Tag: "Android"
StumbleUpon Launches iPhone and Android Applications
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StumbleUpon has launched iPhone and Android Applications so users are now able to ‘stumble’ content for them mobile devices. The application lets you: – Easily explore pages in your favorite topics and on top sites (Flickr, YouTube, Photos, News). – The pages you bookmark from your phone are automatically synced with your StumbleUpon account on [...]
Android Market Update – September 2010
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With so much media attention always going to Apple and their iOS platform, its worth taking a look at how Android is fairing in the competitive mobile market. Here are some new stats worth taking note of in regards to the Android mobile platform: – 200,000 Android phones are sold everyday. – 97,000 (approx) applications [...]
AppStore hits 250,000 applications
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It has been a little over 2 years since Apple launched the AppStore. The store now has over 250,000 applications from around 50,000 developers. Books and Games are the 2 most popular categories, with about 30% market share combined. Around 30% of the apps are free, 70% are paid-for applications. In comparison, the Android Marketplace [...]
Oracle Suing Google Over Android OS
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Oracle Corporation is suing Google over the Android Operating System. It is claimed that Google has infringed on Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property patents, that Oracle purchase in the Sun Microsystems acquisition. The Java code is also copyrighted and Oracle is saying Google never paid a license to use the software. Oracle is requesting monetary compensation [...]
Trojan Virus hits Android Phones
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There have been reports surfacing across the web that the first virus has been detected on Android phones. Computer Security company, Kaspersky, has found a an Android app called ‘Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a’ The app basically pretends to be a media-player application, but once installed sends SMS messages to premium high cost numbers without the owners knowledge. Often, [...]
Windows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start for Microsoft
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The Windows 7 Phone is a fresh start for Microsoft. Microsoft can use this device as a foundation to build something totally new, and it’s very much different to any other phone you’ve used. The phone utilises and manages many of the different Microsoft products and services – Bing, Xbox Live, Zune to name a [...]
LG to release Android-Powered Tablet
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LG is looking to release an Android-Powered Tablet at the end of the year. It looks like a lot of major electronics manufacturers are racing to build an iPad like device in wake of the iPad’s success. With the releases or more tablet devices this is probable to shift increasing people to mobile type PC’s. [...]
Cost of mobile apps? Apple, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, Nokia, Palm
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Its interesting to look at all the mobile smartphone Application stores and see the percentage of paid apps to free apps. A recent report by Distimo has found that more than half of all paid applications are about $2 of less. BlackBerry is however the exception as they do not allow application less than $2.99. [...]
CISCO creates Android based Tablet PC
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CISCO CEO John Chambers has unveiled a new Tablet PC they have been working on – The Cisco Cius. This is expected to be the first business tablet designed for mobile access and work. The device has a virtual desktop and telecommunication system, front facing 720p HD camera and a second – expected for video [...]
iOS and Android Developer numbers [STATS]
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There are alot of developers now developing apps for both the iOS and Android operating systems. AppStoreHQ.com put together a survey of all their developers on both the iOS and Android and the stats looking something like this: – 43,185 iOS developers – 10,199 Android developers – 1415 developers building apps on both platforms. Apple [...]
AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle
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Google’s Admob have released their May Mobile metrics report giving the latest information on mobile operating system market shares. The main fight is between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems. Apple is the clear leader at the moment but Android is making some significant gains. In terms of mobile ad requests, Apple is leading [...]
What is Google TV?
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We heard the word about Google TV since March, the excitement finally become part of the Google I / O last month, when the ambitious project has been revealed. Now Google has released a video that illustrates how it works. Combining television and Web content to create one, simple experience. People have said this could [...]
Google to launch iTunes competitor, Google Music
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It looks like Google will be releasing an iTunes competitor called Google Music for the Android phones. Google music will be a web based system whereby users can go view music and download to their device. Google music will be very much a cloud based music store. Google recently purchased a company called Simplify Media [...]
6 downfalls of the official Twitter iPhone app
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So Twitter has recently launched their own mobile applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android coming soon. However the app may not be all that good, there seem to be a couple areas it doesn’t stack up. 1. The app does not let you do the old style of ReTweet – RT 2. Limited Icon [...]
Google I/O Conference Day 2
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Google unveils more details about the Android Operating System – Android 2.2 (code name Froyo) firmware update with improved speed (apps 2x-5x faster), market place and new features. Java Script runs 2x-3x faster on OS 2.2 The Android Market place has 50,000 applications and 180,000 developers. According to AdMob the Android operating system is No1 [...]
Gowalla releases iPad application, Foursquare not yet
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Whilst we cant get our hands on the iPad in Australia just yet, Geo-location social service Gowalla has released their iPad application last week. I would have thought Gowalla would priorities realeasing their Blackberry application, which is due out in about 2 weeks according to their CEO Josh Williams. Foursquare on the other hand is [...]
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