Android security flaws that allow malicious folk to fling apps onto phones without the user’s knowledge have been revealed. A study of HTC phones found that the integrated web browser can install software packages without the user being aware of it. That’s to allow HTC to automatically update the Flash Lite plug-in but also gives a way in for bad guys too.
November, 2010
Microsoft Kinect and Playstation Move have both had some time in the wild, the Kinect admittedly, a lot less than Move. Have you bought one or the other, and if so, which is better? Which do you think is better for your buck, the PlayStation Move with its glowing bobble ended controller, or the full body Kinect? Click and tell!
Apple has stealthily punted Ping onto the iPad. The music-sharing social network baked into iTunes has been getting a little bit more useful recently with Twitter integration thrown into the mix last week. Now you can get at Ping via the iTunes iPad app. So what does Pinging (we’re not sure that really is a verb) on the iPad get you?
A Samsung Galaxy 2 is now being tipped for release in the near future, if the rumours of a Google Nexus S Samsung phone running the latest Android Gingerbread weren’t quite enough for you. Read on and we’ll explain why this could be on Google phone worth holding out for.
Morning all! We’re about to kick off another week stuffed full of gadget news, but before we do, check out everything you might have missed while you’ve been away from your desk over the weekend. It’s all here ready and waiting for you in your techie breakie!
Want to know what the Electricpig staff think about the latest gadgets in stores and soon on the way. You’re in the right place. Join us as we roundup our latest opinions on the tech we’ve got up close and personal with this week, including Microsoft Kinect, Call of Duty: Black Ops, HTC 7 Mozart and more.
The Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect has already given us some hope that we might one day play the perfect Star Wars lightsaber game. But now we’ve seen Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner in action on iPhone, what we really want is to shoot down TIE Fighters in our back garden. Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner will let you do that. Read on for the video showing you how.