Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Baidu to Build a Mobile OS

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Baidu is pretty much the Google of China and as so, it is planning to build a mobile OS, pretty much like Google has done a couple of years back. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency behind it though.

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Google Enables App Subscriptions

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following in the footsteps of Apple, Google has announce One Pass. One Pass is a system that allows content owners to charge subscription based fees for access to their content.

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Google Launches Android Market Web Frontend

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

More big news from Google as the giant announced the availability of a web based frontend to the Android Market service. Until now, consumers had to settle with third party frontends to browse apps on their PC’s.

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Google Announces In-App Payments on Android Market

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

During their press event last night, Google announced the support for in-app payments in Android Market. With the release of in-app payments, developers can trial their iOS strategies on Android.

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Android 3.0 Compatible with Smartphones

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

While the general understanding is that Android 2.4 will be the next smartphone OS and Android 3.0 will focus on Tablet releases, it turns out the Android 3.0 SDK does have smartphone features on board.

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Google Launches Honeycomb This Wednesday

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

Last Friday, Google has sent out invites to journalists for its Android Honeycomb launch event coming Wednesday. The event will be taking place at its headquarters .

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Security Flaw in Android 2.3’s Micro SD Access

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

North Carolina State University’s Xuxian Jiang has discovered a security flaw in Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. According to the researcher, malicious websites can read out userdate on Micro SD cards.

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Larry Page to Replace Google CEO Eric Schmidt

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Eric Schmidt has announced to step back at Google. Co-founder Larry Page will become the new CEO of the search and mobile giant. Schmidt made the announcement on the Google blog.

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Android 2.2 Dominates

January 18th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Google’s most recent numbers show Android 2.2 is dominating the Android Market. 51.8% of the Android Market users use devices with this Android version. Android 2.1 is second most popular with 35.2% of users on it.

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Motorola Expects to sell 800K Million Xooms in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Motorola expects to ship 700K~800K Xoom devices to retailers in the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will be selling the device from March onward.