Diogo Ferreira, author of Penetrate and an authority on the Android Market, a man who’s seen it all, has issued an incendiary statement exposing the truth behind antivirus crapware, stirring up a whirlwind of controversy across the Facebook and the Twitter. A snippet from his press release: Soon enough, several antivirus applications for Android started [...]

Diogo Ferreira’s Penetrate, the wifi cracking app I covered a year ago, was just yanked from the Android Market by Google as he confirmed on Twitter to the dismay of many, myself included as this software was a net contribution, offering network admins a tool to test the security of their network, a means to [...]

Impressive, isn’t it, what comes out of XDA. Also impressive is how Microsoft has managed to at least retard the inevitable with Windows Phone OS, the new official name I believe. We’re about half a year in so let’s check the scoreboard because this is a war of genius and tenacity between The Man and [...]

Found another number crunching outfit, SocialNuggets. Seems their thing is combing through the web, social operations in particular including both the heavyweights (Twitter, Facebook) and blogs, XDA probably and hey, maybe even us, or completely different sources depending on what it is they’re after to give their clients actionable information. Their social approach strikes me [...]

One of our vocal readers, Joe, advised me that Google’s not a software company. Took a while but I came up with an example of Google making great software (his point was that because their core business is brokering ads their software is therefore inherently shitty – and that I should “remember” his telling me [...]

Last night while staring at the logs I freaked out and wrote some Microsoft privacy invasion rant asking the readers what’s going on. They said it’s Weave, a WP7 app which we reviewed, an RSS reader. I had difficulty buying that because, at first, on the server side the forensics indicated this was web browser [...]

WinPho nuts, I was watching the logs and came across something curious. Two thirds of your phones go through a Microsoft “mobilizer” proxy server when hitting our site. Nothing revolutionary, Google made one of those (natural progression of things is a few years later Microsoft does too), but two thirds of you in April out [...]

Thought I’d read up on this MIX thing and I sent the fellas an email seeking clarification. Little did I know I was waltzing into a shitstorm of firestorms! Help! On 4/14/2011 4:27 PM, Doug Simmons wrote: Oh lawd. Reading about this Mix11 thing, seems Microsoft has a huge announcement about new and improved bare [...]

Obviously we have trash talkers amidst our writing staff so y’all need to hide your hide your kids, hide your wife, hide yo’ IP address and hide your husband ‘cause they talking shit at errbody out here: On 4/13/2011 2:06 PM, ramon wrote: Fuck apple and google!!! Microsoft just ROCKED mix!!!!!! If they get that [...]

There’s an app for that! No need for pricy equipment or roaming charges, just your smartphone and SafeCell. It somehow hooks your phone onto your Learjet’s satellite link with a combination of magic and bluetooth, turning it into a wifi hotspot. I can’t find it on the various app stores so I guess that means [...]