Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

Layar Releases Developer API’s

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tired of implementing Google Maps into your apps? Layar has now announced developers can include their augmented reality browser into their apps.

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First Nintendo DS Emulator Hits Android Market

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: DSiWare | No Comments »

Though the Nintendo DS’s two screens avoid anyone from making a perfect emulator, the first Nintendo DS emulator has now hit the Android Market. The emulator has been developed by Tiger King.

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Android 3.0 Compatible with Smartphones

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While the general understanding is that Android 2.4 will be the next smartphone OS and Android 3.0 will focus on Tablet releases, it turns out the Android 3.0 SDK does have smartphone features on board.

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Google Launches Honeycomb This Wednesday

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last Friday, Google has sent out invites to journalists for its Android Honeycomb launch event coming Wednesday. The event will be taking place at its headquarters .

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Security Flaw in Android 2.3’s Micro SD Access

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

North Carolina State University’s Xuxian Jiang has discovered a security flaw in Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. According to the researcher, malicious websites can read out userdate on Micro SD cards.

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Kongregate Launches Flash Based Android App Store

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Kongregate recently announced the launch of Kongregate Arcade, a new app store for Android devices that allow playback of apps based on Flash 10.x.

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Android 2.2 Dominates

January 18th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Google’s most recent numbers show Android 2.2 is dominating the Android Market. 51.8% of the Android Market users use devices with this Android version. Android 2.1 is second most popular with 35.2% of users on it.

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Logitech’s Revue Settopbox Hacked

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The GTVHacker-devteam has announced it managed to hack into Logitech’s Revue Settopbox. The Revue is one of the first devices based on Google TV, which is basically a TV optimized version of Android.

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Motorola Expects to sell 800K Million Xooms in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Motorola expects to ship 700K~800K Xoom devices to retailers in the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will be selling the device from March onward.

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PSP Phone / Xperia Play in Action

January 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

A picture says more than a thousand words, but a video!? We got tipped on a Chinese YouTube video of someone playing Biohazard 2 and Rage Racer on the new phone/console hybrid.