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Sloppy App Development Leaves Android Owners At Risk
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Share on: Sloppy App Development Leaves Android Owners At Risk. A couple of German research teams have found that sloppy Android app development has compromised as many as 185 million Android devices holding apps that were.
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New Android Apps worth downloading: Camera ZOOM FX, Netflix, WELDER
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Today's apps list is kicked off with a couple of big updates. Camera ZOOM FX adds a new user interface and lots of new features to its Android photography capabilities, while Netflix has been updated to fix up lag issues and add more countries to its fold.
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Five Smart-Phone Apps That Promote Smoking
TIME
In their report, published in the journal Tobacco Control, researchers at the University of Sydney searched the Apple and Android app stores with keywords like “smoke,” “cigarette,” and “tobacco,” to see how many promotional apps they could find. They ...
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Tom's Guide: Android Performance Tips & Apps
Tom's Hardware Guide
Android is a wonderful platform because it encourages users and programmers to experiment with various apps, programs, and tweaks to make devices running the OS to perform even better. Change your keyboard, select the web browser of your choice, ...
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Thousands of Android Apps May Leak Personal Data
Tom's Guide
Scientists carried out an investigation where they tested a total of 13,500 Android apps and found that almost 8 percent failed to protect both social media logins and bank account logins. Researchers from the security group at the University of ...
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Samsung enhances TecTile features with 3.0 update
AndroidGuys
As a v3.0 release, the adds new features, tighter and deeper integration with Android apps, and the option to program a string of commands to a singular TecTile. If you're interested in learning more about these NFC stickers you can check out Samsung's ...
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Android adware threatening user privacy, study says
TechHive
Viewing the notification opens the phone's Web browser and sends the user to the advertiser's website. Profit is behind the move toward unethical data-gathering practices. App developers store an Android user's personal information in an ad library...
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New INRIX Traffic App for Android Provides Relief from Soaring Gas Prices
Space Daily
As gas prices soar to record levels nationwide, INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services, introduced a new INRIX Traffic app for Android that helps drivers locate the closest cheapest gas from more than 100,000 ...
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Google Play's shocking Korean growth
BGR
The new AppAnnie statistics for the Korean app market are surprising on many different levels. It is odd indeed that neither Android nor iOS apps have shown download growth in Korea since January 2012. Of course, Korea is a highly advanced mobile ...
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Android to overtake Windows in 2016, says Gartner
ZDNet
... end of this year there will be 1.5 billion Windows devices and 608 million devices using Android. Let's compare this to the figures we already know about. Windows' market share currently stands at 44 percent as of September, according to Net ...
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