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Jul 10

LG announces plans for Android-based tablet



The South Korea-based company announces a tablet using Google’s open-source operating system but offers no further details. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Crave.

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Jul 10

Google Offers Mobile Payment with Chrome Checkout Extension

It might not be long before those little signs on storefront windows read “We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discovery and Google Checkout.” Google released last week an extension for its Chrome browser that makes on-the-go payment for Android smartphone users possible.

…The primary benefit of this approach is that it doesn’t have the same security concerns that have delayed the launch of mobile credit card based payment system Square. The actual act of payment, with Google’s solution, does not require the swiping of a credit card and keeps the act of payment solely in the hands of the customer.

While Google’s solution is also platform and browser dependent, it shows how mobile payment can really work for both the merchant and the consumer while keeping security risks to a minimum. It seems that the space is ripe for a company like Google or PayPal to jump in and offer a similar solution that could work across multiple browsers and phone operating systems….

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Jun 10

iPhone claws web share back from Android

New updates from Net Applicationstoday show that the iPhone may be overtaking Android in actual use online. Despite talk of the gap closing in April, Apple’s phone grew faster in May as it jumped from 30.3 percent the month before to 32.8 percent of the mobile web; Google has just 6.2 percent.

…Browser share and sales volumes are very different beasts. Sales volumes are very, very seasonal and are extremely misleading (Droid may be selling extremely well, while iPhone is in the down season, in anticipation of the new model).

Browser stats can be a fairly reliable indicator of the current platform market share. And while the market share indication may not be so reliable (depending on which sites are used for the data), trends will be much more reliable.

And the trends indicate that, while both iPhone and Android are growing (at the expense of Symbian and others), for every…

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May 10

Google TV Vs. Apple TV Is Android Vs. iPhone Round 2

During the keynote at Google I/O today, Google took a lot (and I do mean a lot) of not-too-subtle shots at Apple. Most of this was related to Android vs. iPhone, but it also delved into something else with the new Google TV platform. At the Q&A following the keynote, someone asked the question: what does this mean for Apple TV?

…A following the keynote, someone asked the question: what does this mean for Apple TV?
Google dodged the question a little at first. Their line is that the TV ecosystem is now ready for something like Google TV (that implies that it wasn’t before with devices such as the Apple TV). But they also noted that their idea is different from Apple because they’re trying to do this in a different way. That way, naturally, is the open way.
Whereas Apple TV is a device and a piece of software, Google TV is just a platform. Sony TVs will be called something different, for example, but they’ll have Google TV built-in. And this is an important distinction because it allows Google to take what makes current TVs popular showing TV content and build on top of it. Apple doesn’t do that with Apple TV. Instead, they created an entirely new way to get content (by download via iTunes).
Users shouldn’t have to choose between TV or the web they can have both, is the way Google put it.
Google’s Vic Gundotra went further. He called…

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May 10

30 Cool Android Apps that you might love

After Google released its Android system, a lot of Android applications have become popular. Here are the 30 Cool Android Applications available in Android Market.

…and key applications. Google Android Operating System allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
Google has also participated in the Android Market by offering several applications for its services. Here we listed the Android Apps you might love. The list below doesn’t contain a complete list. Google offers numerous mobile apps, but the list below is a great way to start.
Discover the Google Android Apps.
30 COOL ANDROID APPS…

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Apr 10

Is Steve Jobs Ignoring History, Or Trying To Rewrite It?

Jobs is once again pitting Apple’s complete product design mastery against the rest of the industry, except this time he thinks he will prevail. Whether it is his repeated moves to keep Adobe’s Flash off the iPhone or his growing rift with Google over Android, Jobs is making the iPhone and iPad a relatively closed system that Apple can control.

…Very few people get the chance to make history. Even fewer get the chance to make it twice. Perhaps that is why it is so fascinating to watch Steve Jobs as he tries to usher in the era of mobile touch computing today, just as he ushered in the era of the personal computer three decades ago. But I wonder whether he is repeating the very same mistakes which relegated Macs to a niche market. Or did he learn from those mistakes so that Apple comes out on top this time?
Jobs is once again pitting Apple’s complete product design mastery against the rest of the industry, except this time he thinks he will prevail. Whether it is his repeated moves to keep Adobe’s Flash off the iPhone or his growing rift with Google over Android, Jobs is making the iPhone and iPad a relatively closed system that Apple can control. All apps need to be approved by Apple, the ads shown on the apps will also start to go through Apple, and no matter how hard Adobe tries to open up the iPhone to its Flash developers Apple will keep…

