Bump and Flock services to be pulled out by Google on 31st January

<p dir=ltr>The year has just started and it's the first week and Google has already announced the discontinuation of two services: Bump and Flock. Both the services will be shut down on the<br> last day of the first month, that is, 31st January, 2014. </p> <p dir=ltr>Bump and Flock are file sharing apps that were created by Bump and are mainly used for sharing files instantly between smartphones.<br> Bump let's you share files between two mobiles by placing them together and by gently dashing knuckles of the phone holders together. While Flock works differently than Bump the main purpose of both is the same.</p> <p dir=ltr>Since both the app are on App Store as well as Google Play, Google has given notice to users to export their data before January 31st. Once users respond to instructions for a backup and exporting their data, they will receive a link containing all their data including media files, images, contacts, etc.</p> <p dir=ltr>David Lieb, the co-founder of<br> Bump mentioned, "The services would be shutting and that they would now be deeply focused on new projects within Google. The 'new projects' are still unnamed. On January 31, 2014, Bump and Flock will be removed from the App Store and Google Play. After this date, neither app will work, and all user data will be deleted" in a blogpost.</p> <p dir=ltr>So it's a bad news for the users of this service. Have you started finding an alternative app for any of the above service? Share with us in the comments section below. </p>

Bump and Flock services to be pulled out by Google on 31st January

The year has just started and it's the first week and Google has already announced the discontinuation of two services: Bump and Flock. ...

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Cash-Stealing bug found in Google Play Store

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">A bug that steals cash by racking up charges from sending premium rate text messages has been found in Google Play. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">Security researchers have identified 32 apps on</span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Google-Play" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Google Play</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;"> that harbour the bug called BadNews. A security firm Lookout, which uncovered BadNews, said that the malicious program lays dormant on handsets for weeks to escape detection. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">The </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Malware" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">malware</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;"> targeted </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Android" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Android</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;"> owners in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Eastern-Europe" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">eastern Europe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">, the BBC reports. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">According to the reports, these 32 apps were available through four separate developer accounts on Google Play. Google has now suspended those accounts and it has pulled all the affected apps from Google Play, it added. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;">Half of the 32 apps seeded with </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BadNews" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #024d99; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">BadNews</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; line-height: 20px;"> are Russian and the version of AlphaSMS it installed is tuned to use premium rate numbers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan.</span></span></div>

Cash-Stealing bug found in Google Play Store

A bug that steals cash by racking up charges from sending premium rate text messages has been found in Google Play.  Security researchers h...

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Google rolls out a Play Store update

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIjMX8c1MH-1DEaPL8Jc4TohzWVLYeOZxBFMdmNmI42X4up_d0WWs8OWcl7sLPBkQaes-NC_xS9YsMhbcW3wF5oJ6t-8s8gteWOvC1ctkrzIgJn_uzo4aHBQYbLC5z4xG9U9QrQSnDsY/s1600/SC20130420-081832.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIjMX8c1MH-1DEaPL8Jc4TohzWVLYeOZxBFMdmNmI42X4up_d0WWs8OWcl7sLPBkQaes-NC_xS9YsMhbcW3wF5oJ6t-8s8gteWOvC1ctkrzIgJn_uzo4aHBQYbLC5z4xG9U9QrQSnDsY/s1600/SC20130420-081832.png" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Last week, the new </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">Google Play</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> version 4.0 became available and then slowly rolled out to users who chose not to manually update. Late last night, another update began pushing as build 4.0.26. </span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">It’s incredibly minor, as one would expect with the </span>previous version being 4.0.25<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">. You can grab it below if your device hasn't updated already.</span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwBWl5L52pkeZlJqVDNNcW1fNjA/edit?usp=sharing" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">DOWNLOAD</a> </span><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kblXWqJuB_Mhoa3wYJmnjauYAe6XchtRrZbl0g3cwvi9jPt50_tWqTWcv9WzTH01X0uhqDmf8gLUbQXti1lo-nDbW4nb1VzqH-Ii5Mfstw0ULf8uQpgvEfv-MiL3uTi-0Oha5HFl_Bk/s1600/SC20130420-081824.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kblXWqJuB_Mhoa3wYJmnjauYAe6XchtRrZbl0g3cwvi9jPt50_tWqTWcv9WzTH01X0uhqDmf8gLUbQXti1lo-nDbW4nb1VzqH-Ii5Mfstw0ULf8uQpgvEfv-MiL3uTi-0Oha5HFl_Bk/s1600/SC20130420-081824.png" /></a></div>

Google rolls out a Play Store update

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Facebook Home app arrives Google Play Store today !

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4tldGEdzyD5IrsWBrUXBqcBhxw50QRF7GUkST3hgYBTjbjGF_nXwKO-RsLMmHlJ7-xcegPePk9pV_YSQ8eOg3vmtB6Y15Ps5wHuHWGi6Rkzc5eXqteGlTMEC11TqbZfgy3aF_CYG1Z0G/s1600/Facebook-home-ad-cropped-feature.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4tldGEdzyD5IrsWBrUXBqcBhxw50QRF7GUkST3hgYBTjbjGF_nXwKO-RsLMmHlJ7-xcegPePk9pV_YSQ8eOg3vmtB6Y15Ps5wHuHWGi6Rkzc5eXqteGlTMEC11TqbZfgy3aF_CYG1Z0G/s400/Facebook-home-ad-cropped-feature.png" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Few days ago Facebook announced the Facebook Home app in an event and today was fixed for its launch.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now owners of the<br /> Samsung Galaxy S III , Galaxy<br /> Note II as well as the HTC One X<br /> + can rush on over to Google<br /> Play or Facebook's site to<br /> download the free screen-covering app or launcher.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(188, 188, 188); color: #333333; line-height: 24.47443199157715px;">Update: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.47443199157715px;">Turns out Facebook Home is only available in United States at launch, as Facebook notes in the help documentation of Facebook Home.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.47443199157715px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay tuned for more updates as we are going to upload the Facebook Home app review soon.</span></div>

Facebook Home app arrives Google Play Store today !

Few days ago Facebook announced the Facebook Home app in an event and today was fixed for its launch. Now owners of the Samsung Gal...

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