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Urban Airship

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Urban Airship was launched in May of 2009. Steven Osborn had been tasked with implementing a backend system for push and in-app purchase for a popular gaming company. While developing the solution, he discovered how resource-intensive the project was. He realized that if he could devote the time, energy, and money to create the perfect solution, he could provide a valuable product for other smart phone app developers. Osborn reached out to former colleagues Scott Kveton, Adam Lowry, and Michael Richardson and the seed of the new company was planted.

via Company | Urban Airship.

An Android smartphone has been trying to use port 1237 to contact this outfit.  I will open up that port and see what’s going on.

Update 10/17/2012:  Quite a few random wifi platforms contact this company using this port with a very short TCP session.

Offensive Mobile Forensics

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There are many different locations containing interesting data on iOS devices. Data often resides in SQLite databases, the chosen format for local storage on mobile devices. The next best place to find sensitive information is in plist, or property list files – these are the primary storage medium for configuration settings in iOS, and they are also a fantastic source of sensitive information. User credentials are often stored here, instead of inside the KeyChain where they should be. Rounding out the top three data sources are binary or binary-encoded files, such as the device’s keyboard cache and pasteboard. Although storage locations commonly change with the release of new iOS firmware, it is fairly simple to poke around the general area and find what you’re looking for.

via Offensive Mobile Forensics.

Similarly to the configuration files for iOS, the XML files storing preferences for Android applications commonly include user credentials and other sensitive information.

DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android

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The leading Japanese mobile phone service provider identified an Android application, which enables free-of-charge voice communication, as a major cause behind a service disruption that occurred on Wednesday, the business daily said.

Some Android applications send out control signals once every three to five minutes even when not in use. This translates to ten times that of a conventional mobile phone, placing additional strain on the network, the newspaper said.

via DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android -Nikkei | Reuters.

How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers

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That means ~10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck on the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread (or 2.2 Froyo in many cases) until they decide to drop more cash on a new phone.

via How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers – Business Insider.

It’s pointless to support old hardware on phones.  I wonder why this is even an issue?

This is an interesting point I didn’t know and relates to computer architecture.

It also demonstrates the inherent problem in Android phone manufacturers customizing the OS to the point where you can barely recognize Google’s original intentions for design and functionality. Those skins are such a tax on a phone’s hardware that it cripples functionality and makes it so all but the newest phones miss out on updates. So far, Samsung only guarantees Ice Cream Sandwich for its Galaxy S II phones. The Nexus S, which is also made by Samsung and shares similar hardware specs as many Galaxy S phones, will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update, but only because it uses a pure version of Android without the TouchWiz skin. Motorola only guarantees it for its latest Droid Razr. And HTC will issue Ice Cream Sandwich for the Rezoundsome time next year.

Android Developers Blog: A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads

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On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app downloads. We wanted to look a little deeper at that huge number. First question: which app was lucky number 10 billion? Photobucket Mobile. They’ll be getting a great prize package, including tickets to next year’s Google I/O developer conference.

via Android Developers Blog: A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads.

Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces

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Ainol’s Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch capacitive screen and runs on a 1GHz single-core MIPS processor, said MIPS Technologies and chip maker Ingenic in a joint press release. The tablet’s battery lasts eight hours on watching video, seven hours when browsing the Web and six hours when playing games.

The tablet runs on Google’s Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, which is the successor to Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, which is found on the more advanced tablets today.

via Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces | ITworld.