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Mar 10

Google Backs Its Boy, HTC, In The Apple Lawsuit Ring

Google is backing HTC for a Lawsuit filed against the phone makers by Apple and has said, “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it”

…I was just making a point. The fact that I’m a fanboy doesn’t mean I’m wrong and you know it.
But that’s besides the point. Google will never remove their apps from the iPhone, but if they do, it won’t be as disastrous as people think. Google has a lot of market share because they give their services away for free, but that is also their Achillies heel. The only way to stop iPhone users from using their services, would be to put the services behind a payment wall and that would kill the one thing that made Google popular in the first place.
Also, Apple has 40 Billion in the bank. What’s to stop them from buying a GPS company like Tom Tom or Garmin or MapQuest and use that as their native Map App instead?
And there’s alternatives to just about everything else Google has. Yahoo Mail is already on the iPhone. Bing could replace Google Search, but who really gives a crap about that? Creating a bookmark for Google Search is just as easy as using the default search field in Mobile Safari.
Google has nothing to…

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Mar 10

Apple’s Patent Lawsuit Against HTC Is All About Android

Earlier today, Apple issued a press release stating that it has filed suit against cell phone manufacturer HTC for patent infringement. No mention of Android or Google was in the press release. But the actual legal complaints, which we’ve obtained and embedded below, make no bones about it.

…I think stealing is not correct. Apple has used ideas which already existed, but never stolen them. Xerox’s ideas were licensed
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
People get upset because Apple is the first to produce something which becomes wildly successful and which in hindsight seems obvious. But the fact remains, neither Google nor Nokia nor Microsoft nor anyone else came out first with an iPhone. Why is that? Don’t tell me there were iPhone-like phones already out there. Why didn’t they become widely popular like the iPhone? Because Apple has vision, thinks long term and strategically, that’s why.
Now the uninnovative companies, got caught with their pants down, and have to do anything to catch up to the iPhone.
Why does Google, who’s raison-d’etre is search, have to produce a smart phone? Why does Microsoft have to produce hardware? It seems it’s because Apple has hit on a successful model and these companies that are feeling…

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Feb 10

Flash 10 Beta Coming to Most Smartphones in Oct - Not iPhone

In a Q2 audio press release, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed that Adobe will release a beta version of Flash Player 10 for a number of smartphone browsers, including Windows Mobile, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and Symbian devices, in October.

…No matter how much they optimize it they are still phones with tiny processesors and low memoryImagine a pre running 5 web pages that use flash ads and videobattery will probably last 30 minutes and it’ll probably run out of memory in the mean time and crash ! Like this Reply to this comment by iroq321 June 22, 2009 4:25 PM PDT rrriiiggghhhtt…you probably own an iphone. Like this
by seven7dust June 22, 2009 4:31 PM PDT nope have a ipod touchbut overall other than HULU which I use on my Apple TVI dont see that much use for flash Like this
by iroq321 June 22, 2009 4:43 PM PDT what i’m trying to say is your trying pretty hard to justify why flash isn’t a big deal, which is what lead me to believe that you had an iphone (or an apple device) or maybe even blackberry. it’s a big and welcome step in the right direction and just because you might not use it much, doesn’t mean everyone else won’t either. Like this
by seven7dust June 22, 2009 4:51 PM PDT I’m one of those people that hate flash…

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Feb 10

Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share

Mobile users in the US are doing more with their phones besides talking. It’s no surprise, either, as Android and iPhone devices are gaining in smartphone market share.

…The majority of mobile users are still using standard handsets, but when it comes to smartphones, RIM remained the leader with 41.6 percent of the smartphone segment in December of 2009. This number was down a full percentage point from September, however, while Apple’s share (25.3 percent in December) was up by 1.2 percentage points a trend that RIM has been battling with Apple for some time now.

Equally fearsome is Google’s comparatively huge 2.7 percentage point jump (to 5.2 percent), while both Microsoft and Palm also lost points over the same time period. Although RIM still has a long way to go before giving up the lead to Apple, and Google still has plenty of share to gain before it overtakes Microsoft’s number three spot, the trends show that consumers are warming more to the iPhone and Android phones than those traditionally marketed towards enterprise users. (Palm, in the fourth spot at 6.1 percent, looks like it will be surpassed by Google within months if the two companies continue on their…

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