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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2013
Could an exploit via an Android app really hijack a plane? Not so, says a prominent pilot/author
Finally, some sanity. After many a blog post this week re-reported Help Net Security's "...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 07, 2013
The locked and encrypted bootloader on several popular Motorola phones has been exploited, but OMAP powered phones need not apply
If you're using a Droid RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD, Atrix HD, or ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2013
Update: CyanogenMod on its Google+ account reminds us all that of its official position on the Galaxy S4 -- which is to say it doesn't have one yet. CM also reminds us all that individual develo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 02, 2013
Evernote, the popular cross-platform note taking and sharing app, has issued a statement about some recent "suspicious activity on the Evernote network". All users will have to change thei...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 25, 2013
Koushik Dutta of ClockworkMod, ROM Manager and Carbon (Backup) fame continues his long standing contributions to the Android community with his latest creation, ClockworkMod SuperUser. Currentl...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 23, 2013
Security tools company Pwnie Express is making a network hacking-focused device, based on the Nexus 7, called the Pwn Pad. This certainly isn't a tablet meant for the mainstream, but instead is ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2013
After the announcement of the Chromebook Pixel yesterday, a lot of people were in love with the hardware, but thought the price tag was a bit high for a machine running Chrome OS. I'm in that ca...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 12, 2013
The Sony Xperia Z isn't due to be available globally until the end of the month, but being the good, GPL-abiding OEM that it is, Sony Mobile has already published the device's kernel so...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2013
The official Sony Xperia T Jelly Bean update might still be a few months away, but in order to give developers a sneak peek at what's ahead, Sony has released an early alpha ROM for the device. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 28, 2012
Verizon may take most of the headlines, but the Motorola RAZR MAXX (sans Droid) also made it's way to other carriers -- like Alltel. We love seeing the smaller carriers getting great Androi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 24, 2012
If you use Rom Manager to manage your flashing habit and curate all your CWM backups, you're going to want to take a look at the latest update. Beside the theme fixes for older devices, there is...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 19, 2012
A Samsung spokesperson has given Android Central an updated statement on its plans to fix the recently-discovered Exynos kernel vulnerability issue. In today's update, the company has indicated ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2012
The Verizon edition of the Galaxy Note 2 now has a root method. As is par for the course with Samsung phones, you'll need to use ODIN and flash a rooted image file, but that's not nearly...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2012
The folks who do this sort of thing have updated the Google Apps package today, handing you a shiny new flashable to go with that 4.2.1 AOSP ROM you're about to download.
Technically ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 19, 2012
We know plenty of people who grabbed a Nexus 10 last week are aware of how to unlock and root it. But there's also a whole bunch of people, some even new to Android, who might need a starting po...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 08, 2012
Chinese electronics firms Huawei and ZTE represent a potential threat to U.S. national security, according to a draft congressional report. The report from the U.S. House of Represent...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 28, 2012
The folks at WebOS Ports have released a video of open webOS booting and running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus today, hours after HP announced the code release. As we understand it, the device boot...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 03, 2012
Last month Google’s Android Open Source Project lead Jean-Baptiste Queru (JBQ) announced the launch of an “experimental” project to bring the latest open-source Android to the Sony...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 20, 2012
If you bought a Nexus device so you could happily flash all manner of custom ROMs, today is a good day. MIUI has updated their codebase to include Jelly Bean for the 2.8.17 release, provided you hav...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 18, 2012
If you’ve been waiting patiently to get your hands on experimental Jelly Bean-based ROM for your phone, today could be your lucky day. The team behind popular custom firmware CyanogenMod has o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 15, 2012
It appears that a leaked unsecure bootloader for the Verizon Galaxy S3 (Galaxy S III) has lead to a hack that allows the bootloader on the retail version to be replaced. In a nutshell, this means th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Aug 14, 2012
For many, the Nexus 7 will be their first experience with one of Google's own branded Android devices. If you're interested in hacks of any sort on your phone or tablet, there really is no o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 13, 2012
For many of us, part of the fun of having an Android phone is yanking off the intended software and putting a community-built custom build into the ROM. Sometimes, it's almost necessary to fix a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 09, 2012
Nothing pleases Android fans more than a notice that they have an update. Millions of words have been spent on countless blogs and forums discussing OTAs (or the lack of them) and we get a little gi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 07, 2012
The Internet's been talking about a new tool from Ameer1234567890 over at XDA that allows you to run a Nandroid backup without booting into recovery. It's a novel idea, and we've ta...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 07, 2012
Your Google account holds your e-mail, apps, music, books, documents, cloud storage, credit cards and more. It’s time to protect that stuff with more than a simple password.
If you’v...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 02, 2012
The CyanogenMod team has announced that it won't be able to officially support phones powered by first-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in version 9 or 10 of its popular custom firmware. The...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 26, 2012
The Black Hat conference takes place in Las Vegas this week, where hackers, security experts and representatives from major companies meet to discuss all things relating to information security. If ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 18, 2012
So you bought a Nexus 7, partially because it's a Nexus device and you wanted to hack the living crap out of it. Cool -- me too. Whether you're just beginning, or an old pro you will need fa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 16, 2012
We're big fans of folks learning just what they are doing when it comes to hacking at their devices. One click root applications are fine and dandy, but when (not if) something goes wrong one da...
