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,...

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...

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...

Google Adds Collaboration Features to Google Docs for Android

Mountain View based software powerhouse Google has announced that the Android variant of Google Docs now allows users to collaborate on documents. The updated app now...

New BlackBerry OS supports Android apps

(RIM) has released its latest BlackBerry PlayBook OS update that, amongst other features, allows users to download a wider range of Android supported apps. RIM senior vice-president of mobile computing, David Smith, said the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 aimed at providing new communications and productivity enhancements along with its extended app and content support. New features include:Integrated email client with a unified...

Android tablets are doomed without a single OS version

A lot of ink has been spilled decrying the Android fragmentation problem, and while the smartphone space is surviving in spite of it the tablet space will not.  This weekend has been an Android tablet weekend. I’ve been updating all the tablets I have, both OS and app updates. I like doing it as it is fun to get under the hood with...

Android 4.0 Update on Acer Iconia Tab is Starting

If you’re the owner of any Acer Iconia Tab, you’ll be pleased to know that the company has finally started rolling out its update to the latest Android OS. However, updates will be completed by the end of April so you have to check if the update is already available to your specific tablet model. According to Acer, the new OS is equipped...

Malware loves Android, but iOS users could be at risk too

A new study from Juniper finds that Android is the hardest hit by malicious apps but says iOS could be vulnerable as well. Android has gotten a lot of negative buzz for its susceptibility to malware. But a new study from Juniper Networks suggests that iOS could also be at risk. Scanning hundreds of thousands of applications across the...

Motorola Android 4.0 Upgrade Accelerating in Q3

Motorola, which has been cleared to be acquired by Google, updated its Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade schedule. Some ICS bumps are coming in Q3, but most are coming later. #ArticleWidgets { font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; margin-bottom: 0px; }#ArticleWidgets { color:...

Remove Android App Pulls Distracting People Out Of Your Photos

A new Android application set to be shown at this year's MWC in Spain can remove unwanted passers-by from the frame. Scalado, the same software firm behind Rewind has announced a new app: Remove. Set to be shown off at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona later this month, the application will let you remove people...

Android App News: Sky Go release date set for 22 February

Great news for Android phone owners. Sky Go is finally set to launch on February 22, offering on-the-go access to Sky Sports, Sky Movies and loads more top channels The wait is almost over for Android loyalists desperate to access Premier League football on-the-go following news of the official release date for the Sky Go Android...

Android App News: CloudMagic is your personal search engine

A new Spotlight-esque app for Android smartphones allows you to search your essential Google Apps and Twitter account in record-setting time CloudMagic is a new app for Android-powered devices, which offers ultra-fast search across a host of apps on your smartphone or tablet. The free CloudMagic app indexes your tweets, Gmail,...

Java tip: Set up an RSS feed for your Android application

Use Java's SAXParser to retrieve and parse an RSS feed for Android. This Java tip is for developers new to Android and includes instructions for setting up an Android App development environment and a short application tutorial. An RSS feed is an XML-formatted file used to publish periodically updated syndicated information. An RSS feed may be parsed (that is, read...

HP to release server management apps for iOS, Android

HP's server management apps will help system administrators check on the health of serversHewlett-Packard will be showing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple's iOS and Google's Android that will allow system administrators to remotely control and configure servers, the company said on Monday. The company's applications will not only provide information about the health of servers, but also allow system administrators...

Android apps vs. iOS apps...And the winner is..

There's no doubt that the popularity of apps is soaring, and the demand for them is going to be even higher in the years to come, as consumers demand more of them from their carriers, as well as from the apps developers. At the moment, iOS apps and Android apps seem to dominate the apps marketplace. The question is, which one is better...

Best Android Apps Released This Year So Far

Moving into 2012, the Android Market continues to flourish as we see many more high quality Android apps make their way to Google's platform. So here is a recap of the hottest apps released this year to date (January - February). Best Android apps 2012 (January - February)Osmos HD: Absorb, or be absorbed... The hit iOS game comes to...

Air Display for Android turns tablet into wireless monitor for Mac or Windows

Avatron's Air Display turns Android tablets into a wireless monitor. Shown above, a screen shot of the iPad version released last year. Avatron has released an Android version of its Air Display app that essentially turns a tablet into a monitor for Windows or Macs that gives users more or even a...

The iPhone, Android Walkie-Talkie App Everyone's Talking About

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The Top 7 Android Music Apps for Apple AirPlay

 Apple's AirPlay gives people the pleasure of watching movies, looking at photos, and of course listening to music wirelessly, zapping the content from their iPhones, iPod Touches, or iPads to their televisions and home speaker systems with a variety of popular iOS music apps. What about Google's Android devices - do those work...

7 newly free Android apps for business

Free quality Android apps don’t come around as often as you may hope. And a lot of the time you have to sift through ridiculous and unrelated apps to find the one that matches your professional needs. So, we’ve done the work for you so you can spend your valuable time elsewhere. Here are seven newly-free Android apps that can streamline...

How to Run Android Apps on Your PC

The BlueStacks Android App Player lets you run Android apps on your PC. We explain how to install it, how to transfer apps from your Android smartphone, and how to run them on a Windows system.As the popularity of smartphones and tablets increases, so will our dependence on the myriad apps available for them. Whether the end result is...

The Must-Have iOS and Android Apps for a Killer Super Bowl Party

  Are you ready for some football? Wait, that's the last song you want to hear on your Super Bowl pre- or post-party mix. But thanks to your iPhone or Android devices, you won't have to move away from the snacks table to switch your tunes at your...

Android App for Viewing 2D or 3D CAD Designs

  Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications have already invaded the mobile platform. Although most of such programs’ mobile versions may not be as sophisticated as the desktop ones, the main point here is that more and more productivity applications are now brought into the mobile platform. This would mean that mobile devices like...