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The Motorola Xoom launched on February 24 and even before the launch the tablet had managed to get some notable reviews from known analysts. Xoom is the first tablet running on the Android 3.0”Honeycomb”. The Honeycomb is an operating system that has been optimized for tablets. The 10.1 inch tablet is retailing at a somewhat [...]

For some time it seemed like the battle between Facebook and Google had simmered down and was on it way to being extinguished. The recent Gingerbread updates on Nexus S and Nexus One have reignited the battle. The Gingerbread updates have removed the ability of merging the contacts on users’ Facebook phone directory with the [...]

Google is integrating its location related services on the Android platform. A few days ago Google announced that the Latitude service was going to be integrated with check-ins and loyalty categories. HotPot the company’s recommendations tool is also being expanded to become global. The Google Places, a service that allows people to rate and give [...]

The launch of the Android Market Webstore has been welcomed by many users of America’s leading smartphone platform. The website was launched on February 2nd 2011 and will enable app consumers buy to apps for their Android smartphones over a Web browser. The Market Webstore was announced by the engineering director for cloud services at [...]

The fourth quarter of 2010 was a good one for the Android family. The quarter was the first time ever the Android smartphones out did its competitors in shipments. According to Canalys, a research company, even the longtime champion Nokia was overtaken by Android. Of course the Android OS was expected to be leader sometime. [...]

Developers on the Android platform have been complaining about the lack of an in-app payment system. The absence of this was denying the developers some earnings unlike their counterparts at iPhone. The Inside Social Apps conference was a suitable avenue for the group manager of Android, Eric Chu to handle this issue. Chu said that [...]

Facebook’s Single Sign On was launched in the last quarter of 2010. The Strategic Business Developer at Sony Ericsson ,Martin Essl, announced that Sony Ericsson will soon be integrating the system on all its Android phones over the next few months. The Single Sign On works like Facebook Connect but is designed for use on [...]

The group manager of Android, Eric Chu, chose to use the Inside Social Apps InFocus conference that was held in San Francisco to address some complaints of apps developers about the Android platform. Chu zeroed in on the rejection of the mobile arcade application, Kongregate, which had been rejected on the Google Android Market. According [...]

David Lieb the CEO of Bump has shared out stats that indicate that around 90 percent of iPhone users have the latest version of the iOS software, iOS 4. Last week, Lieb shared the numbers involved in a Quora thread. The stats were based on Bump’s user base which he said is large and can [...]

Millennial Media an ad network company has put Android ahead of iPhone. Millennial which reaches 81 percent of mobile Web users in the US can be used to gauge the Web trends in the mobile world. The Millennial stats for December 2010 show that Android got 46 percent of the ad impressions share. The iOS [...]