Google Android Market Reaches 200K Applications

Google's Android Market application store has at the moment negotiated the 200k applications snag, concluding in on arch competitor Apple's iTunes AppStore.

According to well sourced report that the for the most part fresh app store statistics released by AndroLib, Google's App Marketplace at present has more than 200K apps, with more being added every day with the predominance being good.

Android Market has revealed some outstanding growth figures in the prior and uphold to climb at a more and more and more fast pace, hostile to outnumber the mammoth app depository that Apple has accumulate for its users.

The number of apps that are downloaded on the platform at a standard source and those added to it. Apple's App Store accomplished 300,000 apps in October 2010 while Android Market developed 10 times between December 2009 and December 2010 and same with 2011.

For the moment, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Market Place has also negotiated the 5,000 app hurdle, screening a advanced growth rate than the Android Market.

Symantec launches Norton Mobile Security App for Android

Admired and trendy security solutions contributor and most important anti-virus brand, Symantec, has in its most recent budge appeared at protection of the admired or I say liked Android platform, with an innovative and fresh anti-virus app.

Norton Mobile Security App, which is a free of charge app for the platform allow s users to scan each and every one the apps they download, and other app updates searching out for at all any shape of risk, which possibly will conciliation the security of the Smartphone.

Let me tell you that this particular app also detects and blocks a few doubtful appearing websites and Symantec maintains that it is proficient and competent an adequate amount of to detect any hazard before it in fact infects the user’s smartphone. As well, in case the user happens to be unable to find or misplace his smartphone, the app also has a condition to lock the smartphone all in all using a text message, or even clean the contents of the smartphone, if it is require doing for not finding your piece. On the other hand, these additional features aren't an instant fraction of the app, but could be downloaded from the Android Market.

Google Taking off Malware Applications from The Android Market

Google has recently dragged down a small number of many malware infected applications from the Android Market last week, a security analyst declares. The disclosures came from Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor in computer science and technology at North Carolina State University. As per to him, a total of 10 applications were uninvolved by Google from its Android Market on June 5.

  

Jiang, who was also accountable for ascertaining these malware infected applications being advertised via the Android Market, and functioned to get Google's notice to the danger facing its customers. Jiang also created a report hauling an in detail crash of the malicious code, known as Plankton. Another security specialist Andrew Bradit, who is also a research analyst at Webroot, did research on his way on Plankton. Brandt hoisted the apprehension by stating that, "It has the capability to remotely access a command-and-control (C&C) server for directions, and upload supplementary payloads. It exercises an extremely surreptitious technique to set in motion several malware it needs to phone."

Jiang's team as well accounted the continuation of more than a few other malicious apps in the Android Market, the nearly all bullying examples being DroidKungFu, and YZHCSMS, a Trojan horse. Google has given full freedom and permitted developers to build up apps, as contrasting to the closed loom taken by Apple. Although this has earned admiration of numerous developers and customers, it also raises the opportunity of malicious code receiving into constant the official Android Market.