many. Full blown keyboards have made it easy to surf the net, email, and text with others—everywhere we go. Smartphones keep us entertained, occupied, our heads looking down at them. Try looking up once in a while though. You might be missing more than just roses.
Read the rest >Apple, What Are You Doing?!
It’s no secret I’m a devout Apple fanboy. I love my iOS devices and share unpopular reponses when asked about BlackBerry and Android alternatives. As the mobile madness wars continue to heat up, my question is—why is everything going crazy?
Read the rest >Top 3 Reasons For The Year End Android Malware Pandemic
It’s been no secret that Android has been a lucrative playground for all sorts of malware. Q1 this year saw 5,000 malicious apps target Google’s mobile OS, jumping to 20,000 for Q2. Estimates for the Year End total? 130,000. The Mayans said 2012 would be the end of the world—could this be the cause?
Read the rest >How’s Malware Doing? It’s Exploding.
Just when you thought malware was on the fence, McAfee reports it’s doing the exact opposite. As Q1 came to a close the results are in. Malware is exploding.
Read the rest >Instagram Comes To Android. So Does Malware.
Cyber criminals strike where it’s hot, and right now there’s nothing hotter than Instagram. The free photo-filtering & sharing app that over 30 million iOS users know and love has now found fame with Android users. It’s also found malware.
Read the rest >Goodbye Android Market, It’s Time To Google Play
It seems like Google’s in a merging mood these days. The Android app store, Google Music and Google eBookstore just became one big cloud based service today—Google Play Store.
Read the rest >“Dude, Where’s My App?”
We’ve all pocket-dialed someone at least once in our lives. Maybe been guilty of pocket-deleting an app or two. It’s no big deal, you just reinstall it. But what if it wasn’t you who deleted it? What if it was Google, Apple or Microsoft—using the “kill switch”?
Read the rest >2012: The Year Of The Hacker?
I was delighted to stumble upon an article this morning listing 4 signs “hacktivism” has gone mainstream. I’ve already dubbed 2012 as “the year of the hacker” so this couldn’t have come at a better time.
Read the rest >RIM’s Superheroes: The Bold Team?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a team of goofy cartoon superheroes here to save RIM from disaster? Yes you read that right. In a bold new marketing strategy for BlackBerry, RIM unveiled The Bold Team. Can these four superheroes save the day for a company headed for disaster?
Read the rest >Repeat After Me: Mobile, Social, Cloud
As many of you may have noticed, times are changing—fast. Home life, office life, etc.; technology is advancing so fast that many of us can’t keep up. You either stay afloat, or you drown.
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