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Screenshots possibly show HTC Sense 3.5

Screenshots possibly show HTC Sense 3.5

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 by MG15

Check out a couple of these screenshots posted by the guys over at XDA China that show what could possibly be the finalized version of the HTC Sense 3.5 user interace for Android devices.

One of the screenshots shows the lock screen which looks to be the same as the one featured on HTC Sense 3.0. The home screens are where most of the changes are made. The icons, including the ones for the phone and for the menu have been revamped.

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Google Docs for Android Gains New Clipboard Powers

Google Docs for Android Gains New Clipboard Powers

Posted on Aug 25, 2011 by MG15

Google today released a new version of its Google Docs application for Android handsets. The new version introduces several new features, chief of which is the ability to add photos to the web clipboard and then paste them into documents. Google says it has also refreshed the sharing options, including the ability to send documents as an attachment via email directly from the phone. The update is free from the Android Market.

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Millennial: Android Tops iOS For The Eighth Month With 61 Percent Of Mobile Ad Impressions In July

Millennial: Android Tops iOS For The Eighth Month With 61 Percent Of Mobile Ad Impressions In July

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 by MG15

It’s no secret that Android is growing at a fast clip, especially over the past year. As Millennial Media, one of the largest mobile ad networks in the U.S., reported recently Android’s mobile ad impression share went up from 6 percent in March to 2010 to 54 percent of ad impression share in June 2011, eclipsing iOS. July’s report shows similar growth patterns, with In July, Android showed particularly strong growth, with its mobile ad impression share by OS increasing by 15 percent in the month, taking 61 percent of the impressions on Millennial’s network. This is the eighth straight month Android has topped iOS.

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Verzo teases its first Android smartphone, aims for a late-September launch

Verzo teases its first Android smartphone, aims for a late-September launch

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 by MG15

Ready to check out a phone brand you've never seen or heard of before? Of course you are. We just got our hands on exclusive photos and details of a mysterious Android handset from Verzo, a newcomer to the market. The phone's called the Kinzo and is slated for a launch in late September. Verzo's keeping a tight lid on the specifics for right now, but we know the phone was designed by Novague and it'll feature its own UI -- not in an attempt to be different, it says, but "to get the most from the Android system."

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Android surpasses Symbian as the biggest malware target this quarter

Android surpasses Symbian as the biggest malware target this quarter

Posted on Aug 23, 2011 by MG15

Android has surged tremendously in terms of pure sales over the last year, but with the growing popularity of Google’s platform, it has also surpassed Symbian as the most targeted platform by viruses…

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Android (Finally) Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium

Android (Finally) Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium

Posted on Aug 23, 2011 by MG15

Why isn’t Chrome a part of Android? It’s a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they’re finally taking steps to resolve this. A bit. Maybe.

As a group of Googlers have announced on the WebKit-Dev group today (relayed by Google’s Peter Beverloo), the Android team is now committed to working more closely with the WebKit community. Yes, it’s a bit odd that a product so devoted to “open” wasn’t really working with the open source community before — but hey, better late than never.

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Most Android apps sit idle, top-50 apps make up 61% of all usage

Most Android apps sit idle, top-50 apps make up 61% of all usage

Posted on Aug 18, 2011 by MG3

Nielsen on Thursday ushered in a new era of mobile device usage reporting brought about by customer metering software installed on thousands of iOS and Android devices around the U.S. Rather than relying on survey results as is typical in the industry, Nielsen is now able to directly measure consumer behavior with its metering software — installed on consumers’ devices with their approval, of course — and report extremely accurate data. This first report examines Android owners’ usage of apps and the mobile Web, and finds that time spent using apps is roughly double time spent browsing the mobile Web. More interestingly, Nielsen found that the top-10 apps in the Android Market account for a ...

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Firefox for Android updated with refreshed interface, new developer tools

Firefox for Android updated with refreshed interface, new developer tools

Posted on Aug 17, 2011 by MG3

Mozilla has released a new version of its Firefox browser for Android smartphones and tablets today that offers a new visual refresh for those that have Android 2.3 Gingerbread, as well as a number of new tools for developers to create better web experiences.

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Mystery Android Vulnerability Not Detailed By Prudent Hackers

Mystery Android Vulnerability Not Detailed By Prudent Hackers

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 by MG3

Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay were all set to go on stage at Black Hat and describe a few methods of hacking Android devices. But they never appeared: at the last minute, they decided not to reveal the vulnerabilities they had discovered. Why? “To prevent an unacceptable window of risk to consumers worldwide and to guarantee credit where it was due.”

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Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year

Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 by MG3

Android-powered tablets have taken 20% of the global tablet market from Apple’s iPad over the past 12 months according to new data from ABI Research. While Android tablets have collectively managed to make a sizable dent in the iPad’s global market share, ABI says no single tablet vendor has managed to “mount a significant challenge” against the iPad at this point.

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Symantec Releases Free Security Software for Android

Symantec Releases Free Security Software for Android

Posted on Aug 12, 2011 by MG3

Symantec, well known for its extensive lineup of security products on both the Windows and Mac platforms, today released Norton Mobile Security Lite, a freeware security product aimed at devices running Google's Android OS.

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Android takes 43% of the global smartphone market in Gartner report

Android takes 43% of the global smartphone market in Gartner report

Posted on Aug 12, 2011 by MG3

We’ve seen the latest reports from Canalys and comScore and both show just how well the Android operating system is doing these days (pretty well) and Gartner’s latest report shows much of the same. If you had any question as to why Google’s mobile operating system has been under fire so much recently, one only needs to look at the numbers to find out.

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Android developers getting underpaid due to a software glitch

Android developers getting underpaid due to a software glitch

Posted on Aug 11, 2011 by MG3

If you were a hardworking software developer building popular and well-selling apps, you would be pretty frustrated, to say the least, if you realized one day that you are getting underpaid for your work, right? That is pretty much what is going on at camp Android right now – a number of software developers are reporting that the amount of money they are being paid through Google Checkout for their software does not match the number of times their apps have been purchased from the Android Market.

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New Google search app for Android gets outed, pulled

New Google search app for Android gets outed, pulled

Posted on Aug 10, 2011 by MG1

While not in the realm of some of Sony Ericsson's gaffes -- as far as pulled images and news, that is -- Google did its level best by throwing up a new version of its integrated search app for Android and then promptly pulling it. New features in the magically disappearing app include: a svelte new interface with categorized results which puts web hits up top then contacts and more in the rows below. Also added is the ability to long press search history to remove questionable search items and country-specific results in countries with Google domains -- think Google.ca, Google.ch, and so on. This may be part of the big search monster's ongoing efforts to "evolve the Google design and experie...

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Google preps new Search for Android with better suggestions

Google preps new Search for Android with better suggestions

Posted on Aug 09, 2011 by MG1

Google briefly published and then retracted word of an update to the the Google Search app for Android (Android Market, not yet updated). The new release offers enhanced suggestions and general performance improvements. With this update, suggestions are now grouped by type, and web recommendations are now found at the top of the viewing screen.
The new app also offers country specific suggestions and groups search results for all countries with Google domains. Amongst the performance enhancements, items from the history can be removed with a long press. The user interface has been simplified over the earlier version, which hasn't been updated since October.

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