Archive for November, 2011

Google Map 6.0 Beta Available

Google continues to surprise in a good sense its customers with its innovations and solutions. We certainly have heard about Google Map 5.0 app for Android. The latter received up to 12 upgrades and it was obvious a new version is necessary. And here it is — a new Google Map 6.0, which contains not only traditional maps, but also indoor maps. To say Google was the first to do this would not be just, since Nokia also has come forward with the idea.

 

So if you ever wonder how to go from one sector of your favorite mall to the other, there is no need to strain your neck for discovering the wall signs and frantically looking through the map book. But to use Google Maps 6.0 you have to be either in the US or in Japan.

This is the Beta version of the application, and it is clear Google has firstly focused on malls and airports, for these venues can really be a nuisance from a point of good orientation. Among the locations are Mall of America, IKEA, The Home Depot, select Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Daimaru, Taskashimaya and Mitsukoshi locations, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Chicago O’Hare (ORD), San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Narita International (NRT). This list will grow certainly and one day can even include your house too: you never know.

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November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Control Your Android Phone From PC

If no one is excited with an application to control a PC from your Android powered device, then doing the other way around is still not that much covered. Considering this fact, Sand Studio company has developed an application, which will show the contents of your phone on the PC’s web browser in the way of an independent operating system. It’s pretty similar in its operation to an application from Motorola called WebTop and its really fast.

The use is simple, just have the app running, connect to your home WiFi network and log in from the PC browser. Here you are and now you can view all files currently installed on your phone. You can cut, copy and paste, search, rename or delete files on your SD card. You can install and uninstall applications, preview photos, set wallpapers, listen to music and search contact information. Being OS simulation, it can work also as a Task Manager and kill an operation and show information on installed applications.

 

 

It should be noted this is still in its beta stage but this new version comes with fixed bugs like faster operation and no previously reported SMS sending issues. And most importantly, it is free and can be currently downloaded from Android Market.

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November 29, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Fahrbot Mobile Creates Undelete for Android

There just can’t be a human PC user, who sooner or later would not start looking for a software to undelete their accidentally lost files. So there are thousands of applications now available to download for restoring lost files.

The Fahrbot Mobile known for being the developers of the feature-packed Call-Master applications has released a beta version of a file recovery tool for Android called Undelete. It lets you easily restore any kind of deleted information from the phone’s internal memory and the SD card and it’s the first application of its kind to work on Android.

The company though gives a warning that not all files will be restored, since they may have been deleted far too long ago for the application to discover and restore them. The app works quite straightforward. First you have to be the root user, and then let it scan the desired location and see the list of discovered files, the location from which they were deleted and their size. After which you can command the app to restore it, and Undelete will place it right where it was deleted, if the file is not corrupted or damaged of course. Badly though the developers cannot guarantee its smooth working at this stage, so they are warning to use this application with caution.

The app can be downloaded from Android Market for free.

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November 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Google Denies any Malware Threat to Android

If you remember, last week Google’s open-source software leader Chris DiBona announced there is absolutely no need to worry about the reported malware threat to Android. DiBona particularly stressed the Android software is programmed in a way it prevents situations with viruses like they traditionally happen in PC’s. Going further, he called those who make anti-virus applications for Android, RIM and iOS “scammers and charlatans.”

On Google+ DiBona posted the following, “Virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you BS protection software for Android, RIM, and iOS. They are charlatans and scammers. If you work for a company selling virus protection for Android, RIM or iOS, you should be ashamed of yourself.”

To answer these allegations, Dennis Maslennikov, malware analyst at Kaspersky Labs, said, “Today malware for Android devices is one of the biggest issues in the mobile malware area. The growth of numbers of malware for Android is significant in the last 5 months. In June we’ve discovered 112 modifications of Android malware, in July – 212; August – 161; 559 in September; 808 in October.”

Obviously  parties differ on the definition of what malware exactly is. DiBona defines them as viruses in the traditional sense, and emphasizes that they are not a threat to Android, so there is no use to market a software under “anti-virus” name.

Anyway, software security companies stress they are making a software capable of fighting Trojans and other threats like phishing.

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November 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Google Justifies Absence of ICS Visual Voicemail Application

If you own a device with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and think it can be deficient because it operates no built-in ICS visual voicemail app, then you can relax. Google recently announced it is not an error or deficiency. Google has deliberately excluded it.

The company justifies this saying the visual voicemail is carrier dependent. So Google only lets the voicemails be registered in the call log. Also, it has developed an API enabling developers and users to come forward with their own solutions based on their personal preferences. This sounds basically good, for indeed visual voicemail service is not standardized across so many carriers, but the precedents prove it can take a very long time before the carriers realize a solution to this in practice.

There is also Google Voice option (that’s if you reside in the USA) and a number of third party applications to satisfy any visual voicemail need, but this can be a bit risky for some of such applications have not been tested

November 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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