Hot! Skype patches Android vulnerability

The vulnerability in Skype’s Android app that threatened to leak user data has now been repaired. At the same time extended support for VoIP over 3G.

Skype announced that they have developed, tested and rolled out an updated version of the software for Android, which is no longer liable to leak any private user information. All users are encouraged to upgrade their software to version 1.0.0.983 is now available for download from the Market.

The update comes less than a week after Skype itself confirmed the vulnerability . In addition, Skype has taken the opportunity to include more support for VoIP over 3G. With earlier versions have it, including the U.S. has only been possible with some operators.

Some software that uses the vulnerability has not yet been reported, and as Android Police Blog who first drew the attention of the security hole will update work fine. However, vulnerability remains of concern to the leaked version of Skype also allows video call.

Mozilla launches Firefox 4 for Android

A week after the launch of the Firefox browser 4 for client computers, Mozilla launches final version of its browser for mobile operating system Android. But critics are many.

Mozilla informed about the upcoming browser in August, when the company showed the first version of the software, code-named Fennec. Later gave Mozilla the program a name that is in accordance with its browser, Firefox 4 for Android.

Mozilla likes to talk about a new and improved interface, faster performance and better synchronization with the Sync feature, which allows users to keep track of bookmarks, passwords and open tabs on several desktop and mobile PCs.

The browser contains an interface for managing multiple tabs, with the help of the same features found in desktop version, which automatically receives the URLs that visitors have been on before. According to Mozilla’s Firefox 4 three times faster than Android’s own browser, thanks to the Java-based scripting engine Jaeger Monkey which is also used to run Javascript in the desktop version of Firefox 4th

Since its launch, however, users criticized the poor performance and lack of support for Flash media player.

They say that it is faster than the built-in browser, but it takes twice as long to open, according to a user who identifies himself as Andy in an evaluation on Google’s official Android Market App Store.

Dotnet Moving to Android

Now you can run Dotnet Applications on Android. This is done with Novell’s Mono, an open version of Microsoft Dotnet Platform.

Novell Launches Mono for Android. It is a variant of Microsoft Dotnet Platform that works on Google’s mobile operations. Mono is already available in official versions for including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions of SuSE and Red Hat.

Dotnet Applications for Android can be written in C # language, and also with other Dotnet Languages, for version 4 of Dotnet. You can use either Microsoft’s development tool Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Novell free tools monodevelop.

Novell has previously Mono Touch range. There is a solution to run Dotnet Application on Apple’s operating system IOS.

The statement indicates that Novell is focused on the use of C # to create Dotnet Applications for Android, although in principle, it ought to work with other Dotnet languages, like Visual Basic.

It is possible to make use of Android’s API, in addition to APIs for Dotnet. The use of Android’s APIs should mean that the possibilities of developing for multiple operating systems reduces.

In the process of creating Mono for Android, the product has been called Monodroid.

Growing fast of Windows 7 Phone

The latest figures show that there are now over 11 500 apps on Windows Phone Market.

According to Microsoft, the company’s new mobile operating system Windows 7 Phone achieved great success among developers. In one year the development tool for the platform downloaded 1.5 million times and over 36 000 developers are now members of the Microsoft development team for Windows Phone, Microsoft said.

The number of apps for Windows 7 Phone has now grown to 11 500 since Windows Phone Market opened in November last year. The marketplace consists of 7500 beta patches.

Users love our apps, love them. Users of Windows Phone charging an average of the bottom twelve apps a month. Given that the operating system only existed for just over four months, it is very healthy numbers, writes Microsoft’s director of Windows Phone, Brandon Watson.

Although analysts have expressed that Microsoft has managed quite well to launch development around Windows Phone.
I am very impressed with the growth in both number and quality of apps for Windows Phone. I would say that Microsoft succeeded faster than Google did with Android when it was launched, “said Al Hilwa.

Despite progress in the development of apps for Windows Phone, Microsoft has not disclosed how many phones sold since the operating system was released in October last year.

Amazon offers to test applications from computer

Amazon offers to test for 30 minutes on your computer via its web browser before downloading applications available on Amazon Android App Store.

Amazon imagines new ways to communicate with mobile users and Internet users with the new platform applications App Store Amazon. It has a catalog of about 3800 apps available on the Internet via an application for Android Smartphone.

In its retention strategy, Amazon intends to test it on its computer from a remote interface via emulator mobile with Android OS using the Android applications downloaded from its App Store for 30 minutes, passing through the feature “Try Now”. But this feature is currently restricted to Americans

This test period on the computer is made possible through the use of the Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure, which returns the display of the Android emulator on the PC Web browser.

A little extra time saving is there when compared to what Google offers in the Android Market, where it is also possible to test applications, but for a period of only 15 minutes after buying them on the platform.

Note however that this functionality test before download is not yet integrated into all applications available on the App Store Amazon.

Samsung Nexus A: The new Google Mobile

Nexus S phone is closest to the original Android without frills and proprietary interfaces. That it is fast and has good screen makes it even better.

Just over a year ago released the first so-called Google phone Nexus One. It was a phone that HTC-developed, but which ran Android in its purest form without the interface a la Sense and sold by Google. About a year later launched the sequel Nexus S, this time manufactured by Samsung, but the same principle: one as Android near the interface as possible.

