Tag archive for "OS"
A Chinese ecommerce firm called Alibaba has announced a new mobile OS that it is launching. The new OS is called Aliyun. This would be sort of along the lines of Amazon launching its own OS here in the US. The new Aliyun OS will launch at the end of this month and show up [...]
Millennial Media has offered up its latest round of stats for the mobile phone market covering December of 2010. The latest round of numbers shows that Android devices occupy 16 of the top 30 spots for the most popular devices. That number was up from 11 of the most popular devices in November.
We all love Android updates, covering them daily, they’re a big part of the operating system as it’s on its way to become more stable. However, as many of you know, “No update available” is a common problem. Well now we will show you how to force your Android phone to check if there is [...]
We know that Android, at least in its current form, isn’t the best bet for Netbook or Notebook PCs. Google knows this as well, which is why they started development on Google Chrome OS, a web-based browser operating system. However, former Google employee and GMail creator, Paul Buchheit, has predicted that Android will eventually kill [...]
Love them or hate them, in-app advertisements are a great way for developers to fund their work and allowing their applications to be listed as free or at a low price. Many companies have tried to make them more immersive in hopes of getting more clicks. Apple did this with it’s newly released iAd platform, [...]
Every two weeks, Google posts a snapshot of the current Android OS fragmentation. With just posting their results we can now see that Android 2.1+ is holding 70% of the market. Even more interesting is that Android 2.2 Froyo has jumped from just 3.3% just a month ago to a now staggering 28.7%. This swift [...]
Pogoplug is an app that lets you share files with other devices on you LAN. It has been updated to version 2.3 and there are now a few cool new features. This is a free app in the android market and when you download it go to http://www.pogoplug.com/ to get started.
Usually we would call something like this a rumor but we now have cold hard evidence of its existence. I checked my mailbox and to my delight I was treated with the first real pictures of the Galaxy S Pro. As you can see from the picture, it’s the Galaxy S with a full QWERTY [...]
There hasn’t been much coverage on this device since it’s not available here in the US. It may never make it over here but in Europe (mainly France) this is a very popular handset. It has been rooted by none other than Paul aka Modaco.
This year’s Computex featured a lot of exciting new things in the world of Android. QuickBoot by Ubiquitous aims to shorten the time it takes to boot up Android to a fraction of the current time. It usually takes 30 seconds of more to for Android to boot up, this video has a device that [...]
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