The WaveSecure team have gotten in touch to say that they will be releasing a few new features for WaveSecure over the next week or so.  The Action Centre in particular looks like it could be a pretty useful feature.  Here’s what they had to say:-
In a bid to make WaveSecure even more user-friendly, we will be introducing an improved Welcome Screen and also Action Center. We are hoping to roll these out by end next week.
Welcome Screen basically steps users through a quick introduction to what …

Security researchers Christian Papathanasiou and Nicholas Percoco, from tech security firm Trustwave, have announced that they plan on demonstrating an Android rootkit at the Defcon hackers conference in July.  The rootkit, which can be activated silently via an incoming SMS or phone call, is apparently a port of an existing Linux rootkit.
“You call the phone, the phone doesn’t ring, and when the phone realizes that it’s being called by an attacker’s phone number, it sends him back a shell”
According to Papathansiou, as the rootkit runs as a Linux kernel module, …

We recently had the chance to put a few questions to NitroDesk Inc., the development team responsible for the superb and hugely popular TouchDown, an Microsoft Exchange client for Android.  Here’s what they had to say:-
Can you tell us a little bit about NitroDesk and your development background?
NitroDesk was founded by Goutham in the summer of 2008, with nothing as investment but a $2000 laptop, developing Windows applications with a focus on integrating web based services such as online photo sites. When the TMobile G1 was released, NitroDesk was the …

It’s time to announce the winners of our 20 1-year WaveSecure subscriptions.  If you’re name appears in the list below, you should receive word on how to claim your prize over the next couple of days.  If you’re not one of the lucky winners; don’t fret.  Not only have the good folks at TenCube supplied us with 20 1-year subscriptions for the competition, they’ve also provided a promotional code which will provide 20% off of a WaveSecure subscription ($15.90 instead of $19.90).  Just use the promotional code WS-ANDROIDLIFE when making …

UPDATE- This competition has now ended.  The winners will be announced later today, along with a promo code for those members not lucky enough to win.
The folks at tenCube, the creators of WaveSecure, have generously offered up 20 1-year subscriptions to the WaveSecure service, each worth $19.90.  WaveSecure is a mobile security service application which was one of the overall winners of last year’s second Android Developers Challenge (ADC2).

With WaveSecure, you can
If you are unable to recover your lost phone, you can still protect your privacy. …

Adobe have announced that both Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 for Android are now in private beta testing.  More importantly, they also requested that folks who would like to sign up for the public beta can do so from now.  There are two separate sign up pages, one for Flash and the other for AIR.  Sign up now and you’ll be notified when the apps enter the public beta phase.  All of this means that it’s looking hopeful that we’ll see Flash sooner rather than later, although Adobe did recently …

This isn’t, strictly speaking, a directly Android-related news article, but it does have elements that will affect Android usage.  Google have, on their Chromium blog, announced that they are working on a cloud printing method which will allow “any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer” (provided it has access to the cloud).  The new technology will do away with the need for installing printer drivers on computers, instead, jobs will be send to Google Cloud Print, which will then, in turn, send …

XDA-Developers today announced that they have released their XDA-Developers App to the Android Market. The app allows you to view the XDA-Developers forums, create and respond to posts and check private messages. See the video at the bottom of this post for a demo of how the app works.
If you’re looking for a way to access XDA while on your mobile, we now have a great solution. The XDA Mobile Android app is free in the Market (just search for “XDA”) and lets you view forums and threads, …

Last year, Citrix announced that they were working on a Citrix Receiver app for Android, an app that a lot of IT professionals were quite keen to see become available.  A limited Tech Preview of the app has been available since the end of 2009, but it did not have full functionality.  Yesterday, however, Citrix announced via their blog that Citrix Receiver 1.0 for Android has been released to the Android Market.  It’s still not perfect, there are a few rough edges to smooth out and the feedback seems to …

Myriad Group are the company behind the Android performance boosting VM Dalvik Turbo, and the recently annouced tool J2Android, which converts Java MIDlets to run on Android devices. They can also boast that they created the best selling mobile browser of all time in Myriad Browser, which has so far shipped on over 2 billion phones. Myriad Group are Europe’s biggest mobile software company, employing over 700 engineers worldwide. The organisation have had a hand in some of the most successful Android devices to date and will undoubtedly have a major part to play in Android’s future going forward. We were delighted to be given the opportunity to put a few questions to them on their thoughts on Android, and what we can expect from Dalvik Turbo and J2Android. Click the link for more.