Get Norton Safety Minder For Android

droidandroids | Norton Safety Minder For Android - In consideration of the increasing number of children who use smart phones to access the Internet, Symantec issued a security application that is useful to monitor the use of Android as well as blocking a certain sites.

Yes its about Norton safey Minder that aims to protect children and young people from the threat of the application which contains malware, phishing, and cyber bullying. Application security is working on Android 2.2 Froyo and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Next will follow a version that can be used on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Application security which is made by Symantec offers two levels of protection. After downloading to the handheld's and make the rules at home, parents who use Norton Online Family service can log on via a PC or Mac to monitor and block access to certain sites in their son smart phone or tablet's.

In addition, Norton Online Family also provides some additional functionality, such as search history and sites visited. Whereas at a higher level of protection, parents need to subscribe to paid services at Symantec.

The paid service called Norton Online Family Premier, gives additional control to the users. For example, the ability to monitor SMS and MMS messages, as well as applications that have installed and uninstalled in the smart phone or tablet belongs to the children. In addition, in the category of messages, parents can make a black list or white list of contacts, see the history of the message, preventing delivery of the message and view the contents of the message.

According to Marian Merritt, Internet Safety Advocate for Norton, younger children are generally not aware that the Internet is public space. To stay safe, they need to be careful on the comments made and the pictures they send.

Symantec's own research conducted showed that approximately 93 percent of parents said it had made a rule about the use of internet and telephone. But, 60 percent of them have not implemented a specific parental control program. Its nice to have Norton Safety Minder On Android

'The Sweetness' of Ice Cream Sandwich Felt On Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

droidandroids | Lenovo ThinkPad Ice Cream Sandwich | Android 4.0 - Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet will upgrade to Android 4.0 version in May this year. As said by a spokesman for Lenovo via Macworld, the update will be delivered through 'over-the'air' on the ThinkPad tablet.

With the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS update, then there will be new additions such as voice recognition and face recognition, and a faster browsing features.

In addition to speed when browsing, the browser can also save web pages that can be accessed when internet connectivity is not available.

Other additions are the features of voice, 'voice-input', in which the user will be able to dictate or write a text written by speech, and if there are errors in pronunciation, then automatically, the screen will give a mark on those words with underlines.

In terms of locking systems, there is a face-recognition feature, so the tablet can recognize faces and verify who the owner of the tablet. Android 4.0 OS update will also improve the performance of the 'user interface', connectivity, applications, and multimedia, as well as email and data security.

Lenovo ThinkPad Ice Cream Sandwich

Previously, the tablet has been launched in July last year with the Android 3.1 OS version. And then some companies have sent Android 4.0 OS firstly for the tablet, including Asus and Samsung in the first quarter of this year.

Although the Android 4.0 OS upgrade was first launched by competitors, but Lenovo seems to remain optimistic and will give his best performance.

"The company will still show" Future Proof "and consistent in the latest Android OS release," said a spokeswoman for Lenovo. So it seem so sweet for Lenovo ThinkPad Ice Cream Sandwich

Gingerbread Dominance 58.6% Of Android Smartphone

droidandroids | Android Gingerbread | Dominance of Android Gingerbread - Who does not know Android, Google's operating system which is more popular today. Presented a series of versions, it turns out Gingerbread dominates the majority of phones based on Android.

Google recently released a series of interesting data about the Android version of the most widely used by mobile phone owners. From these data, it is known that the Gingerbread (especially on the Android version 2.3.3 - 2.3.7) controlled 58.6 mobile phones.

Gingerbread while still leading, the other three positions are occupied by Froyo (27.8 percent) and Eclair (7.6 percent).

Android Gingerbread

Inversely proportional to the Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) only accounted for 1 percent on mobile devices. This is not surprising, given that it is a new Google's OS, and has not been widely presented on other Android-based phones.

The data is taken within two weeks that ended on 1 February. Google gets these results by measuring and analyzing the visitors who come to the Android Market.

Although it provides data on the Android version of the most widely used, unfortunately Google does not provide specific data on the number of devices that did in this study.

In the meantime, a lot of versions of Android, including the OS which is adjusted like on Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, has seen a fragmentation becomes a significant problem for Google.

Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt took a different approach on the issue and said that the different flavors provide a greater choice of mobile phone owners. This variation, according to Schmidt, as one of the factors Android into the number one choice for developers in front of the IOS in June this year. Great for Android Gingerbread