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Google Maps 5.7 for Android adds Transit Navigation System

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Google on Tuesday launched version 5.7 of Google Maps for Android, which brings great news for people who travel by bus and / or meters . Now, the application includes step by step instructions on public transportation routes, which indicate what transport to take and where to get off.

Someone may ask what is the big news, since long ago from Google Maps has public transit routes. But now, these routes can be followed through the instructions in real time, and navigations in cars. In its official blog, the company Navigation reported that Google Maps has almost 20 billion miles of hiking GPS and now has a new tool, called “Transit Navigation”. According to information provided by google, find again the system users detailed instructions on bus routes, with indications, for example, about when to descend. However, we must make two warnings this application. The service “Transit Navigation is still in beta, like car navigation. This means that there is a possibility that this error in the data provided.Also, as the system is GPS-based smartphone will be very difficult for the signal from the terminal’s Internet connection to work properly in the subway tunnels.

Android increases its leadership in the world

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It’s Android operating system for smartphones leader in six of the eight countries considered key in the mobile telephony market. According to research firm Kantar Worlpanel Comtech, Symbian for Android Nokiafue was overtaken by Spain in the last quarter.

Of the 8 most important countries of the smartphone market, Android is a leader in the U.S. , United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France and Spain. In the two remaining nations, Italy and Australia, the leadership is Symbian and IOS, respectively. The information comes from The Guardian. On Friday, Google announced that the company won a million new Android users in Europe alone during the last three weeks. Android’s participation in the UK rose from 1 percent to 9 percent market share since June last year to June 2011.Of the new customers Android 1.4 percent owned by former users of Apple’s iPhone.

Android iCoyote IT helps you spot the speed camera and not only

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iCoyote IT is a very interesting application that helps us a lot during our travels in the car. iCoyote IT it has many features that allow us a guide quietest and most of all we take away from the fines.

The features of iCoyote are:

  • safety camera
  • cameras at traffic lights

    • Mobile Safety Camera

  • risk areas
  • Accidents

    • Traffic

  • Explorers Coyote

Let’s look in detail

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Explorers Coyote : I am Coyote users who have traveled the same road in your half hour prior to your move.
EXCLUSIVE: you will be informed of the presence of explorers and traffic up to 40 miles, you will know the distance that separates you from Explorer closest to you.
On secondary roads will be informed of the number of scouts present in a radius of 5 km

LG Electronics will offer remote assistance on Android

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LG Electronics has announced the launch of the next hour in these two new services that allow you to offer remote assistance to its customers Android .

In particular, this includes Remote Call and FOTA service, already adopted by other manufacturers. The Remote Service Call is an application pre-loaded (from LG Optimus Black) and allows you to diagnose problems with its own smartphone just by remote control by an assistant. In this way to restore the functionality of a smartphone is no longer necessary, or nearly so, having to send in care centers, but will support “to come to you.”

To access the service simply call the LG customer service and to give his permission to access the device remotely. For security and privacy, a service block access by operators if there is a user’s explicit consent.

Microsoft wants to get $ 15 for each band Samsung smartphone Android

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images8 Microsoft wants to get $ 15 for each band Samsung smartphone Android

The company Microsoft is trying to reach an agreement with Samsung to receive $ 15 per smartphone based on Android mobile operating system is sold by the South Korean manufacturer.

The information was released by the U.S. press and is related to a set of Microsoft patents that are used in Google’s mobile operating system, present in mobile phones like the Galaxy, a bestseller by Samsung.

According to the newspaper Maeil Business, Samsung is trying to reduce the amount pay Microsoft for the rights to use such patents to $ 10 Android smartphone sold in exchange for forming a society centered on the mobile version of Windows.

The deal is similar to one reached in April by Microsoft and HTC, under which the Taiwanese manufacturer pays a certain amount for each mobile phone based on Android to be sold.

Data Reuters, based on market studies indicate that analysts only in the second quarter of this year, Samsung sold 19 million smartphones, mostly equipped with the Android mobile operating system.

Pokemon will come to Android

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Pokémon Company has announced that in the coming months will release a monster game with fighters of the animated television series for smartphones equipped with the Android mobile operating system.

Do not wait, no But nothing like the classic titles from the Game Boy and Nintendo DS: novelty is a musical game of coordination and rhythm, as published by some websites in Japan.

In the game, titled “Say Pokémon Tap”, the player must click on letters from the characters of Pokemon the rhythm of the official songs of the Black & White series, which airs on Japanese television.

The decision to smartphones Pokemon has caught the attention of many as Android, like IOS, have become, somehow, in competition with Nintendo. Flurry consulting data released in the last month of April show that the market share of the Nintendo DS was reduced from 70% to 57% in just one year, leaving room for growth in mobile operating systems, which doubled their share.

However, this is not the first time a Pokémon game franchise is released for a Nintendo system that is not.

Vodafone has a channel on the Android Market

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The operator Vodafone has today its own channel on the Android Market. UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain are the first recipients of this development.

However, through a press release the company said that soon the content of the new channel will also be available Portugal, Greece and Ireland.

According to information published by the international press, this new channel of content which customers can access the operator in several countries, will integrate a wide range of applications and services from Vodafone, which can be downloaded directly through the platform. Vodafone has promised that the service will also feature exclusive content, discounts and many games.

We must remember that Vodafone unveiled its own application store in 2009, launching a trial version. Currently, the operating company has more than 7 000 applications in its App Shops, which is integrated with the service 360.

Symantec reported a new threat to Android

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The computer security company Symantec reported to have discovered a new type of malware threat that targets the mobile operating system Android.

This is a threat that could give hackers the ability to access and complete control of mobile devices, and are smartphones or tablets.

In this sense, Mario Ballano, a researcher at Symantec, has detailed that “we have found a few Google applications on Android Market that are susceptible to this attack and has been notified of the application developers. ” Moreover, such attacks compared with the kidnapping of Windows DLL and added that it could affect a large number of applications for Android.

Finally, Ballano explained: “An application can support plug-ins that are unloaded and then loaded later on. Unfortunately, if these plug-ins are stored in an insecure location this process can be hijacked, allowing access to private data and arbitrary code execution by malicious applications. “