Android's Success: By The Numbers
InformationWeek
Google's Android boss bragged about the platform's incredible success: Think 300 million devices, with 750000 new devices activated daily. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Google is proud of itsmobile platform. Andy Rubin, SVP of mobile and digital ...
See all stories on this topic »Google eyes bigger slice of region's mobile apps market
Channel News Asia
By Venus Hew | Posted: 28 February 2012 2309 hrs SINGAPORE: World famous search engine provider Google is eyeing to capture a bigger slice of the mobile applications market in the region. This as more advertising revenue is expected to flow into the ...
See all stories on this topic »Google exec hints of autumn Android 5.0 release
PC Advisor
See all MWC News. More likely, it will be rolled out in the autumn, based on comments made by Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for mobile at Google. He spoke with Computerworld at Mobile World Congress here Monday.
See all stories on this topic »Android 5.0 could come in autumn, Google exec implies
PC Advisor
It's now more likely that the new mobile OS will be rolled out in the fall, according to comments made by Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google's vice president of engineering for mobile, at the at theMobile World Congress here. But he still said little about ...
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Mozilla has a plan to outduel iPhone and Android
CNN
... world dominated by Google and Apple, Firefox browser maker Mozilla thinks it can offer something better. The organization announced Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has created a new smartphone platform called "Boot to Gecko.
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Google's Mobile World & Vision for 2012
Search Engine Watch
Google Senior Vice President, mobile and digital content, also announced in a blog post that the number of applications available in the Android Market have tripled from 150000 last year to 450000 this year, and more than 1 billion app downloads happen ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Hints at 'Android Jelly Bean'
PC Magazine
In Google's booth at Mobile World Congress, there's a bowl of jelly beans. Make of that what you will. By Sascha Segan BARCELONA—Google's booth is a sprawling wonderland full of entertainment, fun, and Android-centric jokes.
See all stories on this topic »RPT-Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers
Reuters
By Georgina Prodhan BARCELONA Feb 27 (Reuters) - Facebook said it could team up with mobileoperators on payments, in an offer that would give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost in recent years to Apple and Google.
See all stories on this topic »850000 Android Phones Activated Daily, Says Google
PCWorld
By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile and digital content, posted on the official Google Mobility blog today that Android device activations now average around 850000 each day. Additionally, Rubin said that ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Tells Businesses 'Fall In Love With Mobile'
InformationWeek
Companies that don't invest in mobile websites and ads will soon get left behind by customers, predicts Google's global head of mobile. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google, the power behind the popular Android mobile operating system, ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia offers cheaper Windows Phone to nip Android expansion
The Seattle Times
By Jonathan Browning and Cornelius Rahn Everyone's examining new phones, or using phones to take photos Monday, the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Nokia unveiled new handsets at the world's largest mobile-phone trade show.
See all stories on this topic »Why Did Google Pay for Motorola to be Behind a 'Firewall'?
PCWorld (blog)
By Kevin Purdy, ITworld Google has, continually and vociferously, said that the acquisition of the Motorola division that makes cell phones and set-top TV boxes was not intended as a way forGoogle to make its own Android phones.
See all stories on this topic »Best Android apps: Five free apps popular right now
PC Advisor
... Google, unlike Apple, doesn't examine each and every one for security concerns. It pays to be careful in choosing which apps you download to your handset - and you should certainly have some security software, such as Lookout Mobile Security, ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers
Allentown Morning Call
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Facebook said it could team up with mobile operators on payments, in an offer that would give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost in recent years to Apple and Google . Speaking for the first time at Mobile ...
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Google's Mobile World Congress App Provides Android Pin Checklist
Phandroid.com
by Quentyn Kennemer on February 28th, 2012 at 9:05 am Some of us at Mobile World Congress have been hunting down the massive amount of Android collectible pins. For those of you who need something to keep track of what you're finding, the Google team ...
See all stories on this topic »ViziApps Brings the Power of Business Data to Creating Mobile Apps Without Coding
MarketWatch (press release)
WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ViziApps, Inc., formerly MobiFlex, Inc., today announced its next-generation mobile business app platform ViziApps(TM) 2.0, which enables the creation of cross-platform mobile business apps without ...
