Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Baidu Announces Own Android OS Fork

September 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Chinese search giant has finally announced its own mobile operating system. To be specific, the company is launching their own version of Google’s Android OS, called Baidu Yi.

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Italians Develop Android Watch

August 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems like Android developers have to take care of yet another form-factor as Italian designers have developed a new watch based on Google’s Android operating system.

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Mozilla Works on Mobile Operating System

July 26th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

As if we didn’t have enough already, Mozilla has announced the organization is working on their own mobile operating system, though the basis of the project is Google’s Android OS.

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Android Market to Support Multiple APK’s

July 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google announced that Android Market will finally bring support for apps that have multiple APK’s for different devices. This brings various advantages compared to the old single-APK model it used.

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Nomura: iPad To Dominate Until 2014

July 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to research from Nomura, Apple will maintain the most dominant player in the tablet market until the year 2014. By that time, competitors will have a far bigger share of the market.

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Nielsen: Android Users Use More Data

June 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

In a recent study from Nielsen, the analyst discovered that Android owners are using more data than their iOS counterparts. Something that used to be the other way around.

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BlueStacks Delivers Android Apps to Windows Users

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

BlueStacks is a new tech startup that has developed virtualisation software to run Android OS in a Windows environment. The company managed to bring in $7.6 million in investments.

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OFX Goes Private Beta on Android

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

OpenFeintX has gone in private Beta for android developers. This means that Android developers will now have the freedom to build their own in-app stores over the system.

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Samsung Sold 3 Million Galaxy S2’s

May 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

While the Samsung Galaxy S2 is still not available in most of the smaller markets, the company already managed to sell 3 million units of its flagship device. Main sales come from Korea and the UK.

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Consumers Not Happy with Airpush

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Airpush was announced only days ago, several developers already implemented the new advertising system and got valueable, but expected feedback from consumers. “It Sucks!”