Posted on September 26th, 2011 by Tyson Mighell
By Shawn Knight On September 27, 2011, 2:30 PM EST Comments 1 More than half of all new smartphone owners in the United States are selecting Android-based handsets. 56 percent of those who picked up a new handset in the past three months went with Google’s offering, according to a new study from Nielsen. Apple [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2011 by Bethany McGrath
US videogame titan Electronic Arts has released a version of the word game Scrabble that people can play together whether they are using Apple devices, Android gadgets, or Facebook. Scrabble Free broke from the pattern of limiting adversaries to folks using similar operating platforms, such as iPhone versus iPad or Android smartphone versus a tablet [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 by Bethany McGrath
Enlarge (PhysOrg.com) — Users of Google’s Android OS on their Nexus S smartphones can now smile a little more as their friends will be able to see it; Google has (finally) added video and voice chat as a part of a native Android app. Third party apps that let users video chat on their Android [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by Tyson Mighell
Amazon (AMZN) opened its long-rumored app store this morning with 3,800 items for Google (GOOG) Android devices. Available through the Amazon website as well as a downloadable app, the Amazon App Store seems well beyond Google’s neglected Android Market — and has already garnered, as my BNET colleague Erik Sherman notes, an Apple (APPL) lawsuit [...]