Archive for February, 2009

DailyHoroscope – number 4 most popular app in UK

DailyHoroscope – an Android horoscope application developed by us has been recently reported to be even more popular among UK users than Amercan users. While on the General Android market, the application fluctuates between being positioned as the number 5 most popular application, ocasionally sliding one number down, exchanging with either backgrounds application or the [...]

Modified HTC Dream will be soon available in Spain

It looks like Spain will soon be getting an Android-based handset to call their own. The handset will be released by Telefonica carrier and will carry the HTC Dream name (G1 is actually HTC Dream). Aside from having the “original HTC name” and not Google rebrended name G*, is also appears to have received a [...]

Paid application to become available on Android mid next week

Developers from US and UK can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application(s) along with end user pricing for the apps. The, priced applications will be available to end users in the US starting mid next week.
From Android market blog:
“We will also enable developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, and Spain [...]

Interesting take on Google vs. Apple battle over multitouch

Quite an interesting take has Steven Musil from Cnet news, where he  have posted an article today having an interesting and seems quite personal take on Android vs. Apple battle over multitouch. Oh yeah, there is also the Palm Pre in the picture. The mixtures of those phones makes it interesting to see what king [...]

Dangerous/Severe security hole in Android browser

ReadWriteWeb’s writer Sarah Peretz writes about a serious security vulnerability iscovered in Android OS, more specifically in Android browser. This vulnerability was presented by security researcher Charlie Miller
This vulnerability will allow allows potential hackers to remotely take control of the phone’s web browser and related processes forked off the browser. The results of [...]

SlideMe beats Android market with allowing paid applications

SlideME, an industry pioneer in paid Android application, has recently announced support for mobile payments through its SlideME Marketplace, which is a available in the form of Android application.  With the new release release of SAM 2.3, any developer from any country can sell their Android applications through (let’s abuse some notations) SlideMe market to [...]

Android SDK 1.1 should developers update?

So it is 4 days the Android SDK 1.1 have been made available for developer’s download. If you are a developer or just curious, you should definitely download it, but should you migrate your development to the new version?
The official position fom Google is not clear, but in general you should not update the development [...]

Another office product to be soon available on Android

The folks at QuickOffice will be releasing their own full featured office suit (doc, excel and power point) at Moible World Congress in Barcelona in just a few days.   We have recenly covered that DataViz will be announcing their office suit – Documents ToGo for Android platform. Seems that QuickOffice and DataViz will be [...]

A PC running Android debuted in Vegas

First results of Android being open source start to surface.  A new portable device from Touch Revolution, was shown at CES 2009

It is reported that the device comes in 4.3in, 7.5in and generous 10in screen sizes, and current prototypes can show off Android at larger screen sizes as well.
The device has three physical buttons at [...]

Admob improves the dashboard interface for publishers and advertisers

AdMob, currently the only player in Android advertising has recently significantly upgraded their dashboard panel. Publishers and advertisers will have much more clean an usable interface. Recently AdMob had closed an extended round B (or call it round C) funding with 12.5M to extend its operations, mainly to hire more sales people and extend its [...]