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Jul 10

Top 5 Free Android Widgets



One of the best design choices Google made for Android is to allow widgets on the home screen. The Android Market is full of widgets, and these are the top 5 free ones I’ve encountered.

…One of the best design choices Google made for Android is to allow widgets on the home screen. This took on additional significance when Android gained the ability a few versions back to have so many multiple, customizable home screens available. Widgets are tiny applets that sit on the home screen, displaying important information for the user and often providing a means to interact with that information. The Android Market is full of widgets, and these are the top 5 free ones I’ve encountered. Note that new widgets appear often, so this list only reflects the current crop.

Android Agenda Widget. This jewel provides a window into the user’s calendar, displaying a lot of information in a small space. The agenda can aggregate events from multiple calendars. The display can be customized in every way. In fact, there are more configurable settings than much bigger programs. This is really a collection of widgets, all of different sizes so you can choose the one that fits the screen space available. The…

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Jul 10

How Google is actually holding Android back

The Android Marketplace sports thousands of new apps being added daily and has seen phenomenal growth, but Google’s app platform faces a significant problem, namely the lack of international support for Google checkout, an important part of the app submitting process.

…Android Market -
then you are a developer out of luck. Developers in other countries can only submit their apps as free applications, which certainly doesn’t spur motivation.
Indeed, developers world-over are getting rather fed up with this approach which seems to be either neglecting them or forcing them to either give away their foreign work for free. Many have decided not to bother with Android at all, a great loss for the platform.
While Apple may have its issues, at least the Cupertino firm ensures its developers across the globe can submit their work and set a price for it, which seems more fair to content makers.
This also generally shows in the lack of quality and polish of most Android apps, which generally look horrific in side by side comparisons with their Apple counterparts. This of course is because many developers simply do not want to put in the time if they…

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Jun 10

Google’s Getting Into the Music Biz, Why?

Google plans to take on Apple iTunes by building a music service tied to its search engine, according to the Wall Street Journal. Will it let users store their music online in a “cloud”? Maybe. Will it allow for unlimited downloads on Android phones with a monthly fee?

…Google plans to take on Apple iTunes by building a music service tied to its search engine, according to the Wall Street Journal. Will it let users store their music online in a “cloud”? Maybe. Will it allow for unlimited downloads on Android phones with a monthly fee? Maybe. Nobody knows! Details are vague and a proper announcement isn’t expected for months.Peter Kafka has a smart take:A viable music store gives Google the following:A value-add for Android and a wedge against one-time ally AppleAn owned-and-operated destination for all the music search traffic
Google currently sends out to MySpace Music (via iLike) and Rhapsody,
Pandora, etc.And just maybe, a reason for consumers to finally sign up for a
Google Checkout account, which has had little traction despite years of
effort. If Google can get Google Checkout up and running and create the
billing relationship with its users that Apple and Amazon (AMZN)
already enjoy, then all sorts of other businesses, from YouTube movie
rentals to Android app sales,…

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Jun 10

Top 4 Free Voice Recognition Android Apps

The newest trend and the only one truly thinking out of the box makes the case that typing on a mobile phone should be avoided all together. Why not let the phone do the writing by translating your voice into text? The following are 4 mobile apps that use speech to text on Google Android devices.

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Jun 10

Apple’s iPhone market share three times greater than Android

A new survey of U.S. smartphone owners found that 28 percent use a device running the iPhone OS, compared with just 9 percent on Google’s Android mobile operating system. Apple gained 2 percent in market share in the first quarter. The top smartphone, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, lost 2 percent in the same frame to sit at 35 percent.

…The study found that both Android and iPhone users are mostly male, but those on Android are typically younger, less wealthy and less educated. The survey discovered that 28 percent of Android users earned more than $100,000 a year, while 40 percent of iPhone users were in that income bracket. The average for all smartphones has 34 percent of users earning six-figure salaries….

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Jun 10

Google should add license information to its Market

Vote on this Android bug report here – http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3746 – and try to convince Google to extend their market app with license information so that libre software can be filtered by users.

…libre software can be filtered by users.
There is also some work to do to create a free software replacement for the Google Market application.
We already have some great code to start so contact me if you want to help free software in the new exciting mobile field.
Thank you as always for all your support and love.
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May 10

Google Gets OK to Buy Mobile Ad Firm

Google Gets OK to Buy Mobile Ad Firm. Google is currently the worlds No. 1 search engine and last year entered into the mobile phone market with its Android operating system.US antitrust regulator approves Google-AdMob dealHindu Business LineGoogles AdMob buy cleared

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May 10

How Android Phones Became a Hit

Android’s rise is remarkable for a young OS; here’s how it happened and what’s next for Google’s smartphone entry.

…Second, keep it simple. When Google went about attracting application developers to its new platform, it made a big deal about the Android software development kit’s ease of use. And since Android is Linux platform that uses Java as its programming language, most software developers on the market haven’t had much difficulty in writing programs for the operating system.
Google has also gone out of its way to make posting a new application on the Android Market a snap, as the company does not screen any applications sent to the store and will only remove applications if it has received legitimate customer complaints about them.
“We created an account, uploaded our apps and then hit submit,” said Ilya Eliashevsky, the product manager for app developer DataViz’s Android product line, last year. “Then the app just started showing up on devices and we saw sales immediately starting to roll in.”…

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May 10

Yahoo’s ingenious plan to force users to switch to Gmail

Yahoo Mail blocked over Wi-Fi on Google Android smartphones

…What’s your point? You have to understand how the Android email client works. If it can’t connect to any server that an email account needs, it will fail completely. So if it can’t connect to an SMTP server, it won’t even try to connect to POP. Just to do a little testing of my iwn, I took my old Yahoo account and set it up on my G1 running Android 2.1. Worked good on 3g, so then I tried on my work wireless connection, which has no port blocking in effect. Still worked fine. Either there is a problem with the Droid firmware specifically, or it’s the isp. My money is on isp….

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May 10

Watch The Nexus One Play Flash Like A Champ

Sure, Apple may think that Flash is as cool as the kid everyone picked on in elementary school, but Google is moving ahead with their plans to get Flash running on the next version of Android.

…moving ahead with their plans to get Flash running on the next version of Android.Skepticism has abounded that if Apple could not get Flash to work well on their mobile platform, than Google was gong to fare no better. Below is a video from an Adobe evangelist demoing Flash on a Nexus One. You decide if it looks like something you want. For more, follow TNW Mobile on twitter, Buzz, and Facebook. Follow TNW Network on twitter, Buzz, and Facebook for all our top stories.About the AuthorAlex WilhelmAlex Wilhelm is a Chicago-based technology blogger and entrepreneur. He has worked for a number of technology companies in recent years, and has a particular interest in watching the social web monetize. Follow Alex on Twitter, or on Facebook. You can reach Alex via email at alex@thenextweb.comDiscussion - One Comment RSS feed for comments on this post Daniel Ionescu said May 11, 2010 ReplyI wonder how many takes it took to get this one right. The other day I was reading it crashed and burned in a public demo.Post a…

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