e of the device is still active therefore a simple firmware update might fix the issue. The developer who first reported the problem speculates that the problem might have been caused due to the update failing to preserve the encryption seed. Affected developers have been trying to reach Samsung for the firmware update to fix the issue, but predictably enough, the company has remained silent. …
to address fragmentation issues. But Android’s vast array of devices has troubled all the top premium video service providers, stretching the Netflix app launch and limiting the devices it supports as well. The fragmentation with Android’s OS is especially rampant on tablets, omitting them from getting Hulu Plus at all. When dedicated big brands like Hulu can’t figure an Android tablet strategy because of fragmentation, it ultimately hurts Andro…
and Samsung by surprise as they have just started to roll out Android Honeycomb 3.1. The follow up to the latter is likely to be security-related and may only bring a few additional minor features like enhanced compatibility with 7-inch screens. Expect Ice Cream Sandwich, the next big iteration of Android to be the one on which Google is focusing its mobile resources for a foreseeable future. …
any and its many partners to pay for a royalty, Oracle goes as far as asking for Google to share its advertising revenues, something that Google has firmly rejected until now and may be asking for around $3.35 per smartphone. With up to 400,000 activations per day, that is just short of 150 million Android devices per year on which that small but still significant sum can be levied; it tallies up to a whopping $500 million every year for Oracle a…
…al entities from modifying customer-developed algorithms to stop unauthorized users from misusing the customer’s system and its operation by preventing insertion of malware, reverse engineering and system cloning. Multi-layer encryption offers the ability to upgrade boot and application software code remotely on flash memory while allowing the boot sequence to remain secure. Multi-layer encryption is enabled when a device-specific cipher key, kn…
first Android-based tablet and is expected to launch either in the last days of June or in July. It is not known whether the tablet will be available in the UK and if yes at which price. What is known though is that it comes with a 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels display, a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core system on chip and will run Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb. That’s roughly the same configuration as the other four major Android-tablets on …