...Updating Android operating system, is it really safe? All Android devices at risk of being hacked when installing OS system updates _ Pileup Flaws By Raunak Chatterjee and Anisha Agarwal Student of Computer Science and Engineering department of Calcutta Institute of Technology Email: rnk.chatterjee.cit@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------- Anishaagarwal1992@gmail.com Abstract: Android is a Linux based operating system. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance—a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008. Android's source code is released by Google under the Apache License; this permissive licensing allows the software to be freely modified and distributed by device manufacturers, wireless carriers and enthusiast developers. As of July 2013, Android has the largest number of applications, available for download in Google Play store which has had over 1 million apps published, and over 50 billion downloads. A developer survey conducted in April–May 2013 found that Android is the most used platform among developers: it is used by 71% of the mobile developers’ population. From astro 1.0 to kit Kat android make itself evolved. For evolving...
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...Overview and Background * Criteria for Consideration * Operating Systems * Security, Legal and Regulatory * Hardware * Recommendation Overview and Background A large, local hospital has requested consulting assistance with a technical research and specification project related to the selection of a tablet device for use in their medical practice. This tablet will be used by personnel for medical and administrative purposes throughout the hospital. Criteria for Consideration The following criteria have been considered as part of this evaluation: Operating System: There are many different options available in healthcare mobility solutions; however, the three most common operating systems in place today are MS Windows 10, iOS 9.x and Android 6.0. There are well-defined positives and negatives around each platform that must be carefully reviewed prior to making a decision. As operating system selection is primary to device selection, it is critical that this step in the selection criteria is well thought out. When reviewing operating systems, it is important to keep in mind the initial criteria of this research. Selecting an operating system for an enterprise-based medical device is quite different than selecting an operating system and device for personal use. While the Apple iOS and Google Android OS are widely used, they lack the maturity of key features found in enterprise-class systems, such as multi-user access per device, enterprise security...
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...Exemplary Final Report Research on Understanding Microsoft’s Operating System’s Weak Smartphone Market Share Marketing Research Executive Summary – Background Smartphone ownership and usage is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s operating system (OS) has never had a competitive market share in the cellular industry. Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS have dominated the market despite Microsoft’s efforts to increase their popularity—and ultimately their demand. Underlying reasoning for Microsoft’s shortfalls in the cellular industry were unclear at first. Predicted problems included Microsoft’s absence when the smartphone craze arose, and their inability to effectively market their competitive advantage over the competition. Today, Microsoft owns only roughly 4% of the U.S. smartphone market share (Lella.). Based on research, our group wanted to know what should be done to recover Microsoft’s awareness in the smartphone industry as a competitive smartphone operating system. Research objectives were aimed at discovering college students’ general perspectives concerning smartphone brands, and the major motives for students to purchase Android or iOS based smartphones. The last research objective was designed to learn the reasoning for Microsoft’s low popularity in the cellular market, and what could potentially be done to produce more demand. Executive Summary – Results After conducting research, the results coincided with the predictions...
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...RT--------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Comparison of Windows and Windows RT---------------------------------- 4-5 Difference between Linux and Android-------------------------------------------- 6-7 Difference between Mac...
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... Versatility 6 Security 6 Analysis 6 Android OS 6 Pro’s and Con’s 6 Ease of use 7 Versatility 7 Security 7 Analysis 8 Microsoft Windows OS 8 Pro’s and Con’s 8 Ease of use 9 Versatility 9 Security 9 Analysis 9 Recommendations 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Executive Summary As we prepare to arm our Sales Managers with a devise that will not only keep us competitive in the market, but give us a technological advantage over our competitors. Allowing them to: • Present sales pitch to the customer • Analyze sales performance • Track Sales in real time • Manage Sales Force • Manage Accounts • Conduct training • Keep our data secure • Order equipment direct to the market We must decide which OS best fits our needs. We have researched in depth the three leading operating systems on the market. Apple IOS, Android Jelly Bean, and Microsoft Windows 8.1. While each operating system had great advantages and disadvantages we found the following to be true: Microsoft Windows 8.1 is the clear winner. I recommend we provide each Sales Manager with a phone and tablet computer running the Windows 8.1 operating system by Microsoft. It will give them everything they need, a laptop, tablet and phone that will work seamlessly together. 1. I recommend the first step we take is to research the best devise to operate the Windows 8.1 operating system. In terms of processing speed, battery life, durability...
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...Critique #4 Android Insecurity Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353485811701040# Generally speaking, almost every issue comes up with double-edged sword. In today’s society, Android operating system is also no exception. Along with its open source code released by Google under the Apache license, the security issue is becoming more and more significant and emergency. Whether or not the Android operating system is designed with any intrinsic security initially, from this article’s perspective, the author may state a negative answer of Android as a failure both the operating system and the hardware. We can get start from an overview about what the author listed through the beginning to end in the article. At first, the initial reason and environment about why Android developed appear to us along with the so called wrong policy-atypia at the beginning in the development cycle. It’s precisely because these non-mainstreams such as true multi-tasking that cause the current insecurity issues including multifariously malicious malware, e.g. Trojan-SMS, Fake Player, Droid Dream malware and so on. Meanwhile, the author listed the cause for concern, and also some tests on Android from the analyst view to test the security. There are two points in the article leave me a deep impression. The first one is a series of atypical and nonstandard design of Android. To come the first, its main kernel is just a branch of mainstream in Linux research and development...
