Posts Tagged ‘Android’

OpenFeint Moves Onto Android, Adds Strategic Investor

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following competitor ScoreLoop, OpenFeint has now also made the step to Android. At the same time, OpenFeint has announced a new strategic investor to back the network.

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ComScore: Android Continues Growth in US

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

While all platforms lost marketshare, Android id continuing growth in the three month period ending May 2010. At that time, 49.1 million US citizens owned a smartphone.

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Vision Mobile: Android Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile has sent out an enquiery to 400 developers to track their thoughts on all those different mobile development platforms out there. It turns out Android is the most popular of them.

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Metaflow Expands to Android and the Indie Community

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Metaflow has announced that the company has added support for Indie developers as well as premium content for the Android platform.

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Amazon Launches Kindle on Android

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases, Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Following a successful launch on the iPhone, Amazon has now pushed their Kindle platform onto Android. Kindle for Android is free and offers access to Amazon’s full ebook repository.

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SonyEricsson Launches Mash-App Discovery Portal

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has launched their new Mash-App service. Mash-App is a recommendation website where consumers can create themed (mashed) lists of their favorite apps.

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Android Supports Remote Installing and Removing of Apps

June 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, Google utilized its possibility to remotely remove two apps that have been installed on many handsets as those apps where breaching security on Android devices.

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NPD: Android Sales Overtake iPhone OS

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

For the first time, the sales of Android powered devices overtook the iPhone sales in North America during the first quarter of 2010. Apple sunk only to the third position on the sales charts.

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Motorola Expands Android App Channel

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Motorola has announced that it will be expanding the demographic reach of their SHOP4APPS app store. The company will be adding Mexico, Argentina and Brazil ‘soon’.

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Privacy Conflicts Ahead With Mobile Spy for Android

May 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Mobile Spy is a logger app that runs on the background of the OS and logs pretty much anything you’d like it to log. The app doesn’t identify itself which makes it nearly impossible for phone owners to know its there.

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