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Google says Hello Moto …

 

What is the deal..

Google Inc. has acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings in $12.5 billions. This deal is one of the biggest deal done by the Internet gaint. Motorola which is known for its excellent build quality products will now work with the Google and with Android to be more exact.

Market Scenario..

This deal can be seen as another alarming deal done. Android which already rules majority of the smart-phones, marginally less than the  Apple’s iPhone OS and far more than the Blackberry OS. The primary reason behind this popularity in so short span of time of Android is being it as a Open Source Project. Any open source project is far more better than its priced contemporaries. Be it MS Office Vs Open Office or Adobe Photoshop Vs GIMP Image Editor. The present situation is a win-win situation. Why because if Apple has Twitter, Microsoft has Facebook then, now Google has Motorola. Every gaint company has got an allie to help it to compete in the market. There are more people now browsing net from a mobile device than earlier and the count is still on.

What is going to happen..

Personally I feel that this deal is going to lower the price of the smart-phones, which is a key factor in the country like India. It is always easier to compensate with the price than with the features. If we take a look on the smart-phone companies no one seems to be lacking in the race. Microsoft has joined hands with htc, Blackberry has launched a super Playbook, Samsung has a complete new version of Galaxy Tab, LG has introduced slimest smart phone. And now perhaps the leap will be taken by the Google. No doubt that iPhone Os is one of the best in its interface, Blackberry is best in security of the datas and informations, but the price is a barrier in country like India(although Blackberry has launched a 8520 model at 9K but the phone has optimum specifications) . Lets hope this ambitious deal is in the favour of the Indian customers and the price of the next motorola android phone comes at a price of Levis Jeans.

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A Wonder Apps FaceNiff Allows the Clueless to Hack Facebook in Seconds Over Wi-Fi

Stealing cookies to potentially steal users' credentials just got so easy and portable that loony stalkers are probably jumping for joy. Picture this mobile-type scenario, as a person with a rooted Android smartphone casually strolls by a Starbucks, he or she taps once on a new app, and whammo, hops on and takes over Facebook profiles.
Like a wicked mobile cousin of Firesheep, FaceNiff could allow even a clueless noob to hack Facebook over Wi-FI networks. The hacking app requires root access on Android phones. FaceNiff allows users to sniff and intercept web sessions for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, and Nasza-Klasa (a Polish site). Unlike Firesheep, the FaceNiff app listens in on wireless networks encrypted with WPA and WPA2 (WEP too) so that with one tap and within seconds, users can hijack the account types supported.
Not that you intend to try out FaceNiff, but you can't hijack more than three profiles. However, FaceNiff app developer Bartosz Ponurkiewicz says more sites for hopping onto user accounts will soon be supported. He noted if you want to hijack more than three profiles with FaceNiff, there will be an option to pay and unlock the code.
FaceNiff has been confirmed to work on rooted mobile phones: HTC Desire CM7, original Droid/Milestone CM7, SE Xperia X10, Samsung Galaxy S, Nexus 1 CM7, HTC HD2, LG Swift 2X, LG Optimus black (original ROM), LG Optimus 3D (original ROM), and Samsung Infuse.


Watch How Can It Be Done::::

 

As a portable sniff and snoop, FaceNiff presents yet another possible assault on privacy and security. Imagine how happy this might make off-their-rocker-stalkers, cause it's not just for public wireless networks. Depending how you manage your wireless network at home, someone could park outside or walk by your house and FaceNiff you.

This one-tap-wonder app again underscores the importance of using HTTPS. If you have not done so, you can tweak your Facebook and Twitter settings to always enable HTTPS. Or use the EFF's Firefox add-on HTTPS Everywhere or another addon of your choosing to force SSL. HTTPS is your friend. It is way past time to start applying major public pressure in order to force sites to use HTTPS. Or perhaps time to get serious about security and use a VPN; stay under 100MB and this one is free, or you might want to search for other free VPN services to protect your privacy.
While we are on the subject of Androids and apps, Lookout Mobile Security reported finding 26 malware-laced applications in the official Android Market. The smartphone security firm said the infected apps are a "stripped down version of DroidDream" and were probably maliciously crafted by the same developers. The new malware is being called “Droid Dream Light” (DDLight). Malware in the tainted apps can be activated by an incoming call, meaning users do not actually have to launch the app to trigger it.
Anyone who downloaded an app on Lookout's list could have their personal information compromised. It is suspected that between 30,000 and 120,000 users were affected by DroidDreamLight.

