Category: Smartphones
Android users can now watch movies they've rented from the Android Market right on their phones, thanks to an update to the company's Videos app.
The Videos app will play rented movies on smart phones running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or 2.3 (Gingerbread). It should work on more than 80% of Android handsets, according to Google's statistics.Continue
The mobile industry issues anti-malware solutions to secure popular mobile platforms almost as an afterthought. But, what is it doing to explicitly address security early on, such as with the SDKs developers use to write mobile applications? Leviathan Security Group's David Kane-Parry, who regularly presents on mobile security was kind enough to update me. I gave the top four mobile vendors opportunity to chime in as well, and some did.
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Users of the on-demand music streaming service Rdio now have a much prettier interface from which to browse and listen to songs on their iPads. The service's official iPad app finally launched earlier today.
The new app gives Rdio a slight leg up over its newest and most buzzed-about competitor Spotify, which does not have an official iPad app available yet. The same is true of MOG, another popular on-demand streaming service. Continue
In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for July 2011. This month, we found a lot of great new iPhone apps, some Android and tablet apps, and a bunch of "notable" application updates.
As always, share your thoughts on those we missed in the comments below.
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In a surprisingly candid move, Google Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond published an opinionated post on the company's official blog contending that its Android mobile operating system is under "attack" from a "hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents."Continue
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