Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

Google Plans Tablet Webshop

March 30th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though the company was somewhat unsuccessful in selling their nexus devices directly to consumers (mainly due to customer support), rumours say Google is now planning a webshop for Android tablets.

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iOS 4X More Profitable Than Android for Google

March 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Google and Oracle are currently facing off in a legal battle, which is providing us with some interesting statistics. One of them being the business iOS and Android pull in for Google.

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Lenovo Launches B2B Android App Store

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The guys have just entered the tablet market and already Lenovo has announced their own ‘specialty’ app store. An app store that allows business owners to build their own app store for their employees.

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Angry Birds Space Outsells The New iPad

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A title like that isn’t hard to make of course, given the number of devices the newest title from Rovio can be bought upon, but selling 10 million downloads of a single game in three days remains impressive.

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Instagram Opens Early-Access Programme for Android

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

There’s no doubt about the popularity of Instagram on iOS and the lack of the app on Android gave lots of other developers full freedom to take the market. Now, it seems like Instagram for Android is nearly ready.

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Sony Releases Custom Rom Manual for Xperia S

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Sony’s new flagship device, the Xperia S, is the first to run on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon S3 SoC. Though Sony already made the bootloader available, the company felt the urge to release a manual for those eager to build their own Android roms.

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Class Action Lawsuit Heading to Google over Refunds

March 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The industry complaint over and over when Google introduced the 48-hour refund policy in the early years of Android. Since then, the refund period was limited to 15 minutes and this is about to cause a new headache for the company.

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Amazon Appstore Reaches 31K Apps

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last year, Amazon kicked off their new Amazon Appstore. After building up momentum by contacting many developers, Amazon had 4.000 apps live on the day of the launch…

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Google Play Kicks Off with Late Payments…

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems various developers in Europe are getting sweaty palms as payouts from Google over the month of February still haven’t arrived in their bankaccounts.

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Sony Debuts Floating Touch Technology

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Today, Sony introduced their new Xperia Sola smartphone. The device, running on a 1Ghz dual-core CPU and Android 2.3 (ICS upgrade coming) introduces a new technology to developers called Floating Touch.

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