Check if your Android device is affected by Heartbleed bug/vulnerability

Is your Android device vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL that was exposed recently? Here's an easy to to check with the Heartbleed Detector app from Lookout. It determines what version of OpenSSL your device is using and if the version detected is one of the affected versions of OpenSSL, then it check to see if the specific vulnerable feature called heartbeats is enabled. The app is easy to use, install the app from the Play Store and run it. It will automatically display the test results.
Get the Heartbleed Detector App

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Google announces $10 million awards for Android Developers

Want $10m? Well, if you are a good coder you may just give it a try. Google announced the 'Android Developer Challenge' with a total awrad money of $10m.

The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:

* Android Developer Challenge I: Accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008
* Android Developer Challenge II: This part will launch after the first handsets built on the platform become available in the second half of 2008


The 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development.

Google is looking for applications in the following areas -

* Social networking
* Media consumption, management, editing, or sharing, e.g., photos
* Productivity and collaboration such as email, IM, calendar, etc.
* Gaming
* News and information
* Rethinking of traditional user interfaces
* Use of mash-up functionality
* Use of location-based services
* Humanitarian benefits
* Applications in service of global economic development
* Whatever you're excited about!


For more information on the contest and the Android platform and SDK visit
http://code.google.com/android/adc.html

Android Developer Blog
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/

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