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Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

After security company Lookout revealed 1 million people’s personal details were at risk after downloading an Android wallpaper app, Google has done its own investigation and decided Jackeey Wallpaper wasn’t actually causing any harm to users. https://gizmodo.com/over-1m-android-users-details-were-compromised-thanks-t-5599435 The app has been returned to the Android Market, and while we knew last week that the app…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 5

Android App Tells You If Your Fruit Loops Are Safe To Eat

Kellog’s [sic] Recalled Products is a new Android app. It lets you scan the barcodes on Kellogg’s items, with the results compared against a recalled products database—so you know what’s edible and what may contain traces of glass/metal/human skin. It exists because Kellogg’s recently released a product recall for a wide range of its cereal…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jun 30

How Google’s Failing the Android App Market

DVD Jon, the reverse engineer who decrypted DVDs for the masses and liberated iTunes with DoubleTwist, is worried about the Android Market. There’s too much junk, he says, and Google needs to follow Apple’s lead to clean it up. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-doubletwist-dvd-jon-s-file-swapping-media-pl-5161477 That might seem like a surprising notion coming from someone famous (or infamous, depending on…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 29

Android Market Is Acting Up, Showing No Apps

Of all the days, Android Market had to choose today to get a little wonky. Some Android users are seeing no apps in Android Market (there’s supposed to be 65,000), so it’s either a bug or someone’s math is terribly off. Either way, most people should be fine but if it’s affecting you, you’re not…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 23

Watch Live (Augmented Reality) Video at Wimbledon Even If You’ve Got Crummy Seats

Joining the Android version from last year, IBM’s free Seer augmented reality app for Wimbledon Tennis-goers will be available for iPhones too—just in the nick of time for the first serve on June 21st. Unless you’re actually planning on heading over to Wimbledon this year the app won’t be of much use, but for attendees…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 15

iPhone OS Still Triples Android’s Market Share

Nielsen’s new “iPhone vs. Android” report offers up the latest numbers in the big mobile battle: Both platforms have loyal users, but Apple’s still on top by a long shot. They don’t come as much of a surprise, but with all the talk of Android’s surging popularity and explosive app growth, Nielsen’s numbers do serve…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 5

Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs

NPD’s Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What’s surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive. The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD’s less direct assessment: [A]pproximately 12 percent of all U.S. computer owning households own…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 5

Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001

The last decline in PC shipments was a 5.1 decrease back in 2001 due to the crazy dot com bubble, so it’s not like PC sales decline regularly. That makes this 4% drop quite unusual. What does this mean? Most likely, it means we were right: the desktop PC is sputtering out. Not all the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

Image of the Day: Sony’s Innovative New Business Strategy

I don’t know about this one, Howard. Will your vegetables network properly with your fish? [thanks, Edan!] https://gizmodo.com/how-the-new-sony-will-become-awesome-again-5161845

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 28

Second-Largest DRAM Maker Qimonda’s Bankruptcy Drives Memory Prices Up 26%

A glut of supply has kept DRAM prices at rock-bottom lows recently, but now that the second-largest supplier of RAM chips—Germany’s Qimonda AG—has filed for bankruptcy, we could be in for a price spike. RAM prices are crazy: chip makers are always seeking the hair-thin balance between supply and demand as far as price goes,…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 3

SIM- and Hardware-Unlocked G1 Available to Developers (or You) for $400

The Android Dev Phone 1, a totally unlocked G1, is available to “developers” for only $399 after paying a small setup fee. Just register as a developer over at the Android Market and the phone is yours. Registration as a developer at the Market costs $25, but after that, you’re eligible for the cheap, unlocked…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 6

Reminder: Android Market Officially Open To All Devs Today

Expect a tidal wave of more Android goodness today, the first day any developer can register and upload their own applications to the no-overlord-approval-necessary Android Market. We’ll be following the action closely in our Android App Liveblog, so keep a close watch there as the applications start rolling in. [Android Developers Blog]

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 27

Disappearing Android Market Applications Were Pre-Release Demo Versions

Official word from Google on the mysterious disappearance of many apps from the supposedly intervention-free Android Market yesterday: The demo devices give an early version of the Market since it hasn’t been launched yet. We needed to be sure that a few of the 3rd party apps are final for consumer use in the Android…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 21

Computers Screw Stock Market Even More Than It’s Already Screwed

As if we didn’t have enough with the stock market going down in flames on its own, computers have decided to screw them a little bit more and make everyone go “WTF” for a few minutes this morning. After dropping around two hundred gazillion points yesterday, today the Dow Jones industrials saw another drop of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 10

USA Ahead of 3G Race, Europe Drops to Second Position

Hey you Europeans! You may have all your hot Swedish and Italian and Spanish and British girls, and all those old stones, and all the awesome cuisine, and all the delicious wine, and all that great coffee, and all the cool clubs, but guess what we have? We have the number one position in 3G…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 4

Egg-Headed Analysts: Sony PS3 to Win Console War

Navel-gazing think tankers at Research and Markets say even though the Sony PS3 has lost the opening battle, it will still win the console war, predicting an installed base of 75 million PS3s around the world by 2010. Researchers at the Yankee Group echo that, predicting the PS 3 up top by 2011 with a…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 3

Google Returns Personal Data-Collecting Wallpaper App to Android Market

Android App Tells You If Your Fruit Loops Are Safe To Eat

How Google’s Failing the Android App Market

Android Market Is Acting Up, Showing No Apps

Watch Live (Augmented Reality) Video at Wimbledon Even If You’ve Got Crummy Seats

iPhone OS Still Triples Android’s Market Share

Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs

Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001

Image of the Day: Sony’s Innovative New Business Strategy

Second-Largest DRAM Maker Qimonda’s Bankruptcy Drives Memory Prices Up 26%

SIM- and Hardware-Unlocked G1 Available to Developers (or You) for $400

Reminder: Android Market Officially Open To All Devs Today

Disappearing Android Market Applications Were Pre-Release Demo Versions

Computers Screw Stock Market Even More Than It’s Already Screwed

USA Ahead of 3G Race, Europe Drops to Second Position

Egg-Headed Analysts: Sony PS3 to Win Console War

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