After the 50 applications in the Android Market were discovered to be infected with the DroidDream malware, the company has remotely wiped malicious applications from users’ devices. Only phones running Android versions below 2.2.2 are vulnerable, and in addition to the wiping (accompanied by two e-mails from android-market-support@google.com), Google is also forcing an update called “Android Market Security Tool March 2011” which fixes the “exploid” and “rageagainstthecage” exploits DroidDream utilizes.

In addition to raising some questions about what else Google can remotely do to your handset, the company also took some measures to better secure Android Market, as well as to clean up the threat:

“We removed the malicious applications from Android Market, suspended the associated developer accounts, and contacted law enforcement about the attack”

Android stands to be the dominant platform on a global scale, and Google is making serious efforts to ensure Android’s platform integrity. However, while the company’s demonstrated ability to implement its policies on users’ devices probably hasn’t contributed a great deal to this goal, Intel CEO Paul Otellini still thinks Nokia should have gone with Android instead of Windows Phone 7. According to a somewhat puzzling reporting uncovered by the Android Community, Otellini said Nokia went with WP7 thanks to a “huge” sum of money offered to secure the deal. This news is pretty surprising to say the least, but the Windows dev team seem to think along the same lines.

Yahoo! News reports Microsoft launched its new daily deal coupon aggregation app, Bing Deals, for Android and iOS, but not for Windows Phone 7.Moreover, in addition to being one of the worst PR stunts we’ve heart of lately, The Register reported even Microsoft’s Bing team admitted they were disappointed from the news. This only comes to show that customer loyalty matters, and that encouraging WP7 device holders to get the competition’s platform(s) is not the preferable tactic when it comes to promoting an emerging mobile OS in an almost completely occupied market.