Congrats to the winner of Appbackr’s Build The Maze And Break It competition: Francesca StaAna and TechiXoft
Last week, we ran a contest hosted by Appbackr Xchange along with Android Guys, My Droid World, Talk Android and Android Spin. The idea was simple, find the parts of the maze and first to send in the completed maze would have their app featured here, ...
Security researchers use an Android phone to remotely unlock and start a car
Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik, two security researchers with iSec Partners recently showed off a technique they call “war-texting” at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Using an Android phone they were able to show how they exploited ...
Google: Location information is opt-in and not tied to users
One of the big stories this week was how Apple was collecting location information about iPhone users, and the data was stored on iPhones and computers, fairly accessible. It wasn’t long before everyone’s sights turned to Google and ...
Google Maps Navigation now using traffic data to plan routes
I’ve often wondered why this wasn’t a thing already. We’ve all known that for some time Google Maps for Android has had a traffic layer that can show you where traffic is moving smoothly and where there’s bumper-to-bumper slowdowns. ...
Weirdest app of the year? Wet Cement
When I first saw the title, I thought it was just a clever name for an app that did something different. But Wet Cement does exactly what you might think it would do from the name. It’s only function is for Android users to geotag places that ...
Google Quietly Rolls Out Google Maps 3.1.0 For Android
Without an official blog post or even a peep from Google (yet), they quietly rolled out Google Maps version 3.1.0 for Android phones, now available on the Android Market. And unlike other normal application updates, you will not be notified of it, just ...
