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          A new report by the Strategic Analytics survey of the second quarter of this year, the 85% of the global mobile share market is dominated by the Google ’s open source operating system , Android. Android - based smartphones have achieved a growth of 27% in sailing when compared to that of the previous year. That means, this year witnessed the selling of almost 295 million android units.            Apple ’s iPhone Operating system (iOS) comes next to Android OS. But it failed to perform as the former year and  in global mobile market  iOS fell to 11.9 percent from 13.4 percent, a year ago. According to the survey report Microsoft Windows stands on the third position. It too dropped its market share to 2.7 percentage from 3.8 % of the previous year. Based on the survey, it is revealed that Blackberry did a very poor performance when matched to its last year performance. Its decline is from 2.4% to 0.6%.  ...

I just completed giving a training on Secure Mobile application development and Code reviews  and one of the attendees asked me query whether we can limit a Mobile application to allow only the servers certificate to be a trusted one rather than relying on the Mobile's own Trusted Certificate Store? Well... there is a way actually. Its called as " Certificate Pinning ". Rather than relying on the device trusted store, set the application to trust only the servers SSL certificate. This way, when you are connecting to your specific SSL server, you don’t need anyone else to tell you the server’s identity. Compromises of any of the CA in the device trusted store too does not matter as the connection does not rely on it any more.  There are ways to implement it on both Android and iOS. Twitter for example; implements certificate pinning and i was not able to intercept traffic even after forcing my certificate on to the OS level trusted certificate list. Good Reads: Certificate...

Ever since I had been using IOS devices, one major concern that I had was that the home button is the mostly used button on the iphone, ipod touch and the ipad so most likely it's gonna be the first one I'm going to break due to usage. I asked friends and searched the web to get an application that would alleviate the wear and tear on such devices thinking there was something out there but little did I knew that there was a built in function for that. It's the enabling of the Assistive Touch  or having a "virtual home button". Here's how: 1. Tap on the Settings icon then hit General 2. Now tap on Accessibility , then Assistive Touch and turn it on  3. Now you should be able to see a virtual button with a white-colored circle somewhere at the side of your screen. When you tap on it, you'll be given options as to what actions you want to do Now you don't have to always push the home button just to close applications or go back to your main screen.  Wi...

Here's how you can set it up in your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad but first you need to have these: Pre-requisites:  1.You should have an Apple account 2. Find My iPhone app should have been installed 3. The target device should be connected to the internet via Wi-Fi or network provider's data connection If all these are met then here's what we need to do: 1. Tap on your " Find My iPhone " app and it should tell you to log into your Apple account. 2. After you've successfully keyed in your log in credentials, you should be then taken to the main screen and   be able to view a map indicating the location of your device or whatever device you're tracking. 3. If you click on " Devices " at the top - left corner, you'd be able to see a listing of all your added devices.  4. If you want to do some additional actions on your remotely tracked device, click on the right arrow and it will show you another window where you can do just that.  Whether you ...

Here's how you can setup email for Exchange in IOS devices - iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. Let's start by having your device ready and tap on the Settings widget. Next, tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars You'll now see the emails accounts that you have. Now to add your email, tap Add Account Select Microsoft Exchange Now you have to enter your log in credentials and server details. You can get this info from your company's IT guys if you're not sure. Make sure your log in details are correct otherwise you'll have trouble connecting. After the successful log in, you can now personalize your email settings.  Basically that's it! You can now sync and check your work emails in your mobile device. Hopefully it would be as useful to you as it was to me.