Remember the Carrier iQ mobile snoopware? It's in AT&T's hands now

Phone giant picks through support company, finds some stuff worth keeping.

The once-controversial Carrier iQ phone support software has been acquired by AT&T.

The phone giant said it had agreed to purchase the software assets of Carrier iQ as well as a handful of its employees. Carrier iQ, meanwhile, appears to have closed up shop, with its site now offline.[...]

Samsung Flaw Lets Hacker Easily Take Control of Your Galaxy Mobile Remotely.

More than 600 Million users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones, including the newly released Galaxy S6, are potentially vulnerable to a software bug that allows hackers to secretly monitor the phone's camera and microphone, read text messages and install malicious apps. The vulnerability is due to [...]

Why We Love Android M (And You Should, Too!)

Google has recently announced its latest version of the mobile operating system called Android M at its official Google I/O 2015 developer event May 28 in San Francisco. We don’t know exactly what is the 'M' stands for just yet. My guess is it could be Marzipan or maybe Milky Way. Let me know [...].

HTC

 IRL: Taking HTC's One M8 for a test drive. 

 

The original HTC One was one of my favorite smartphones from 2013, but it was easy to see why you'd pass it up in favor of an archrival like Samsung's Galaxy S4 -- it just didn't have the battery life, camera quality or expansion to keep up. Fast-forward to 2014 and it's a different story. Most of those headache-inducing flaws have been fixed in the new One; indeed, my colleague Brad Molen suggested it was an all-around better device. But is that enough to avoid a twinge of buyer's remorse,...

NEW APPLICATIONS

New 'Homer' App Lets You Peek at Others' Home Screens for Apps to Grab  

  

We're big fans of finding the latest and greatest apps to use on our various mobile devices, but it can be a bit like searching for that metaphorical needle in a haystack.

Sure, you can scan through all of the online reviews for new things to download, or attempt to navigate through the iOS and Android app stores to uncover diamonds in the rough. You can even read over various tech enthusiasts' blogs or writings to get a sense of what they use (or have found), and just copy what they've downloaded.

You could also take a page from Max Levchin, whose new app — cleverly titled "Homer" — gives you a look at what's on your friends' iOS home screens whenever they capture a screenshot of them.

"If you're a sports fanatic, why shouldn't you be able to check out Nate's "Sport Stats" app folder and the apps of other fellow...

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