Thread: All Things Android

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is uTorrent Coming to Android?

Yes. It's been there for ages.

Link?

Open eyes?

Originally Posted by 9999

btw did u ever figure out how to take a screenshot Butters?

and did you ?

^ Well not in coding from the terminal but there's a button combo that does the job. What's so funny? How is the viewsonic btw?

Viewsonic doing great so far,

a lot of financial apps on it,

very useful device to read articles also,

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is uTorrent Coming to Android?

Yes. It's been there for ages.

Link?

Open eyes?

Is that the same as "I can't find one, because it isn't there"?

BitTorrent hasn't set a release date yet

Originally Posted by Butterfly

a lot of financial apps on it,

yes I can just picture you swing trading huge positions from you android apps on your viewsonic.

Or did you manage do merely find a currency converter?



Viewsonic - the leading tool for the modern financial wizard.

^ I was surprised to find those apps actually for the Android,

they are small and easy, perfect for a quick trade

while you have 3 monitors to play silly video games, I have 3 monitors to watch live trades on 3 different exchanges

You don't need to confirm to us that you are as dull as dishwater. We already know.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

, I have 3 monitors to watch live trades on 3 different exchanges

Ah...so you got an army of viewsonics day trading across the board around the clock. You really do push the limits Butters.

A quarter of one of my screens would see more action than your viewsonic trading system

Android Market is now "Google Play". And despite what it says below, it's rolled out in my part of the sandpit today.

Google rebrands Android app market as Google Play

Ed Owen, marketingmagazine.co.uk, 07 March 2012, 09:35AM
Google has brought together its Android app market, Google music service, and eBook store as Google Play, which will use a cloud-based system similar to Apple's iCloud.


Google: rolls out 'play' campaign

The service rolls out fully in the US today, with other countries to follow later. There will be a service without music in the UK and Canada, just books and apps in Australia and movies and apps in Japan.
Google users who own media bought through the old services will have their purchases "upgraded" to the new system.
To push the new service, Google is offering special deals on albums, books, apps and video in the markets they are available for the coming week.
Launch deals include the latest in long-running compilation series 'Now That's What I Call Music 41', game 'Where's My Water', the novel 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close', and edgy Hollywood film 'Puncture'.

Google claims Google Play will work seamlessly between desktop and mobile and users will be able to start watching a film via a mobile device and complete viewing on a desktop at the exact point the film was paused at.
Featured items will be available for a bargain 25 cents (15p) during the launch week.
Google's streamlined service brings it in direct competition with Amazon, which launched its own app download service last year, and Apple's iCloud.
The battle between the three media giants has become more acrimonious over the past year, with Google and Amazon halting in-app sales through Apple in July last year, and Google launching its own music service in November to challenge Apple's dominant iTunes.
Apple's app store remains the dominant app player, recording 25 billion downloads last week.
This article was first published on marketingmagazine.co.uk

Big discounts on apps at the moment as it's now changed to 'google play'. Many decent apps for only 15bht.

Now you can find out if the missus really is just "going to meet her friends". I'm sure a few of our suspicious older farang oop north, especially antipodean ones, will jump on this....

An Android/iOS app that spies on employees’ smartphones

Published on Thursday, March 22nd by Tony Dennis
Rating: Copy9 crosses line between data protection and snooping
When we stumbled across Copy9‘s range of mobile apps, we really weren’t sure whether they were genuine or malware. The company itself describes the product as ‘spyware’ and cites child protection; monitoring cheating spouses or errant employees as reasons to install its apps. The catch is that you have to provide the Copy9 app will exactly the kind of capabilities you would for a nasty piece of malware. So we asked our old buddies at mobile security software specialist, avast! Software, their opinion. This is what Alena Varkockova, Android analyst with the AVAST Virus Lab, said. “This app is an example of the thin line between malicious and PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).” So GoMobile News bit the bullet and installed Copy9 on an old Android handset lent to us by ZTE. The app does what it claims to do. It spies on the handset for you. For free.Copy9 is available for Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile but not Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) yet. So why were we suspicious?
Well, for starters the Android app isn’t available from Google Play (formerly the Android Market). You have to download the app directly to the handset from the Copy9 web site.
Alarm bells were also triggered by poor use of English on the web site, too. We discovered, however, that the firm offering this software is French. Their English is far superior to our French.
So – following the detailed instructions given on the web site, we installed Copy9 and it does exactly what they claim! It detects the location of your smartphone over the web for free.
We suspect Copy9 isn’t allowed on Google Play because it crosses the line between ‘protection’ and downright snooping. You really can install this app on your spouse’s handset and he/she wouldn’t have a clue. Perhaps.
So how does Copy9 make its money? Ah, well only certain bits of its functionality are free. For nothing you get an app which tracks you via GPS and which the author claims is 100 per cent undetectable.
We’d dispute that. avast!’s Varkockova told GoMobile News that, “We decided to let a person to know that he (or she) has this ‘potentially unwanted program’ thing installed.
I’ve already changed our detection (of Copy9) from ‘malicious detection’ to PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).”
Of course, Copy9 raises the thorny issue of what employers can do to protect corporate data if they offer a Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) policy.
As avast! bogger, Jonathan Penn, writes, “Using your mobile devices for work purposes should not require you giving up all your privacy rights or give your company effective ownership of your device.”
Nonetheless, GoMobile News believes that some companies’ network nasties would rejoice at what Copy9 can do if you pay the fees.
For example it can provide online histories of the calls; texts (SMS); and URLs that the smartphone owner has indulged in. Plus you can download those data reports remotely.
The nasties would have to remember to turn off detection of the app as malicious, however.
In short. Copy9 opens up a whole can of worms over the morality of ‘monitoring’ employees’ smartphones for conformance with company policies. You read it here first, folks.

