Owners of smartphones running Google Android operating system have since the launch of service Android Market downloaded 3,000,000,000 apps to their mobile devices, reports TechCrunch with reference to Google. The number of downloads in the first quarter of this year have gone up by 50 percent than the figure for the fourth quarter of 2010. [...]
NHN Corporation and Daum Communications, managing two largest search engines Naver and Daum in South Korea, have lodged a complaint against Google in the antitrust department of the country, reports Bloomberg. Companies have accused Google of unfair competition. According to them, Google uses its priority position in the market of mobile platforms, and doesn’t allow [...]
In a move that contradicts past actions of Google, the internet giant has revealed that it wants to keep the Android 3.0 mobile operating system, also known as Honeycomb, out of smartphones for a while. The move is meant to keep Honeycomb concentrated to tablet devices and entails tighter control over developers trying to deploy [...]
Words with Friends the popular iOS game is soon to be released in Android format. The game which is loosely based on scrabble features in – game chat and the ability to play 20 games at once. The game’s developer, Zynga also produce popular games played on Facebook. FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars all come [...]
10-year domination of the Symbian OS in the smartphone market has finally come to an end. By the fourth quarter of last year, Google Android has emerged as a leader in this market Analysis firm Canalys reports that the manufacturers in the last quarter of last year sold 32.9 million phones equipped with mobile operating [...]
Rumours are circulating that Research in Motion (RIM) makers of the Blackberry smartphone are considering using Android apps on their fourth coming products. This move would give RIM a new footing in the smartphone marketplace, given that their current status within it has fallen in wake of the rise and popularity of the Android operating [...]
Google while adding innovation to making the life completely mobile, has extended its Cloud Print service to Android and iOS mobile devices, and the tool is yet a beta version. Google’s Cloud Print, which lets you print anything from almost any application on a compatible printer via an Internet connection, was introduced April last year. [...]
Users of the HTC phone the HD2 smartphone capable of running Android and Windows 7 operating systems can now choose which one they like best. Xda Developers have enabled the HD2 to boot up in either system, arguably giving a user the best of both worlds from the two operating systems. The operation to boot [...]
Taiwanese firm on its stand during CES 2011 event fielded four Tablet PCs, and each of them had unique features. Three devices are built on Android platform, and one on Windows. ASUS Eee Transformer Pad – it looks like a usual 10.1-inch tablet with multi-touch capacitive screen. The tablet has been equipped with the functionalities [...]
Bubble Ball has toppled “Angry Bird Seasons” to become the App Store’s number one free application for the iPhone. The program, a physics based game developed by a 14 year old boy in Utah, is driven by 4,000 lines of code and is also available for the Android. Eighth grader Robert Nay of Spanish Fork, [...]
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