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::::Keep Your Android Smartphones Secure::::Go Through This Article

There have been a high increase in the reports of trojans and malware in the Android Market and users are feeling concerned about their Android smartphones. They are scared of using new application and games feeling that may contain virus, Trojens etc. And this is all because of the high rate of increase in the use of Android based mobile phones. 

The Android smartphone users need to take some simple steps and be careful during their smartphone usage. Especially, they need to think before tapping on unknown links to ensure their devices remain safe all the time.

Most of the users forget to lock their phone screen which is still the first line of defence for all the smartphones. Users just need to go to Settings - Location and Security to lock their screen either through a pattern or a PIN. The lock screen pattern should be unique only to the users so others may not be able to decode it.
Even choosing a screen timeout option works well for the users as it locks the handset whenever there is no activity on the phone for a long time.
Even if the phone is gone, users don't want their data to be compromised. The passwords should not be stored on a single location through a master password. Those who do set a master password, should make sure the passwords are encrypted. While browsing the web on the phone, it is a good practice to avoid storing username and password locally on the phone.
The Android smartphones have the facility to sync the phone with users' Google account so all the important data can be stored on the cloud as well, which allows the users to access the data later whenever they need it. If the users are not using the sync feature, they may find it difficult to manually enter all the important data all the time.
There are apps available in the Android Market as well, which enable the users to lock individual applications through gestures or passwords. Some of them are free but users should make sure the apps they are using come from a trusted source.
Before installing any app, users should read all the access and permission requests. Most of the users make the mistake of not reading the agreement and grant the access to the app without thinking. For example, if a calculator app is being downloaded, and is asking for access to the Internet, it doesn't make sense. Even the permission levels should be looked into and if any app is asking for root access, it should be promptly deleted because root access can let the app play havoc with the phone.
At the same time, when it is being suggested to avoid those apps which are asking for root access, it is advisable that users should root their devices only when they are absolutely sure. If there is any iota of doubt about anything, it's better not to root (make changes to system files) the device - because rooting always opens up the core resources of the phone to anyone, which is not a healthy digital lifestyle.
Many users tend to use their smartphones on WiFi more to keep the data costs under control and speed up their browsing. The problem is they begin to feel safer on WiFi whereas the same risks faced by personal computers are faced by smartphones too while being used on WiFi networks. Any online banking service or financial tracking should be avoided if the users are not on a secure network.
All the apps being used on the phone and the operating system itself should be up to date, which means the latest versions should run on the phone. Keeping the software up to date is important because many new methods of gaining unauthorised access to the Android smartphones are discovered all the time, so the more up to date the phone software is, the more difficult it is to gain unauthorized access to data in it.
Last but not the least, it's always good to depend on the official Android Market or reputed app stores for the apps. As far as physical security of the phone is concerned, there are no tips for that - and no substitute to being careful either.

 

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Speed Up The Speed Of Your Android's SD Cards

When you will go through many SD cards you will notice that the speed of different SD card is different. So some of them are wit high speed and few with low speed. Here's a way to enhance the speed of your SD cards.
Android users, this can be of great importance. If you’re constantly transferring files back and forth between your SD card and your computer, a faster card will help you do it, well, faster. It’s even more important for users, rooted and non-rooted alike, who store apps on their SD cards. A faster SD card will make those apps run smoother. If you are of the rooted class, you can actually boost your SD card’s speed with an app from the Market.
       It might seem like snake oil, but the app really does work. What it does, as I learned in the accompanying xda thread, is allow your Android to read further ahead — that is, it can cache more data while the SD card process works. That might sound confusing, but liken it to peeking around the corner. Your SD card speed is linear, but you can use this app so that your device can look ahead and cache data, making the load a big quicker. Again, this is for rooted devices only, as the function requires superuser permissions. You can get SD-Booster for free from the Market.

 

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Pay Through your Mobile Using Google's Wallet & Google'sOffer's Get Discount Also

Google unveiled its wireless payment system and its new Groupon-like deals site at a press event in New York on Thursday. Called Google Wallet and Google Offers, the two features can operate either separately or together to make it easier to pay for things in person and get deals while shopping.
"Our goal is to bring together all the pieces of the ecosystem. Your phone will be your wallet. Just tap, pay, and save," Google VP of commerce Stephanie Tilenius told the crowd. "We believe 2011 and beyond will be the age of MoLo—Mobile Local commerce."

