Theseapps touting mobileTV, footballgames, location-basedsearchandgames are the new face ofbloatware, alsoknown as crapware or craplets in the PCworld.
It was born in a different era, when free mobile apps proliferate through word of mouth, not crapware PC installations by computer makers and ads for shrink-wrapped software.
The Skype forums are a hive of panic and abuzz with accusations that either the company is bundling crapware with its VoIP app or has a serious security problem.