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28
Jul 10

Google Pushes Further into Yelp’s Territory with Maps



In an update coupled with Google Maps 4.4 for Android 1.6 and above, Google has improved the mobile offering of Places. Android owners can now add the Places icon to their home screens and use it to quickly locate nearby venues and their accompanying information-rich business listings.

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27
Jul 10

Google Maps for Android updated to 4.4, adds dedicated Place

Ready to suck down your sixth Google Maps for Android update in the past six months? Good. Version 4.4 has just been shoved out into …

…Ready to suck down your sixth Google Maps for Android update in the past six months? Good. Version 4.4 has just been shoved out into the bright, hopeful world that we call home, with this one bringing about an easier way to find places around you. With the update will come an entirely new logo, as a dedicated ‘Places’ icon allows users to quickly look up nearby places in a Yelp-esque manner. If you tend to search for similar things regardless of where you are, you can load up your own personalized categories to make finding frequent searches that much easier (think “gas station” or “In N Out”). There’s also Place Pages, which now shows the operating hours of listed businesses, compass direction and distance from your location. It’s available now for all Android phones using v1.6 or newer, and if you’re rocking a BlackBerry, you can expect the Place Page to head your way soon….

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25
Jul 10

Microsoft’s Real Tablet Competition: Google Android

Microsoft will counter Apple iPad with Windows 7 tablet hardware partners in late 2010. But Microsoft’s real tablet competition could be Google Android. Here’s why.

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23
Jul 10

How To Be an Android Power User!

Everything you need to know to master Google’s smartphone OS

…s popular SenseUI custom Android skin. Swype offers a unique and original text input interface that greatly improves texting speed. Installing a custom keyboard is not entirely straightforward, though. You will need to both enable the keyboard in the Keyboard and Language section of your phone’s settings, as well as long press on a text box and select the new input method.
Use Identifiable Ringtones and Notifications
In four simple steps, you can set up a different custom alarm to wake you on each day.
Like all modern mobile phones, the Android platform lets you select and create your own ringtones. Creating ringtones and notifications can be done manually or with the help of an app from the Android Market. Manually adding a ringtone to your phone involves creating several specific directories on your SD card, based on the type of ringtone you’d like to add. The other method is far easier. Simply download the Ringdroid app free from the Android Market and use it to edit and trim your audio files before…

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22
Jul 10

What Google thinks of apple: Frenemy

Apple and Google ever since the introduction of android have been at each others throats, it’s no secret the two companies don’t like each other very much these days. Heres an interesting bit of information according to the search giant search engine, Google loves apple and hates apple at the same time.

…Apple and Google ever since the introduction of android have been at each others throats, it’s no secret the two companies don’t like each other very much these days. Heres an interesting bit of information according to the search giant search engine, Google loves apple and hates apple at the same time.
Google thinks Apple:
Is bigger then Microsoft (That’s up for debate)
Is killing the tech sector (LOL)
Is a cult (very true)
Is big brother (coming from Google that’s a complement)
Is the new Microsoft (ROFL)
Is Overrated (heh)
Is the devil (do they mean Steve Jobs?)
Is awesome (Google do use mostly macs in their offices)
Is the best (it’s a love hate relationship)
Is down (????)
As you can see google seems to love and hate apple, these two corporate giants are officially frenemies.

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20
Jul 10

Microsoft is Working to Bring Bing Application to Android

There has always been a huge rivality between Microsoft and Google. As you know, Microsoft has been a developer of operating systems for a long time. After a

…s no competition. Speaking of competition, Bing is on a third place as a search engine just behind Google and Yahoo.
As you surely know, Microsoft is working on mobile operating systems as well and they are all using Bing search engine. Interesting this is that Bing search application is available on iOS and from the recent news, we find out that there will be Bing app for Android OS. Microsoft wants to keep its search engine available to all its users on different platforms and operating systems so this move was expected. Android OS is ranked as the second most popular mobile operating system in the United States and since it has millions of users…

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19
Jul 10

iOS vs Android | TheTechJournal.com

Google’s release of Android OS 2.2 Froyo also fueled competitive heat directed at iPhone, although Apple continued selling a record number of iPhones in the first calendar quarter of 2010, and largely focused attention on the new iPad in the second quarter. With Apple now gearing up for the launch of iPhone 4.

…of all impressions.

Apple has been on a tear over the last decade in introducing products that competitors (including much larger, more experienced, and formerly entrenched companies) haven’t been able to match. For nearly ten years of iPod introductions, Apple continually grew with little effective competition from Sony and Microsoft, largely creating the market for hard drive based MP3 players and subsequently taking over the flash memory MP3 player market before releasing the iPod touch, which has no real competition from anyone. The iPhone and iPad have followed similar trajectories, facing a series of ineffectual killers that didn’t even make a dent in Apple’s recession-busting sales records.
One difficulty in making comparison between Apple’s smartphone and alternatives running Android is that they’re not the same thing. One can compare iPhone hardware features against an Android model, for example, but the value of iPhone 4 isn’t just its hardware, it’s the integration of its hardware paired with the…

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19
Jul 10

Google Discontinues the Nexus One Android Phone

Google has pulled the plug on the Nexus One, its once highly anticipated smartphone. The last shipment has arrived at Google HQ, and once those are gone there will be no more Nexus Ones for U.S. consumers.

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Jul 10

Google Confirms: 70,000 Android Market Apps And Growing

AndroLib is a data collection service that monitors Android use, and according to its latest numbers, the Android App Market now has over 70,000 applications available. Considering that Android launched about a year after the original iPhone, that’s pretty darn impressive.

…This past week, it seems that Apple has simply dominated the news. The buzz definitely not been for reasons that Apple would want, but either way,
they’re pretty much monopolizing press bandwidth. The company’s
“Antennagate” has caused a huge ruckus, that it has been somewhat
difficult to see past it to all of the other great things going on in
the industry. But there’s a stat counter in some supercomputer that
doesn’t really care about what happens in the world of Apple, and that
stat counter has been carefully monitoring just how well Apple’s primary
rival in the smartphone world has been doing….

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16
Jul 10

louisgray.com: Seesmic for Android Adds Google Buzz

“My personal switch from iPhone to Android (much more visible than I ever had anticipated) was made easy due to the existence of high quality applications I already was familiar with from the iPhone platform, enabling me to simply migrate and not lose a step. Among the best applications, one I rely on daily, is Seesmic”

…My personal switch from iPhone to Android (much more visible than I ever had anticipated) was made easy due to the existence of high quality applications I already was familiar with from the iPhone platform, enabling me to simply migrate and not lose a step. Among the best applications, one I rely on daily, is Seesmic, which, in contrast to the native Twitter application for Android, comes with multiple account support, and the goal of supporting multiple networks.

Today, the great news comes that Seesmic is adding integration of another one of my most-frequent destinations on the Web - Google Buzz.

Signing In With Multiple Accounts, Including Google Buzz
The new Seesmic, available on the Android Market, adds Google Buzz support, inline preview of images and links for Buzz and photos for Twitter, and also adds OAuth support - the login standard for Twitter….

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