Google is fixing an issue with Android phones that could have exposed users’ personal data.
It follows a warning from German security researchers that more than 99% of handsets were potentially leaking information.
The flaw meant hackers could have gained access to data within the phones’ calendar and contacts applications.
Such issues are likely to become more frequent, warned security experts.
Google said in a statement: “We’re starting to roll out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in calendar …

A fake security program for Apple computers called MACDefender has racked up a significant number of victims.
Hundreds of people who installed the software have turned to Apple’s forums for help to remove it.
The program’s tactic of peppering screens with pornographic pictures has made many keen to get rid of it.
MACDefender seems to have been successful because of the work its creators did to make it appear high up in search results.
The number of people seeking help was uncovered by ZDNet journalist Ed Bott. In a blog post, he wrote about …

The machine-readable web has come a step closer thanks to open sourcers in the Drupal community.
Drupal 7 has received sign-off – finally – adding the ability to embed semantic meta-data into sites using the open-source content management system.
That means Drupal 7 is adding native support for the W3C’s RDFa – a set of XHTML attributes that are designed to turn human readable data into data that’s readable by machines. That could be data such as a location’s map coordinates. RDFa is already being used by Google (see here).
In a statement …

The phone measures 4.2-inches with a touch screen boasting over 16 million colors; that equates to around 854×480 pixels.  The exterior includes a microSD slot for multimedia, three physical buttons (controlling back, home and menu), a 2.5mm headset jack, allowing Sony to push this device as “the world’s thinnest smartphone.”
The phone sports Sony’s Exmor R for mobile, allowing for “best-in-class low-light video and photo capture.”  Stereo bluetooth is made available among other multimedia features including a digital media player, HD video recording as well as a 8.1MP camera for the …

This year’s Best in Show award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada is none other than the brand new Motorola Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the one called XOOM! It was almost an upset as many believed that the operating system Android 3.0 Honeycomb would snatch the award, no problem. Instead, it was found pertinent by the voters to instead vote on the vessel. Of all of the tablets (and there were a lot of them) to pop out with Honeycomb at this event, the XOOM is the …