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Google Remote-Detonates Pair of Ne’er-Do-Well Android Apps

Google announced Thursday that it has remotely deleted two Android applications from users' phones, reasoning that the "practically useless" apps had "intentionally misrepresented their purpose." ...

Nokia Snubs Symbian for MeeGo in Future N-Series Phones

Nokia will use the Linux MeeGo operating system in its flagship N-series platform in a bid to remain competitive against the iPhone and Android smartphones ...

Let’s Deep-Six Facebook and Do Open Source Social Networking Instead – Rebuttals

In this debate series for LinuxInsider, we've heard from Evan Prodromou, CEO of StatusNet, who put forth the case for an open, distributed, federated model for social networking in contrast to Facebook's approach. We've also heard from Steven Bristol, partner and self-described "Chief Nerd" at Less Everything, who made the case for Facebook's approach...

A Fifth of Android Apps Nose Into Private Data, Study Says

Roughly one out of five Android mobile apps asks to access private or sensitive information belonging to the device's owner, according to a study by SMobile Systems ...

Verizon’s Droid X Joins Android A-List

Verizon Wireless unveiled the much-anticipated Motorola Droid X on Wednesday ...

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Let’s Deep-Six Facebook and Do Open Source Social Networking Instead – Con: Steven Bristol

Steven Bristol is a partner and "chief nerd" at Less Everything, a company that focuses on building easy-to-use Ruby on Rail Web apps. The company created LovdbyLess, a free open source social network platform, after getting requests from customers. Users download a copy and are responsible for installing and maintaining the software and their own database of members...

Android Becomes Flash Mobile’s First BFF

Adobe on Tuesday unveiled Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile together with a slew of announcements from partners and content providers ...

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Let’s Deep-Six Facebook and Do Open Source Social Networking Instead – Pro: Evan Prodromou

Facebook has been battling users, prominent people in the high-tech field, and privacy advocates over the question of privacy for years now, and the problem appears to have intensified. ...

Toshiba’s Franken-Net-Tablet: It’s Alive

Toshiba on Monday unveiled the Libretto W100, a limited-edition ultra-mobile concept PC. It has dual touchscreens and runs Windows 7 ...

YouTube Builds a Cutting Room in the Cloud

Google has unveiled the YouTube Video Editor, which lets people edit their videos in the cloud ...

App Development: New Rules for a New Game, Part 2

Part 1 of this series focused on development in regard to cloud computing and mobile devices ...

Nintendo Looks Forward (3DS) and Backward (Warmed-Over Wii Games)

Nintendo unveiled its highly anticipated 3DS portable game console Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) ...

Kinect Reaches Beyond Gaming – but Where’s the Blu-ray?

Microsoft once again demonstrated its motion-controlled video game interface at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It also announced a new version of its Xbox 360 gaming console ...

Who Will Own E3?

Archrivals Microsoft and Apple are likely to make the big news at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), to be held June 15 through 17 in Los Angeles. 3-D gaming is also expected to make a strong showing ...

Quick-Draw Google Guy Put XP Users at Risk, Fumes Microsoft

Google researcher Tavis Ormandy's public disclosure Thursday of a security flaw in Microsoft's Help and Support Center has drawn harsh criticism from Redmond ...

AT&T Takes Heat for iPad Who’s-Who List Leak

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T ...

AT&T Takes Heat for iPad Who’s-Who List Leak

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T ...

AT&T Takes Heat for iPad Who’s-Who List Leak

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T ...

Google’s Caffeine Perks Up Search

Google has sped up its search engine with the introduction of its Caffeine Web indexing system ...

Android and iOS: Neck and Neck With Plenty of Road Ahead

The battle between Apple and Google in the smartphone market heated up further Monday with the introduction of the iPhone 4 and new information about iOS 4, the next-generation operating system for iPhones, iPod touches and iPads ...

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