11 Essential Android Tablet Apps: The Ultimate Starter Kit – PCWorld

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,…

KDE takes on Android, Apple's iOS on smartphones and tabletsZDNet (blog)Summary: KDE, one of the leading Linux desktops, is taking dead aim at Android and Apple's iOS on smartphones and tablets. If another group was trying to take on Android an…

Mozilla is planning a makeover for Firefox on Android. The company has announced it plans to abandon the usual Firefox look on Android mobile devices and will instead use Android’s native user interface widgets.

Adding to a fusillade of good news for Google as it pushes its Android operating system, a mobile-advertising company said Android devices accounted for more than half its traffic in the third quarter.

The iPhone 4S launched Oct. 14, just a week and a half after it was unveiled. Now, on Wednesday, Samsung and Google are expected to unveil the Nexus Prime smartphone and Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. (As Mashable’s Ben Parr put it,…

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…