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Motorola could make its own mobile OS to avoid relying on Android

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Motorola seems to be building a dedicated team to develop a mobile operating system of its own and this way escape from a tight dependence on Android, according to an insider. It is supposed that engineers have been poached from Apple and Adobe during the past nine months. InformationWeek found out that one of them, [...]

3DS Augmented Reality Cards application from Android Market

Published on: 24th March, 2011

A recent launched application on the Android Market guarantees to offer digital variants of the Augmented Reality cards which come with the Nintendo 3DS to users’ Android-based handsets. This includes the content found on six cards shipped with the device, like Question Mark Block, Link, Mario, Kirby, the Pikmin and Samus. Putting the application on [...]

In-browser Android emulator from Amazon’s Appstore

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Amazon has recently integrated a unique feature which offers customers the possibility to try out certain applications without even leaving the browser, as part of the new Amazon Android Appstore. This ‘test drive’ system apparently works with an Android emulator which resides on the retailer’s EC2 cloud. Users are able to view a virtual phone [...]

AT&T buying T-Mobile USA would put Android at risk

Published on: 22nd March, 2011

As AT&T said, it would buy T-Mobile USA and would pay $39 billion for the transaction. A mutual combination of stock and cash will create, by far, the largest carrier on the US territory, with more than 130 million customers. The deal will allow T-Mobile to expand into LTE-based 4G, while it is now using [...]

PS2 games and PlayStation Suite coming to Tegra 2 (with Android)

Published on: 16th March, 2011

Through the Android Tegra Zone, NVIDIA has recently said that the Sony PlayStation Suite will soon be available for Tegra 2-based Android devices. This move makes it the first platform and device to support it, beyond the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It is expected to bring at least PlayStation 1 games, such as Wild Arms [...]

Nintendo accuses iPhone and Android for devaluating games

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s chief, at the recent Game Developers Conference talk, launched an attack against the iPhone and Android for their effect on gaming. He did not explicitly mention Google or Apple by name but was very critical and said that gaming for them was strictly incidental and they did not have any motivation to [...]

RIM may bring its BlackBerry Messenger to the iPhone and Android

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Research in Motion could bring its long-guarded BlackBerry Messenger to the iPhone and Android, according to rumors launched a few days ago. The move would involve a version of BBM focused on text chat and omitting geolocation as well as media sharing in order to give users good reasons to still use a BlackBerry phone. [...]

Google removes 21 Android applications to avoid malware spread

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Google has made some steps to stop the rising malware infection that threatens its platform. A report from Mashable says that Google has pulled 21 applications from its Android Market, all of them identified as trying to gain root access to users’ personal data. Adepts of Google’s platform often criticize Apple’s iOS platform to be [...]

Tegra Zone application for Android-based devices from NVIDIA

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

NVIDIA has recently brought the NVIDIA Tegra Zone application on the Android market. The new application is meant to draw attention on other NVIDIA applications that the company has singled out as best by using the Tegra hardware platform. The application shows the best NVIDIA gaming applications by offering users the access to high-resolution screenshots, [...]

Android IQon infotainment system for Saab cars

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Saab has recently presented the IQon, its future infotainment system, which will be based on Google’s Android operating system. Users will have the possibility to access multimedia content, navigation utilities, web-based services, as well as plenty of other features. The interface uses an eight-inch touchscreen. The IQon also benefits from an integrated modem which automatically [...]

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