Android Book - Macbook Air Clone Running Android 4.0 - Computex 2012

Android Book - Macbook Air Clone Running Android 4.0 - Computex 2012
$149 laptop runs Android ICS, looks like a MacBook Air – Cell ...
By Ryan Whitwam
Android Book. The term smartbook was coined a few years back to describe a laptop-like device that was running smartphone software. The product category never seemed to get much further than the pre-announcement and demo stage.
Geek.com

What Enterprises Should Take Away from IDC's Latest Smartphone OS Forecast
ZDNet (blog)
By Eric Lai | June 8, 2012, 6:32am PDT Summary: IDC's latest forecast forsmartphone OS market share outraged many with its assertation that Android was on the wane. If you're an enterprise, that shouldn't be your main takeaway, though.

ZDNet (blog)

Apple agrees to pay $2.25m as iPad 4G claim penalty
The Australian
APPLE will pay more than $2 million as penalty after agreeing it misled the public in Australia by selling its new iPad as 4G-compatible. The Federal Court this morning heard the computer giant had agreed to settle a case brought by the Australian ...

Motorola Defy XT, Defy Mini launched in India
IBNLive.com
Mumbai: Motorola has introduced two new mid-range Android smartphones - Defy XT and Defy Mini, in India. Sporting the water-resistant body, both these Defy series handsets come in candy bar form factor and feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 series ...
 
IBNLive.com

Facebook App Center has its kinks (First Take)
CNET
Facebook just unveiled its App Center, and it's accessible on iOS and Android devices, as well as through the Web on Facebook.com. Here's what you can expect to see. by Jaymar Cabebe Facebook's App Center has arrived, and it's got more than 600 apps in ...

Facebook unveils its App Center
Washington Post
As expected, Facebook unveiled App Center Thursday, an “App Store” for iOS and Android that features both native and web apps that utilize Facebook integration in some way. The App Center features (only) 600 apps, and Facebook will offer personalized ...

Apple iOS Still Charming More Developers Than Android
InformationWeek (blog)
More than twice as many new app projects target Apple's iOS over Android, new research says. Apple's iPhone is also winning over former Android users. Developers and consumers prefer iOS toAndroid, according to several new reports.

Windows Phone market share expected to surpass Apple's iOS in 2016
Los Angeles Times
Windows Phone will swing past iOS in the smartphone market share by 2016 to become the second-most-used mobile operating system, a telecom analytics firm predicts. The report by the International Data Corp. says Windows Phone growth will begin picking ...

Developers Still Favor Apple's iOS Over Android
PC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Application developers still favor Apple, with 69 percent of all new app development projects started during the first quarter of 2012 intended for Cupertino's iOS mobile operating system, according to new data from mobile ...

Facebook Rolling Out App Center for iOS, Android and Web
TIME
The App Center, available on Facebook's website and on Apple and Android mobile devices, will recommend apps to users based on their interests, the types of apps their friends like, or the apps they have liked in the past. Many people are introduced to ...

TIME

Let's Just Say It: Nobody Has a Clue What Smartphone Market Share Will Be in 2016
TIME
The new data–which says that Android and iOS will go into decline while BlackBerry flatlines and Windows Phone booms — is getting lots of coverage, all of which treats it respectfully. But when I read IDC's projections, my instinctive response is the ...

TIME

Why Android Dominates the Mobile Market
CIO Insight
The research firm says Android will secure 61 percent of the market this year and maintain nearly 53 percent by 2016. Meanwhile, every platform from iOS to Windows Phone 7 will be forced to battle it out for second place. But how did this happen?

Apple, Google, and their approaching mobile divorce
CNET
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reckons that iOS will only provide 2 percent of Google's total revenue in 2012, or $4.5 billion. by Larry Dignan Apple is likely to push Google Maps out of the way next week at its WWDC powwow in what's a long march ...

Apple's iOS Driving a Big Chunk of Google's Mobile Revenue
Sci-Tech Today
The report is ironic given that IDC expects Google's own Android platform to capture a 61 percent share of the global smartphone market this year. "Assuming [Apple's] iOSgenerates around 40 percent of total mobile search revenue" for the search engine ...

