Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, according to a company spokesman.
This marks the first time Google has used the Remote Application Removal Feature that allows the company to delete apps for security reasons that have been installed through Android Market.
The apps were proof-of-concept programs designed to test the feasibility of distributing a program that could later be used to take control of the device in an attack, according to Jon Oberheide, the …

A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. Today, after lots of testing and tweaking, we’re excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required.
Over the past year, we’ve introduced a mobile …

Linux is becoming more and more popular as new distributions are getting more user friendly, the best part is, it’s completely free to everyone.
You may even be running Linux and haven’t noticed it, all of the Android mobile devices are based on Linux and the iPhone OS is also a UNIX variant. Linux also comes pre-installed on some netbooks.
So what’s the benefits?

Linux is free, there are commercial distributions for server based machines but the majority of operating systems are completely free of charge.
Software! – Linux distributions such as Ubuntu provide a massive …