Tag Archive | "Android"
Oh it’s on! Google’s Vic Gundotra takes another shot at Apple
Google’s fourth annual I/O conference is underway and there’s a shit ton of information to discuss. From Google’s music initiative to Android 3.1 and a whole lot more. But this picture naturally caught our attention. The I/O conference kicked off with Google’s Vic Gundotra walking on stage. It didn’t take long for the event to […]
Continue reading...Roger McNamee: Not excited about Android, says Apple is killing the world wide web – in a good way
Friday, April 15, 2011
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You might recognize Roger McNamee as the angel investor who invested heavily in Palm and came up with this ludicrous prediction back in March of 2009: You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using […]
Continue reading...92% of Clorox employees choose iPhone over all other smartphones
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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While BlackBerrys were once ubiquitous, if not downright necessary in the halls of corporate America, the advent of the iPhone changed the way employees use and interact with their smartphones in a fundamental way. While the BlackBerry may be the consummate email device, employees today want their work phones to offer the same benefits afforded […]
Continue reading...Andy Rubin responds to claims that Android isn’t open, addresses fragmentation
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Reports that Google was increasing the amount of control it exerts over handset carriers with respect to UI tweaks and the like garnered a good deal of press and generated some heated discussions last week. These reports were magnified further because they followed word that Android was going to delay the open source release of […]
Continue reading...In bait and switch, Google throws the hammer down on handset manufacturers ability to tweak Android
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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Google ostensibly delivered Android to save the masses from a world where one company, Apple, was able to dictate how phones were supposed to look and operate. The result has been a smorgasbord of Android handsets with custom UIs and all sorts of wonky tweaks. But that party is coming to and. Google recently reached […]
Continue reading...MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman says iOS users are more likely to purchase content than Android owners
Monday, April 4, 2011
Android may have surpassed both Apple and RIM in smartphone marketshare, but app monetization on the Android platform is still not as easy as it is for Apple’s lineup of iOS devices. Part of the problem, of course, is Android fragmentation. With a slew of Android handsets out in the marketplace, developers have to account […]
Continue reading...IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 marketshare will surpass iOS marketshare by 2015
Monday, April 4, 2011
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Microsoft was late to the smartphone party, and their Windows Phone 7 offering has seen some less than stellar success, even in the context of its late entrance into an already mature market. Last week, the research firm IDC issued a report covering worldwide smartphone marketshare data for 2011. The report found that in 2011, Android’s […]
Continue reading...Number of apps specifically designed for Android tablets now thriving at 20
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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When Steve Jobs took the wraps off of the iPad 2 on March 2, he characteristically took some time to bash the competition. In one memorable tidbit, Jobs boasted of the 65,000 dedicated iPad apps available on iTunes. In contrast, Jobs claimed that there were only 100 apps written exclusively for Android 3.0 (Google’s tablet […]
Continue reading...Google’s Honeycomb OS not entirely open just yet
Monday, March 28, 2011
A few weeks ago, I noticed that a friend of mine who happens to be decidedly not into Apple products toting around an iPhone 4. As it turns out, the phone was subsidized by his employer so an Apple user he became. When I asked him how he liked it, he had nothing but praise […]
Continue reading...Motorola working on homegrown mobile OS – Rumor
Friday, March 25, 2011
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There’s no denying that Google’s Android OS effectively saved Motorola from the dredges of smartphone irrelevancy, but with Android now the mobile OS of choice for an inordinate number of handset manufacturers, Motorola is reportedly working on its own homegrown mobile OS to prevent becoming over reliant on Google. Infoworld is reporting that Motorola […]
Continue reading...Breakdancing Android Mascot
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
I’m not sure if this is breakdancing per se but the folks in Japan don’t seem to mind.
Continue reading...Study claims browsing on Android is 52% faster than on the iPhone 4 – but study is flawed
Friday, March 18, 2011
Apple and Android nerds were abuzz yesterday over a report by Blaze, a Canadian software company which claimed that Google’s Nexus S was able to load webpages over an average wi-fi network 52% faster than the iPhone 4. Testing encapsulated more than 45,000 page loads from 1,000 websites with the average load time on the […]
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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