Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

AMD Won’t Build ARM CPU’s

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

There have been some rumours going around that AMD would have acquired a licence to build ARM based CPU’s. The vendor has now announced it has no plans for ARM chips at all.

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Barnes & Noble Launches Nook App Store

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Barnes & Noble are rolling out Android 2.2 to Nook Color owners. As a benefit to the upgrade, Barnes & Noble also added their own app store to the update.

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Sony Set to Launch Playstation Tablets

April 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Sony has announced their first two Android 3.0 tablets. Both of them will support Playstation Suite and Qriocity. Nothing strange so far apart for the fact that the S2 has a very interesting formfactor.

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Intel to Port Android to x86

April 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Intel has announced it’s plans to port Android 3.0 to their x86 architecture. This will allow hardware vendors to build tablets and other hardware using Google’s open source operating system on Intel chips.

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Sony Ericsson Launches Bootloader Unlocker

April 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Owners of Sony Ericsson phones that wish to load custom roms onto their devices are now able to unlock their devices the legit way, though still voiding their warranty for SE.

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Vendors get Their Own Android Market

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has extended Android Market with the possibility for hardware vendors (and potentially operators) to launch their own sections on Android Market. Google follows Bada and WP7 in this move.

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Kiip Turns Achievements into Rewards

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

There’s a new advertiser in town and it is called Kiip (from the founders of Dig). The new platform launched on iOS and Android with the goal to tie advertisers to in-game achievements.

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Google and NTTDoCoMo Start Carrier Billing

April 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Good news for many developers today as Google and NTTDoCoMo have started to roll out carrier billing on the Android Market. The lack of carrier billing has always been an issue for many.

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Google Changes Recommendation Algorithm

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Rumors say there has been a so called ‘Google Dance’ on Android Market. Several app developers noticed their titles sky-rocketing in the charts while others went out of sight.

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Android Apps Also Coming to BlackBerry Phones

April 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Last Monday, we met some folks from RIM that were lorrying a PlayBook around in Holland. Of course we took it for a sweet little spin (we weren’t at MWC), but there’s more to this story.