Free Tools To Check If Carrier IQ Is Running On Your Android Device

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Recently, there is a huge controversy going on around Carrier IQ and the Internet has been abuzz with mentions of it.

If you don’t know what Carrier IQ is, well here is a brief introduction about it. Carrier IQ is a software that runs on more than 140 million mobile phones (according to Carrier IQ website). It is a monitoring software to track user activities, including their personal information, locations, network communications, phone calls, messages and more. If you want to know about Carrier IQ in-depth read this article by Engadget.

Carrier IQ was apparently designed to give metrics to help mobile carriers improve their services, but in some circumstances, the software is not offered as an opt-out feature and in many cases users don’t even know it’s there, tracking all interactions with their mobile phone.

Coming back to the main purpose of this article, we are here sharing some free tools for Android users that will help them find out if their Android device has Carrier IQ or not. Click on the title of the app to download it from the Android Market.

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Giveaway: 5 x Sygic GPS Navigation For Android Activation License [Exclusive Giveaway Over]

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Sygic: GPS Navigation for Android is a premium turn-by-turn navigation. We took the app for evaluation to see how it performs in our tests. You can read the full review of Sygic: GPS Navigation for Android here. It is a great navigation app for people who like or do a lot of traveling and can’t live without the GPS!

Sygic lists its premium app for free (actually a 7 day trial version) in the Android Market. The app is around 6 MB download and after installing it, users must download the maps. You don’t need to download all maps available through Sygic to your Android phone as it will take up precious space on their device. Using the Sygic Downloader, you have the choice to download each map. Sygic recommends using WiFi for downloading maps data as some maps are very big in size. After the 7-day trial expires, the app prompts the user to buy an activation key from the official webpage.

We would like to first thank Sygic for sponsoring the exclusive giveaway for our readers. Through this giveaway you can win an activation license of Sygic GPS Navigation worth 79.99 €. Using this license you will be able to activate Europe & America & Southeast Asia & Africa region. [Read more...]

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Sygic: GPS Navigation for Android [Full Review]

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Third-party premium navigation apps for Android faces stiff competing from Google Maps on Google’s Android Platform. Since, almost all Android devices comes bundled with free Google Maps plus Navigation app. Though Google Maps Navigation is not available everywhere. This stiff competition is good for end users as it brings in some good and innovative features for them. To compete with free Google Maps, premium GPS navigation apps comes up with innovative features. We started evaluating Sygic: GPS Navigation app for Android, a premium navigation app to find out if people will pay for something which they have grown accustomed to getting free?

Sygic lists its premium app for free (actually a 7 day trial version) in the Android Market. The app is around 6 MB download and after installing it, users must download the maps. You don’t need to download all maps available through Sygic to your Android phone as it will take up precious space on their device. Using the Sygic Downloader, you have the choice to download each map. Sygic recommends using WiFi for downloading maps data as some maps are very big in size. After the 7-day trial expires, the app prompts the user to buy an activation key from the official webpage.  Read on for more in-depth review of the app. [Read more...]

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NFS Hot Pursuit Available For Free For Samsung Galaxy S2 Users

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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a very good car racing game for Android users. EA sells the game through the Android Market for $6.99. But, here’s a very good news for Samsung Galaxy S II owners, they can save $6.99 and download the game for free from the Samsung Apps store application present in their phone. Earlier, Samsung through Samsung Apps provided GameLoft Asphalt 6 for free to all Galaxy S2 users. Even, at the time of posting, Asphalt 6 is still available for free to all Galaxy S II users in all regions. [Read more...]

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Wondershare MobileGo Free License Giveaway [Expired]

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Wondershare MobileGo is a smart Android Manager to manage your Android phone. With this application, you can easily manage your phone from your computer conveniently and effectively. The application is an one-stop application for everything that you need for your device.

The manager enables you to easily transfer all your contacts from your Symbian device, import your contacts from Microsoft Outlook, convert movies to formats that your phone can play, easily import or export contacts, manage your SMS, music, photo, or movie, backup and restore your phone data, and do other management tasks between your computer and phone. Using the app is very easy. With its well laid-out user interface, finding any function and using is very easy. You can find a simple guide on how to use this application here. [Read more...]

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Firefox Beta for Android: Now Supports Do Not Track Privacy Feature

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Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox Beta for Android, with the ability for users to turn on the “Do Not Track” privacy feature. Mozilla’s shift to more frequent release cycles promises cutting edge Firefox features, performance enhancements, security updates and stability improvements to users faster.

Firefox for Android is the first mobile Web browser to offer the Do Not Track privacy feature. Do Not Track allows users to have more control over how their browsing behavior is tracked and used online by different advertising websites. When a user tells Firefox to enable the “Do Not Track” option, Firefox tells advertisers and marketers that the user has opted out of third-party behavioural tracking with cookies.

This gives users the power to decide whether they are tracked online for advertising purposes which amounts to far better privacy options for users. This post from Privacy Engineer Sid Stamm has more information on Do Not Track. [Read more...]

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UC Browser English: Fast Mobile Web Browser for Symbian, WM, Java

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UCWeb has announced that the latest version of its flagship product, UC Browser 7.7 English version has been released. The latest version, UC Browser 7.7 English, is released for Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java.

These days there’s no shortage of mobile web browsers, each one claiming to be the fastest and most feature-rich. UC Browser is another such mobile web browser which is cross-platform. Much like the rest of the lot, it offers useful features, speed enhancements and quick-access to your favourites. [Read more...]

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AutoCAD WS: View DWG, DXF Files On iPhone, Android

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AutoCAD WS is an innovative mobile application which allows you to work on your designs while on the go. You can use AutoCAD WS to view, edit and share DWG files on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android device.

This mobile application is so much flexible that it even allows opening DWG and DXF files directly from email attachments. You can also synchronize the files by uploading the drawings directly to your free AutoCAD account, which you create upon first use of AutoCAD WS application. [Read more...]

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