September 1, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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You probably didn’t care to watch Apple’s music event today. If you missed it, long story short: new iPods, new iTunes, new Apple TV, and a new shot at Android.
Jobs bragged at today’s press e…
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August 30, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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We already told you that a newer version of Google Voice was discovered in the early G2 ROM that was leaked last week. Now we can show you the goods. And offer a chance to test them for yourself if you’re so inc…
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August 27, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Google Voice has been very much embraced by U.S. Android fans. Widgets have been embraced even more so by said fans. Now, there’s a cross-section between the two.
After playing around the leaked G2 ROM on…
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August 24, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Google Earth has been an incredible app to use to explore the world, but it was limited in its scope. The app overlooked the oceans and seas, not a wise move since Poseidon’s domain accounts for about 75 per…
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August 20, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Google announced that it would stop selling the Nexus One directly, then revealed that it would continue to make the device available as a dev phone for people interested in building Android apps. It was a smart…
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August 19, 2010 | by Ed Clark
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Several months ago, I put on my fortune-telling hat and reassured Android fans that OS fragmentation would not doom the system. My points back then were: 1) Android 2.1 would be made available to a wide variety…
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August 18, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Uh-oh. Google TV is scheduled to hit the market in a few months, but Google’s new television platform may have trouble securing important participation from U.S. broadcast networks.
According to a rep…
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August 17, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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The rollout to GoogleTV is getting closer with each day, so it’s nice to see more product demo’s start to emerge from the camps of companies involved in the Android-based television product. Adob…
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August 9, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Android device owners who have become fond of task killers have recently discovered that those apps are no longer working since their phones have been updated to Android 2.2. (Froyo). Though users have attemp…
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August 5, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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The last of the Nexus One devices sold directly from Google were snatched up last month, meaning the only way for regular folks to get one are to purchase from carriers like Vodafone, secondhand from eBay or Crai…
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August 4, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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There once was a time when I spent less time using Google Wave than I did telling people “I don’t have any more Google Wave invites.” No need to worry about that anymore because Google has decided to s…
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July 28, 2010 | by Chris Smith
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Here is how a CEO talks to the Wall Street Journal when he wants his company’s stock pumped up. Today, Eric Schmidt was quoted saying,
“If we have a billion people using Android, you think we can’t ma…
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July 26, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Android 1.6+ users with Google Maps should be able to find “an even better way to find places nearby” thanks to an update from Google. There is now an updated version of Maps that offers direct acces…
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July 21, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Well that didn’t take long, now did it? Google announced last week that it was receiving its last shipment of Nexus One’s from HTC and would stop selling the device directly. Just a short time later…
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July 15, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Have you ever wondered why companies make such a big deal about being the default search provider on phones? Because it has the potential to lead to stacks of advertising money.
During its Q2 2010 earnings call,…
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July 15, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
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Google today announced that Android is chugging along very nicely, thank you. In its quarterly earnings call for Q2 2010, Google revealed that the Android Market has more than 70,000 apps, slightly more than t…
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