Here's how the whole thing will work, starting with Google Offers. Just like Groupon, LivingSocial, and a plethora of other daily deal sites, a coupon for a local business will be sent to your inbox as an "offer of the day." It will also be able to send offers to people who check into certain businesses and make offers tied to certain places—Google said the service is "very contextually aware."
That's where Google Wallet comes in. Among other things, Google Wallet will be able to store your credit card information (Google's launch partners include MasterCard and Citi) as well as loyalty rewards, purchase points, and any saved-up Google Offers that might apply. Then, users who have Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled Android phones will be able to simply whip out their devices when shopping and tap them on electronic payment processors in order to get deals and pay for their goods.
Google said that more than 20,000 US merchants—including Macy's, Subway, American Eagle, Jamba Juice, CVS, and Walgreens—are already set up to work with Google Wallet, which functions with the PayPass systems that many merchants already have in their stores. Users don't even have to open up the Google Wallet app in order to pay, either; if they've already chosen which cards they want to use, they can simply tap the phone on the PayPass terminal.
But what about security? Google said that as long as the device's screen is off, NFC is disabled so that nearby skimmers can't steal any information. And NFC-capable Android phones—of which the Nexus S is the only one, for now—will store your credit card information on a secure chip that is both tamper- and laser-resistant. Even if you lose your phone, a thief wouldn't be able to extract the information on his own (though stopping that person from immediately buying thousands of Subway sandwiches with your phone could be a challenge).
The company said that the first markets it's targeting for Google Wallet are San Francisco and New York, with more on the way in the coming months. Google reps also said that more features are coming, such as digital receipts that transfer back to your Android device after you pay.
"We plan to aggressively enable everything a consumer would want to put in their wallet," Google VP of payments Osama Bedier said.
As we mentioned earlier, the Nexus S is currently the only Android phone available with NFC capabilities, but Sprint's Fared Adib said at the event that the carrier is working with Samsung, Motorola, and HTC to bring more NFC phones to the market. Google also indicated during a post-event Q&A that Google Wallet could even work with an NFC sticker on the back of a phone, and said that it's looking at bringing such stickers to market for those without NFC-capable phones.
Both Google Offers and Google Wallet have been rumored for some time now, so it was only a matter of time before the company made a public announcement. Apple is also expected to unveil a NFC-capable iPhone sometime in the future, but no one knows whether NFC will come as part of the next iPhone or the one after it.
Even if Apple does follow up with its own NFC offerings, it's clear that Google and its partners strongly believe in the future of Google Wallet. "There can be no doubt that today's announcement will be looked at as the inflection point where mobile payments move from concept to mass production," said Citi's Paul Galant.

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Android Market's Most Popular Emulators Yong Zhang Disappear

If you're an Android gamer, chances are you've heard of Nesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid and Gameboid: they're all video game console emulators developed by yongzh, and many ranked among the most popular paid apps on the Android Market. This week, they've got something else in common, too -- they've all been abruptly removed. Following a complaint from Sega, two emulators were nixed late last month, but we're hearing that Google has since revoked yongzh's developer privileges, just like PSX4Droid comrade-in-arms ZodTTD. We're currently reaching out to both yongzh and Google for comment, and hope to hear back soon, but it's looking like a bleak week for the emulation community.

Update: We got in touch with yongzh (or Yong Zhang, as he's known in real life) to discuss the matter, and he confirms that his developer account has been removed and his apps pulled without warning -- cutting off his primary source of income and leaving him with an inbox stuffed with worried email from customers. He has, however, already migrated a number of emulators to third-party app store SlideME, where they'll be free for a while, allowing existing customers to get updates without paying a second time, and likely helping a number of new individuals to mooch off his troubles. He's not too optimistic about his prospects at SlideME, though.

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The Online Bank PayPal sues Google For Stolen Wallet Secret

Few days ago Google announced their Google's Wallet through which you can make your Android phone your wallet. And now the news is coming that PayPal had sued Google's for using their ideas of Wallet. Google Wallet is only just official, and already it has its first lawsuit. PayPal has sprung out of the gate with accusations that Google used trade secrets gleaned from ex-PayPal employees now working on the Google Wallet project. According to the eBay-owned payments firm, ex-exec Osama Bedier took with him “intimate knowledge of PayPal’s capabilities, strategies, plans, and market intelligence” which he disclosed to Google after being recruited by Stephanie Tilenius, previously SVP of North America and Global Products; part of Tilenius’ agreement with PayPal was not to recruit its employees over to their new Google taskmasters.

