A while back, all the major carriers (with the exception of Sprint) got together to start up a mobile payment system called ISIS. While ISIS has been absent from the mobile market for the past two years, it hasn’t stopped the carriers backing it from blocking its competition (Google Wallet) — a move I find to be illegal and completely anti-competitive. Anyways, it appears ISIS has finally found its way onto its first mobile device via a software update and that device happens to be the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II.

The Ice Cream Sandwich pie slice is steadily growing as we continue to see updates being pushed out. Up next for its Ice Cream Sandwich treatment is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi. Anyone rocking the 8.9-incher can head over to Settings > About Phone and check for an OTA. Otherwise, fire up your Kies software and it should be waiting for you.

If the Nexus S is guilty, why isn’t core Android?

By now we’ve all had chance to digest Apple’s landslide victory over Samsung last Friday, which saw the Cupertino company awarded just over $1 billion in damages. Both companies gave their own thoughts on the verdict with press releases shortly after it was announced, but the affects of this case will be felt by more than just Apple and Samsung.

As the creator of Android — the operating system that powers Samsung’s offending devices — you’d think that Google would have some concerns that the verdict will affect its own software. However, the company maintains that the claims involved “don’t relate to the core Android operating system.”

It appears Apple’s arrogance is getting in the way of protecting its users from a long standing SMS exploit that could allow potential hackers to spoof a reply-to number, causing the recipient to think he/she is replying to a legitimate contact, when in reality, their information is being sent to the hackers designated address. As you can imagine, this is quite troublesome, yet Apple has brushed it away despite numerous pleas made by a well known iOS hacker (pod2g):

ASUS rolled out Jelly Bean to TF300 users a few days ago but to the dismay of those in the U.K., they weren’t included. Thankfully, ASUS, — being the company that they are — quickly got to work and are now pushing out the Android 4.1 update to our friends across the pond. We can’t praise ASUS enough for the amazing job they’ve done getting updates out to their users and this is just another testament to their commitment.