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Norton is famous for its privacy and security protection, and yesterday, it released a new version of its latest Android security app. The upgrade contains Norton’s new Mobile Insight technology, which analyzes Android apps to see where the major security breaches are coming from.

Within a few hours of the update being published, Norton discovered something very interesting but not hugely surprising: one of the main applications that has proven to be a security threat on the Android OS is Facebook.

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Sceptre’s Sound Bar 2.1 turns your standard HDTV into a Smart TV with quite a bit of help from the Android operating system. Once connected, the hardware allows you to connect to the internet and download apps from Google Play, as well as surf the web and play your favourite games on the big screen.

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Leaked screenshots have surfaced that show a standard Snapdragon-powered Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-IG9505) running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The firmware was allegedly intended for the “Google Edition” Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505G) and features build number JWR66N.S005.130625, and it will reportedly be made available to everyone this July.

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We had expected BlackBerry Messenger to make its debut on Android and iOS on June 27 thanks to T-Mobile U.K., but when it became apparent that the carrier’s announcement was incorrect, we started to wonder just how long BlackBerry would keep us waiting.

But during a quarterly earnings call this morning, CEO Thorsten Heins again reiterated the company’s plan to make BBM a cross-platform service “before the end of the summer.”

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While the iPhone has been slowly making its way to carriers all over the world since its release in 2007, there are still a number of major operators that are yet to offer it. One of those is China Mobile, the world’s largest carrier with over 800 million subscribers; and another is DoCoMo, a Japanese carrier that serves almost half of the country’s mobile market.

But DoCoMo isn’t at all concerned, even though it’s losing customers to other carriers that do offer Apple’s device. A company executive has acknowledged that the iPhone is an “attractive” device, but points out that it also comes with some disadvantages, and insists that the latest Android-powered offerings are just as good.

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