Sci-Tech Today

Facebook's Dilemma With Native iOS Apps: Relevance or Revenues
TechCrunch
On top of that, it sent people back to iOS apps they had already downloaded 134 million times. Facebook was also integrated into seven of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and six of the top 10Android apps. The company's emerging power on mobile platforms ...

Facebook App Centre is out for IOS and Android
Inquirer
By Carly Page SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has put up its Google Play rival, Facebook App Centre, for IOS and Android devices. The service, which was announced back in May, aims to boost Facebook's presence in the mobile arena, promising to help users find ...

US Judge Cancels Motorola, Apple Patent Trial
PCWorld
By John Ribeiro, IDG News A US Judge canceled a trial scheduled to start Monday in a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility, and said he had tentatively decided that the case should be dismissed as neither side had established a right to ...

iOS still tops Android with app developers
CNET
by Steven Musil Despite Android's greater share of the smartphone market, Apple's iOS continues to attract greater support from app developers. Nearly seven of every 10 apps being created in the first quarter of 2012 were for the iOS platform, ...

Clambook: turn your smartphone into a laptop
ZDNet (blog)
That was the concept behind the ill-fated Palm Foleo, and more recently a product line from Motorola. A company that makes laptop docks for the iPad is showing the Clambook, a MacBook Air type of laptop dock that works with Android phones and the...

ZDNet (blog)

Glu Mobile Adds Top Freemium Games to the Facebook App Center
MarketWatch (press release)
"The App Center is poised to become a powerful additional discovery channel for Glu games built natively for iOS and Android. Facebook's Single Sign-on and mobile APIs will reduce friction to implement social features in all Glu titles," said Niccolo ...

Apple WWDC: 8 Things To Expect
InformationWeek
From iOS to MacBook Air, we expect big hardware and software news, plus a few surprises. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference begins on Monday, June 11, and the company is expected to make an unusually large number ...

US Judge Tosses Motorola, Apple Patent Suit
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A Chicago judge on Thursday dismissed a patent case between Apple andMotorola because, he said, neither side could adequately "establish a right to relief." As a result, a trial that was set to begin on Monday has been canceled.

MetroPCS lands Huawei's first US LTE phone, Activa 4G
CNET
by Jessica Dolcourt Huawei promised CNET some 4G LTE action, and with the Huawei Activa 4G, the phone maker is ready to deliver. If you're thinking this is the smartphone version of a certain yogurt with bifidus regularis, stop, because the Activa ...

Verizon CTO: 4G LTE international roaming is coming
CNET
International travelers on Verizon Wireless should rejoice, as the company's chief technology officer promises the company will offer global roaming on 4G LTE. But don't expect much 4G LTEinteroperability among carriers here at home. by Marguerite ...

Windows to Throw Smartphone Market Wide Open
TechNewsWorld
Despite the slowdown, a major shift is in the making: Windows Phone 7 will be duking it out withAndroid and iOS on a more-or-less level playing field. That's if Microsoft and Nokia take the necessary steps to get there, the firm said.

What will Apple announce on Monday?
msnbc.com
Apple often previews major iOS updates during its summer developer fest, a global crossroads for Mac and iOS programmers. Apple announced iOS 5 during WWDC 2011 (though it didn't ship it until the iPhone 4S launched last October).

Samsung rolls out Android 4.0 to UK Galaxy Note handsets
Inquirer
By Carly Page KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) to Galaxy Note owners in the UK, the company has confirmed to The INQUIRER. It's not all good news. The update is only available to those who ...

Here's What Google Will Lose When Apple Wipes Google Maps From The iPhone
San Francisco Chronicle
In the US, Google gets about 31 million users a month on its Maps app on iOS (chart 1), and on average those users spend more than 75 minutes apiece in the app each month (chart 2). If the reports are true, a big proportion of those users will stop ...

