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Has anyone ever played with this site? I work for a souped-up answering service (answer FAQs, log into CRMs, schedule appts, etc.) and our clients frequently ask if there's an app for the main scheduling application we use.
How hard would it be to develop an app to integrate with this website? If I knew how to do it myself I would.
http://www.appointment-plus.com/
Appointment Plus has a view only/text only mobile version of the site:
appointment-plus.com/mobile
Scheduler to Go is obsolete at this point as we're all using (Android) smart phones with true web browsers.
However, full functionality can be accessed from the Android browser by logging into the administrative view, so there's really no need for an app.
appointment-plus.com/login.php
I have heard from Appointment Plus that an app is in development. However, I really don't understand the obsession with "Apps". It's a software tool, useful in some cases, integrating the features of mobile devices such as GPS/Location. For this type of software, the full site is completely usable simply from the Android browser, and the capability of an app would simply not exceed the function of logging into the site from the browser.
xda devs aren't letting me post the links, but the login page is found on appointmentplus.com - client login link
and the mobile version is schedulertogo.com
Hope that helps!
dangerrr said:
Appointment Plus has a view only/text only mobile version of the site:
appointment-plus.com/mobile
Scheduler to Go is obsolete at this point as we're all using (Android) smart phones with true web browsers.
However, full functionality can be accessed from the Android browser by logging into the administrative view, so there's really no need for an app.
appointment-plus.com/login.php
I have heard from Appointment Plus that an app is in development. However, I really don't understand the obsession with "Apps". It's a software tool, useful in some cases, integrating the features of mobile devices such as GPS/Location. For this type of software, the full site is completely usable simply from the Android browser, and the capability of an app would simply not exceed the function of logging into the site from the browser.
xda devs aren't letting me post the links, but the login page is found on appointmentplus.com - client login link
and the mobile version is schedulertogo.com
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for your reply. I've been accessing the full site through the browser and I completely agree; schedulertogo is 100% obsolete.
The advantage to an app is that it can pull contact data, pop up notifications, and generally integrate with your phone instead of being a website you visit occasionally. Imagine if you only had access to google calendar through a web view. NOT the same, is it? On top of that, what if you don't have reception? With an app you can schedule your appointment and let it sync on it's own when you find signal. Through the website you need reception at that moment.
FWIW it's worth I'm no longer with that company and am now selling residential solar power systems. Big upgrade, imo.
sorry to burst their bubble, but android market can easily do that, and we do also have apps that can create on screen barcodes on demand and they are all free.
payment via barcode scanner can also be archived by porting the app, any financial institution that vouched to have that app created for the iphone, can also authorize an android version of the same app
unless apple forced them into an exclusive deal
in which case, we can easily convince PayPal or Google checkout to release such an App for payment via barcodes
there is no way these 2 giants will lose to small flies financial institution with an apple only app
Hi everybody!
I recently started looking for a browser to replace the stock one and I think I installed every possible option there is without giving much thought to the consequences - app permissions and possible violation of my privacy and misuse of my data.
So I found what I thought was a really nice and well-functioning browser called Ninesky from the Android market.
Luckily for me I did not get to use it for long, before I detected a strange pattern - Ninesky would automatically start itself upon boot, connect to a server in China, upload some data and receive some back and then just sit there and wait idly.
The server that it connects to belongs to a company called aBitCool, which is, according to Bloomberg, an ISP in China.
So I kill it off and after a while it's back, doing the same thing. I also noticed a similar behavior for Dolphin HD, except that it would send data just once very quickly after boot-up and then close itself and stay quiet. That led me to Google it a little, which in turn led me to an existing thread about Dolphin HD on this forum.
So here are my noob questions that I hope somebody can answer, please:
1. Can somebody take a look at Ninesky browser and let us all know what kind of data it is transmitting about its users upon boot and maybe even later on during the actual use of the browser? The list of permissions that Ninesky asks for is huge and that makes me a little worried. Also, Ninesky runs a "safety check" of every URL visited. I wonder what that really is.
2. Say it would try to steal information from its users - would it be possible for the app to somehow get access to my stored usernames and passwords from other programs (such as Gmail or Skype) or are these encrypted? I presume that if I were stupid enough to let Ninesky's password manager "remember" my usernames and passwords for certain websites then that information would be easily accessible to them.
3. Can an app with such permissions also function as a keylogger?
4. I can understand why folks here would write some apps on their own and share them with the rest of us. I can understand why a developer or a company would write an app and make one version available for "free" or as an ad supported one and/or offer a premium version for $$$. At the end of the day developers need to eat and pay their bills just like the rest of us and companies are (for the most part) profit-seeking institutions (unless they are GE or MS that have money to burn). That said - why for the love of god would anybody, other than an enthusiast, develop a browser, for which they will not ask for any $$ or won't even display any ads in it? Where is the catch? Now, I know that Opera and Firefox get money from Google to use it as their default search engine, but would this really apply for a few random Chinese companies? Where is the catch?
