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Could Motorola be looking to ditch Google’s Android in favor of it’s own operating system? Motorola Mobility has hired a number of experienced mobile and Web engineers from Apple and Adobe and is developing a Web-based mobile operating system as a possible alternative to Google’s Android software, according to a source familiar with [...] This article provides an interesting history of the development of brands and operating systems and poses the question: Will people “start the buying process with ‘I want an Android phone’, and then choose based on features, price and brand, probably in that order?” Once the idea of an operating system being independent of [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrew Hoog Chief Investigative Officer viaForensics Phone: +1 312-878-1100 http://viaforensics.com/contact-us Growing use of mobile forensics discussed on nightly news. viaForensics’ CIO, Andrew Hoog, was interviewed by WGN, along with Detective Josh Fazio, regarding the use of mobile forensics in criminal investigations. The cover story, which aired [...] Android use is growing exponentially, with nearly 200,000 devices activated daily and more than 12 million Android phones in use around the world. Android core applications allow us to do things like send text messages, download and send media, take photos and videos, and much more. But what happens when something we need [...] Android forensics article in DFI News™: Introduction Android, Google’s mobile device platform, is growing quickly in its share of the smart phone market share. For the period ending February 2010, Android grew 5.2% and now has a 9% share of the smart phone market. In October 2009, a report released by Gartner predicted [...]  December 14th, 2009 by ahoog
 1 commentI played around with Google Goggles today and was quite impressed. Like any good forensic geek, I wanted to understand better what happened behind the scenes. Below are some observations from the data the app persisted on the NAND: Application data is stored in /data/data/com.google.android.apps.unveil Following directories exist: cache, databases, files, lib, shared_prefs [...] December 11th, 2009 by ahoog
2 commentsI was taking a look at the /data/data/ directory on the Droid and here are some interesting items: Contact database /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/database/contacts2.db (thank goodness it’s not contacts1.db) Combines data from Google, Exchange, Facebook and more table status_updates has date/time and status update from contacts in your Contact list and Facebook table raw_contacts has info [...] November 23rd, 2009 by ahoog
2 commentsWhile we continue our R&D on getting a full dd image from a Motorola Droid, I thought it would be interesting to do a quick write up on Google Maps Navigation artifacts. Since we don’t yet have full access to the system, this preliminary analysis focuses on the residual data left on the [...] I really like my Droid…and I know it will continue to improve. But since there are plenty of people proclaiming it’s greatness, I’ve decided to post my top complaints after a few days of use: If you type in a phone number, it does not lookup the contact until I make call. Sometimes [...] November 11th, 2009 by ahoog
4 commentsI was taking a look at the filesystem on my Motorola Droid and discovered they have a new YAFFS2 directory called /config. The T-Mobile/HTC devices did not have this directory. Interestingly, you can’t cd into the directory…you get the following error: $ cd config cd: can’t cd to config but you can get [...] |
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