See all stories on this topic »Mozilla, Telefonica Promise Open Web Phone
InformationWeek
Does the world need another mobile operating system? Boot2Gecko, Mozilla's HTML5 operating system, aims to pry open the mobile Web. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Mozilla's effort to create an open Web operating system received a major endorsement ...
See all stories on this topic »The Circuit: Mobile World Congress
Washington Post (blog)
Google's Android lead, Andy Rubin, who said that Android now sees 850000 activations every day. So far, there have been several product announcements from HTC, Samsung and LG, all of which have introduced phones and tablets meant to run on high-speed ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook-led Mobile Ecosystem to Fight iOS, Android Strangleholds
Forbes
Two modern-day mobile apps platforms – Apple's iOS and Google's Android – are ruling a market segment with scorching growth, smartphones. Apple makes 75% profit share in the mobile phoneindustry whereas there are 300 million Android users in the world ...
See all stories on this topic »Android Marketplace Now Offers Over 450000 Apps
Dedicated Server Directory
Google's SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, Andy Rubin, took to the Google Mobile Blog yesterday to announce that the Android Marketplace has an amazing year-on-year growth rate of 250%. The growth means that the marketplace now offers over 450000 apps ...
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Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer hints Android 5.0 coming this fall
SlashGear
At Mobile World Congress 2012, a Google VP of engineering for mobile, named Hiroshi Lockheimer has hinted that the launch will not be until this fall. Android 5.0 has been called Jelly Bean, but Google still hasn't come clean with the desert it will be ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook Friends Mobile Providers, Google Offers Big Bucks For Chrome Hacks ...
Fast Company
Mobile provides could help Facebook reach basic phones in parts of Africa and India, and help Facebook collect payments for their apps. Facebook in turn would avoid paying competitors Googleand Apple for selling the Facebook app in their stores.
See all stories on this topic »Google VP says Android 5.0 is coming, hints at fall 2012 but “we're flexible”
MobileSyrup.com
Of course Google won't say anything about a release date or what features will be included, however there's been a few interesting tidbits coming out of Mobile World Congress. First, Google has placed a bowl of jelly beans in their booth, ...
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Mobile money faces developed-world challenge
MarketWatch
Add mobile-money services, the idea that you can make financial transactions of all kinds using only your phone, to that club. The technological brawn, sophisticated banking and widespread financial literacy seemingly required to deploy mobile-money ...
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Google's Rubin: We're building a 'firewall' between Android and Motorola
FierceWireless
Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president in charge of mobile, said he is "painfully aware" of the concerns, but stressed that Google has "literally built a firewall" between the Android team and Motorola. "I don't even know anything about their ...
See all stories on this topic »Yandex Introducing Display Software for Tablets in Mobile Bid
BusinessWeek
28 (Bloomberg) -- Yandex NV's mobile software developer SPB Software is introducing a “three-dimensional” user interface for tablets running Google Inc.'s Android operating system as it seeks to broaden its reach in the mobile market.
See all stories on this topic »How our mobiles became Frankenstein's monster
CNN International
The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling series entitled "What They Know" which revealed how our Apple iPhones and Google Android devices were watching our every move. The surveillance and themobile phone industries, The Journal indicated, are becoming ...
See all stories on this topic »
InformationWeek
Google's Android boss bragged about the platform's incredible success: Think 300 million devices, with 750000 new devices activated daily. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Google is proud of itsmobile platform. Andy Rubin, SVP of mobile and digital ...
See all stories on this topic »Google eyes bigger slice of region's mobile apps market
Channel News Asia
By Venus Hew | Posted: 28 February 2012 2309 hrs SINGAPORE: World famous search engine provider Google is eyeing to capture a bigger slice of the mobile applications market in the region. This as more advertising revenue is expected to flow into the ...
See all stories on this topic »Google exec hints of autumn Android 5.0 release
PC Advisor
See all MWC News. More likely, it will be rolled out in the autumn, based on comments made by Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for mobile at Google. He spoke with Computerworld at Mobile World Congress here Monday.
