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Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb on Xoom Wows Crowd at Googleplex

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Google built on the buzz swirling around its forthcoming Android 3.0 operating system for tablets during an event showcasing the Honeycomb platform tailored for tablets. After a brief introduction at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Android lead Andy Rubin passed the torch to Hugo Barra, product management director for Android, and Chris Yerga, Android engineering director for cloud services. Barra whizzed through an array of demos using Motorola’s soon-to-be-launched (as in late February, early March) Xoom tablet, showing off multitasking, widgets, application bars and several other perks that were introduced to developers via the Android 3.0 preview SDK last week. Yerga then relieved Barra to show off Google’s new Android Market Website, a destination that will allow consumers to purchase applications, games and music on Android smartphones and tablets. In-application purchasing is also part of the mix, as you’ll see here. Peruse the Honeycomb demos and the new Android application perks here in this eWEEK slide show. – …


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Google opens online store for Android users

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

google1In an effort to compete with the rival Apple in the wireless sector, search engine giant Google has launched a new online store of advanced software applications that run on mobile phones powered by Android software. Google’s new online store, Market.Android.com, will allow Android users find new applications more easily from their computers, see recommendations [...]

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Google Launches Android Market Webstore During ‘Honeycomb’ Demo

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Google rolled out the Android Market Webstore to let consumers make application purchases and downloads via a Web browser from a dedicated Website. – Google Feb. 2 launched the Android Market Webstore, a Website dedicated to letting
application consumers purchase apps for their Android smartphones and tablets
from a Web browser.
To this point, users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market
client from smartphones and tablets s…


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Android 3.0 Honeycomb Could Affect Microsoft’s Windows Tablet Plans

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," which could accelerate Androids presence in the tablet market, could also complicate Microsofts Windows tablet plans. – Google Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, could complicate
Microsofts nascent tablet efforts.
Scheduled for a media unveiling Feb. 2 at Googles Mountain
View, Calif., headquarters, Honeycomb has been designed with larger screens in
mind, including a retooled, tablet-friendly virtual keyboard and…


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Android Shipped on 43% of U.S. Smartphones: Nielsen

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Nielsen said Google’s Android platform ran on 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July 2010 to December 2010; Apple iOS grabbed 26 percent, while RIM’s BlackBerry took 20 percent. – Google’s Android operating system continued to be the hit of the U.S.
smartphone world, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July
2010 to December 2010.
Nielsen said Feb. 1 that Apple iOS was on 26 percent of smartphones
shipped over the last six months, whole Research in Motio…


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Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ Is the Most Important Version Yet: 10 Reasons Why

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

News Analysis: Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" will prove to be the most important Android version for several reasons. Here are 10 of them. – With the first month of 2011 down, consumers and even some enterprise
customers are undoubtedly becoming more and more excited to find out how
Android-based tablets will fare in a market that has, at least so far, been
dominated by Apples iPad. Will the Android-based devices overcome Apples
domi…


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Google Touts Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ Holographic UI Redesign for Tablets

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google Jan. 26 trotted out a key piece of its Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" puzzle in the form of a preview SDK based on the new operating system intended for larger touch-screen tablet computers. Honeycomb offers users a new holographic user interface that focuses on multitasking, notifications, widgets and other features to make devices easy and fun to use. Google Maps in 3D is a big draw for this platform, which Google programmers like to boast has been redesigned from the ground up. To show off the OS, Google is also offering media and analysts a special demonstration at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 2. Those attending will see Honeycomb running on plenty of Motorola Xoom tablets and perhaps some others as hardware makers rush to polish their products and get them out the door to compete with Apple’s iPad. Google’s Android team also offered a sneak peek at what the Honeycomb user interface and other tools will look like on the Android developer Website. The Android developer team offered this platform highlights Web page. Of course, eWEEK gladly poached the screens for readers to peruse for their viewing pleasure. – …


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Android Overtakes Symbian as Top Smartphone OS: 10 Reasons Why

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

News Analysis: Android beat Nokias Symbian platform in the fourth quarter to become the top mobile OS in the world. But how did it do it? With strong marketing and handset-maker support. – After slowly marching its
way toward the top of the smartphone OS market, Googles Android platform is
now the most-popular smartphone operating system in the world, according to
research firm Canalys.

The companys platform had a 33.3 percent share of all shipments in the fourth
quarter of 201…


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Android Ships 33M Smartphones to Lead World: Canalys

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google’s Android platform shipped 33.3 million units, or roughly one-third of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped across the globe, Canalys said. – Google’s Android operating system became the world’s leading
smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million
smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010, according to
researcher Canalys.

