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Last week, the Android team was made aware of a number of malicious applications published to Android Market. Within minutes of becoming aware, they removed the malicious applications. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user’s device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user’s knowledge. The following 21 malware apps have already been downloaded by at least 50, 000 Android users....

The wait is over. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is taking a leave absence from the company, returned to unveil the new product iPad 2 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco today. As rumored, the next generation tablet device will have a 33% thinner profile. Other awesome features you can play on this new iPad 2 include Photo Booth - you can manipulate effects by touching. You can FaceTime between two iPads, between an iPad and an iPhone, or between an iPad and a Mac....

Nothing special about this post. Just sharing a classic picture of the legends. A short description from Wikipedia: Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney....

As a computer geek, I prefer to work with complex gadgets and problems, but when somebody talks about ‘cooking’ which I never tried till now – thanks to Google Recipe – the new tool which teaches your cooking in a smart way! Recipe View lets you narrow your search results to show only recipes, and helps you choose the right recipe amongst the search results by showing clearly marked ratings, ingredients and pictures....

Google set up a sting operation (!) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results in Bing. Interestingly, Bing doesn’t deny this completely. The whole sting operation is amazing and it started from Danny Sullivan’s post and resulting Microsoft’s response on Bing search quality. uld ever enter into Google. These searches returned no matches on Google or Bing — or a tiny number of poor quality matches, in a few cases — before the experiment went live....

The future looks great on paper! Cloud is now becoming reality. You can now print from anywhere using Google Cloud Print. Google blew the lid off of Chrome OS by introducing Google Cloud Print Beta. Google Cloud Print makes printing more intuitive, accessible and useful, by allowing you to print to your printers from Google Cloud Print enabled apps on any computer or smart phone. By connecting your printer with the Google Cloud you will be able to print to your printer from any computer or smart phone, regardless of where you are....

It might sound like blasphemy for the Apple diehards out there, but in the world of MP3 players, the ability to play a lot of songs isn’t that innovative of a feature anymore. The original iPod, of course, advertised itself as allowing you to put a thousand songs in your pocket - but this original (albeit compelling) sales pitch seems to have lost its luster as the technology has caught up with the times....

Are you one of the many people who is using a dangerously easy-to-guess password? Change your password before its too late! Twitter, LinkedIn, World of Warcraft and Yahoo are amongst the popular websites which are advising users to change their passwords in light of the recent security breach at the Gawker Media family of sites. Clearly people need to get out of the habit of using the same password everywhere, and they also need to ensure that their passwords are not easy to guess or crack....

I’m really glad to announce that cosmoGeek is now featured on Alltop.com, a popular news aggregating site. Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of the web. cosmoGeek will be sharing the space in the top technology news page along with some high profile blogs like Mashable, Techcrunch, Engadget and many more!

Microsoft Windows completes 25 years today. On November 20, 1985, the first version Windows 1.0 was released. Can you recall how Windows 1.0 looked like? To be frank, I was born in the same year and no real hands-on experience for me until Windows 95! . Oh, and of course Windows 8. I hardly know much about it at the moment except the leaked slides. Let’s hope it is as well received as Windows 7 has been so far....