The wife bought me one of the smart phones the other week HTC am still learning it,

^ The wife bought me a new watch. Said it was waterproof, shockproof and scratchproof.

It caught fire yesterday.


rat-a-tat-*ching*

My wife gave me 5000 Baht and told me to go out and bring her something back that makes her look sexy.
You should have seen her face when I came home pissed

Yeah, she asked me to go and get "some of those tablets that give men erections", then got all shitty when I came home with some slimming tablets.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

then got all shitty when I came home with some slimming tablets.

at least you didn't buy a viewsonic then lock your self in the toilet

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

then got all shitty when I came home with some slimming tablets.

at least you didn't buy a viewsonic then lock your self in the toilet

more of that XBOX humor I suppose

in the meantime, the Viewsonic is a great little machine and doing more than my iPhone or Ipad could do

Originally Posted by Butterfly

more of that XBOX humor I suppose

box , butterfly said box

^ that's the spirit baldrick, now you can go back to your BattleField 3 online session

LibreOffice heads for cloud, Android and iPad

By Adrian Bridgwater on March 23, 2012 9:02 AM | No Comments
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Reports suggest that the LibreOffice suite of productivity applications is close to releasing its first cloud-based iteration next month.
The free and open source fork of OpenOffice is overseen by The Document Foundation and is currently at its 3.5 version build.
With LibreOffice cloud services now mooted for April, the team is said to be tinkering in the engine room on the last remaining bugs, fixes and tweaks needed to take its software to a virtualised delivery platform.
In line with its move to the cloud, LibreOffice is also expected to appear on Android.
From this point, the team is said to be looking to produce an iOS port for compatibility with devices running Apple's mobile operating system.
Android and iOS versions of LibreOffice are expected late in 2012 or possibly early 2013 at this time.

A new tool to anonymise Video. I can see the benefits of this, but can surely be put to nefarious use as well.

How ObscuraCam Makes Your Videos Safe

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-26-2012 | 8:30 AM Newly-released Android app ObscuraCam lets users pixelize faces and strip metadata from internet video.



Activists and weekend warriors rejoice. Citizen journalists working in unfree societies and party animals looking to strip the incriminating information from Friday night hijinks will enjoy a new Android application. ObscuraCam v2, produced by non-profit organizations WITNESS and The Guardian Project, anonymizes faces in online video and strips all metadata.

Fast Company previously reported on ObscuraCam's previous incarnation, which only worked on still photographs. The app, first debuted at this year's SXSW, is designed for use by human rights activists working in high-risk contexts, and by people concerned about the privacy of their videos. In other words, it's perfect for activists in Bahrain hoping to escape the secret police and for American parents uncomfortable with showing pictures of their young children on Facebook.
The app uses facial-detection technology to automatically capture faces in video and still images; users have the option to either pixelate them, to black out the faces, or to put a Groucho Marx-style funny nose-and-glasses combo over them. All identifying metadata, including GPS info, and phone make/model is stripped as well. Saved videos and photos can automatically be posted to Facebook, Twitter, and any other social networking sites integrated into Android.
According to WITNESS' Bryan Nunez, ObscuraCam is part of a larger app suite called SecureSmartCam, which is currently competing in the Knight News Challenge. SecureSmartCam is a “suite of mobile media apps designed for activists, journalists, and citizen witnesses. The other app in the suite is InformaCam which adds an array of smartphone sensor data (GPS, network information, etc) to the video and images captured. The idea is that this information could be important in cases where the pictures and videos shot with the smartphone are used as legal evidence.”
ObscuraCam can be downloaded here.

Google to patch Android Denial of Service exploit using fixes provided by Italian researchers that found it

26th March 2012 by Matt Brian


Four researchers representing some of Italy’s top universities and research centres have identified and patched a Denial of Service exploit that affects all versions of Google’s Android operating system, a fix that Google has said will be used in the next update for Android smartphones and tablets.
Alessandro Armando, Head of the Research Unit “Security & Trust” and coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Genoa, Alessio Merlo of Telematic University E-Campus, Professor. Mauro Migliardi, a coordinator at the University of Padova and Luke Verderame, Computer Engineering graduate at the University of Genoa made the discovery, which was noted in a research paper (PDF) hosted on a University of Genoa’s website.
According to the paper, the researchers present a “previously unknown vulnerability in Android OS that allows a malicious application to force the system to fork an unbounded number of processes and thereby mounting a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that makes the device totally unresponsive.”
The test application was used on a number of smartphones, including the LG Optimus One smartphone and different tablets including the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Optimius One froze in less than a minute while others — including the Galaxy Tab — froze in under 2 minutes.
By invoking a process in the Linux layer that does not perform a binding operation with an Android app, the team was able to bypass the security policies within the OS, thereby occupying all of the memory resources on a smartphone or tablet, without needing to access malicious Android permissions.
If an enterprising malware app developer forced an application to load on boot, a reboot of the device would prove fruitless.
The team offered two fixes to patch the vulnerability. The first involved checking if the specific process comes from a ‘legal source’ — one being the System Server — with the second restricting the permissions on the target socket at the Linux layer. The vulnerability was Google, Android and the US-CERT.
With Google needing to ensure the bug was fixed quickly (as it could potentially affect so many devices), the company ended up using the fix provided in the paper, which will be rolled out in future Android OS updates in the near future.