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5 Must-Have Android Accessories

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It’s looking like 2014 will be a great year for Android. The newest HTC One phone is scheduled to launch before the spring; according to PocketLint, the HTC One M8 model will include “a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, a 5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution display and Android 4.4 KitKat with Sense 6.0.” Samsung will also be introducing a few new Galaxy phones, including the appropriately-named Samsung Galaxy Round, a curved phone designed to fit the contours of the hand.

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If you’re planning to pick up one of these new Android smartphones, or simply to kit out the HTC or Samsung phone you already have, here are five of the top must-have Android accessories: [Read more…] about 5 Must-Have Android Accessories

Malware Wrapper Uses Windows to Infect Android

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Malware Wrapper Uses Windows to Infect Android (via slashdot)

A bit of malware discovered by researchers at Symantec this week reverses the target-selection priorities of most malware designs by treating Windows-based PCs as a path to Android devices, rather than as the primary target. “We’ve seen Android…

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Monsieur’s Android-Powered Bartender: Get Your Drink On

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Monsieur’s Android-Powered Bartender: Get Your Drink On (via Tom’s Hardware)

Bonjour, Monsieur: The Intelligent Robotic Drink Mixer You’re going to want this. I’m not sure your wallet or your liver will thank you, but if you’re a frequent host, you’re really going to want this. Monsieur is a robotic bartender. It mixes drinks…

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5 Must Have Cloud Storage Apps for Android

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Someday, future historians will write about this age of technological explosion and when they do it will probably include a sentence like this “Somewhere around the year 2012 mankind decided that they absolutely had to access every piece of work and personal data wherever they went."

If you’re someone who needs to have access to every file, document, photo or other media with you at all times then cloud based storage will deliver the experience you’re looking for.

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Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists

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Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists (via slashdot)

Google chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt thinks that his company’s Android mobile operating system is “more secure than the iPhone,” according to a ZDNet reporter attending this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Apple would probably take…

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More Android Phones Activated Than Babies Babies Born

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On a daily basis, that is. This is one of the most attention-grabbing findings of the New Relic team, which they shared in an infographic titled “Mobile APPeal: Exploring the Mobile Landscape”. It is hard to ignore the fact that the team had the infographic created to promote their app performance management solution services, but the data presented is interesting enough, even to the average user who simply likes going through stats.

So yeah, they claim that there are 1.3 million Android activations, as opposed to 300,000 births. I am not sure if they included the Philippines in their calculations because we do have a lot to contribute to the latter stat. [Read more…] about More Android Phones Activated Than Babies Babies Born