Posts Tagged ‘Google’

DYZPlastic Comes with Android Collectibles

February 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Monetizing an open platform can be a hard thing, but we can always count on Google to find a new way to do it. This time the giant hooked up with a firm called DYZPlastic for some sweet merchandising.

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Motorola Takes Android App Market in Own Hands

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the possible retreat of Google from the Chinese market, both developers and vendors fear for the sales of their applications and games. To avoid problems, Motorola has decided to launch their own Android Market.

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Google Drops Nexus One Price

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Following the bad sales results, Google has already started to slash the price of their Nexus One Android phone (which will probably lead to more dissatisfied consumers who paid full price).

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Flurry: Nexus One Sales Below Expectations

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last week we have witnessed the launch of Google’s superphone, the Nexus One. The launches was plagued by problems with 3G connectivity and consumers not knowing where to go with them.

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Android 2.1 SDK Released

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

Google has announced the release of Android SDK 2.1. With this new SDK, developers can make full use of the latest features offered on hardware like Google’s own Nexus One device.

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Google’s F*** You iPhone

January 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | No Comments »

Is the Google Nexus really the Android killer? We don’t know, but there seems to be a second device out there which is called the ‘F*** You iPhone’. The device seems to do anything to sabotage iPhone users.

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Google Takes Nexus One D2C

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The Nexus One has just become reality and with the launch of the device, Google is going D2C as consumers from the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong can order the device directly at the company.

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Android Dashboard Launched

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Last week, Google launched the Android Dashboard. Through this dashboard, developers can gain insights into the adoption of new Android OS versions by consumers. Android 1.6 is leading the charts.

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adMob Launches on WebOS

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | 1 Comment »

adMob has been very successful on platforms like the iPhone, but Palm’s WebOS was still uncovered by the company. To support developers, the company released an open source SDK for ad invocation.

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Android Developer Challenge 2 Winners Announced

December 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google’s Android Developer Challenge is over and the company has announced a number of winners. In total, there were 33 winners which makes it one of the biggest competitions we’ve seen to date.