Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Samsung’s Galaxy S WiFi Devices to Hit Europe

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Samsung has announced it will start selling the Galaxy S mediaplayers in Europe. The 5 inch devices will premiere in Switzerland while Russia will be the first country to sell the 4 inchers.

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AirPush, The Next Level in Advertgaming

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

AirPush is a new system that allows developers to send ads to consumers, even if they are not playing their Android games. The ads will be delivered as a push notification.

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Verizon Warns Consumers About GPS Tracking

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Apple managed to become global news again as iOS keeps a record of where the device has been at what time. Though those records are stored locally, Verizon started applying stickers with information on such devices.

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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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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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Gartner: iPad to Dominate till 2016

April 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Dispite growing competition, Gartner predicts that Apple’s iPad will dominate the market until the end of 2015 at which the analyst predicts a turning-point in tablet history.

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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.

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Porting QT to Android Pretty Easy!?

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

According to CuteHacks, it doesn’t take much to convert QT apps to run on the Android platform. IN a blogpost, one of the developers claims all it takes are a couple of lines of code that need to be changed.