> The phone is said to be running [Gingerbread](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/leaked-android-30-details-hint-at-tablet-potential.ars) with a custom, phone-specific skin, and will be able to play a variety of classic PlayStation and PlayStation Portable games digitally. It makes sense, in a way: this would give Sony another way to monetize its existing portable gaming content, and Google’s mobile platform would get a powerful portable gaming boost. Apple is known for its iPhone games, but thus far the Android platform has not enjoyed the same level of support…

> There have been isolated cases of spyware programs that run on the Android platform, an open-source mobile operating system created by Google. But the fake media player application, which Kaspersky dubbed “Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a,” is the first one believed to specifically target Android, Kaspersky said. > > “Kaspersky Lab recommends that users pay close attention to the services that an application requests access to when it is being installed,” the company said. “That includes access to premium rate services that charge to send SMSes and make calls.” > > The application is simply…

> “The big thing is that people with an iPhone really don’t look anywhere else,” said Entner, for their next smartphone. “It’s like having the most beautiful woman in the world on your arm. Why would you look anywhere else?” via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/153257/2010/08/ipad_halo_effect.html?lsrc=rss_main)This is the big reason why I think that despite Android’s obvious growth this past year, a future where Android “dominates” the market, and the iPhone is relegated to the…

> The conditions that happened for the collapse of the pre-IBM PC market don’t > exist now, and that collapse was—if not unique—certainly very unusual. > There’s no reason to think that there *will* be only one winner in the > smartphone market, one winner in the tablet device market, and so on. There > may be just one or two market leaders, but the iPhone doesn’t have to “fail” > for Android to succeed and vice-versa. And if those two are the market leaders > (likely but not a given) that…

> Once thought to be [unhackable](http://www.productiveorganizer.com/android-productivity/android-phones-with-encrypted-bootloaderunhackable/), the [Android](http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2010/072610-gearhead.html) phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. > > Not only has malicious software cloaked in a [wallpaper application]() stolen personal information from [infected phones](http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/070610-smartphone-essentials.html?fsrc=netflash-rss) and sent it to a Website in China, but researchers from Lookout Mobile Security have found a way to take the phones over completely—including top-of-the-line models hawked by major wireless…