"Android requires application developers to declare the permissions their application will need in order to interact with the system and its data. As a result, SMobile has incorporated patent pending technology to use application permissions and other identifying attributes to determine what an application can do and subsequently, identify Spyware and other malicious applications.. This provides a prime opportunity to identify an application that is trying to access sensitive data or communications and then assist the user in determining if this access is truly necessary for an application."
Sounds like they're selling a firewall like ZoneAlarm, that pops up a warning when an application requests some data. Filtered by the permissions, so if the application is not flagged to obtain the contents of an email, popping up a false positive would be dumb, so it looks like they filter for the permissions.
He's basically claiming 20% of applications are flagged to request some permission to some private data on the phone.
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