Tag: Android

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37% of published apps have been removed from the Android Market

Research by Research2guidance has revealed that the Android market is growing faster than iPhone and it would be almost catching up with IOS if it wasn’t for those pesky App store owners. The Research2guidance (R2G) research shows that while there are tens of thousands of new Android apps appearing, there are an equally significant number…

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Angry Birds Rio 10 million downloads in 10 days

Angry Birds latest mobile game hit 10 million downloads in as many days. Game developer Rovio Mobile said that the latest addition to its exceptionally popular Angry Birds series surpassed 10 million downloads within its first 10 days on the market. Rovio Tweeted “10 in 10 :-) Angry Birds Rio breaking all records” The 10 million milestone…

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Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in their…

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Tesco sells more Android phones than iPhones

Tesco now sells more Android phones than iPhones. File under “It had to happen”, Mobile Today has a report that Tesco are now selling more Android phones than iPhones. It comes as no surprise that Apple iPhones are being outsold by Android, after all there are more models and more manufacturers producing Android phones, and…

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Android app downloads exceeded 1.9 billion in 2010

Android in it’s various guises notched up 1.9 billion downloads in 2010, a quarter of the total 2010 downloads. 2010 saw considerable growth in the mobile applications market for both Apple and Google Android and more competition is expected in 2011. Despite more proactive involvement in app store development from other platform providers, Apple’s iTunes…

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Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US

comScore’s January US figures from their MobiLens survey shows Android taking the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place. Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older with mobile phone almost 65.8 million (28%) now have a smartphones, that’s up 8% from the preceding three-month period and it…

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One in five new tablets sold is an Android device

Android is making huge inroads into the Apple iPad tablet heartland with one in five new tablets running Android. The latest research from market research company Strategy Analytics, finds Android making big gains in the tablet market. According to the research during Q4 2010, 22% of the 10 million tablet devices that where shipped ran…

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Android apps to outpace iOS by mid-2012

The App Genome project has measured a huge growth in the number of Android apps since August 2010 The App Genome Project is a survey by mobile security app business Lookout (they produce the rather good SmrtGuard iPhone/Android/BlackBerry/Windows app) and the latest figures culled from 500,000 users across the iOS and Android platforms in the…

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RIM to run Android apps on BlackBerry devices?

Even with the best will in the World, BlackBerry hasn’t a hope in hell of catching up with Android or the iPhone in the apps war, so if you can’t beat them join them. The constant criticism that the Blackberry is getting for its poor showing in the app department – 10+k apps and that’s…

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