See all stories on this topic »Android 5.0 could come in autumn, Google exec implies
PC Advisor
It's now more likely that the new mobile OS will be rolled out in the fall, according to comments made by Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google's vice president of engineering for mobile, at the at theMobile World Congress here. But he still said little about ...
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| Mozilla to go after Android, Apple with cheap phone OS AFP BARCELONA — Mozilla, which brought the free web browser Firefox to the masses, now wants to do the same for mobile users, with a new open source operating system that could drastically slash smartphone prices. The non-profit group's so-called Boot to... See all stories on this topic » |  AFP |
CNN
... world dominated by Google and Apple, Firefox browser maker Mozilla thinks it can offer something better. The organization announced Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has created a new smartphone platform called "Boot to Gecko.
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| MWC2012: 'Facebook should have been a mobile app' Telegraph.co.uk Mr Taylor also highlighted the way that phones instantly alert users if they are tagged or mentioned on the site. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has previously said that he regards his company also as "mobile first". Facebook is pushing a bid ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
Search Engine Watch
Google Senior Vice President, mobile and digital content, also announced in a blog post that the number of applications available in the Android Market have tripled from 150000 last year to 450000 this year, and more than 1 billion app downloads happen ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Hints at 'Android Jelly Bean'
PC Magazine
In Google's booth at Mobile World Congress, there's a bowl of jelly beans. Make of that what you will. By Sascha Segan BARCELONA—Google's booth is a sprawling wonderland full of entertainment, fun, and Android-centric jokes.
See all stories on this topic »RPT-Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers
Reuters
By Georgina Prodhan BARCELONA Feb 27 (Reuters) - Facebook said it could team up with mobileoperators on payments, in an offer that would give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost in recent years to Apple and Google.
See all stories on this topic »850000 Android Phones Activated Daily, Says Google
PCWorld
By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile and digital content, posted on the official Google Mobility blog today that Android device activations now average around 850000 each day. Additionally, Rubin said that ...
See all stories on this topic »Google Tells Businesses 'Fall In Love With Mobile'
InformationWeek
Companies that don't invest in mobile websites and ads will soon get left behind by customers, predicts Google's global head of mobile. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Google, the power behind the popular Android mobile operating system, ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia offers cheaper Windows Phone to nip Android expansion
The Seattle Times
By Jonathan Browning and Cornelius Rahn Everyone's examining new phones, or using phones to take photos Monday, the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Nokia unveiled new handsets at the world's largest mobile-phone trade show.
See all stories on this topic »Why Did Google Pay for Motorola to be Behind a 'Firewall'?
PCWorld (blog)
By Kevin Purdy, ITworld Google has, continually and vociferously, said that the acquisition of the Motorola division that makes cell phones and set-top TV boxes was not intended as a way forGoogle to make its own Android phones.
See all stories on this topic »Best Android apps: Five free apps popular right now
PC Advisor
... Google, unlike Apple, doesn't examine each and every one for security concerns. It pays to be careful in choosing which apps you download to your handset - and you should certainly have some security software, such as Lookout Mobile Security, ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers
Allentown Morning Call
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Facebook said it could team up with mobile operators on payments, in an offer that would give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost in recent years to Apple and Google . Speaking for the first time at Mobile ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Google's Rubin promises new focus on tablets as Android hits 300m The Guardian Google will up its challenge to Apple's iPad this year, says Andy Rubin, the head ofGoogle's Mobile and Digital Content division, who has overseen the rise of Android to dominance in the smartphone space. At the same time he announced that Google is ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Guardian |
Phandroid.com
by Quentyn Kennemer on February 28th, 2012 at 9:05 am Some of us at Mobile World Congress have been hunting down the massive amount of Android collectible pins. For those of you who need something to keep track of what you're finding, the Google team ...
See all stories on this topic »ViziApps Brings the Power of Business Data to Creating Mobile Apps Without Coding
MarketWatch (press release)
WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ViziApps, Inc., formerly MobiFlex, Inc., today announced its next-generation mobile business app platform ViziApps(TM) 2.0, which enables the creation of cross-platform mobile business apps without ...
