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Google Earth has just updated its application for the iPhone so users can use the iPad. In addition to offering support to the iPad, Google Earth also added a feature to see the road on Google Earth and iPhone 3GS iPad. After testing the iPad, Apple found that the built-in applications on the GPS were very successful in determining the exact location of the search conducted in accordance with the user.

If you have not used Google Earth before, so this time you should think to use it because of Google Earth users can not only see the streets in the city sought and indicators on the ground, but users can also view information from Wikipedia, or photos that have been entered by other users, as well as business and tourist locations.
But the Apple seems to have to work harder to address the weaknesses of the use of Google Earth on the iPad. Because they deal with only one user complaint that is “Out Of Memory” at the time of the testing of this application. So when this Apple party is reviewing the Google Earth application to conform to the iPad memory on itself.

Hackers have planted viruses in video games for smartphones that use Microsoft Corp. Windows operating system. This was revealed by an enterprise mobile device security specialist.

According to CEO John Vulture Lookout, 3D games referred to Anti-Terrorist and PDA Poker Art. Both games are available on websites that provide legitimate software for mobile devices.

This mobile device security company that is based in San Francisco declared the games bundled with software are dangerous. Because, every download and use these games, will automatically be connected to a premium phone services in Somalia, Italy and other countries. As a result, within a month, hundreds of dollars went into the user’s bill.

‘‘The service is run by the programmers who build the polluted software,” Vulture stated.

Victims usually do not realize they are infected until they get the phone bill and see charges of hundreds of dollars for premium phone services.

Hackers are now targeting smartphone users because of surging sales of sophisticated mobile devices along with the popularity of Apple Inc’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android.

The inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds is known as someone who always under estimate not even hesitate to insult a mobile phone while it is operated with the open source operating system. But the presence of a Google-made mobile phone, Nexus One made him crazy. Men born Helsinki, Finland in 1969 was even said that the Nexus One is the only phone that does not despise.

Torvalds revealed the previous phones that had just used to play games like galaga or Solitaire. Torvalds said that he now has a gadget that is very very useful. During this Torvalds is known to have a cell phone and Motorola’s Android G1 based linux operating systems. But in reality what it has not yet been able satisfactorily to himself, Previously he was never eager to buy the phone, but today he admitted that the Nexus One is the winner. He is also going after your GPS device to his car and he was sure that navigation is being developed by Google will increasingly make this phone useful.

Nexus One increasingly popular earlier also favored by Apple founder Steve Wozniak. In an interview with NBC television station, Wozniak admitted that he had bought the phone based on Android operating system was launched at the beginning of January last. Read the rest of this entry »

In the list of five elite of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer in 2009, published research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), there is one producer who had his name has never entered into the list. He is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. In the global mobile phone industry in general, Samsung is the world’s second largest producer, behind Nokia Corp, but in the global smartphone market, Samsung had a significant role because of less aggressive release of the smartphone.

In 2009, Samsung managed to enter the elite group of five of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, because the more aggressive Samsung smartphone released in the past year, among other smartphones with the release of the Windows Mobile system operating even Android.

IDC explained, along the 2009 Sony Ericsson was able to sell 5.7 million units globally smartphone, aka rose 5.6 percent compared to 5.4 million units in 2008. IDC explains, the Nokia 2009 smartphone, especially popular in the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). Realizing he had a chance in the global smartphone industry, Samsung also increased aggressiveness onslaught. Head of Mobile Division Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Shin Jong-Kyun said, Samsung was determined increasing the volume tripling its global smartphone sales in 2010 to strengthen the position.

Shin said that, there is a big change in our smartphone strategy this year. We plan to strengthen our smartphone business by extending not only supply handsets, but also enrich the content, applications, and services. Speech Shin was not just bragging, so that it can be proved at the end of 2009, Samsung introduced a software platform named Bada. Samsung hopes, Bada will be able to encourage software developers create applications for the production of Sony Ericsson smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »