Tag Archive | "Android"
Android’s new font, Roboto, looks awfully similar to Helvetica on the iPhone
By Sarah Petit: Google’s new premier smartphone – the Galaxy Nexus – features a new font dubbed Roboto. Now we’re not saying that Android derives a good deal of inspiration from iOS, but folks with a keener eye for fonts than we possess noticed that Google’s new system-wide font is awfully similar to Helvetica, the [...]
Continue reading...Android’s Andy Rubin on Apple sans Steve Jobs, Siri, and more
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin, who incidentally used to work for Apple, sat down on Wednesday with Walt Mossberg at the AsiaD conference to discuss, what else, Android and the latest Galaxy Nexus from Samsung. So while the bulk of the interview centered on Android and Google’s newly released Android 4.0 Ice [...]
Continue reading...Josh Topolsky interviews Android lead designer Matias Duarte
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: This is My Next has a great and wide-ranging interview with Google’s Matias Duarte, who you might recognize as the design genius behind Danger, Helio, and more recently Palm where he helped design and develop its highly regarded WebOS. These days, Duarte works for Google and helped shape Android 4.0 Ice Cream [...]
Continue reading...Google announces Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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Google a few hours ago announced the official arrival of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and its next flagship Android phone – the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The device sports a whopping 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen. Further, it supports 4G and 1080p video capture, sports a 5 megapixel camera, and comes in 16GB and 32GB models. [...]
Continue reading...iPhone leads the way with 89% retention rate; Android checks in at 55%
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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In a relatively short amount of time, Android has emerged as a potent competitor to the iPhone. Indeed, Google and its partners have done a tremendous job marketing and getting competitive Android devices into the marketplace. Famously, Google executives have touted that over 500,000 Android devices are activated every single day. That’s certainly impressive, even [...]
Continue reading...Gamestop planning to release gaming optimized Android tablet – Report
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Well the Android party is about to get a little bit more crowded, folks. Last week we reported that Gamestop was rumored to be getting into the iOS hardware business as a means to stay relevant in a gaming market that has largely shifted towards mobile gaming and digital downloads. Now comes word that Gamestop [...]
Continue reading...HTC files lawsuit against Apple with patents they recently acquired from Google
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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Apple’s ongoing legal disputes with a bevy of Android manufacturers took an interesting turn recently. Bloomberg is reporting that HTC on September 1 filed a lawsuit against Apple asserting patents that it recently acquired from, you guessed it, Google. The report notes that the patents in question were originally acquired by Google less than a [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft was also contemplating Motorola acquisition before Google swooped in
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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As the reverberations from Google’s acquisition of Motorola have started to simmer down, Om Malik of Gigaom writes that Motorola was keen on selling and that Google wasn’t the only interested suitor. Microsoft was also interested in purchasing Motorola and acquisition discussions between the two companies had reportedly been ongoing for some time. Driving Microsoft’s [...]
Continue reading...Google acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Monday, August 15, 2011
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Wow. Shit just got real. In what is easily Google’s biggest acquisition in its history, Google today said it will acquire phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash to help enhance sales of its Android mobile OS. All told, Google payed $40 a share for Motorola Mobility, representing a 63% premium for [...]
Continue reading...Internal Google emails reveal brazen attitude regarding Java licensing and Android
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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If you haven’t been paying attention to every Android-related lawsuit, who can blame you? With upwards of 50 separate cases currently in play, it’s decidedly challenging, if not impossible, to keep tabs on every single case. But one of the more important cases is Oracle’s suit against Google for including copyrightable java code in Android [...]
Continue reading...Apple sued over fast booting patent originally owned by LG
Monday, August 8, 2011
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Apple’s legal team are undoubtedly a gainfully employed and busy group of folks. Indeed, it seems that not a week goes by that Apple isn’t either on the receiving or offensive end of a new lawsuit. Most recently, a Florida-based company that goes by Operating Systems Solutions, LLC sued Apple claiming that OS X violates [...]
Continue reading...Android and iOS usage broken down by state
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Mobile ad network Jumptap just released data relaying smartphone preferences measured across the entire contiguous United States. According to Jumptap’s data, Google’s Android OS appears to be dominant across western United States with commanding shares in states such as California, Washington, Texas and Florida. iOS, meanwhile, appears to have the market cornered in much of [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond rails against patent attacks from Apple and co.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
David Drummond, Google’s Chief Legal Officer, wrote on Google’s official blog today that companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting against Android because they prefer litigation to innovation and are attempting to throttle Android’s growth. Android is on fire. More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day, through a network of 39 manufacturers [...]
Continue reading...Samsung agrees not to sell Android tablet in Australia
Monday, August 1, 2011
Apple and Samsung are currently engaged in litigation in 9 countries and across 3 continents. Things got started this past April when Apple sued Samsung claiming that it’s line of Galaxy smartphones and tablets “slavishly” copy the look and feel of its iOS products. Here in the US, and elsewhere, Apple is pushing hard for [...]
Continue reading...iOS devices comprise 2/3 of all in-flight WiFi users
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Accessing the Internet for the first time while flying 30,000 feet up in the air is one of those “holy crap!” moments that make you marvel at the wonder of technology. While some airlines like Virgin America offer passengers free Wi-Fi service, others like Southwest offer it for a small service fee. But no matter [...]
Continue reading...Apple unrelenting in its legal battle against a slew of Android-based handset manufacturers
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Upon introducing the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs famously stated: We’ve been pushing the state-of-the-art in every facet of design… We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this and we’ve filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in iPhone. And we intend to protect them. Over 4 years [...]
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
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