Thank you.
I was a big supporter of Ninesky but I uninstalled today. It does seem to be constantly running and transmitting data, though what data is being transmitted I don't know. LBE also kept notifying me that it was trying to obtain my location information even when I wasn't using it. I uninstalled it through the Market and left a one star review.
Drunk texted from my MIUI Thunderbolt.
I'm writing a review of about 13 different Android browsers, and came across Ninesky. Has anyone heard anything more about the privacy concerns and what data it might be transmitting?
well....if it keeps requesting the location even while its closed, thats not a good sign...
Not good. This needs addressing.
I have changed my review on Market also until we get some answers.
Cheers to the OP.
I agree. I think my review should come out tomorrow, hopefully the developer reaches out. It really is a decent browser.
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´I'll leave you here my tests made since Monday with last versions of each app:
==|Boat 4.0.1|==
#Just after starting#
- Ask for GPS location
- 211.151.139.246 (China Network Information Center)
#When going to any website#
- IP from that website
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==|Dolphin HD 8.6.1|==:silly:
#Just after starting#
- 184.73.86.141 (AMAZON.COM - amazonaws.com - US)
- 65.52.32.12 (Microsoft Corp - US)
- 107.20.57.0 (AMAZON.COM - amazonaws.com - US)
and one more on this IP range type...
- 205.251.242.197 (AMAZON.COM - amazonaws.com - US)
- 205.251.242.165 (AMAZON.COM - amazonaws.com - US)
- 72.21.195.98 (AMAZON.COM - amazonaws.com - US)
#When going to any website#
- IP from that website
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==|Firefox 14.0.1|==
#Just after starting#
- No Ping
#When going to any website#
- 80.67.92.43 (AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES US) *
- 93.184.219.20 (EdgeCast Networks - US) *
- IP from that website
* note: not always, most of the times just go to IP website we asked
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==|Opera 12.0.4|==:victory:
#Just after starting#
- No Ping
#When going to any website#
- IP from that website
note: DON'T use Opera Turbo or EVERY single info WILL pass through their servers...
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It's pretty obvious to me who are the most privacy oriented here...
STAY WAY FROM OPERA MINI AND DOLPHIN MINI AND ALL MINI VERSIONS. They process all info on their server first for speed.
Anyone researched Xscope or could research this browser?
If you explain how, I could do it myself!!
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But the OP got it wrong with money burning by GE & MS. There's no such thing, its all business. Just to let you know, in the browser wars - Firefox was Google's first step into browsing. Then came Chrome.
For all privacy concerns, LBE Privacy Guard is a good option. Though its Korean, if am not wrong.
Well, finally there's options out there. Nobody is forcing us to download, install & use their apps.
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bombayboy said:
But the OP got it wrong with money burning by GE & MS. There's no such thing, its all business. Just to let you know, in the browser wars - Firefox was Google's first step into browsing. Then came Chrome.
For all privacy concerns, LBE Privacy Guard is a good option. Though its Korean, if am not wrong.
Well, finally there's options out there. Nobody is forcing us to download, install & use their apps.
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Agree with everything BUT Firefox was never connected to Google like Chrome. Firefox's current existence is owed almost exclusively to its search partnership with Google wherein Mozilla Corp receives a portion of ad revenue from Google queries initiated from Firefox's search bar. This revenue amounts to tens of millions of dollars. But Mozilla and Google Relations Strained Due to Chrome.
Firefox its independent and don't collect your data like Chrome/Google do...
sushidog said:
Agree with everything BUT Firefox was never connected to Google like Chrome. Firefox's current existence is owed almost exclusively to its search partnership with Google wherein Mozilla Corp receives a portion of ad revenue from Google queries initiated from Firefox's search bar. This revenue amounts to tens of millions of dollars. But Mozilla and Google Relations Strained Due to Chrome.
Firefox its independent and don't collect your data like Chrome/Google do...
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Connected with reference to Google promoting & supporting Firefox before they decided to go with Chrome.
I still use Firefox, Aurora & Chrome
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If you're not paying it, you are the product being sold.
Remember this when downloading free apps which are not open source.
DnaPolymerase said:
If you're not paying it, you are the product being sold.
Remember this when downloading free apps which are not open source.
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Like facebook which sells our data
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Calamitous with Ninesky
Hi,
I stumbled upon XDA Developers forum today and I was so grateful to find this write-up; it was the only honest review I could find of Ninesky. So, thank you.
