Trick or Treat: Favorite Phone Apps

This Halloween we want to be sure to hand out a few “virtual treats” and share some of our favorite smartphone apps with you! Some of them you may already be using, but some of them may be new…

These are a few apps that I use frequently on my iPhone, and highly recommend.

Google TV Gets Massive Android Software Upgrade Next Week

Google announced on its Google TV blog Friday that the platform will be upgraded to Android 3.1 (otherwise known as Honeycomb) for Sony devices Sunday, with the Logitech Revue set-top box getting its upgrade “soon thereafter.” (via mashable.com)

Rovio has introduced a Halloween treat for Angry Birds fans: A new Angry Bird.

New Security Threat: Infected QR Codes

Be careful the next time you scan a QR code, because it might just cost you money and wreak havoc on your smartphone.

That’s the warning from Kaspersky Lab, which has noticed the first instance of QR code tampering. The incident took place in Russia last month and hoodwinked consumers who thought they were downloading an Android app called Jimm. The code actually contained malware that sent SMS codes to a premium rate number that charged for each message. (via mashable.com)

Facebook Messenger App Now Shows When Friends Are Typing

Facebook Messenger, the social network’s dedicated mobile application for member-to-member messaging, texts, and picture or location exchanges, has been upgraded with new features.

Facebook Messenger now shows application users on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry which of their friends are online or available via mobile, and makes it easier to send messages to the folks they communicate with most frequently.

Better still, the updated application now shows when a user’s Facebook buddies are typing, an experience that emulates BBM, iMessage and Facebook’s own web messaging system. (via mashable.com)