Tag: Android

Nokia Exec Compares Android to Boys Peeing Their Pants
Anssi Vanjoki , the soon-to-be former head of Nokia's smartphone unit, has reportedly said that mobile phone makers that adopt Android are like Finnish boys who "pee in the...
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Google Launches New Gmail App for Android
Google has released a new version of the Gmail app for in the Android Market. The company says Gmail updates are no longer tied to Android version releases, though the update do...
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Microsoft Exec Says Android Infringes Patents
Android isn't free and Google is going to face a lot of legal problems, if one Microsoft exec is to be believed.  Tivanka Ellawala, CFO of the Mobile Communications Busines...
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Apple And Android Making Gains In Europe
The Symbian platform has 54.4 percent of the smartphone market in Western Europe, according to a new report from comScore. Even with Symbian’s continued gro...
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Gartner Names Android Number Two Mobile OS Of 2010
According to a new report, Android will soon secure a spot as the number two mobile operating system worldwide, passing Research In Motion.  What's more, Gartner, which pre...
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Google Maps for Android Gets Useful Navigation Updates
Today, Google introduced Walking Navigation for Google Maps for mobile 4.5 on Android. This is described as a marriage between the existing Navigation and walking directions f...
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Google Voice Gets New Android Widgets
Google has announced the launch of some new Android widgets for Google Voice. The widgets are available in an update to the Google Vo...
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Piper Jaffray Forecasts 50% Market Share For Android
Piper Jaffray, an investment banking firm that earned $7.4 million in net income last quarter, is betting on Android in a big way.  Today, Piper Jaffray predicted that Andr...
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Samsung May Make Android TVs
Earlier this year, an anonymous Samsung executive indicated that his (or her) company might build TVs based on Android.  Now, although Samsung hasn't exactly released a lis...
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Justin.tv Broadcasting Comes to Android
Justin.tv has a new Android app for broadcasting live video. This competes with services like UStream and Qik. Unfortunately, it doesn't let you simply watch Justin.tv content l...
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Steve Jobs Takes Dig At Android, Eric Schmidt
In between the announcements about iPods, Apple TV, and a music-oriented social network, Apple and Google's mobile rivalry heated up a little more today.  Steve Jobs, while...
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Facebook Goes Back to the University, A New Spin on Online Charities
Facebook has launched a "Universities on Facebook" page to "help students and campus organizations discover how...
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Bing App Comes to Verizon Android Devices
Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Bing for Mobile Android app for Verizon customers. The app is available for download in the Android Marketplace on Verizon Androi...
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Bango: Android Web Browsing Up 400%
U.S.-based Android users are an active (and likely multiplying) bunch, according to new data from a mobile payment specialist called Bango.  The company's determined that,...
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Google Launches Google Finance Android and iPhone Editions
Google has launched a new mobile version of Google Finance for Android and iPhone. This offers nearly all the same features and functionality as the desktop version....
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