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Four third-party app stores for Android have apps with a malicious component that seeks root access to devices, according to Trend Micro. The security company found 1,163 Android application packages ...

Famed iOS jailbreak hacker Pod2g hates the redesign of iOS 7 so much he might abandon Apple’s operating system all together… for Android. On his official Twitter account, Pod2G — an important figure ...

However, the side effect is that Google is now the arbiter of which apps can run on Android even when those apps fall ...