General News
Google completes Motorola acquisition, replaces Sanjay Jha with Dennis Woodwide
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Google today announced via a blog post that it has finalized the $12.5 billion buy-out of Motorola Mobility. Company also stated that CEO Sanjay Jha will be replaced by Googler Dennis Woodside.
China approves Google-Motorola deal
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A long standing hurdle in Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is finally gone, as China approved the deal. However authorities did put a condition before Google that Android should remain open to all for the next five years; which shouldn’t be a problem if Google has planned to remain fair to other hardware partners.
Google Drive is official, now live at drive.google.com
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Google has finally made its cloud service – Drive, official. Being dubbed as the natural evolution of Google Docs, Drive allows you to upload and access up to 5GB of data for free, for more than that you can opt for paid plans.
Instagram to be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion
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Facebook has announced that it will acquire the popular photo-sharing service Instagram. It has been just a few days when Instagram team released its official Android app in the Google Play store and raked in over 1 million downloads in less than 24 hours.
CyanogenMOD’s new mascot finalized and officially named Cid
A few days ago, we told you about the new face of the most popular custom ROM series on the planet, CyanogenMOD. At the time, the little guy was tentatively named rAndy and there were still a few last minute changes to be made before everything was set in stone. Now, those changes have been made and a new name has been selected. Everyone, I’d like to introduce you to Cid.
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Google Project Glass debuts, wearable augmented reality glasses are real
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Google has unveiled its long rumoured augmented glasses experiment as Project Glass today. The launch was accompanied by the release of the first video teaser of company’s vision of augmented visual aid.
Android now represents over half of all smartphones in the United States
This is a very exciting time for Android users in the United States. According to the latest statistics released by comScore, Android still sits as the top dog over all other competitors, but now that overall numbers tell a very interesting tale. Now, over half of all phones on US soil run Android. comScore’s report shows Android with a 50.1% claim — hey, by all rights, that spells majority in our books.
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Say hello to rAndy, the new CyanogenMOD mascot, by Caio Alves!
It appears as though the face of CyanogenMOD has permanently changed. A while back, the CM team asked the community for submissions of their own homemade mascots. The submissions would then be reviewed and voted on by the team and the selected winner would be chosen to represent the custom ROM project from here out.
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Gingerbread still the most dominant Android flavor; ICS on less than 3% of devices
While Google has time and time again said that it plans to iron out fragmentation in the Android ecosystem, the numbers tell an obviously and entirely different tale. According to statistics from Android’s Platform Versions dashboard that were detailed in a report by Engadget, Android 4.0 — or as most of you know it, Ice Cream Sandwich — is only installed on a whopping 2.9% of all devices.
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Malware Alert: DKFBootkit embedded into pirated applications [Be careful what you download]
![DroidKungFu Header Image Malware Alert: DKFBootkit embedded into pirated applications [Be careful what you download]](http://androidos.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DroidKungFu-Header-Image.jpg "Malware Alert: DKFBootkit embedded into pirated applications [Be careful what you download]")
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A new malware threat has surfaced in the Android community and has been discovered by NQMobile in pirated versions of popular applications that require root access. DKFBootkit, an evolved form of earlier DroidKungFu variants, is a nasty little bugger that uses known techniques to embed malicious payloads into legitimate apps.
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