Android

You know what I’d actually pay to see on the Android app store? An app that combines a USB Host type setup, with Flickr capabilities, but as a single downloadable app. Any of you aspiring Android developers out there reading this, can have this idea free

Samsung was playing it large at CommunicAsia this year, showing off a multitude of shiny new handsets at its huge booth in the Singapore expo center.

It may be time for Chinese firm Huawei to deliver a bit of a smackdown to Apple’s iPad, in the form of its new SmaKit S7 tablet running Android 2.1.

It seems that after a decade of traveling, itinerary management app maker WorldMate may finally be arriving at a rather lucrative destination in the shape of a buyout by either Travelport or American Express.

We bring you some more tasty tidbits from the show floor out here in Singapore

French network operator Bouygues Telecom has selected Bluestreak Technologies Inc’s Flash based MachBlue platform to power the next generation interface of Bouygues’ Bbox IPTV.

The global trade body of mobile media, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), sees some clear mobile trends emerging in 2010, including the increasing demand for multiplatform delivery, more data heavy services, micro-payments for content, operator enabled services and rather a lot more.

Despite the well-publicized spat between Apple and Google, mobile advertising company Smaato’s monthly metrics shows that Symbian devices continue to dominate the US mobile advertising market.

In remarks to Chicago’s Executives Club on Wednesday, CEO of Motorola’s Mobile Devices and home business division Sanjay Jha announced another monster iPhone killer to be available by Christmas.

Telecommunications leaders from China and Taiwan met in Beijing on Wednesday and agreed to jointly standardize on Android, WiMax, and TD-LTE (Time-Division Long Term Evolution) among other accords.

Mobile marketing and advertising outfit Velti has announced the launch of its mobile developer program while simultaneously releasing its software developer kits (SDK) for Android, Symbian, Windows, Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

Intel certainly doesn’t want to be left sitting on the bench when it comes to the tablet game, and used the recent Computex expo in Taiwan to show what skills it brought to the table.

Tawkon, an innovative Israeli firm which has come up with an app of the same name to monitor and analyze cell radiation so users can “talk on” as usual and receive smart prompts to avoid radiation just when they need to.

At a recent mobile Monday event in Taipei, founder and CTO of Puno Systems John Williamson discussed the general structure of how the contract manufacturer-ODM-OEM-distributor value chain works for PDAs and Smartphones, touching on the dilemma over branding and other factors affecting the mobile distribution channel.