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Good news Android tablet owners who also happen to like BBC programming. The BBC iPlayer app will also be available to you! It was reported yesterday that BBC iPlayer would be coming to iPads in the United Kingdom by Thursday, with the U.S. iTunes Store to receive the app in June. Now the Beeb has [...]
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Google is postponing the market debut of the first computers running on its highly anticipated operating system by about six months to give its engineers more time to fine-tune the software. Under a new timetable, Google says it expects the first machines powered by the operating system to go on sale in the middle of [...]
Google’s Android smartphone platform could pass Apple’s iOS in total smartphone subscribers in November results that could be released shortly before the Consumer Electronics Show in January, if current trends hold up. Google’s Android OS recorded a 23.5 percent U.S. market share for the three-month average ending in October, according to comScore results released Friday. [...]
Google is hosting an event next Tuesday in San Francisco, where an invitation “from the Chrome team” most likely augurs the introduction of Google’s Chrome OS. The event will take place at 10 AM on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at an offsite facility. Google representatives did not immediately respond to requests for additional information. Chrome OS [...]
It’s been a good year for Android-based smartphones: their worldwide sales are up 1,309 per cent, year-on-year, according to research outfit Canalys. “With Samsung, HTC, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson all delivering large numbers of Android devices, and with focused efforts from many other vendors, such as LG, Huawei and Acer, yielding promising volumes, the platform [...]
We have some more details on the rumored Google Nexus Two smartphone now, and possibly the most revealing news yet. The handset is yet to be announced by Google, but we now have what looks to be an unofficial spec sheet for the device. The new information on the Nexus Two has once again come [...]
Acer has brought its latest Android offering to the table – the Acer Liquid Metal – which promises not only a slick new look, but web browsing that is up to 10 times faster than previous Liquid models. The Acer Liquid Metal is packing Froyo, with a new Acer designed UI – Breeze – over [...]
The Nexus One was the very first phone to get the upgrade to Android 2.2, so it makes sense that the Nexus Two will also be a flagship phone for a new Android operating system. If new reports are to be believed, it’ll be the first to have Android 2.3, AKA Gingerbread, pre-installed. The device, [...]
Appcelerator — the outfit whose Titanium dev kit was recently freed from the threat of Jobsian destruction — has teamed with PayPal to offer a version of the kit for that dovetails with PayPal’s mobile payments library. The idea is to offer a platform that lets traditional web developers build native mobile applications that include [...]