Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:36 am

Android Market: Infected apps removed

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google is cleaning house and has removed 21 malware infected applications from the official Android Marketplace. Hackers did steal the existing applications and added malware that could root phones, steel data, and open backdoors through injected root exploits. While Google acted quickly after learning about the crimeware, the Android Police blogging site [...]

Facebook: I million user profiles lifted

Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook’s already tarnished data security reputation did get another hit after a dating-site startup launched its new service with 250,000 member profiles lifted from the social networking site. Lovely Faces used the information Facebook users made publicly available to get off the ground. The website says that it customized face recognition software to [...]

Verizon Wireless: $90M in customer refunds

Basking Ridge (ip-192.com): After wrongly billing customers for data services, Verizon Wireless said that it will refund over $90 million in accidental charges. The wireless phone provider that owns and operates the largest mobile telecommunications network in the United States said that the mistake affects approximately 15 million Verizon customers and occurred over a period [...]

myTouch: T-Mobile smartphone uses HSPA+

Bellevue (ip-192.com): T-Mobile, a German mobile telephone provider, announced a new Android based smartphone. myTouch features a 3.8-inch WVGA touch-screen display with virtual keyboard and Swype for text input. It uses a second generation 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU for processing; a 5-megapixel camera is capable of recording video in 720p. The new smartphone features Wi-Fi [...]