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Patent craziness, Google+ mobile updates highlight today's Google news
There's a lot of news surrounding Google to digest today, so let's get started: Read more
Average U.S. smartphone user has 41 apps on their device
Nielsen has some interesting new data out today about Americans' smartphone usage. The big takeaway: Americans love their mobile apps. Read more
The big question: Does Google really know how to make an Android device better than anyone else?
The Wall Street Journal today reports that Google is planning to release a slew of Nexus-branded devices from a host of different manufacturers.
Tab syncing highlights the latest Google Chrome update
The good news: The latest version of Chrome allows you to sync up tabs on your desktop PC with tabs on your smartphone and tablet. The bad news: Chrome for Android is still in beta testing, meaning that it's only available on a limited number of devices. Read more
Samsung lists T-Mobile phones due for Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade
Good news for T-Mobile Android fans -- Samsung will upgrade (some of) your devices to Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") after all!
Over the past few weeks, Samsung released a list of Android devices that were slated to receive ICS on Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, but none for T-Mobile. Today that changed as Samsung announced that the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will all get Ice Cream Sandwich in the near future. Hooray! Read more
First impressions of the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE
If you bought an HTC Droid Incredible two years ago and were happy with it, you might consider getting the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE when you're due for an upgrade since it's by and large the same device. Read more
How Real Is The Malware Threat To Android?
Many of us have heard that our smartphones and tablets already are or soon will be the targets of attack by the malware industry (yes it is an industry). However, most of you probably don't have any security software running on your devices. Why is that? Read more
Tizen Releases Version 1.0, Who Cares?
The 1.0 release of a hot new open source, Linux-based, mobile OS was just announced the other day. Lining up behind this new mobile OS are some well known companies like Intel, Samsung, Orange, Telefonica, Huawei, NTT Docomo, Vodofone, Panasonic and The Linux Foundation, among others. So how come no one seems to care? Read more
Samsung Galaxy S III launch sets new standards for bombast and pomposity
Let's Not Count Microsoft's Windows Phone Chickens Before They've Hatched
There’s a song called “Pass the Dutchie” from the early 80’s by a band long gone called the Musical Youth that starts “this generation rules the nation.” It’s not that great a song, but I heard it today while driving home and for some reason I started thinking about how “This Generation” of youths has ruled the mobile phone nation.
Apple’s rise from the ashes to the highest market cap company of all time was largely due to the iPhone, and Google’s mobile play, of course, has been as successful as Android has been popular. Read more
IBM targets mobile, BYOD customers with cloud software, security services
IBM today rolled out a comprehensive package of software and services to help customers handle growing mobile device-based workforces. Read more
Chomp no longer supports app searching for Android
In late February, Apple acquired an app discovery company called Chomp in an apparent effort to facilitate the means by which iTunes users search for and discover new applications. It's also been rumored that Apple is planning to incorporate Chomp's technology into the entirety of the iTunes Store to enable users to find movies, music, and TV shows more efficiently. Read more
Google claims Android Source code on flagship Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a 'trade secret'
In February of 2012, Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Google's flagship Android 4.0 device - the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Specifically, Apple is asserting that the Galaxy Nexus infringes upon at least 4 of Apple's patents and wants to halt all sales of the device. Read more
Apple's Phil Schiller says Instagram "jumped the shark" after Android launch
Well it seems that someone over at Apple isn't too happy with Instagram, but interestingly enough, it has nothing to do with the recent $1 billion Facebook acquisition.
Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of worldwide marketing, is the only high ranking Apple executive that actively uses Twitter. And from time to time, he'll even interact with fans. What's more, Schiller was also an Instagram user.
Or at least he was up until recently. Read more
I Rooted My Touchpad And Installed Android - Why?
As readers of my blog know, I have been a WebOS Touchpad user since HP put the tablets on fire sale. I bought 4 of them, one for each member of my family for less than it would have cost for one iPad. Read more
Document-based Security Standards: The Time is Now
I first heard the term de-perimeterization years ago from my friends at the Jericho Forum, a UK-based organization of security professionals. Back then the focus was on securing IT when it crossed organizational boundaries. In other words, a highly-secure network perimeter offers little protection if my business applications, services, and sensitive data are consumed by users working at other organizations, with different security policies and controls, residing outside the firewall. Read more
Sweet new Chrome feature lets me read what I was reading on my smartphone on my PC (does that make sense??)
Have you ever glanced at an article on your smartphone and then said to yourself, "I don't have time to read this now, I'll have to look at it later?" And then you get to work and you forget what the heck you were reading in the first place? Well for information junkies such as myself, this is a actually something of a problem. That's why I'm pleased as punch that Google is now integrating Chrome browser tabs on both desktop and mobile versions of the browser. Hurrah! Read more
Steve Jobs biographer confirms that Jobs' anger about Android was very real
Yesterday we reported on the somewhat bizarre comments from Google CEO Larry Page who explained during an interview with Bloomberg that Steve Jobs' anger regarding Android was "just for show" and nothing more than an attempt to rally the troops around a common enemy - Android.
That viewpoint, of course, runs contrary to everything we know about Jobs and his take on those who he feels ripped him off, and even more telling, is completely at odds with how Jobs himself discussed Android in his biography. Read more
Steve Jobs' anger over Android was "just for show" claims Google CEO Larry Page
In a recent interview with BusinessWeek, Google CEO Larry Page had a few interesting things to say regarding Apple's ongoing battle with Android and the extent to which Android's existence truly bothered Steve Jobs.
In his biography, Jobs famously said was willing to go "thermonuclear" to destroy Android.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told Walter Isaacson in his biography. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product." Read more
Free apps like Angry Birds suck the life out of your smartphone
Those free apps, like Angry Birds, Instagram and Tiny Wings may be loads of fun but they suck the battery life out of your smartphone by tracking your geographical location, sending information about you to advertisers and downloading ads.
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