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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...