Android phone users are downloading lots of apps. But app developers would be happier if those users would pay for them. To help make that happen, Scoreloop is adding the ability to make payments for Android apps to its suite …
Inquisitive Minds is launching a new mobile app called Zoodles that will bring relief to harried parents. The Zoodles Kid Mode for Android app lets parents give their smartphone to a bored child while on the go. The app lets …
Unlike LG, which merely said that its upcoming Android tablet will be better than the iPad, Samsung is declaring its faith in its Galaxy Tab Android tablet with actual numbers.
The company expects to sell 10 million units by the …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the future of search was blazing-fast, “autonomous” searching that constantly provides users with results. He made the comments at a keynote speech at the German IFA home electronics event in Berlin Tuesday.
But autonomous …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin that it will launch its Google TV service in the U.S. and worldwide this year, Reuters reports.
I’m not entirely sure why Schmidt had to reiterate …
Verizon customers eagerly awaiting the carrier’s Galaxy S entry, the Samsung Fascinate, can finally start ordering the Android device online starting tomorrow for $199 with a two-year contract (after a $100 rebate). It will hit retail stores starting September 9.…
It’s taken several years of failing to sell phones to Americans, but Nokia is now finally gearing up to launch flagship N8 and E7 smartphones next week — both obviously meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android — …
Google is apparently in talks with record labels to populate its upcoming music store and streaming service by Christmas, sources familiar with the matter tell Reuters.
That Google is working on an iTunes competitor is no big surprise — we …
After months of hearsay and conjecture, Samsung has finally revealed some official details on its Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. While we still don’t have an official release date or pricing, the new information suggests that the tablet will be …
Telecommunications solutions provider Alcatel-Lucent picked up a mobile app development platform that allows programmers to write apps once and produce code that runs natively on iPhones and Android devices with its acquisition of OpenPlug on Wednesday. The details of the …
If you thought that getting apps noticed was tough on the iPhone, it’s even harder on Android phones. That’s why PapayaMobile is unveiling its Android App Of The Day, an app-marketing program, today.
PapayaMobile, the Beijing-based mobile social platform for …
As a company most famous for its monitors, ViewSonic probably isn’t the first company that you’d expect to release an Android tablet. The company’s European arm today announced the ViewPad 7, a 7-inch tablet running Android 2.2, the version also …
A few weeks ago, we caught wind of Verizon’s Android plans for the fall and early 2011 thanks to a leaked roadmap. In addition to more Droid devices, the roadmap revealed two mysterious Android tablets for the carrier — one …
After releasing an iPhone app for its Bing search engine last December, Microsoft announced an equivalent Android Bing app today for Verizon users.
But since Android is much more deeply integrated into Google’s search and navigation offerings than the iPhone, …
In its effort to challenge Facebook, Google has become a social butterfly. The latest proof of that is Google’s acquisition today of SocialDeck, a maker of social games for mobile phones.
SocialDeck has made games such as Shake & Spell, …
Mobile game publisher Glu Mobile has raised $13.5 million in a private placement as it aims to expand its position in smartphone games.
The money will be used to fully implement the company’s cross-platform expansion plans, said Niccolo de Masi, …
Samsung’s multi-carrier stab with its high-end Galaxy S Android phones appears to be a smashing success. The carrier announced today that it has sold 1 million phones in the U.S. since they began shipping on July 15 on AT&T and …
Motorola has acquired a new set of app development tools in the form of Y Combinator startup 280 North.
A Motorola official confirmed to TechCrunch that Motorola acquired the web-app developer to “help facilitate the continued expansion of Motorola’s application …
Dell’s Aero Android phone has been a long time coming — but unfortunately for the company, the longer it has waited to release the device, the less appealing it has become. Originally rumored for release some time in the second …
Microsoft certainly has a lot of catching up to do with Windows Phone 7 — its upcoming mobile platform. In particular, it’ll be interesting to see how its Internet Explorer 7 mobile browser will compare to Apple’s Mobile Safari and …