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...using this operating system. Nokia has remained a giant in low-end mobile market, so after Java symbian was the most used in the mobile phones till a couple of years ago. Still Symbian is widely used in low-end phones but the demand rate has ben continuously decreasing. By upgrading Symbian mobile OS, Nokia has made it capable to run smartphones efficiently. Symbian ANNA and BELLE are the two latest updates which are currently used in Nokia’s smartphones. Overall, the Symbian OS is excellently designed and is very user-friendly. Unfortunately, Symbian OS graph is going downwards nowadays due to the immense popularity of Android and iOS. Some of the phones currently running on Symbian OS are Nokia C6-01, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 808 Pure View, Nokia E6 (ANNA) and Nokia 701 (BELLE). Symbian is a popular choice among nokia dual sim mobile phones as well. September 20th 2008 was the date when Google released the first Android OS by the name of ‘Astro’. After some time next upgraded versions ‘Bender’ and ‘Cupcake’ were also released. Google then adopted the trend of naming android versions after any dessert or a sweet in alphabetical order. The other releases are Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is so far the latest android version from google. Since the platform is not closed like IOS, there are too many great android apps built by developers. Just after stepping into the smart phone and tablets market Android gained...
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...TERM PAPER ON ANDRIOD OPERATING SYSTEM SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:- Mr.RAHUL SAH JASPREET KAUR INDEX 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….3 2. Literature review…………………………………………………………..4 3. Architecture……………………………………………………………...5-6 4. Version of android OS…………………………………………………. 7-9 5. Feature version……………………………………………………………10 6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………11 INTRODUCTION Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system middleware and mobile applications .It is LINUX based operating system developed by google. It is specially designed for touch screen mobiles like smart phones and computer tablets. It was developed by google and later on open handset alliance. Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34hardware, software and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. When released in 2008, most of The unveiling of the Android platform on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open the Android platform will be made available under the Apache free-software and open-source license. It allows developers to write...
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...------------------------------------------------- ‘‘A comparative analysis on the marketing strategies of Samsung for Android and of Apple for iOS in UK market and their customer response’’ Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.2 Research aims 2 1.3 Research objectives 3 2. Literature review 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Mobile phone operating system 3 2.3 Global introduction of smartphone 3 2.4 Various operating systems 4 2.5 Overview of the android’s framework 4 2.6 Overview of iOS and it marketing strategy 4 2.7 Comparative analysis of the two 5 3. Research methodology 6 3.1 Methodology 6 3.1 Type of investigation 6 3.2 Data collection method 6 3.3 Sampling method 7 3.4 Accessibility issues 7 3.5 Ethical issues 7 3.6 Timetable 8 4 Anticipated findings 9 5. Conclusions 9 References 10 1 Introduction Various companies use different types of marketing techniques over the few decades. To get competitive advantage over the competitors, developed variations of marketing techniques are quieting helpful to the companies. This is referred as market innovation (Verlog, 2007). Companies have to face with different factors in this modern world of business. New legislations developed marketing tools and corporate social responsibilities are among the newer one. Business has to deal with two basic demands which are to earn profit and to maintain a sustain profit ( Verlog, 2007). Though there are many developed application software were used in past by several cell...
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...The Technologies of Google For this case study I will go over five technologies by the mega search giant that is Google. I will cover the Android OS, Maps, Glass, Chrome OS and YouTube. Android OS The Android OS is Google’s premier and vast reaching technology. What started out as a more or less a BlackBerry clone from a search engine company turned into the most popular OS in the world from one of the biggest titans in the tech industry. It is have reach a chart topper as the most popular OS in some of recent devices out there today. As of 2013 study Android devices have out sold more than other including Windows, iOS, and Mac OS X devices combined. Android's source code is released by Google under open source licenses which is popular with technology companies which require a low-cost, customizable operating system and is ready-made for high-tech devices. The rest of the industry by comparison is behind the power curve for example Microsoft updates its desktop OS every three to five years and Apple is no better as they update on a yearly cycle for OS X and iOS which has one major design revision in seven or so years. The Android is a lite mobile operating system that is based on the Linux kernel and. The operating system user interface is based on direct input manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, The OS uses touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching...