“We spend a lot of time and energy creating the things that make PayPal unique and a preferred way to pay for almost 100 million people around the world. We treat PayPal’s “secrets” seriously, and take it personally when someone else doesn’t. So we made a decision today. We filed a lawsuit against Google and two former colleagues who now work there, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius.”

However, not only did Tilenius recruit Bedier, PayPal alleges, but Bedier went on to solicit others among his former colleagues to jump ship to Google.
Meanwhile, PayPal also claims that while it had been negotiating with Google between 2008 and 2011 over being the default payment method for Android Market purchases, Tilenius was also involved in secret recruitment talks with the search giant. “During that time, PayPal provided Google with an extensive education in mobile payments” the company insists. “Bedier was the senior PayPal executive accountable for leading negotiations with Google on Android during this period. At the very point when the companies were negotiating and finalizing the Android-PayPal deal, Bedier was interviewing for a job at Google – without informing PayPal of this conflicting position.”
PayPal also claims Bedier has boasted of a DropBox full of confidential company secrets that he is willing to hand over to Google, and will not allow his former employers to examine. The payments firm is demanding not only compensation and assurances that further secrets won’t be passed around, but royalties on Google’s new Wallet system based on the idea that it’s in-part using PayPal secrets.

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Why Google Delays Opening Of New Android Honeycomb Coad

As we all know that android is an open source operating system so its source code are used free by the programmer to develop the new version.That is also true to the Android 3.0, Honeycomb, the first Google has created specifically thinking into tablets. Andy Rubin, the head of Android at Google, has ensured that this operating system is "an open source project, we have not changed their strategy." However, "to respect the timing of exit of tablets have made some concessions. We have not thought about what would be needed to do to make the system work on the phones. We will add resources and slow down our schedule beyond what is reasonable." Rubin ensures that publish the source code when possible. Currently, Xoom Motorla tablet is equipped with Honeycomb. The reason that Google would want to avoid market fragmentation resulting in the smartphone, the ability to make versions of its operating system it entails, for example, that some manufacturers specifications unique request for applications on Android which is detrimental dissemination and annoying to the developers that they must create more of an adaptation of his application on Android.
Coinciding with this information, news emerged on the draft just leaving Motorola's Android operating system and create your own. Motorola since 2009 working with Google for its smartphones and tablets. The AmB would be based on the need to differentiate from other competitors who also work with Android and not rely on a single supplier.
Oracle and a French company have raised lawsuits against Google for alleged patent infringement Android what worries manufacturers who use the consequences of an eventual ruling against the company's operating system. Other companies like HP or Blackberry, have opted to develop its own operating system for tablets of the brand.
However, they never break bridges. Blackberry, for example, has announced that its tablet Playbook will have a reader application that will run Android with simple adjustment operation. Once adapted, the developer must receive approval from the BlackBerry application store. With this move, the company wants to take advantage of the offer of 200,000 applications that currently work with Android.

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Android User Dont Likes Paying For The Application They Like

Its a new story in the Apps Market war: A new study that says Google’s Android Apps Market is stuffed full of free apps, but has very few people will pay for.
There are 72,000 paid apps in Google’s store, compared to Apple’s 211,000. But more important is the number of apps the stores are actually selling, and that’s where analytics firm Distimo weighs in. It says that when it comes to big hits, Google’s store is much further behind.
The most telling data point: Distimo says only two paid apps have been downloaded more than 500,000 times worldwide since Google’s market opened in early 2009. But it says six paid apps in Apple iPhone’s app store did similar volume in March and April–in the U.S. alone.
As Fortune.com’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes, this report is from the same people who riled Apple fans last month with a study that said Android was set to catch Apple in the sheer number of apps available. So perhaps next month they’ll come out with a study that makes Android boosters happy again.
But Distimo’s newest report does seem to sync up with comments we’ve heard from developers in the past: They’re interested in distributing their stuff via Android, but they’re not sure they’ll be able to sell it there.
Here’s the way MLB.com chief Bob Bowman put it in an April interview: “The Android user typically is less likely to buy, and therefore the ROI on developing for Android is different than it is for Apple….The iPhone and iPad user is interested in buying content-–that’s one of the reasons they bought the device. The Android buyer is different.”