See all stories on this topic »Mozilla, Telefonica Promise Open Web Phone
InformationWeek
Does the world need another mobile operating system? Boot2Gecko, Mozilla's HTML5 operating system, aims to pry open the mobile Web. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Mozilla's effort to create an open Web operating system received a major endorsement ...
See all stories on this topic »The Circuit: Mobile World Congress
Washington Post (blog)
Google's Android lead, Andy Rubin, who said that Android now sees 850000 activations every day. So far, there have been several product announcements from HTC, Samsung and LG, all of which have introduced phones and tablets meant to run on high-speed ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook-led Mobile Ecosystem to Fight iOS, Android Strangleholds
Forbes
Two modern-day mobile apps platforms – Apple's iOS and Google's Android – are ruling a market segment with scorching growth, smartphones. Apple makes 75% profit share in the mobile phoneindustry whereas there are 300 million Android users in the world ...
See all stories on this topic »Android Marketplace Now Offers Over 450000 Apps
Dedicated Server Directory
Google's SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, Andy Rubin, took to the Google Mobile Blog yesterday to announce that the Android Marketplace has an amazing year-on-year growth rate of 250%. The growth means that the marketplace now offers over 450000 apps ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Forget About Android 4.0! Google Exec Hints Android 5.0 Will Launch In Fall Of ... TechCrunch Speaking to Computerworld, Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering formobile at Google, suggested Android 5.0 will launch in the fall. He stated “In general, the Android release cadence is one major release a year with some maintenance ... See all stories on this topic » |  TechCrunch |
SlashGear
At Mobile World Congress 2012, a Google VP of engineering for mobile, named Hiroshi Lockheimer has hinted that the launch will not be until this fall. Android 5.0 has been called Jelly Bean, but Google still hasn't come clean with the desert it will be ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook Friends Mobile Providers, Google Offers Big Bucks For Chrome Hacks ...
Fast Company
Mobile provides could help Facebook reach basic phones in parts of Africa and India, and help Facebook collect payments for their apps. Facebook in turn would avoid paying competitors Googleand Apple for selling the Facebook app in their stores.
See all stories on this topic »Google VP says Android 5.0 is coming, hints at fall 2012 but “we're flexible”
MobileSyrup.com
Of course Google won't say anything about a release date or what features will be included, however there's been a few interesting tidbits coming out of Mobile World Congress. First, Google has placed a bowl of jelly beans in their booth, ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Android team to be independent of Motorola TG Daily At the Mobile World Congress, Google's Android head Andy Rubin was quoted as saying he has "nothing to do with" the Motorola team. "I don't even know who's running it." "They're going to continue building Motorola branded devices and it's going to be ... See all stories on this topic » |  TG Daily |
MarketWatch
Add mobile-money services, the idea that you can make financial transactions of all kinds using only your phone, to that club. The technological brawn, sophisticated banking and widespread financial literacy seemingly required to deploy mobile-money ...
See all stories on this topic »
| Facebook's app move makes mobile phones a priority Telegraph.co.uk Facebook has mounted a major bid to position itself at the heart of the mobileecosystem, posing a potential threat to Apple and Google and underscoring the importance of mobile to the company's growth plans. By Katherine Rushton The social network, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
FierceWireless
Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president in charge of mobile, said he is "painfully aware" of the concerns, but stressed that Google has "literally built a firewall" between the Android team and Motorola. "I don't even know anything about their ...
See all stories on this topic »Yandex Introducing Display Software for Tablets in Mobile Bid
BusinessWeek
28 (Bloomberg) -- Yandex NV's mobile software developer SPB Software is introducing a “three-dimensional” user interface for tablets running Google Inc.'s Android operating system as it seeks to broaden its reach in the mobile market.
See all stories on this topic »How our mobiles became Frankenstein's monster
CNN International
The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling series entitled "What They Know" which revealed how our Apple iPhones and Google Android devices were watching our every move. The surveillance and themobile phone industries, The Journal indicated, are becoming ...
See all stories on this topic »