TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Android phone users have been warned to check app permissions after it was found that some popular apps upload mobile numbers to third-party entities without notification.
By Hamish Barwick | 04 April, 2013 11:42
An innovative new type of mobile advertising is being used to funnel money to support hunger relief efforts. Dubbed GetCharitable, the new Android app replaces the background image on a phone with a periodically updated ad, revenue from which is then directed to an international anti-famine group -- offering users a way to help combat famine for free.
By Jon Gold | 04 December, 2012 00:13
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users, according to new research.
By Ellen Messmer | 01 November, 2012 04:50
Google must be pleased to know that Android users aged 18-44 tend to keep their apps all in the family – the Google family, that is.
By Bob Brown | 15 December, 2011 05:27
We round up some of the best Australian Android apps.
By Rohan Pearce | 31 October, 2011 15:44
Now that business users have begun clamoring for Android phones in earnest, it's a better time than ever to take a fresh look at the Android apps now available for enterprises.
By Katherine Noyes | 02 September, 2010 07:02
The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its operating system, Android<.
By Mark Gibbs | 26 July, 2010 15:23
Google's Android operating system, native to T-Mobile's G1 and myTouch smartphones and due out soon in a number of new phones and even netbooks, is an impressively open and versatile platform. As with rival smartphone platforms -- Apple's iPhone OS, RIM's BlackBerry OS and Palm's new WebOS -- the out-of-the-box features offered by Android are just a starting point.
By Logan Kugler | 03 October, 2009 05:04
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