Travelling for wok or pleasure can be exhaustive or perhaps boring when you look around, all you see is a sea of strange faces and you wonder how to spend this time. Bingo! You have a copy of the latest New Yorker magazine and few clicks on your iPad enable you to enjoy politics, international affairs, arts, fiction, poetry and cartoons.

The New Yorker’s iPad app is a full version of the magazine optimized for reading on a tablet. Enjoy a complete issue of the acclaimed weekly on your iPad each Monday. How does it work? The app displays the current week’s table of contents and allows you to buy new issues when released. Audio, video, slide shows and extra cartoons are the bonus content for your digital edition that can be read on desktop computers, laptops, or the iPad.

 What more is the fact that subscribers to the print magazine can register for the digital edition, and dig out archives dating back to 1925 at no extra charge! So on your Smart Devices you can store as many issues of The New Yorker as you like and read them any time you like, in portrait or landscape view.

About New Yorker Magazine:

Launched in 1925, The New Yorker has bagged more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine. Notable work in recent years includes: coverage on wars by George Packer, Jane Mayer, Lawrence Wright, and Seymour M. Hersh, Anthony Lane on movies, James Wood on books, Elizabeth Kolbert on the environment, Atul Gawande on health care, humor by David Sedaris and Andy Borowitz, cartoons by Roz Chas, fiction by Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Zadie Smith, and Haruki Murakami and the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell.

To know more click here: New Yorker Magazine

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Android apps

Following the new report that indicated that many Android apps are data mining and broadcasting users’ information, you can be sure developers are already looking for solutions.

TaintDroid is the name of the app which uncovers the apps that are data mining. TaintDroid does a real time monitoring of your Android phone and the running apps. The apps is not in the Android Market yet, we will inform you when it is.  Learn more about the TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones.

This is some information worth noting! Apparently Googles Android operating system doesnt have adequate security to protect users from malicious use of personal data.

Android apps

Researchers at Pensylvania State University and Intel Labs conducted a study on 30 of the most popular Android Apps downloaded from the Android Market. The apps choosen access personal imformation, report user locations and some even broadcast the handsets device number and phone number to outside servers. In almost all the apps tested, information was collected and sent without the user ever being notified. In some cases this information was broadcast almost every 30 seconds.

Google defends this by stating “Users are shown a screen informing them of what personal information can be accessed by the software”. Researchers state that even though this may be true, knowing what the app is capable of is different than knowing what it actually does.

With this information caution should be taken when downloading apps from the market and other sources to your Android. For the entire article visit The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World

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Android Market

Google and eBay are in talks to bring the PayPal payment solution to the Android Market. Looking for help to ease the transaction friction in the Android Market, Google is said to be getting closer to a deal that would add PayPal to the checkout process, according to analysts monitoring the situation.

Google is also been expected to arrange a carrier payment system that would let users add app purchases to their phone bill.
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Not all smartphones have to be expensive, and as Android continues its relentless march, it’s becoming easier to get more phone power for less cash. The following handsets won’t make it on our list of cheap phones, and we can’t imagine that they’ll ever be free, but most carry price tags in the double digits.

The Samsung Acclaim for U.S. Cellular offers a decent feature set, including Android 2.1. It’s $99 with service and after a mail-in rebate.

Samsung’s Intercept is also $99 with service and a rebate. The Sprint handset doesn’t offer the best photo quality, but it has a physical keyboard and makes satisfying calls.

Verizon’s LG Ally is available for as little as $49 if you buy it online (you can always go to a Verizon store if you want to try it out first).

We liked its sturdy design in particular. T-Mobile’s Motorola Charm has a roomy keyboard and a small display. Yet, when a Web discount knocks down the price to just $49, it’s hard to nitpick.

The last phone on the list may surprise you. It’s true that the Sanyo Zio isn’t cheap from the outset, but Cricket will save you pennies in the long run with $55 per month for unlimited voice, data, and text.

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Android tablets  are coming in every shapes and versions conceivable, even the “young housewives” get one branded for them. According to Wired, Italian design-house Alessi’s new Alessi Tab is specially designed for young housewives.

Alessi Tab

Astonishingly, the press release says the Tab is aimed at the ‘young housewife’, who will presumably move the Tab from room to room whilst enjoying real-time news from the ANSA agency, weather from Epson (?), recipes (of course!) from Domus magazine’s Silver Spoon cookbook, internet radio and nutritional information. Further, she can make video calls and watch digital TV broadcasts (it actually has an antenna) while “having fun in the kitchen.”

Alessi Tab is loaded with:

Price and availability are still not known.
[via Wired]