Shooting Vertical Video on a Smartphone? You're Doing It Wrong ...
By Chris Taylor
If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you likely know this sinking feeling — when you click on an amateur video with an interesting title, only to find the videographer has held his smartphone vertically instead of horizontally. The resulting ...
Mashable » Video

Verizon pushing more 4G LTE networks from ... - Android Community
By Cory Gunther
Like we've reported on multiple times over the past year Verizon is at it again this month pushing even more networks to 4G LTE across the country. They've been.
Android Community

iOS, Android Developers: App developers favor Apple over Google
By Dan Graziano
As competition between Android and iOS continues to heat up, analytics firm Flurry has found that Apple continues to garner more support from developers, despite Android's greater market share. For every 10 apps that developers build, ...
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Facebook's App Center Begins Appearing in iOS App - Mac Rumors
By Eric Slivka
The listings include iOS, Android, HTML5, and desktop apps, with users able to click directly through to the App Store or other marketplaces to download apps. The Next Web argues that the addition of App Center will be a major boost for ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Verizon expanding its LTE network June 21st, including a big ...
By Quentyn Kennemer
Verizon have announced that a bevy cities will be getting 4G LTE starting June 21st. The Triangle, NC; Burlington, NC; Bedford, PA; Indiana, PA; Sharon, PA;
Android Phone Fans

Chitika reports that features entice iOS users to update, not security ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
Overall, iOS adoption rate is high, especially compared to Android. Recent Google statistics show that 7 percent of Android handsets run the latest major release, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This compares to 83.3 percent of iOS users ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dropbox for Android 4.0 updated with video streaming capabilities ...
By Tyler Lee
If you are an Android user with an Android 4.0 device, you're in for a treat as Dropbox for Android has recently been updated. If Dropbox's cloud storage service is one that you use often, the app has been updated with a feature which offers ...
Ubergizmo

iOS still outpaces Android in app development
By George Tinari
Yesterday I wrote up a post calling out Eric Schmidt for inaccurately predicting that six months from December 6, 2011, Android development would surpass iOS development. I used a few examples off the top of my head over the past six ...
IntoMobile

The World's Thinnest LTE Chip Will Make Your Next 4G LTE Device ...
By Casey Chan
4G LTE devices are usually a bunch of fatties because the size of 4G LTE modules is ginormous (relatively, at least). Sometimes that tradeoff is too much! But it looks like things are a-changin' because Sierra Wireless just introduced the world's ...
Gizmodo

Facebook's iOS App Center going live tonight? | 9to5Mac | Apple ...
By Jordan Kahn
... could see more of the App Center. The company announced the new HTML5-based App Center last month and said the iOS and Android Facebook apps would have access to the app marketplace in the coming weeks. 0.000000 0.000000 ...
9to5Mac

Android.Rabbhome | Symantec
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iOS 6 release date, news and rumours | News | TechRadar
iOS 6 release date, news and rumours - WWDC is closing in fast, and it's almost ... In the same way that Android has live synchronisation to the Chrome ... Judge kicks Apple Motorola patent case out of court ... The long-awaited Droid Incredible 4G LTE is finally unveiled ... MWC 2012 Trying out the first 41MP smartphone ...
www.techradar.com/.../ios-6-release-date-news-and-rumours-1...

Wi-Fi Alliance® to Launch Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast™ to Deliver ...
AUSTIN, TX, May 31, 2012 – The Wi-Fi Alliance® announced today that it is ... can do things like watch videos from a smartphone on a big screen television or ...
www.wi-fi.org/.../wi-fi-alliance®-launch-wi-fi-certified-miraca...

Google Maps for Android getting offline access | Android Central
No problem! Google Maps for Android soon will work without a data connection. ... It'll be coming to both Android and iOS devices in ridiculous resolution.
www.androidcentral.com/google-maps-android-getting-offline...

Logitech Harmony® Link – Logitech.com
Logitech Harmony Link is a small device that connects to your home Wi-Fi® network. ... Download the free Harmony Link application from Android Marketplace ... Your tablet or smartphone may already be the center of your digital world. ... the iTunes App Store or Android Market); BroadbandInternet connection and 802.11 ...
www.logitech.com/en-us/tablet-accessories/.../harmony-link

Pocket's Tips for Aspiring Android Developers: It's Not Really - Pocket
First up: Max Weiner, Pocket's lead developer for Android. If you're an aspiring Android developer, it may have been discouraging to read some of the recent ...
getpocket.com/.../pockets-tips-for-aspiring-android-developers...

Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone - IDC
Smartphone growth, however, will increasingly be driven by a triumvirate of smartphone operating systems, namely Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7." ...
www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23523812

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