<Date: 2011-03-29>
<Author: Austin>
<Category: Android, Internet>
With Amazon’s new Android Appstore rolling out, there is a feature that makes Amazon’s Appstore look like it’s a step ahead of Apple’s. “Test Drive” allows potential Appstore customers to try out the app in their browser, on a virtual, cloud-based, Android virtual machine. This is a remarkable step towards both showing the power of cloud-based computing and giving customers a fair idea of what they can expect from an app before they buy it. While “Test Drive” only allows for 30 minutes of app testing, it is still a very impressive move on Amazon’s part. It’s not difficult to imagine Apple implementing something similar into iTunes sometime in the near future. Read more...
Permalink: Amazon’s Appstore Lets You ‘Test Drive’ Apps On Your Computer!
<Date: 2011-03-22>
<Author: ICEMAN>
<Category: Android, Google>
It appears that Samsung took Apple’s challenge of slimming down the latest iPad pretty seriously, making them introduce even thinner tablets than the iPad 2. Samsung has officially announced two Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, both incredibly powerful and even thinner than the iPad 2 i.e just 8.6mm (0.33 inches) thick. On top of that, both will be running Samsung’s TouchWiz UX or TouchWiz 4.0, brilliantly integrated into Android 3.0. Read more...
Permalink: The iPad 2 Killers: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 & 10.1, More Powerful & Thinner Than iPad 2! [VIDEO]
<Date: 2011-03-22>
<Author: Austin>
<Category: Chrome, Google>
A recent vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player was discovered, to which Adobe replied that a patch would be available within a week. This bug works when you open an Excel file that contains an embedded malicious Flash file(Office 2010 is not affected). However, Google Chrome users can rest easy because their flash player has already been patched. Here’s why: Read more...
Permalink: Google Silently Patches Flash Vulnerability in Chrome Before Adobe!
<Date: 2011-03-21>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Google>
Just like other cool startups ( Facebook has a pirate as well as leet language as options ), Google has a hidden hacker language. It turns the language of Google Search to ‘leet’ speak. While it’s not the easiest thing to understand, specially if you’re not the geeky type like us, it’s very entertaining. Read more...
Permalink: Did you know? Google Has An Optional Hacker Language
Well, well, well. Steve Jobs wouldn’t be sitting easy after reading this. Safari on Mac OS X fell to hackers at Pwn2Own contest in just 5 seconds! That’s incredibly scary by any means but the good news is, the exploits used to do this aren’t going to be released in the wild for wrong usage. A close second was Internet Explorer 8 ( who uses that? Get IE9! ), which fell to three different vulnerabilities and custom exploits. Read more...
Permalink: Safari Pwned in 5 Seconds Followed by Internet Explorer 8 at Pwn2Own Contest – Chrome Survives!
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<Date: 2011-03-09>
<Author: ICEMAN>
<Category: Chrome, Google>
Google released a beta version of Chrome 10 which showcased the faster V8 engine making it twice as fast as the previous version. Today, the final version of Google Crome 10 has been released and is now available for download to the public. Chrome 10 also supports password syncing meaning you can sync your saved passwords on your machine to the Google server and then access them on any other computer. This can be further secured by a secret passphrase before allowing the data sync. Read more...
Permalink: Google Releases Chrome 10 With Password Sync & Is Really Fast!
<Date: 2011-03-08>
<Author: ICEMAN>
<Category: Android, BlackBerry, Google>
Back in May 2010, Android was in fourth place behind Blackberry, iOS and Windows Mobile in the overall smartphone market of United States. By the mid of 2010, it surpassed Windows Mobile while overtaking Apple’s iOS by the end of the year. Now, it has finally snatched the lead in the big US market, crossing Blackberry OS right at the start of 2011. Blackberryf now has a US market share of 30.4% which is approximately 1% less than that of Google’s Android at 31.2%, making Android the most-used smartphone OS in America. Read more...
Permalink: Android Is Now The No.1 Smartphone OS In United States!
<Date: 2011-03-08>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Android, Google>
The guys over at XDA Developers have managed to extract the music app from Honeycomb and use it to sync music using the yet unannounced music syncing service by Google. Honeycomb hasn’t been released for handsets yet but hackers have managed to extract different parts of it to use in custom ROMs already. Read more...
Permalink: Honeycomb’s Music App Supports Google Music Sync–Works on Rooted Android Phones
<Date: 2011-03-05>
<Author: ICEMAN>
<Category: Android>
Almost anyone who has ever owned an Android or an iOS device, has played Angry Birds. One can imagine how big the Angry Birds empire has become. At the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Peter Vesterbacka from Rovio Mobile made it official that the free Android version of Angry Birds has been downloaded over 30 Million times which clearly shows how successful this multiplatform franchise is. He also said that 80% of users who’ve downloaded the game on their Android handsets get subsequent updates indicating their continued interest in the company’s most popular game. Read more...
Permalink: Angry Birds For Android Reaches 30 Million Downloads Mark!
<Date: 2011-03-04>
<Author: Austin>
<Category: Chrome, Google>
For those who use Google’s services, Google Voice is one of the most useful. It provides free texting and online voicemail. A friend of mine uses Google Voice to unify his phone numbers. For those who use Google Voice, there is a handy Chrome extension that allows you to text and call straight from the menu bar. Read more...
Permalink: Google Voice Chrome Extension Controls Google Voice from the Menu Bar
