Sean Carruthers

Sean Carruthers is a freelance writer, video producer and host based in Toronto, Canada. Most recently, he was a Senior Producer at butterscotch.com, where he was responsible for the conception, writing, production and editing of a number of web video shows, including Lab Rats, How Do I?, Status Update, The Noob, and more.

Articles by Sean Carruthers

Android’s open-source challengers

One of the big selling points of the Android ecosystem is that the operating system is open source. That means handset manufacturers can modify...

Jelly Bean 4.3 goes public

The new Android OS, Jelly Bean 4.3, finally started rolling out to select Android devices over the past week, after weeks of expectation, and...

Shhhh, my Android phone is listening in…

Since Google purchased hardware heavyweight Motorola, we’ve been paying close attention, expecting something new and fancy to come along,and it sounds like the Moto...

Android’s big security threat

I’ve talked a few times in this space about the latest and greatest security threat to Android, whether it be a Trojan horse found...

What’s the point of Vine and Instagram video?

So this past week, Instagram launched an updated app that handles video, causing a number of folks to say “finally!” and a bunch of...

Up to spec with CPU-Z for Android

I have to admit – when I heard about the launch CPUID’s newCPU-Z tool for Android devices, I had to resist the urge to...

Whither Jelly Bean 4.3?

 While Hugo Barra took to the Google IO stage a few weeks agoto show off a new Samsung phone that will ship with a...

Coming Soon: The Amazing Skinless Android

One of the things that has consistently been botheredAndroid users is having to upgrade the OS on the phone manufacturer’s schedulerather than Google’s: despite...

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