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Hands-on with side-loaded Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook (gallery)
ZDNet (blog)
By Matthew Miller | February 27, 2012, 5:45am PST Summary: The OS 2.0 update brought support for Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. While many Android apps are available in BB App World, there are still many missing that can be side-loaded onto ...
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BBC iPlayer Android App Update
BBC News (blog)
The BBC iPlayer Android app has achieved 1.3 million installs since it was launched in February 2011. Today we are releasing a new version of the app. This new version includes streaming over 3G networks and an updated Adobe Flash player, for improved...
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BBC News (blog)
Hospital builds Android app for patient information
ITWorld Canada
Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego, Calif., is one public health system that has improved its workflow and culture by developing its own Android medical apps. In 2010, PPH, which includes two hospitals in the San Diego area and is the largest ...
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450K Android apps now on the Android Market
SlashGear
Google has its Android booth set up at Mobile World Congress and has offered up a few new interesting details on Android to coincide with the show. Google says that last year during MWC the Android Market had 150000 apps. As of today, approximately a ...
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Facebook denies poaching your text messages on Android
Register
By Anna Leach • Get more from this author Facebook has dismissed allegations in The Sunday Times that the web giant's Android app can hoover text messages from phones as "creative conspiracy theorising". Flatly denying the claim published by the ...
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Android apps being submitted to BlackBerry App World without developer permission?
MobileSyrup.com
By Daniel Bader on February 26, 2012 at 7:30pm in Mobile News One of the best reasons to upgrade your Playbook to OS 2.0 is its support of Android apps through an emulation engine called the Android Player. The use of such an app is fairly seamless, ...
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Facebook strikes back at SMS-reading Android claims
ZDNet UK (blog)
"We worked with The Sunday Times to explain why the Facebook Android app requests some SMS read/write permissions," Mackenzie wrote, adding that the company had told the newspaper that "SMS read/write is not currently implemented for most users of the ...
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MarketImpacts.com Completes a Study of the Android Market App Search Function
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Recent changes in Android Market search algorithms and results were analyzed and presented to the San Francisco Android User Group. "We had just released the QuickClick suite of Android appson the Android Market in the summer of 2011 when we ...
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Google: 450000 Android Apps now available to 300 million devices
Engadget
Andy Rubin insouciantly added that the Android Marketplace has reached its latest milestone: there are now 450000 apps available for the platform. Other pertinent stats are that over a billion apps are downloaded every month and that 850000 Android ...
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