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Free Android Apps Caught Stealing Personal Info

An estimated 4 million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that pass along personal data to a site in China. Android - China - Handhelds - Google - Smartphone

Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China

Computerworld - Between one and four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chinese-owned server, a mobile security firm said today.

Samsung U.K.: Android 2.2 Froyo coming to all networks at the end of September

From its Twitter account today, Samsung U.K. said that it will begin pushing out the Android 2.2 Froyo update at the end of September to all networks. It's unclear if this means U.S. networks or just those in the U.K., however. The official tweet said: "We've seen a lot of Q's about the Froyo update; it's currently in development & will be released for all networks at the end of September." Read ...

Rogue Android Apps Secretly Grab User Data

A number of popular Android applications can reportedly collect your mobile device's personal information and then send that data to a Chinese-owned Website. The information in question includes your device's phone number, subscriber identifier number and, in some cases, your voicemail password, according to Phandroid.

Turn your Twitter stream into a people parade

Twitter visualisations come in many forms, but IS Parade is arguably the most inventive yet. By Jemima Kiss