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Android Phone Next Leval:: Use It As Remote Control Of Your Home

Its quite normal to think that Google want their O/S(android) to be used much more than any other operating system. So for that they will always try to have something that is not in others. So at a conference of developers in San Francisco this week, the company showed off a future where someone could use an Android phone to turn on and off the lights, the dishwasher, a lamp or a sprinkler system — or anything else they want to. Means to have a total control of your home through a android phone.
                                                            The technology, which Google calls Android@Home, would be built into appliances or light bulbs so they could wirelessly communicate with Android devices, similar to the way a Bluetooth headset communicates with a cellphone.
This vision of an Android-powered home is still futuristic, and one that other companies have tried without getting very far. But this year, a company called LightingScience will release LED light bulbs that communicate with Android devices so if you are feeling particularly lazy, you can turn off the lights without getting out of bed.
“Everything should be Android-ified,” said Andy Rubin, head of Android, during a conversation with reporters. “We should just take it to new levels. It’s no longer something that people will go to the store to buy and then bring to their home or bring to their office. It’s something that will actually bridge those things.”
Google also introduced the Open Accessory toolkit, which may help hobbyist developers who don’t make washing machines or light bulbs make other things that work with Android. The kit has tools for developers to build hardware accessories — like headsets, game controllers or exercise gadgets — that work with Android devices.
This has already been possible, but there has not been a simple, standard way for hardware and software developers to make their devices work together.“This is a standard way for Android applications to talk to accessories,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, director of engineering for Android, in an interview.
Google showed an Android device plugged into an exercise bike, and said the tools could be used for as-yet-unimaginable other things, like building robots.
Developers were excited; of the dozens of conference sessions for developers, the session about the Open Accessory toolkit had a line down the hall and around the corner and Google had to turn people away because the room wasn’t big enough.
As Mr. Rubin put it during a news conference: “You let these Androids out of their cage, you give them autonomy, they have feet and stuff, and you have no idea where they go. This is the great thing about open source.”

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Google's Android is the king:::: Sales of Android Devices 6 Times more than last year...

It’s really no surprise when we see the numbers of the latest Android sales and market share. The Android platform has made itself the King of the mobile OS market in a few short years. Even coming a tad bit late to the game behind Apple’s iOS platform, Android has shown that it has what it takes to stay in the game and then overtake the position as the number one mobile OS.
Gartner is reporting that Android has trumped first quarter iPhone sales in the first quarter of 2011 with over 36.3 million devices sold. That is over six times the amount of Android devices that were sold during the first quarter of last year. Also, Android has almost quadrupled its share of the mobile OS market since last year from 9.6 percent to a whopping 36 percent of mobile devices. It’s sort of hard to believe that Android has grown to such a behemoth that it is.


Table 1
Worldwide Mobile Terminal Sales to End Users in 1Q11 (Thousands of Units)

Company	1Q11 Units	1Q11 Market Share (%)	1Q10 Units	1Q10 Market Share (%)
Nokia	107,556.1	25.1	110,105.4	30.6
Samsung	68,782.0	16.1	64,897.1	18.0
LG	23,997.2	5.6	27,190.1	7.6
Apple	16,883.2	3.9	8,270.1	2.3
RIM	13,004.0	3.0	10,752.5	3.0
ZTE	9,826.8	2.3	6,104.3	1.7
HTC	9,313.5	2.2	3,378.4	0.9
Motorola	8,789.7	2.1	9,574.5	2.7
Sony Ericsson	7,919.4	1.9	9,865.7	2.7
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.	7,002.9	1.6	5,236.1	1.5
Others	154,770.9	36.2	104,230.3	29.0
Total	427,846	100.0	359,605	100.0

Source: Gartner (May 2011)

Something also of note is how Android has surpassed iOS’s ad revenue in the Millennial Media Network coming in at 53% of all ad impressions where as iOS was at 16%.
It’s always fun to throw around numbers and talk about how Android is dominating the market and the like, but really what does it mean for all of us consumers? To be honest, it’s really a great time to be a smartphone consumer because when companies like Apple are threatened by Android dominance in the mobile space, they tend to release even better products which in turn pushes other manufacturers to release better Android products. It’s a cycle of healthy competition that produces better and better gear for us to play with.
On another note, the overall Android dominance could push Google into the front of the mobile OS race so far that they start to drag their feet on adding extra features and giving users timely updates. I have a good feeling though that a company of engineers may not fall into the trap of “lazy dominance” as their mobile OS becomes larger and larger in the space.
The only thing that truly disturbs the tech fanboy is that we only have two true mobile OS players right now as other companies (RIM, Microsoft, HP/Palm, and Nokia) are still trying to figure out what they need to do.
Via [Infoworld] Source [Gartner]

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