Android

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Hot on the heels of the launch of fellow bookseller Amazon’s own Android Appstore, Barnes & Noble has today gone official with what has been rumoured for some time – an App Store for their tablet / eBook reader, the Nook Color.

Since Google Inc. announced late last month that the latest version of Android, Honeycomb, would not be open-sourced just yet, many in the development community have cried foul, labelling Google hypocrites and questioning whether Android is really “open,” as Google so loudly proclaims it to be.

Android users are spoiled for choice when it comes to home replacements. Despite the competition, SPB Software has decided to add its own offering to the ever growing pile of Android UI software.

Due to some kind of foul-up at Google Inc. a lucky man by the name of Tim Schiesser, who just so happens to be a tech writer, has been given access to a previously unheard-of Android Test Market, where it would seem app developers can trial their wares before releasing them to the general public.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has announced his firm will be releasing a tablet by the end of this summer.

Keeping yourself secure online is of vital importance. This is equally true whether you are using your laptop, desktop, mobile phone or other connected device. Thankfully LastPass integrates very well with Android. …

When Apple Inc. launched the iPad the most striking thing about the device, which would go on to define the tablet market, was the price. Five hundred dollars for an awesome browsing slate was quite the bargain, especially coming from a company famed for their premium pricing.

Google is trying to make itself seem more attractive to mobile game developers, with Ian Ni-Lewis, Developer Advocate for Games at Google pulling out all the stops to woo the gangly geniuses out of their basements.

In an effort to tackle the ongoing problem of Android fragmentation Google Inc. has apparently issued an ultimatum to its partners that from now on Android Godfather Andy Rubin will check all customisations and must approve them before they are released.

Those sneaky Amazon.com Inc. engineers are at it again. While rumours swirled that Google Inc. was preparing to launch their cloud-based Google Music service, Amazon.com has gone right ahead and stolen their thunder with a streaming solution of their own!

Ahh PayPal, both a handy way to shift money around and a perpetual thorn in the side. Anyone who has used the service at any great length will no doubt have a story about the, shall we say, “quirks” that exist within the ubiquitous payment system.

Through an apparent scoop by the Home Shopping Network (of all people) we have learned that e-book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc. may be planning to launch their very own store for the popular Nook Color tablet.

The Financial | March 22, 2011 The FINANCIAL — Opera Software announced on March 22 that the Opera Mini browser is now available on a second Android device offered exclusively …

This one has been rumoured for a good few months now, but today Research In Motion Ltd. made it official with their plans to give their existing app selection a huge boost, by adding support for Android apps in their upcoming tablet, the PlayBook.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sprint Nextel Corp. is keeping its hands firmly on the wheel this week in honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, with the firm CEO Dan Hesse announcing to attendees of the CTIA 2011 show that his firm will be offering its driver safety product – Sprint Drive First – this year.