I want to share an experience our family went through a few weeks ago. Perhaps it will answer some of your questions and alert some users out there of what this browser could do. We have an unfortunate incident happen to our child: My little boy received an android tablet for a gift this October. He was so eager downloading all the apps and games he could find, and in about a month, it was completely personalized. We regularly monitored his downloads, the games he played, and the apps he utilized.
Much to our regret, we really did not give much thought to the browsers he had installed. He had more than three at one point and Ninesky was always in the background. Sadly, whenever he would search for apps, we later discovered Ninesky directly linked him to several stores that was not common to Google or Firefox. Some of them had Anime icons (mostly innocent looking), nicely titled games for their tiles. Some apps were legitimate and very cool games; however, some apps were direct links to hard-core porn websites and a whole universe of filth (not excluding child-porn). They attached themselves to the tablet like trojans and was quite aggressive in linking the user to overseas app stores (inappropriate). Every time a game would be uploaded from one of these stores, it gives auto-access to these atrocious websites and videos. Because Ninsky always functioned in incognito--one of it's touted features--we almost had no access to the history or cookies when this browser was used. Almost anyway ... it took us hours (and some hacking) to track and identify what was really going on, the seeming source of it was this "sophisticated" browser.
So the catch may be that this browser has no advertisements because it plays host to several groups funding the porn industry. That's my suspicion anyway, based on what we went through.
I cannot begin to say how grieved we are that our son was exposed to all this, especially that we discovered it so much later. We thought we paid attention. That being said, he's back to playing with his remote control car outside, where life is a bit less complex.
More power to your forum and thanks again.
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xenofont said:
Hi everybody!
I recently started looking for a browser to replace the stock one and I think I installed every possible option there is without giving much thought to the consequences - app permissions and possible violation of my privacy and misuse of my data.
So I found what I thought was a really nice and well-functioning browser called Ninesky from the Android market.
Luckily for me I did not get to use it for long, before I detected a strange pattern - Ninesky would automatically start itself upon boot, connect to a server in China, upload some data and receive some back and then just sit there and wait idly.
The server that it connects to belongs to a company called aBitCool, which is, according to Bloomberg, an ISP in China.
So I kill it off and after a while it's back, doing the same thing. I also noticed a similar behavior for Dolphin HD, except that it would send data just once very quickly after boot-up and then close itself and stay quiet. That led me to Google it a little, which in turn led me to an existing thread about Dolphin HD on this forum.
So here are my noob questions that I hope somebody can answer, please:
1. Can somebody take a look at Ninesky browser and let us all know what kind of data it is transmitting about its users upon boot and maybe even later on during the actual use of the browser? The list of permissions that Ninesky asks for is huge and that makes me a little worried. Also, Ninesky runs a "safety check" of every URL visited. I wonder what that really is.
2. Say it would try to steal information from its users - would it be possible for the app to somehow get access to my stored usernames and passwords from other programs (such as Gmail or Skype) or are these encrypted? I presume that if I were stupid enough to let Ninesky's password manager "remember" my usernames and passwords for certain websites then that information would be easily accessible to them.
3. Can an app with such permissions also function as a keylogger?
4. I can understand why folks here would write some apps on their own and share them with the rest of us. I can understand why a developer or a company would write an app and make one version available for "free" or as an ad supported one and/or offer a premium version for $$$. At the end of the day developers need to eat and pay their bills just like the rest of us and companies are (for the most part) profit-seeking institutions (unless they are GE or MS that have money to burn). That said - why for the love of god would anybody, other than an enthusiast, develop a browser, for which they will not ask for any $$ or won't even display any ads in it? Where is the catch? Now, I know that Opera and Firefox get money from Google to use it as their default search engine, but would this really apply for a few random Chinese companies? Where is the catch?
Thank you.
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Users of smartphones running Google’s Android OS were warned Tuesday night (Manila time) against a new SMS malware disguised as a version of the new Firefox browser for Android.
GFI Labs said the app posing as the popular browser is hosted on some Russian websites, one of which had hosted a malware posed as an app of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto.
“The criminals are leveraging on Firefox for Android in relation to the official, non-beta release of the said Web browser on Google Play last June 26,” GFI said in a blog post.
It said its antivirus product detects the malicious apps as Trojan.AndroidOS.Boxer.d.
GFI said the latest version of the Boxer malware, once installed, loads a Rules page on the phone and asks users to accept it.
The app then sends a premium SMS message to the numbers 2855, 3855, 7151, or 8151. The Rules page discloses in small text that users will be billed for sending a premium SMS message.
“Boxer then directs users to the actual website where the legitimate app can be downloaded after claiming that it has successfully activated,” GFI said.
