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Another low cost Android tablet at Rs 5,000

Android is the leading mobile operating system. The Android has achieved a tremendous success since its launch. All the major brands like Samsung, HTC, ASUS, Toshiba etc are now developing the tablets which are based on the Android to operating system. Now the numerous mobiles and tablets can be found that are based on the Android. The Android’s demand is increasing day by day and almost 25 percent mobile users have android based smart phone. Well the large customer area speaks about the features of the Android itself. Almost 8,50,000 Android devices are activated daily, but it is also reported that the majority of the customers is from the foreign countries and least is in our India.

The reason behind this is clear that the India is a country of middle economical people. It is hard to find such people who can spend a big money on the technology only. Mostly people are even not able to purchase the basic mobiles, then Android is far behind from their approach because mostly all the Android devices are costly and the people of India can’t afford to spend a such amount of money on the Android mobiles or Tablets.

Seeing this, last year the cheapest Android tablet, named “Aakash” was announced, which was priced at 35 $ only. This was expected to be a big blow to the world mobile technology. Lots of expectations were there from the that tablet but it did not fulfill all the expectations.

But now, the Students of India has one more choice to go for the low cost Android tablets and this time international education company, Across World is going to launch another low cost Android tablet, which will be launched by the second week of march and will cost Rs. 5000 only.

No doubt, it is not cheaper than Aakash tablet, but with the price range of 5000 rs. it will offer better quality than Aakash. So it is not the cheapest Android tablet, but yes it is cheaper and available in just Rs.5000.

Announcing the launch, president and chief executive of AcrossWorld, Stephan Thieringer said the tablet will make a variety of resources available to Indian students. The Android is named Atabin and will give three year free access to the “EducationBridge”, which offers free education content.

With the launch of this tablet, the Indian schools, teachers and students will be able to access the education content and that also of the World standard. Actually it will be like a digital teacher to the students of India which they can use anywhere and anytime to solve their education related problems. With the availability of this budget tablet, there will be positive results in the education of India. The students of India will also be able to learn with international standards and thus they will be able to compete in the world level exams.

The company declared that a number of colleges, schools, universities from the various cities like Allahabad, Banglore, New Delhi has shown keen interest in the tablet and this has really appreciated them a lot to come up with the launch as soon as possible. So the low cost Android Tablet is going to hit the market or we can say is going to modify the education system, in the second week of the march.

Here is what Gaurav Khanna, the CEO of Go Tech said about this upcoming low cost Android tablet.

“By bundling free access to AcrossWorld’s global premium educational content, ATab is not just a book shelf, but a whole library full of the world’s best Open Source knowledge for schools and higher educational institutes.”

Mobile RAT attack makes Android the ultimate spy tool

Android is now the no.1 mobile operating system. The Android based devices are unique in the features. The Android has covered a large area of the mobile and tablet customers. According to Google there is yearly growth of 250 to 300 percent per year. Almost 8,50,000 Android devices are activated daily. Due to the tremendous growth the Android is on the top of the hit list of the hackers.

Nowadays the devices like mobiles or tablets are not only the devices, they are like the digital attachment to your daily life. They are your representative and your technology related approach reflects from your devices. But what if some naught mate become able to hack your device???? Well, we can’t even estimate the loss from which we have to suffer if something like this happens. When we think about the hacking of the Android mobiles then the first thing comes in our mind is that no one can hack the Android as it is by the Search Giant Google.

Well, this type of thinking is good, because we all know the power of the Google. But we must also not forget that there are techie persons as well who can do anything. If your Android device gets hacked then your favorite device will work like a spy cam who will record all of your daily information and then will send it secretly to the hacker. Your device will start working as hidden cam who will record your videos, it will work as microphone which will work as tapper to tap your private calls. Well, we can’t really imagine that what else can happen.

According to the George Curtz of the Crowd Strike, it is possible. According to him, if you are newbie then Mobile Remote Access Tool (RAT) can convert your favorite Android device to an ultimate spy tool.

How can This Work?

The method involves the hacker or you can say attacker to send a simple SMS to you. He/She can send SMS cleverly. The SMS may be send as an attractive fake offer of something else that will make you to follow the message. The message will contain some link and in the SMS you must be made to click on that link somehow. The attacker may achieve this target by sending you an attractive offer and by asking you to click on some link to reveal the offer.

The moment you will click the link, you will be pointed to some website from where Chinese Remote Access Tool (RAT) will get automatically downloaded and installed as well. You will not be able to detect it at all as the whole process will take place hidden. After that moment the GPS tracking of your device will start. The attacker will be able to detect your location anywhere anytime he/she wants. When ever we will make calls the microphone will get activated automatically and it will start recording your person calls. All the recorded calls or messages can be easily accessed by the attacker.

The team of CrowdStrike tested a demo regarding this. They used the Chinese Remote Access Tool (RAT) for the demo purpose. The demo was done on the Android 2.2 (Froyo) versions which is installed on 28 percent of the Android devices and on the Android 2.3 which also covers the 56 percent of the Android devices. The results of the demo test were same as expected and explained in this post. According to the CNET, in order to fix this attack you need to upgrade the firmware.