Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

Google Sells Last Batch of Nexus One’s

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Google has received their last batch of Nexus One devices. When Google runs out, it will stop selling the device directly to consumers and and developers.

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Google Announces Android Market Stats

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Androlib recently estimated that the 100.000th Android app would be uploaded later this month, Google is a bit more careful with their numbers. They say they currently have 70.000 apps in the market.

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Samsung’s Wave & Galaxy S Hit the Million

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Bada, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though Samsung has been putting most of its PR budgets on the introduction of the Samsung Wave (with their new Bada OS), The company’s Galaxy S faster than expected.

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Android Market Expands to Korea

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has announced that the Android Market is now also supporting Korean consumers. Untill now, Android phones were sold while consumers could only get their content from un-official channels.

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Androlib: Android Market to Reach 100K Apps in July

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

AndroLib, one of the websites that tracks the content of the Android Market has predicted that the Android marketing is likely to reach the 100.000 apps milestone later this month.

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DS Effects Betting Big on HTML 5

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

According to PG, Italian developer DS Effects is betting big on HTML5 apps and games for the iOS platform. The Italians have already released over 150 games for HTML5.

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AppInventor: D-I-Y Android Apps

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has released the Android App Inventor. The App Inventor is a bit like Nokia’s Ovi App Generator, though not limited to only publishing RSS based applications.

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OpenFeint Moves Onto Android, Adds Strategic Investor

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following competitor ScoreLoop, OpenFeint has now also made the step to Android. At the same time, OpenFeint has announced a new strategic investor to back the network.

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AppBrain Allows Remote Android Installs

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Google has put push installs on the roadmap for future versions of Android, the website AppBrain.com has already developed a method to push apps onto Android devices.

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ComScore: Android Continues Growth in US

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

While all platforms lost marketshare, Android id continuing growth in the three month period ending May 2010. At that time, 49.1 million US citizens owned a smartphone.