Android smartphone owners are finally able to play the popular Cut The Rope smartphone game after it launched on the platform exclusively via theGetJar App Store. There had been rumours that theZeptoLab bestsellerwas on would launch on Android smartphones this week after the CTRAndroid Twitter account pinged numerous Android blogs that the game would be released on Friday. The aim of Cut The Rope is to place a piece of candy into the mouth of Om Nom, a cartoon monster....

As if being on“piracy watch”wasn’t enough, it turns out that Canada is fertile ground for cyber crime, according to findings in a report theFinancial Posthas obtained. The findings in the report, set to be released Tuesday from San Diego-based cyber-security firm Websense Inc., include the following statistics that illustrate the sharp increase in cyber criminal activities in Canada: Furthermore, Canada was the only country that showed an increase in botnets over the past eight months and the year-to-year increase in servers hosting phishing sites ranked second overall in the world, behind Egypt....

Social networking sites provide great opportunities for kids to connect with their friends and express their personalities. They can even be educational, for example, theMoshi Monsterswebsite encourages kids to earn game currency by solving math, logic and vocabulary puzzles. But if we’ve learned anything from Chris Hansen and Dateline’s“To Catch a Predator,”it’s that sexual predators aren’t afraid to prey on underage victims by misrepresenting themselves on social networks. And they certainly don’t lack targets: arecent studyby the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that nearly half (46%) of 12-year-olds in the United States are active on social media....

Following on from last week – where we looked atJailbreaking, the processes, the challenges and the teams involved– this article looks to peer into Cydia, an alternative marketplace for Apple-centric devices. Looking at its creation, its place in the Jailbreaking scene and its revenues, we hope to shed some light on developers who cater for owners of Jailbroken phones. If you own a portable Apple device and were to set about jailbreaking it today, no matter the method used to do so your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch will receive its first Jailbreak “app”, the most powerful of them all;Cydia....

Having unsuccessfully claimed the domain name from its original registrant, Jay Freeman (aka Saurik), creator of the third party application store for jailbroken iOS devices and owner of Saurikit LLC, hasfiled a lawsuit(PDF) to win access toCydia.com, a website that is claimed to infringe upon the trademark of the same name. In March, Saurikit lost a dispute under the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) and is currently hosted atcydia....