Google today released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android, a momentous step that marries two of Google’s most important programming projects. The new browser, unlike the stock Android browser, is available in the Android Market so that people don’t have to wait for handset makers to offer it through an operating system …
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Are there too many smartphones on the market? That and other provocative questions were posed during a CES panel discussion Thursday between journalists for the The Verge and managers for Windows Phone at Microsoft and smartphone makers HTC and Samsung. The question of whether there are too many smartphone variations on the market was partly …
Activations of new iOS and Android devices soared on Christmas Day, jumping by 142% over the same day last year, a Web metrics company said. Meanwhile, Google’s head of mobile claimed that 3.7 million new Android smartphones and tablets had been activated last weekend. According to Flurry, which provides metrics services to app developers, total …
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BT is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US that says the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of its key patents. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware, relates to six patents mostly from the 1990s, which BT says are infringed by the Google Maps, Google Music, …
Since the discovery and public announcement that Carrier IQ Software was secretly installed and gathering data from tens of millions of mobile handset users, Sprint has decided to disable using the software. I applaud Sprint for making the decision to stop using the Carrier IQ software. This does not mean that the software has been …
