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3mar/110

Google ban 21 infected Android apps

Google has banned 21 popular applications from the Android Market, because they contains many malware and trojans.
These applications belong to the same developer (Myournet) and integrate all the exploit called "rage-against-the-cage", which allows malicious code to get administrator rights (root) on versions of Android greater than 2.2.2.

2août/100

AndroidMarket rise above the 100’000 applications

The figure is more symbolic than historical. But it still reflects, among other signs, the success of Google's mobile OS, especially among the developer community.
According AndroLib, a company that has made a specialty of analyzing the Android Market, the gallery of the OS just to rise above the 100,000 applications.

The second is that the company includes in its assessment of applications (about 18,000) who have subsequently been withdrawn (including malicious applications that used the Android flaws revealed at Black Hat Conference for the last?).

The number of downloadable applications has substantially exceeded one billion.

An impressive figure which does not suffer him, no comment.

Source : AndroLib Report

4mai/100

Twitter for Android

Twitter officially announces Android application, what rekindling fears of independent developers?

Twitter has just made available its formal application for devices running Android. As promised by the leaders of social network, it's free.

Her widget appears on the home screen and the user allows direct visualization of his tweets on a map or in its address book, view its flow, etc..
The application also syncs contacts.

It only works with Android 2.1 (and versions later).

She was co-developed with the team and Android integrates the various functions of the phone as well as third party applications.

The developpers have serious internal plate on Twitter integration at different levels of the OS in order to access.

Twitter's website
Android's website

18fév/100

WordPress iPhone App v2.2

The new version of the iPhone app is out (note that iPhone app version numbers do not correlate to WordPress core versions, due to separate dev cycles).
You can write posts (save drafts or publish right away), moderate comments, blog photos from your phone (and video on Blackberry!**), and more.

"But what about my Nokia", you ask? Raanan Bar-Cohen, who oversees the mobile projects, recently announced:

“We are very excited to share with all of you that in the coming weeks we’ll be opening up a beta test for the official Open Source WordPress for Nokia app. For developers who are interested in getting involved, we just opened up a dev blog with details, links to the source code and trac tickets, and an early alpha build. We’ll be leveraging the Qt framework which means will be able to support both the S60 and Maemo platforms.”

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