Google kicks some emulators out of the market

Indeed Nesoid, Snedoid und Gameboid are removed.

Compared to Apple, Google is very slacky by the inclusion of programs in their own App Store. There are no past examination.

Deletion


This does not mean Google hasn't any rules. As you can see there is a report on "Android Police".
So now all channels of the developer Yong Zhang were removed from the market, deleted the associated account. Zhang had focused on the emulators and here among other Nesoid, SNesoid GameBoid and various apps offering.

Speculation 

The question of why Google has now decided to distance, one can only speculate, because the company does not comment on individual cases.

Pressure?

The community also suspected in a row as quickly the pressure of the games industry, which in recent years, again and again - has taken action against emulators - but with very changeable success. After all, before not too long ago with the emulator PSX4Droid also another developer was thrown out of the market. 

GPL 

However, there is also another possible explanation: On Reddit there is a discussion, that Zhang might violate the license of the free software licence GPL.
After all his emulators are based quite clearly on free software, but Zhang didn't make his code public and also didn't make it clear where he got it.

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NVIDIA presents their "Kal-El" – Quadcore in a 4 minute video

In a four minute video, NVIDIA shows what "Kal-El" – Quadcore has to offer.
The demo is about "dynamic lightning" which is a big point in this movie. Indeed, it looks very good.
"Kal-El" should have a five times higher perfomance than the Tegra 2 Dualcore.
As can be seen in the video, the game isn't playable with a dual core.  The power with the quad core makes the light effect run smoothly. The release date of this game should be in August.

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Pay with Google

The rumors came true.Google presented their NFC payment service official yesterday.
It will pay in the future ( but of course only once in the U.S.) simply with your mobile phone. Google Wallet is then "connected" with your creditcard and it allows them to select an app and use to pay for.


If you want more information about Google Wallet , please visit www.google.com/wallet.

 

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Chomp vs Google Market Search

I don't know how google was able to code such a bad search software. As a searchmachine company, they could do it better.
Someone thought so do and developed the App Chomp. Chomp returns much more relative results and the interface is much nicer than the Android Market App as well. All in all it seems the app is very nice
but if you don't find what you are looking for don't foreclose the Google Android Market.

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Android with new security problems!!!

Currently there is a new securityhole in Android.
If a Android device logs in a wlan access point, the attacker is be able to get access to your calender, contacts or in your picture folder.

I don't want to scare you. There must be serveral factors.


Factor #1: the attacker must be logged in the same access point like you are. For instance in an opened access point  in a coffee shop.

Factor #2 : The synchronisation to google must be activated.

Factor #3: If there is a synchronisation the attacker must get the token from it. With this token he is able to get access to the Android device. So it's possible too to upload data to this device.
But who is really affected?
Every device which isn't upgraded to 2.3.4 or higher .Only the third party app Picasa (google isn't responsible for this app) has this security hole.

Those who do not currently use the latest version and still want to go use a free Wi-Fi, should'nt share data to google

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Android Malware Alert!!!

A lot of apps from the Android-Market were determinted to subscribe premium services, if the smartphone user was in China. The evil apps send automaticly SMS messages which subscribe a premium service.
The user wouldn't notice that because this evil app will delete the text message before he is going to read it.

Affected are the following: Match, 3D Cube horror terrible, ShakeBanger, Shake Break, Sea Ball, iMine, iCalendar, LoveBaby, iCartoon and iBook.
Google has reacted and deleted those apps from the market.
This wasn't the first time when Google deleted apps from their market. Last March they deleted 50apps from their store.

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FxCamera - Take pictures with some special effects

With FxCamera, developed by ymst ,you can take pictures and give them some nice special effects


These include ToyCam, Polandroid, Fisheye, SymmetriCam, Warhol, and Normal. The app's are free on Android Market (direct link), it will be displayed advertising banners.

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