FTC Investigating Google for Android Antitrust Abuses

Aug 11, 2011

According to a recent report, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expanding its antitrust investigation of Google to determine whether the online giant is illegally requiring licensees of its Android mobile OS to use its search services...

Nokia giving all its love to Windows Phone, which will render Android, iPhone 'outdated'

Aug 10, 2011

Nokia North American President Mark Weber didn't mince words in a recent interview, giving the hard sell on the company's upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone devices and describing competitors’ user interfaces and platforms as essentially passé. ...

Nokia Going All-In on Windows Phone in North America as Motorola Reconsiders Android-Only Strategy

Aug 10, 2011

A Nokia executive said this week that the ailing smartphone giant would stop selling feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in North America so that it can focus instead on pushing Windows Phone. This development isn't terribly startling...

Android Now On 50 Percent of All Smartphones Sold

Aug 02, 2011

Apple incessantly insists that its admittedly successful iPhone is the be-all, end-all of the smartphone world. But reality is increasingly getting in the way of the Cupertino company's boasting, as most recently exemplified by a stunning new...

Adobe's new Edge animation tool compatible with iOS, Safari, Android and more

Aug 01, 2011

Adobe isn't taking any chances. With its popular Flash tool having been framed as an either-or to HTML5 — a rivalry largely put in place by Apple and its staunchly anti-Flash iPhone — Adobe has introduced Edge, a new software design tool that it...

GetJar, with thanks to Facebook and Android, passes 2 billion downloads

Jul 29, 2011

App store GetJar announced a nice milestone today: the crossing of the 2 billion downloads mark, which it says is more than any cross-platform application store has yet accomplished...

Android tablet sales to catch up to Apple's iPad, among the latest data findings

Jul 27, 2011

Smartphone sales, application downloads and Android tablet successes were the topics of three July 27 reports that together offer new facts and figures, shaping a picture of the mobile future...

Android and Apple iOS may be sent into service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps

Jul 19, 2011

Army software engineers have developed a way to put aside squabbles between the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms, in the interest of U.S. military efforts...

Upcoming Android release to help optimize smartphone apps for tablets

Jul 12, 2011

The number of Android apps designed specifically for tablets isn't an easy figure to come by, as the Times' David Pogue recently blogged, before settling on a total nearing 240. As Google works to boost this too-modest figure (Apple now has 90,000...

Microsoft goes after Samsung for a piece of each Android smartphone sold

Jul 07, 2011

Google CEO Eric Schmidt once shared that thanks to Google Search on the iPhone, Google benefits from each handset Apple sells. If Microsoft gets its way, the Google competitor may similarly be seeing some cool cash from each Android handset that's...