Google on Tuesday launched the Android Security Awards program, offering researchers who seek out bugs and flaws in Android to make some cash on their discoveries. Google has assigned a $500 bounty on "Moderate" severity bugs, but will double that to $1,000 for "High" severity and hand over $2,000 for "Critical" bugs. Google will also up those amounts by 50 percent if researchers can show a test case, and double the standard sum if they can hand over a patch. "The final amount is always chosen at the discretion of the reward panel," a Google spokeswoman said. "In particular, we may decide to pay higher rewards for unusually clever or severe vulnerabilities; decide that a single report actually constitutes multiple bugs; or that multiple reports are so closely related that they only warrant a single reward."Google's Android platform is the most popular mobile operating system in the world. Last month, research firm IDC predicted that total Android smartphone shipments will hit 1.4 billion in 2015, giving the platform 79.4 percent share. Apple's iOS will nab 16.4 percent of the market. Looking ahead to 2019, Android will still own 79 percent of the smartphone market, according to IDC.

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Golden retreivers got so much game. Disappointment, or at least indifference seems to be a popular early response to the latest iPhone duo in our unscientific Twitter poll, as well. We asked CNET's followers what they thought of the new iPhone 7 design and of the first 2,000 respondents, 54 percent opted for "It's more of the same," compared to 32 percent who think it's great and 14 percent that want to see more "jet black."That Twitter poll will still be open through early Thursday if you want to chime in below.

Good: iPoll has a lot of missions to choose from, so chances are good you'll be able to find some in your area, Bad: The app's design is hard to navigate at times, While this app doesn't give you cold, hard cash, it does reward you with Google Play credits, which you can redeem for Android apps, Google Music, Books, Magazines, or water lilies monet iphone case Movies in the Play Store, The catch here is that you have to give your personal opinions (either real or fake, you can decide how truthful you want to be) over to Google, which then gives them to marketers and companies looking to gather consumer views..

Smart home users will also be able to group their devices together, so that a single command can control them all. For example, Federighi said that just by saying, "Get ready for bed," to your iPhone or iPad could result in automatically dimming the lights and locking the doors. Apple is also planning to run a certification program for HomeKit that will help ensure that products leveraging the HomeKit software will support new features enabled by iOS. Apple highlighted several companies it's already working with on HomeKit, including August, which offers smart door locks, and Philips, which makes connected light bulbs. There are at least a dozen other companies listed as partners, including Honeywell and iHome.