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...Title: Role of Operating Systems Answer these review questions based on operating systems: 1. Draw a diagram to depict the relationship between the following elements: computer hardware, system software, operating system, application software, and end users. Write few lines to describe this diagram. Computer hardware is the physical parts or components of a computer, such as the monitor, mouse, keyboard, computer data storage, hard disk drive (HDD), graphic cards, sound cards, memory, motherboard, and so on. The OS and other software can’t be used without hardware. Operating System is a software program that acts as an interface between the user and the computer. The operating system plays the role of host for all applications running on the equipment (hardware) Application software is a program or group of programs designed for end users. These programs are divided into two classes: system software and application software. Application software resides above system software and includes database programs, word processors, spreadsheets, etc. Application software may be grouped along with system software or published alone. End user is the simplest because it is the actual person or organization that will be using the computer as a whole. The use of the computer wouldn’t be possible without the hardware and software 2. List the main benefits of Windows 8, Fedora 20, and Android. Research and write how these benefits have evolved from the very basic historical functions...
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...Both Android and iOS are mobile operating systems. Android has more than 75% market share in the mobile OS segment where as Apple has about 17% market share. This document gives a brief comparison of these 2 Operating Systems. OS Base | Android is Linux based where as IOS is based on Apple’s OS X | Customization | One of the major differences between these two is that Android is open for customization where as iOS is proprietary OS. | User Interface | iOS has an excellent user interface compared to Androidand the user interface does not change much from version to version. | Development Platform | Android supports Java as one of the development platforms where as IOS does not support Java | Applications | Both Android & iOS has a huge collection of applications. But iOS has more quality business applications compared to Android. | Browsing | Chrome and Safari are the default browsers used by Android & iOS respectively; Chrome is better for HTML5 based web pages. | File System | Android supports a visible file systems where as iOS does not. Android has better features to share files especially when you have to share files across multiple applications like a desktop OS | Notification | Though iOS has a good notification system, Android has the best notification system with a pull down drawer type of a facility. | Camera | Though Android has many good camera applications, iOS has the best built-in camera application and also many third part camera applications...
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...In 1991, a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, created a free terminal emulator, based in UNIX, that would eventually take the form of an operating system kernel, Linux version 0.01. Linux evolved into a fully functioning Operating System (OS) with one of its first distributions created by the Manchester Computing Center, MCC Interim Linux, using a combined boot/root disk (Hayward, 2012). Linux luminaries, Slackware, RedHat and Debian began to rise between 1992 and 1994 as well as the Linux kernel growing to version 0.95, becoming the first kernel to run the X Windows System. The Big Three, Slackware, Debian and Red Hat were instrumental in the anticipated launching of Linux version 1.0.0 in 1994 with 176,250 lines of code. Over the next five years the big three released some of the greatest Linux distributions, including the Jurix Linux, which is allegedly the first distribution to include a scriptable installer; the installer allows an administrator install across similar machines. The Juris Linux distribution is mostly noted in Linux history because it was used as a base system for SUSE Linux which is still in operation today (Hayward, 2012). Launched in 1996, Linux 2.0 had 41 releases in the series; inclusion of critical operating system features and rapid releases helped to make the Linux operating system the OS of choice for IT professionals. Another notable moment in Linux history was the release of Version 2.4 which contained support for USB, PC Cards, ISA Plug and Play...
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...Open Source, which then attracted the attention of other programmers, and in general, people who like free things. There is a very strong market for Linux going right now with GUI enabled operating systems including Red Hat/Fedora, and Ubuntu. They are having great success and continue getting updates, and users, on a growing basis as people experience, and learn how to use the command line. It doesn’t seem like much impact has been made, other than most companies have started using Open Source as a way to make their product better and more efficient. A few years back both MySpace and Facebook open sourced Qizmt and Tornado, respectively, not to garner any love from the people, but to try and make them better, and more efficient (Asay Sept. 16, 2009). More than anything, I would say Microsoft is feeling the hurt, they are losing money with so many people looking toward the Free and Open Source Software markets. Who would want to pay hundreds of dollars, or as a company, millions for software licensing when you can just go open source and get a 100 percent discount? FOSS has definitely been helped as a result of everything that has happened, it is more visible than ever, and more companies than ever are making use of it. Google has been doing it for years now with their Android operating system which can be found on...
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...James Windows Operating System Exercise 3.1 1. Summarize the four phases of the Windows boot process in your own words. 2. Over the years, Microsoft has consistently updated the Windows operating system with new versions. Compare and contrast the features of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. 3. The Windows operating system has specific requirements that must be met in order to install it on a PC or mobile device. Which three most important hardware devices must be considered before you install Windows 8, 7, Vista, or XP on a computer? Explain why these three devices are important in general. 4. Mobile computing is the way of the future and so are mobile operating systems. Describe the features and benefits of the two major mobile operating systems, Android and Apple iOS. 1. The first phase would be to power up the computer by pressing the power button, doing so the power button creates an electrical impulse that instructs the motherboard to power on the power supply to begin the computers boot up sequence. The second phase after your initial startup power sequence is the BIOS activates and runs the power-on self-test (POST) that checks the hardware of the computer such as the CPU, RAM, video interface, hard drives, USB interfaces, and other integrated ports and interfaces, making sure everything is working properly, after that the BIOS displays an option for you to press if you choose to enter into the BIOS settings. The third phase of the computer boot up process...
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