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Google has just released the  latest version of Android  Market.  The online store with  more than 100 thousand applications  is now easier for users to find what they want.

"You'll feel good knowing we have revolutionized the Android Market to make it faster, easier, and fun in finding applications, movies and books that are interesting," Google wrote in his blog post.

Quoted from TG Daily, Friday (07/15/2011), the change : Google is creating more space to display some of the most interesting content in a week on the home page.

"We added more items that top the chart with more new and relevant and we make users easier to swipe across this chart while browsing in the store application. Google has also introduced a new collection of compelling content such as staff picks and editors' choice apps," explains Google.

This update does Google after a lot of users who show discontent over the previous Android Market. Although a leader in online search, but Google let third-party applications store takes over and stepped over it.

For example, Amazon has its own application store for Android that is Amazon's AppStore. Giant online retailer Amazon is so aggressively introduce the AppStore and managed to convince a number of publishers releasing their applications mobile content exclusively through the application store.

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The presence of  the green robot Android increasingly  rampant. After skyrocketing in the Southeast Asian market, Google's platform is currently  dominate the  smart  phone market share in the UK  with a  rate of 45 percent.

The data issued by Kantar Worldpanel (15/06/2011). Compared to last year, Android now exactly a market share of 44.9 percent, from last year's 35.1 percent.

Currently, many users among the productive age using a variety of Android phone in the UK. Different countries also vary his taste, the popularity of Android in the UK was not followed his career in America.

In Uncle Sam's country, Android still survive in a number of around 54.7 percent. In recent months showed no significant movement figures. Google seems to be alert to the movement of the iPhone, which now reaches 30.8 percent market share.

The cause is now Apple has membundling Verizon CDMA iPhone that its impact was felt cut off sales of Android phones. Recent data from the NPD even says Android still great, but need not be too wary.

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Android users  will still need to be careful when downloading applications from Google's Android Market. A study re-discover the existence of  evil in there applications.

The study was conducted by Xuxian Jiang, a professor from North Carolina State University in the United States. Jiang found 12 malicious applications on the Android Market, a few months old and downloaded to hundreds of thousands of times.

As quoted from TheRegister, Monday (13/06/2011), all malicious applications that have been removed by Google from the Android Market.

10 of 12 applications that the discovery contains a hidden code that collect and send the track record of browsing, bookmarking and user device information.

10 malicious applications that also contain a 'back street' that makes applications are updated without user's knowledge. Update it also can contain malicious code that much anymore.

10 applications that allegedly contains the data gathering function login for Facebook, Gmail and other accounts. But according to Jiang did not use this function.

2 of 12 applications that can make a toll-collapse victims. This is because secretly sending short messages to certain premium services.

1 of 12 applications had been raised in the application bazaar, sponsored by Google. It shows their acumen in the guise of good applications.

1 of 12 applications were named Angry Birds Rio Unlock. Clearly the popularity of the game trying mendompleng Angry Birds.

In response to these findings, a spokesman for Google said there was no indication that the application was found has been used to break into the Google user accounts.

"We are aware of and has frozen a number of suspicious applications from the Android Market. We remove applications and developer account that violates our policy,"said Google's official statement.

Actually, Google has a fairly intensive attention on security. This is mainly on web services and browsers. But in the case of Android incidents often occur.

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As the growing popularity of Android, the number of applications  developed  for this operating  system  more and more. Even predicted soon, applications on the Android  Market  will be  higher  in number  than the  Apple  App Store.

Research from Research2guidance company in Germany said that though initially slow, the growth of Android Market began to exceed the Apple Store. In April 2011, as many as 28 thousand new application added to Android Market, compared to 11 thousand in the App Store.

Until May 2011, the Android Market had 294,738 applications. This amount is approaching the App Store that had 381,062 applications at the same time.

By analyzing several factors such as higher growth than the App Store, Android applications, Research2guidance predict the number of applications will exceed the Android Market App Store around August 2011.

Research2guidance also revealed several other points. For example only 36% paid Android applications, compared with 60% application in the App Store. Apple's revenue edges will still be higher than Google.

Quoted from PCWorld, Saturday (05/07/2011), although the growth of Android Market so soon, but the number of fixed income more dredged App Store. Projected, Apple will reach about three-quarters of total revenue of all stores and existing applications in 2011.

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