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Android Apps Security Alert: sneaky Trojan adware potentially affecting Millions

Recently, anti-virus & anti-malware company Symantec alerted the public of Android.Counterclank and categories it as a very low threat Trojan that steals personal information; which infected more than 5 million people. Mobile threat and anti-virus company Lookout posted in a blog post and disagreed with the assessment. They felt it was "an aggressive form of ad network and should be taken seriously."Read Full Article

SHADOWGUN: The Leftover is the latest update & available in Android Market

SHADOWGUN: The Leftover is the latest addition to the third person shooter series; adding four new levels new enemies, weapons and techniques to master while your goal is to get your butt off that forsaken planet... can you make it?Read Full Article

Mobile Threat Tracker app Visualizes on Timeline [Video]

Lookout, the folks behind one of the leading mobile security apps, released Mobile Threat Tracker, a visualization app that shows users who are affected and protected by mobile vulnerabilities. It does so with cool particle effects on the globe represented over a timeline you can scroll from days past to the present. Furthermore, you can see to threats in the wild and learn more about their symptoms.Read Full Article

VMware Virtualization Android App – Eliminates Need for Work Phone & Personal Phone

Some of us have this dilemma. You have this amazing Android smartphone that does virtually everything yet your job insists you use an antiquated Blackberry. Just the fact of having two phones drives some people [cough me...] nuts. Reason being security, tracking and software deployment. VMWare aims to ease employee and IT administrator frustrations with virtualization Android app software that allows employees to have a completely separate and secure work phone environment on a personal phone or vice-versa.Read Full Article

TeleNav Launches Scout for Cars [Video]

At CES 2012, TeleNav extended their Scout GPS navigation platform from web and mobile to cars. It uses the navigation engine from your smartphone to render HTML 5 based GPS navigation to an in-car dash creating personalized routing options for you, says the maker. With the app you can control your smartphone with larger dashboard display for features like real-time traffic, access your favorites, and perform points-of-interest searches.Read Full Article

Control your Digital Camera with your Android Phone

Check out how you can control a smart camera using a smartphone. Very convenient if you're taking one of those group shots you want everyone to be in without using the camera timer feature and running back and forth to check the shot. Even cooler, after you snap the photo you can preview it on the phone versus everyone trampling towards the camera setup to peek. The technology behind this is called DLNA, Samsung brands it AllShare. Whereas you can share content from device to TV or device to device over Wi-Fi.Read Full Article

SHADOWGUN 3D Multi-Player Face-off Demoed on ASUS Transformer Prime with Nvidia Tegra 3

How awesome is this... The third person-shooter 3D game, SHADOWGUN, was demoed by Nvidia on an ASUS Transformer Prime at CES. Played as a multi-player over Wi-Fi, it supports up to eight simultaneous players. The game has sweet console quality graphics, displaying at 60 frames per second without hitch thanks to the Tegra 3 processor under the hood. That laptop you see in the video is actually a tablet with dock that supports gaming controllers and mirrors its screen to televisions via HDMI. If you have a Tegra device we implore you to download this game now!Read Full Article

Speak to Dragon Go! Voice Recognition App Listens & Delivers

Nuance released Dragon Go!, a voice understanding and recognition app for Android & iOS, which allows users to access content and services from over 200 resources. It's designed to allow you to speak actions to the app, it is coherent of your voice and either seeks or launch the relevant information requested. For example saying, “What’s the best Thai food near me,” will launch the Yelp tab for local reviews, or flip over to the Phone tab to quickly call to find out about any specials on the menu that evening. Download the app with our convenient tools...Read Full Article

GameTel Wireless Controller Turns Phones into Gaming Consoles, Android & iOS

GameTel demoed a neato Bluetooth wireless gaming controller for us at CES 2012 which turns your Android or iPhone into a game console. It has full game controller features including a D-pad, 4 action-buttons, options buttons and upper shoulder buttons.Read Full Article

How to make your Android phone look like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

For those that want the look of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) the easy way, you can by installing a few Android apps. Below we've included convenient download links to install the recommended apps...Read Full Article

Android Market Surpasses 400,000 Android Apps

According to Distimo, an app store statistics aggregation company, Google's Android Market has surpassed 400,000 active Android apps; with an estimated 100,000 active publishers. Most, approximately two-thirds of the inventory in the Android Market can be obtained for free- this an eight percent increase since April 2011 due to the success of freemium apps business model, free to download with purchase opportunities within the app.Read Full Article

300+ Best Android Apps Reviews of 2011

300+ Best Android Apps of 2011 reviewed by the expert and industry leaders AndroidTapp.com. Every app listed is a top app indeed plus we have reviewed each giving our detailed unbiased analysis, pros versus cons, screenshots & videos, score rating, and more. There are a lot of apps here so we have created sorting options, use barcode scanner to download, along with quick download buttons for your convenience.Read Full Article

How to Download Free Music Android

"How to download free music Android?" is a question we get asked often, so we'll show you how it is done. As you would expect there are apps that help you do this. Below we've listed the (current) top 3 Android apps to get free music.Read Full Article

Gameloft HD Games will be Reduced to $0.99 Starting Thursday, for One Week

Gameloft just alerted us all their HD games in the Android Market will be reduced to $0.99 (with the exception of Modern Combat 3- this one will only be on sale one day). Staring Thursday December 29th 10AM PST through Thursday January 5th 10AM PST. Here are a few titles...Read Full Article

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