Beware of Cell Phone Apps!

Did you know that the App you download for your iPhone or Blackberry could contain malware? Malware is software designed to infiltrate and control your device without your knowledge or permission.

Your phone is no longer just a phone – it’s a sophisticated mini computer subject to all sorts of computer dangers.

It goes like this. You find a great APP that offers a free game, cool tool or something intriguing. You’re ready to download. Hey, it’s free. Why not? What’s to lose?

Plenty.

That APP could contain malware. Among other things, malware can crash your phone, do all sorts of mischief or download all your personal information, contacts, even files.

Your contacts and personal information are gold to scammers and criminals. These hypesters could pretend to be you and email or contact your friends and business associates in YOUR GOOD NAME and then commit all sorts of dirty deeds.

So, What to Do?

Be smart – check out that APP before you download. Visit their website, check out the testimonials, SEARCH on Google for any REVIEWS and legitimate SCAM information. Proceed with care.

Your due diligence is required. These days, due diligence is imperative.

For Your Computer

Use the FREE firewalls, anti-virus and protection tools available through major companies.

Our favorite? Comodo. We’ve been running Comodo Free Professional Grade Firewall on our computers and haven’t had problems for many years.

It’s fast, doesn’t bog or change up your machine like many of the virus checkers do.

Use PREVENTIVE Technology

These days, scammers and hypesters are very Net and Tech crafty. They’ll use any method possible to raid your wallet and steal you blind if at all possible. Firewalls are preventative. Anti-Virus and Virus Checkers are REACTIVE. After the damage is done, there’s often little hope for proper repair.

Summary

Check out your APPS before downloading.
Use a Free firewall product. We recommend Comodo Free Pro Grade Firewall.

Be safe!

It can be a nutty world out there!

Thus far Apple has refused to approve the Google Voice App for the iPhone telling U.S. regulators that it  ”interferes with the iPhone “user experience.”

Sounds like a rejection… although one’s hard pressed to know exactly what they meant by the iPhone User Experience. Hopefully Apple will go into a deeper explanation, as this one leaves one scratching the head.

In many ways, it’s a priceless quote, and we intend to jot it down for future reference in our own little arsenal of auto-response business deflections.

Meanwhile, Google Voice reigns as a Voice Mail and Online Messaging System supreme.

It can transcribe all messages and then forward the text to any email account you wish. Simultaneously, it will route calls to as many different phones as you wish, each routing having indivually customizable with different rings and features.

Amazing, really.

Apple has approved Skype, a  VoIP app (Voice over Internet Protocol) but perhaps they see something more competitive and “threatening” in Google’s entry. 

One can understand – Google voice is set to rule the voice mail stage with Google Voice which provides free local telephone numbers sto every subscriber. Also, Google’s T-Mobile Android phone is a direct major competitor to Apple’s AT&T iPhone.

You have to love Google’s application to Apple… so smartly humble yet so ballsy… one giant’s friendly acknowledgement and app submission to another.

Google Voice could become one of the most useful and beloved apps of all.

As Apple says, they are “continuing to study it,” trying to measure the pros and cons to their business model. It will be interesting to see what the US regulators say.
  
As for users, nothing could be better than to have Google Voice en iPhone.