Archos G9 Android tablets – Serious competition for the iPad
ZDNet (blog)
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | June 24, 2011, 3:55am PDT When it comes to Android tablets, most come up pretty short when compared to Apple’s iPad. But Archos has unveiled a new tablet that takes Android tablets to a whole new level and offers up real …
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Can HP’s webOS and TouchPad slow down the iPad?
Computerworld (blog)
Most of these are Android tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Motorola’s Xoom. (The Xoom became the launch vehicle for the tablet-optimized version of Android, better known as Honeycomb.) The new HP TouchPad is due to arrive July 1. …
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GetJar beats Amazon to Cut the Rope Android Exclusive
GigaOm
24, 2011, 4:59am PT No Comments GetJar has beat out budding rival Amazon in snagging the exclusive Androidrelease of Cut the Rope, a previous iOS game with Angry Birds-like appeal. The game from ZeptoLabs is now available on GetJar for free, …
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Brightness Motion Changes Your Android Phone’s Brightness with a …
By Whitson Gordon
Android: Brightness Motion lets you brighten up your phone’s screen just by jerking it to the right or the left, so you don’t have to go digging through menus.
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Android phones to pit vampires against slayers
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — Facial recognition startup Viewdle on Wednesday began letting Androidsmartphone users see which of the people around them are vampires and which are vampire slayers. A "Third Eye" augmented reality game released by the San Francisco …
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New Malware Bypasses Android Market, Downloads Directly to Mobile Phones
eWeek
The latest Android malware is downloaded directly from a Web site that looks like the Android Market and signs users up to multiple prime-rate SMS services without their knowledge. Lookout Mobile Security is warning of a new kind of Android malware …
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Five reasons Android can fail
ZDNet (blog)
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | June 22, 2011, 2:21pm PDT I want Android to succeed and grow, but the way things are going, I’m beginning to doubt that it will thrive in the long run. Paula Rooney has covered the technology industry for more than 15 …
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Archos Reveals $99 Arnova 7 Android 2.2 Tablet
Hot Hardware
Android 2.2 will be the OS onboard, and while that’s hardly the newest (nor even tablet-tailored), it’ll definitely handle the basics. There’s also Wi-Fi, access to the AppsLib store (not the Android Market, though) and a dedicated home button. …
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Apple iPad 2 Display Ranks the Best in Face-Off Against Android Hordes
PCWorld
Rewind to the debut of the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets–those early models running Android 3.0 all suffered from a bug that caused digital images to render improperly in Google’s Gallery app, the default program for viewing pictures. …
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Look Out Apple – Android Isn’t Out of Juice Yet
Investorplace.com
Take his statement released yesterday that Android’s market share peaked in March. Wolfe, one of Wall Street’s best-known tech analysts, came to this conclusion after reviewing IDC data that the Apple iPhone share in the US smartphone market rose a …
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