Nexus S was first released, among other U.S. and then with one super-AMOLED display, but was changed to one super-lcd when it came to Sweden. And even if the Super-AMOLED is considered to be better, so is the Super-lcd-screen really well. The intensity is high and the viewing angle is virtually unlimited. The colors are good, even if they are more neutral about it and maybe cold side than the other scale.

The Nexus S , there is also an NFC chip. NFC stands for Near Field Communication and the idea is that you can use your phone wirelessly to the NFC reader and thus, for example, pay bus fares or open doors. The technology is not widespread yet, but the potential is quite clear.

Quality of Nexus S very stable although it is mostly made ​​of plastic. No metal parts reinforce the impression, but it will not plasticky though.

Another interface like HTC’s Sense is quite different and offers a lot of extra features. But mostly, you can still fix the apps in the form of second Launchers, widgets and the like.

Nexus S is fast. Android 2.3 further enhances the experience of reports compared to previous versions. We can not say that we notice any difference with a dubbelkärning phone Optimus 2X in common usage.

Compared with the previous Google Mobile Nexus One, we are a couple of minus: the absence of the slot that we have mentioned earlier, and that it has no LED for communication. In addition, it can not record video at 720p which we expect from a phone in this price range.

If you want a clean Android phone without any superimposed interface, and also get the latest updates first, this phone is for you. But remember that you can not expand memory.

Asus releases surf plate – with the Android 3.0

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Asus today announced that the company releases a new surf rolled this week that runs on Android 3.0.
On Friday, the Asus start accepting pre-orders on the company’s surf pad that goes under the name Eee Pad. Initially there will only be possible to order the surf board in Taiwan, but a global launch comes shortly thereafter says Asus.

Asus Eee Pad has a display of 10.1 inches and comes in models with either 16 or 32 gigabytes of storage space. The processor consists of an Nvidia Tegra two dual cores. In addition, surf board offer two USB connectors and a card reader for micro-sd card.

The operating system is Android 3.0, like Motorola’s Xoom, which was released last month.
Starting in March, the second manufacturer to release surf boards with Android 3.0. Surf Boards with older versions of the operating system will be phased out, said Helen Chiang at IDC.

Asus Eee Pad will cost $ 399 (about 2500 dollars) for the cheaper model and $ 699 (about 4400 dollars) for the more expensive model in the U.S.. The more expensive model also has the capability to be an external keyboard that makes surfing the plate to a notebook.

Amazon's Cloud Drive faces music industry backlash

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While ostensibly beating Apple and Google to market with its music locker service, Amazon's new Cloud Drive online music streaming service was launched before licenses from music owners were in place, threatening a new legal battle. 

According to a report by Reuters, Sony Music spokeswoman Liz Young said her company "was upset by Amazon's decision to launch the service without new licenses for music streaming."

"We hope that they'll reach a new license deal, but we're keeping all of our legal options open," Young said.

Sold before the deal was struck

The report cited a source "close to the discussions" between Amazon and the music labels as saying that "music labels were alerted of the plans last week," and that Amazon only addressed "the issue of negotiating licenses" after the fact.

Amazon's move was described as "somewhat stunning," leaving some media industry members to view the service as illegal.

"I've never seen a company of their size make an announcement, launch a service and simultaneously say they're trying to get licenses," the source said, who was described as a music executive requesting anonymity.

Amazon appears to have jumped the gun in a bid to get ahead of Apple. While Amazon entered the music download market in late 2007, offering both slightly lower prices on MP3s and bargaining with the labels to offer DRM-free music before Apple, its music service still hasn't significantly encroached upon Apple's dominant position with iTunes. 

Online storage held up by music negotiations

Amazon's Cloud Drive provides users with 5GB of free storage (or 20GB for $20 annually) that can be used to upload music for playback via an Android app or through Amazon's Cloud Play website, which organizes music into playlists. 

Since last July, Apple's iDisk feature of MobileMe has similarly enabled users to upload their music (and other files) to the cloud for streaming playback (even in the background) from mobile devices via Apple's free iOS iDisk app, but the company doesn't promote the feature due to ongoing negotiations with the labels. 

iDisk is also not depicted as a music cloud service, and does not provide any special display of metadata; music files simply play in place from the online storage just as they would from any web server. Music files can also, like other iDisk documents, be shared with other users.

Music labels have long insisted on special "streaming licensing" for users that want to copy their own music to the cloud for their own mobile playback, something that has held up efforts by Apple, Google, and others to deliver legally legitimate cloud music services.

Google to Delay Releasing Honeycomb Android as Open Source

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According to the Wall Street Journal, “said a Google representative that source code for the latest version of Android will not be awarded because the software is not ready to be adapted for different mobile devices.

- We look forward to offering new features to the plate with Android, but more work is needed before we can offer it to other devices, including phones. Before then, we have decided not to release Honeycomb as open source, “said Representative to the Wall Street Journal. The decision shall not affect partners such as Samsung, Dell, HTC and Acer, are expected to soon release touchpads with the new operative.

Earlier versions of Android for mobile phones are available and can be modified by third parties. This resulted in a number of Android-based products that received a worse reception in the market.

Google says that Honeycomb will be available as open source as soon operative is ready for it. The decision to wait, however, goes contrary to the support that Google has given to the software based on open source. The promise of open source support was evident last fall in connection with Oracle’s atmosphere by Google for patent infringement on the Java platform.