Google

In the wake of last week’s discovery of a tranche of malicious apps residing in the Android Market, Google Inc. has leapt into action to protect those users affected by the malware, which not only collected and transmitted identifying information, but also left devices open to further attack.

As with most Android devices, it was only a matter of a few hours after launch until the Xoom was rooted, allowing would-be tinkerers access to the nuts-and-bolts of the device’s Android operating system.

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to …

The openness of Android is what many people love so much about the mobile OS – you can run your own code on it, customise it however you see fit, and generally tinker about much more so than you can with it’s competitors. The Android Market is open too – anybody can put an App on there and wait to start raking in the cash.

Everyone seems to be winning at the Game Developer Conference is San Francisco this week, as the Moscone center becomes engulfed by a host of weird and wonderful nerds looking to mix business with playful pleasure.

It would seem that after all those rumours attributing an astronomical price point to the Motorola Xoom, common sense has won out and the Honeycomb-powered tablet will indeed be relatively affordable at launch.

Just last week we brought you word that a company had developed a software solution to allow Android apps to run on MeeGo devices, now it appears similar forces are at work in the world of Blackberry. Several revelations in the past few days are now strongly pointing towards the appearance of a runtime to allow Android apps to be put to work on Blackberry OS.

Monday mornings are hard at the best of times. Imagine how much tougher they’d be if you were to wake up and discover that all your emails were gone. Well if you’re amongst the 0.8% of GMail users that this mishap affects, that could be exactly what happens to you.

Have you ever wondered what you would look like as an android? Wonder no more! Because Google is holding up a magic green mirror, giving us possibly the most useful app for Android so far: Androidify.

It’s an irrefutable fact that there’s nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you’re bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring data into pretty visuals.

New York Times | February 22, 2011 | Miguel Helft The fight for talent between Google and Facebook — or more precisely, the flow of Google employees to Facebook — is not just …

It wasn’t 3D stealing the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, but near field communication (NFC), a technology thought to settle, once and for all, the “mobile wallet” and “mobile payment” discussion.

How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking to the internet in droves to complain of apparently bricked devices.