Canalys, which crunched smartphone shipments across North America, Asi…


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Apple iPad Faces Risks from Android 3.0 Honeycomb

January 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously denounced Android as unable to compete with the iPad, but Android 3.0 Honeycomb could raise tablet competition to a new level. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously (or infamously, depending on
your point of view) lashed out against Google Android tablets during his companys
October earnings call, denouncing them as incapable of competing with the iPad.
The “painful lesson,” Jobs told analysts and media listening
to that call, …


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Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb Demo Slated at the Googleplex

January 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Google has penciled in a big Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet demonstration at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., for Feb. 2. Expect the Motorola Xoom and other tablets. – Google Feb. 2 is taking the unusual step of offering a media preview of its
new Android 3.0 operating system, the next-generation build of its popular
mobile platform.

quot;Please join us for an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news
and hands-on demos, quot; trumpets the invitati…


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Google Tests Gmail Display Ads, Boost for Android, iPhone

January 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Google is testing image-based ads in Gmail and has rolled out its Google Boost local ad service for display on Android smartphones and Apple iPhones. – Google stepped up its desktop and mobile advertising efforts this week,
testing display ads in Gmail and launching its Boost small business ads for
Apple’s iPhone and Android handsets.
The Gmail display ads, first reported by Search Engine
Land, appear to the right of Gmail
users’ e-mail messa…


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Researcher Finds Google Android Data Stealing Vulnerability

January 28th, 2011 | No Comments

A researcher revealed a way to exploit a vulnerability affecting Google Android users that can be used to steal data. – A security researcher has uncovered a way to exploit a data-leak issue
affecting Google Android users.
Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North
Carolina State University,
discovered the bug while working on what he described as an Android-related project.
The flaw, he wrote
in an adviso…


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Google Android 3.0 Preview SDK Ships for Tablets

January 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Google rolled out a preview SDK for Android 3.0, offering developers the chance to write software on an OS intended for tablets such as Motorola’s Xoom. – Google Jan. 26 released a preview version of the software-development kit for Android 3.0, a new version of the company’s operating system that is intended for tablet computers and other devices with larger screens.
Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, offers users a new holographic user interface th…


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Google Dissatisfied with Android Paid App Purchases

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Google Android platform head Eric Chu said Google isn’t happy with the paid app progress of Android Market. The company needs to fortify its payment system to compete with Apple. – It’s rare to catch any actual Android developers other
than the operating system creator Andy Rubin speaking in public. It’s even more
rare that you’ll hear one of the team express any negativity about the
platform’s progress.
Yet Eric Chu, group manager for Android platform at
Google, apparent…


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Apple iOS, iPad, Android Platform Lead Enterprise Mobility Adoption: Report

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Apple and Google Android power ahead in enterprise mobility adoption, while Windows Mobile exits the top 10. – The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by
both Apple’s iOS and Android smartphone platforms, according to Good
Technology’s second quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of
IT and mobile enterprise technology. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this …


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Verizon iPhone Could Soon Put Android Smartphones in the Shade: 10 Reasons Why

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

News Analysis: As the iPhone comes close to its launch date on the Verizon Wireless network, the Android smartphone makers will likely fume about once again playing second fiddle to the iPhone on another carrier’s store shelves. – With Apples iPhone set to
make its debut on the Verizon network in a matter of days, speculation is
already percolating on what impact this will have on Android handset makers.

The end of the exclusivity deal that Apple had in place with AT amp;T made
other carriers, especially Verizon, fertil…


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Apple, Android to Lead $15B in Mobile App Downloads

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Apple’s App Store helped mobile application downloads soar in 2010. With Google’s Android Market pushing Apple, expect the overall pie to grow in 2011, Gartner said. – Thanks to Apple’s App Store and Google’s rougher-around-the-edges Android Market, mobile-application-store sales will top $15 billion in 2011, Gartner said Jan. 26.
The $15 billion number, up 190 percent from $5.2 billion in 2010, counts both users buying applications and applications generating ad…


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BlackBerry Could Support Android Apps in Future: Report

January 26th, 2011 | No Comments

RIM may be building Android app support into its BlackBerry devices, according to a new online report. That would certainly alter the companys competition with Apple. – Research In
Motion could be planning ways for Android applications to run on its BlackBerry
devices, according to online rumors. If proven true, that would give BlackBerry
users access to hundreds of thousands of applications. However, such a strategy
could also confuse developers interested in …


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Toshiba Tablet Runs Android 3.0 to Challenge Apple iPad

January 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Toshiba showed off its first Android tablet at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in early January, but it divulged only some of the juicy details, such as its 10.1-inch screen, rubberized finish and swappable battery. Thanks to this new teaser Website, users looking forward to seeing the device know it will run Android 3.0, code-named "Honeycomb," with full Flash support when it arrives this spring. Unlike, the Motorola Xoom, there are four physical buttons in the front of the Toshiba tablet to help users access the machine, which is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 graphics chip and offers 1280 x 800 resolution and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The device also supports WiFi and Bluetooth for wireless connectivity. When the Toshiba tablet arrives, it will challenge Apple’s hit iPad, the Motorola Xoom, which is launching next month, and other offerings based on Microsoft Windows 7, HP webOS and other platforms. eWEEK provides a quick tour of the unnamed Toshiba tablet in this slideshow. – …


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