Targets Shift in Phone Wars – Wall Street Journal

PopHerald.comNuance Buys Swype, Android Gesture Input SpecialisteWeekNuance acquired Android phone gesture software maker Swype for $102.5 million, which could position it for acquisition by Google. Speech recognition software provider Nuance Communica…

(Credit: Lance Whitney/CNET) Those of you who want to check out an Android app without an Android device can now run that app on your PC thanks to a program from the folks at BlueStacks (download) . The software, dubbed the BlueStacks App Player, has j…

ReutersSamsung Delays Unveiling of a New Android PhoneNew York TimesBy REUTERS SEOUL (Reuters) — Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it would delay the introduction of a new smartphone based on Google's latest version of the Android operating…

Fragmentation, buggy upgrades, and a seeming lack of interest (or at least tech support) from Google have me ready to dump Android for good. The iPhone 4S is just weak enough to leave a tiny opening, and this may be Android’s last chance to keep me, at…

A new report indicates a big jump in Android Market applications, just one day after another report found that Android tablets had taken more than one-quarter of world market share from Apple’s iPad. According to mobile-research firm Research2Guidance,…

PopHerald.com5 Reasons the Amazon Kindle Beats the iPadFox NewsOne of the biggest knocks on the Google Android software powering nearly every other tablet out there is that it's too open—you're required to sift through a lot of junk to get to…