Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Bouncer Bounces Malware from Android Market

February 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Google has started to fight malware off of their precious Android Market. As most developers know, the place is kinda flooded with it but the new Bouncer service should clean up the mess there.

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Patrick Mork Moves to Google

August 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Following his career at Glu and then GetJar, Patrick Mork is now moving to Google as their new Marketing Director for Mobile Applications. He announced his move on his own blog.

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Google Books Removed from App Store

July 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though some folks on Twitter noticed it earlier this week, it then seemed to be a small error. Now however it seems the removal of the Google Books app for the iPhone has been on purpose.

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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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Google to Renew Android Market

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

Last night, Google announced yet another make-over for its Android Market. This time, Google will be dropping the curved layout for a tiled one (who else does that!?) to better use the available screen-estate.

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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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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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PSX4Droid Pulled From Android Market

March 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

PSX4Droid has been one of the more popular PSX emulators on the Android market, but the popular app has now been booted off Google’s Android Market.

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Google Launches In-App Purchases

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last night, Google launched in-app purchases for the Android Market. At the launch of the system, google already managed to get some of the bigger publishers on board.

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