On the other hand, it said the newest variant is more devious since users will not see the Rules page or be prompted to confirm Boxer’s installation and activation.
Also, the malware loads google.com instead of directing users to the actual download site.
“One of our researchers believed that this is probably an effort to make users believe that they have installed a dud app, thus, allowing them to download and install the fake app again, which, in turn, allows Boxer to send the premium SMS message multiple times,” it said.
GFI noted another version of Boxer had posed as popular photo sharing app Instagram shortly after it launched on Google Play. — LBG, GMA News
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OptimusLove said:
Users of smartphones running Google’s Android OS were warned Tuesday night (Manila time) against a new SMS malware disguised as a version of the new Firefox browser for Android.
GFI Labs said the app posing as the popular browser is hosted on some Russian websites, one of which had hosted a malware posed as an app of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto.
“The criminals are leveraging on Firefox for Android in relation to the official, non-beta release of the said Web browser on Google Play last June 26,” GFI said in a blog post.
It said its antivirus product detects the malicious apps as Trojan.AndroidOS.Boxer.d.
GFI said the latest version of the Boxer malware, once installed, loads a Rules page on the phone and asks users to accept it.
The app then sends a premium SMS message to the numbers 2855, 3855, 7151, or 8151. The Rules page discloses in small text that users will be billed for sending a premium SMS message.
“Boxer then directs users to the actual website where the legitimate app can be downloaded after claiming that it has successfully activated,” GFI said.
On the other hand, it said the newest variant is more devious since users will not see the Rules page or be prompted to confirm Boxer’s installation and activation.
Also, the malware loads google.com instead of directing users to the actual download site.
“One of our researchers believed that this is probably an effort to make users believe that they have installed a dud app, thus, allowing them to download and install the fake app again, which, in turn, allows Boxer to send the premium SMS message multiple times,” it said.
GFI noted another version of Boxer had posed as popular photo sharing app Instagram shortly after it launched on Google Play. — LBG, GMA News
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I may be assuming too much here but surely most android users only use play store or verified markets such as getjar or amazon and would not be careless enough to download from a dubious website?
Or they would google "android firefox" and follow the top results which are all official. So this would mainly affect people looking for warez?
Dave
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mistermentality said:
I may be assuming too much here but surely most android users only use play store or verified markets such as getjar or amazon and would not be careless enough to download from a dubious website?
Or they would google "android firefox" and follow the top results which are all official. So this would mainly affect people looking for warez?
Dave
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Not necessarily warez, Most people like to "sideload" apks to their phone via their lappytop.
I just read this news and honestly it really is worrying since Huawei faced with the accusation of spying, can someone with tech savvy skill confirm on this?
Source
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3697098
It's crazy [emoji32]. It remembers me the same thing happened with ZTE mobile phones.
Reading the article, for someone who purports to be an "IT Engineer" and "skilled in computers, cellphones, and data networks," he is remarkably ill informed about how network applications, systems and mobile device systems and software work. After the most cursory of glances at the article
Captive Portal Login...................................................…….This appears to be linked to authenticating to the device for cloud accounts such as Gmail
Huawei.hivoice..................................................................…..Required to use the voice from the cellphone system
Huawei.mobile.services .............................................…..Required to use the data from the cellphone system
Huawei search index and services..................…….Literally EVERY operating system has a search index system built in to work
Exchange Services............................................................…..Outlook email app installed and probably in use
Files...................................................................................................….It's called looking at the files system
Google Backup Services................................................…..It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Google Play Services...................................................…......It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Google Services Framework.......................................….It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Package installer.........................................................................Again....Google else how do you look for, install and update apps?
System update........................................................................….Oh no!!! Updates.....To the system...!!!!!
IP addresses...shock horror, various companies use the Amazon AWS cloud service to support...... services in the cloud
18.136.136.226:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
52.76.118.162:443 Amazon Technologies Inc.
3.1.28.223:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
13.251.217.196:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
52.77.164.35:5222 Amazon Technologies Inc.
13.229.37.66:5222 Amazon Technologies Inc.
119.23.23.32 Alisoft Computing Co. Ltd. .......................Well, if you browse to Alibaba you're probably going to get a link to their CRM customer assist system
54.171.19.142:443 Amazon Technologies Inc...…………………... Again with the whole cloud based service provider supporting cloud apps, like....the keyboard app you installed
52.209.225.101:443 Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited
I could continue but plainly the idiot who reported this to Taiwan News and the idiot who wrote the article and the idiot who provided editorial approval are all idiots.
everalm said:
Reading the article, for someone who purports to be an "IT Engineer" and "skilled in computers, cellphones, and data networks," he is remarkably ill informed...idiot who wrote the article and the idiot who provided editorial approval are all idiots.
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Now I just gotta read it! ?
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