Last week the Android Police revealed a vulnerability affecting Android users running Skype Mobile for Android. Roughly 10 million users faced a personal data leak, such as ‘account balances, names, dates of birth, location information, phone numbers, email addresses, bios and so on.’ Skype acted accordingly and today managed to release an update to fix the security issue and used this occasion to introduce 3G calling to US Skype users that until now was available for Verizon clients only.

We have extended the support of Skype for Android to work over 3G (and WiFi). This is just part of Skype’s on-going effort to provide consumers with the best Skype experience.    With the large 3G networks and extensive network of WiFi hotspots across the US, Android phone users are provided with many opportunities to use Skype on their mobile phone.

In the US, our partnership with Verizon still allows us to offer Skype mobile™ with an optimized solution on Verizon’s network.  Since March 2010, Verizon consumers have enjoyed Skype on a variety of Blackberry, Android, BREW, Windows Mobile, and Palm phones.   With the launch of Verizon’s 4G LTE network, Skype mobile™ with video will soon be available.  In addition Verizon customers can use the Skype for Android when traveling abroad.

Another handy update for the Android OS comes from Evernote that improves the service. With the new update, Android users can now create notebook stacks, which offer an additional layer of organization.  Additionally, Android users now have special notebooks for shared files that are available to other users to open and edit. Yet, the best part is that the new Evernote for Android comes with the ability to lock the app entirely in case your phone goes missing, or just for added security.

A report released today by AVG reveals that Android and Facebook have been the main targets for malware attacks. The figures show the trend is increasing and more predominant in smartphone users on the Android OS, due to the open source nature of the Android OS, which allows users to install virtually any software on their smartphones, opens the door for hackers to write malicious code.