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, the Android Market has been undergoing what it described as “exponential growth.”
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…
Gotta Be MobileT-Mobile announces 7 inch SpringBoard and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1ZDNet (blog)Summary: T-Mobile USA announced two new Android Honeycomb tablets with the SpringBoard and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I think they will continue to fill a niche m…
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.
Android head Andy Rubin said six million tablets are running Google’s OS, making the case that Android is gaining a small foothold in an iPad-dominated market. “It’s not 30 million, but it’s a healthy start,” said Rubin, Google’s vice president of mobi…
Quanta Computer, the manufacturer that helped create the PlayBook and the Amazon Kindle Fire, signed an agreement with Microsoft stating it would pay license fees to use the Android operating system. While it seems incredulous that any company must pay…
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.
