> 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…

Rich Cannings, Android security lead: Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes. These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or system resources beyond permission.INTERNET. As the applications were practically useless, most users uninstalled the applications shortly after downloading them. After the researcher voluntarily removed these applications from Android Market, we decided, per the Android Market Terms of…

> As such, U.S. regulators have “[taken an interest in Apple’s actions](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7ae5066-7408-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=appleinsider&segid=03058),” according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to the *Financial Times*, though it’s reportedly unclear as of yet whether the investigation will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission or passed off to the Department of Justice. > > Word of the probe comes less than a month after antitrust regulators concluded a similar investigation into whether Google…