Google has rolled out a new version of its free Google Maps Navigation application that’s compatible with smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system, such as T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G and its G1. When the app was introduced last month in beta, it could only be used by smartphones running Android 2.0, the latest version of [...]
HTC’s Droid Eris made its debut on this Friday. The phone closely resembles the HTC Hero, a handset Sprint started selling last month. The Eris has a seven-panel home screen that users can customize with a variety of widgets, according to Verizon. It is based on Android 1.5, also known as “Cupcake,” and uses HTC’s [...]
The long wait for the release of Samsung T939 Behold 2 has finally ended bringing in very good news for all the Samsung fans. With the support of Google Android this masterpiece is all set to occupy the 2nd spot among all within a short span of time.
This begins a new generation for Android Samsung Cell Phones. With [...]
Two security flaws recently uncovered in Android 1.5 could have enabled malicious denial of service (DoS) attacks on users of the mobile platform, according to an advisory released last week by oCERT, the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team.
The first of the flaws, which affected Android’s handling of SMS, could have allowed a malformed message [...]
SAN DIEGO — CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment — Verizon Wireless is set to have two big-name Android handsets out by the end of the year, but it’s the mobile operator’s third device using the Google operating system that’s set to attract a great deal of attention in the wireless sector.
That’s because it’ll be the [...]
Dell Inc. is working on a “smart” phone for AT&T that runs Google Inc.’s Android phone operating system, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
The touch-screen phone could be ready early next year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Representatives for Dell, AT&T Inc. and Google all declined to comment.
In the year since the economic meltdown, businesses [...]
In the cloud, no one cares about your software license. That is one of the most liberating–and frustrating–things about cloud computing.
Depending on your perspective, it either opens up computing or closes it off. Customers don’t seem to care one way or another, happily shoveling data into cloud services like Google, Facebook, and others without (yet) [...]
While apparently iPhones rule the mobile ad marketplace, Android phones are making rapid headway and could soon overtake BlackBerry devices.
Mobile adverting marketplace AdMob on Thursday released a report indicating that 40 percent of the devices accessing its mobile ad network are iPhones.
However, Android users accessing its network are increasing rapidly in North America and Western [...]
Microsoft dominates enterprise IT and likely will for a long time. But the software giant is struggling to match the nimble pace of open source on the Web, a pace being set by Google and others.
As but one example, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer lost market share to Mozilla Firefox in September. To compete effectively on the [...]
Super-smart phones based on Google’s Android operating system have been relatively slow to take off since the first one appeared a year ago. Despite Google’s iconic brand, they have yet to develop the strong bond with U.S. consumers achieved by the Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry or the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. And, after a year, [...]
