Friday, 6 April 2012

Zeebox launches Android app

zeebox today announces the availability of its award-winning social TV app for Android smartphones and the launch of a new home page to its web service, providing users with a new personalised way to discover programmes to watch on TV. zeebox’s Android app – available in the UK Google Play store – provides consumers with a rich social...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Why Google Android Can't Compete With Apple's iPhone

There's an inherent flaw in Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android operating system. The flaw isn't a technical glitch. In fact, most agree that Google's Android is a first-rate mobile operating system that has gotten better with each update. Some even prefer it to Apple's iOS. It's not adoption either. According to recent data...

Instagram app debuts on Android, finally

The popular iPhone photo clicking and sharing app, Instagram, is now available on Android. The app, which has been available on iOS device for some time, now has been downloaded more that 30 million times. Instagram lets users add effects to pictures they click from their smartphone and upload it to popular social networking websites...

Motorola releases MOTOACTV fitness app for Android phones

Motorola has extended the support of the fitness tracking app - MOTOACTV to all major Android smartphones. However, one still needs to buy the MOTOACTV accessory to use the app. Motorola has made its MOTOACTV fitness app available to all Android devices. MOTOACTV is a pair of apps that includes Motorola's fitness tracker and a smart...

Android 4.0 powered HTC One S to launch in India in May

Fresh reports indicate a May release for HTC One S in India is on the cards .connect_widget_number_cloud, .vcount .tb-container { margin-top: 2px ! important; }.twitter-share-button { height: 62px ! important; } The HTC One S will hit the Indian market sometime next month. Sources...

Monday, 2 April 2012

HCL Launches Android ICS Tablet “My Edu” Starting At Rs 7,990

HCL Technologies, has launched three new tablets in India, focusing on the education segment, with a starting price of Rs 7,999, reports The Mobile Indian. My Edu Tab U1, the first tablet from HCL, is targeted towards mass market and is the cheapest tablet from HCL starting at Rs 7,999. The other two tablets; My Edu Tab K12 and My Edu...

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Sony says Android ICS coming in April

Good news Xperia owners! Sony Mobile is preparing the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its 2011 Xperia smartphones and it should start rolling out in the middle of April. The Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V and Xperia ray will start to receive the ICS update in April and it should take about 4-6 weeks...

Friday, 30 March 2012

Lenovo Launches Android Enterprise App Shop For Business Clients Only

Lenovo Launches Android Enterprise App Shop for Business Clients OnlyWith Google serving a pretty nice collection of apps inside their Play marketplace, the need for business-orientated mobile software was felt. Lenovo has volunteered to fill...

Run Android Apps on a PC With BlueStacks: Here's How

If you're dying to run Android applications on your Windows machine, then you'll want to check out the recently released BlueStacks App Player beta, an Android app emulator for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. The software gives you access to Android apps on the Android Market, GetJar, the Amazon AppStore or 1Mobile Market, and allows you to run...

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

5 new Android apps for March 2012

If you are one of the Android faithful out there you’ll know that many Android apps hit Google Play every month, but it can sometimes be a bit taxing deciding on what Android app to download to your chosen Android device, but at least unlike the iOS platform, you know that the majority of apps on Google Play wont cost you anything. So what...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Google probed in France over privacy on Android

The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, which is an organization in France, better known as CNIL is questioning search giant Google, over its use of cookies in the Android mobile operating system. Specifically, the questioning relates to the nature of the information Google collects using cookies on Android and whether...

Android-friendly Linux 3.3 released

Android can now boot from the Linux kernel. Does this mean Android smart phones will have comparable management features to BlackBerrys? A new version of the Linux kernel, which includes kernel code from Android, is now available. linux 3.3 also boasts upgraded networking features and support for an additional processing architecture. The latest version of the Linux kernel was supposed to have been released about...

Sunday, 18 March 2012

Tablified Market filters out Android apps for tablets

   For Android tablet owners, shopping the Google Play Store can sometimes be a pain, with tons of scaled-up phone apps hiding among the truly tablet-optimized. Sure, there's always the curated Staff Picks for Tablets section, but that offers only a tiny taste of all the delicious HD goodness that's really out there. Enter...

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Android Tablets Gained on iPad in Late 2011: IDC

Google Android tablets as a whole managed to gain on the iPad in 2011, but individual Android tablets failed to threaten Apple in a big way.Amazon managed to ship 4.7 million Kindle Fire tablets by the end of 2011, according to a new report from research firm IDC. While that allowed the online retailer to seize an estimated 16.8 percent...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Google Ups Android App Size Limit to 4GB

Google announced today that it is increasing the size limit on its Android apps from 50MB to 4GB. The company stressed that, in most cases, smaller is better - "every megabyte you add makes it harder for your users to download and get started," Google wrote on the Android developers blog. But advances in app development, like "high-quality...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Five free apps for Android that can keep your device safe

With the explosion of Google’s open source Android platform on mobile devices, it has also become a strong target for the harbingers of malware. The situation is not as bad as Windows, but one can easily imagine the situation becoming equally bad, if not worst. Already, Google Play has become a cesspool for malware. Google is well aware...

Monday, 12 March 2012

Google Maps for Android updated with new simple UI

Google Maps received a minor update in the user interface for the Navigation feature. Google Maps for Android has received a new update that brings a simplified menu for the different features inside it. The new update adds visually tweaked elements in the navigation options. Google Maps now integrates larger icons and better grid...

Monday, 5 March 2012

Android apps 'handing personal data to advertisers'

Tweet 0 0 European regulators have expressed concern over a report that apps are being developed for Google Android with the purpose of mining personal data and passing it on to advertisers. Around a quarter of all mobile users in the UK use devices running Android, and around 100m apps were downloaded in January alone. People...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Android apps are 2.5-times more expensive than iOS? Not so fast

A new analysis of app prices from market research firm Canalys calls out Android Apps as being 2.5-times more expensive than iOS apps on average. By gathering the current costs of all the top 100 apps on both platforms, Canalys felt confident enough to decree Android users are paying “dramatically higher” prices for apps. However, a brief...

Google: Android Apps Have Tripled to Nearly Half a Million Since Last Year

 Google has something to boast about at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year, it used the event to announce that its Android Market had accrued an impressive 150,000 apps. Today, the company announced that the number has tripled. That figure lags a little behind the number of iOS apps in the App Store — which,...

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Dropbox Adds Automatic Photo Uploads to Android App

Dropbox announced an update to its Android app on Friday that automatically syncs a user's photos on the phone. A complementary update to the desktop app also auto-syncs photos stored on cameras or SD cards. The service will be added to Apple's iOS soon, Dropbox said. On Android, the photo-upload function mirrors one already built into...

Friday, 24 February 2012

Opera Software : Opera Mobile comes to MIPS-based Android tablets

Opera and MIPS to demo solution at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - February 27, 2012 MIPS Technologies, a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, and Opera Software have worked together to optimize the highly popular Opera Mobile browser for MIPS-based Android...