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Tag: Android

  • Facebook App Center launched, is multi-platform

    Facebook app center launched today, with 600 apps. The App Center is not like a traditional app store, in the sense that it does not necessarily have apps that run within facebook.com, but lists any app that uses Facebook in any way. If an app uses Facebook login and pushes its feed to the site,…

  • Lava, a cheap Indian mobile phone manufacturer, foraying into high end market as XOLO

    Just a month ago we got India’s first and world’s second Intel Smartphone. First announced at the Mobile World Congress in early 2012 , HTC , Samsung  and Sony are going on a merry ride with British ARM processors , swiping off Intel’s domain from mobile computing. Getting back , with no support from big guns…

  • Facebook, Google and Apple are in a mobile platform war

    Facebook recently expressed their feelings about Apple and Google‘s HTML5 efforts, blaming them for not making their mobile browsers better at rendering HTML5 websites. Facebook says that the mobile Facebook site has twice as many users as on native Facebook apps on iOS and Android, combined. While this may seem like an inefficiency on Apple…

  • Facebook buys Instagram for 1 Billion Dollars!

    Instagram, the photo sharing app/social-network, which finally launched its Android app last week, has been purchased for a total of 1 billion dollars, including cash, and shares of Facebook. The best part is, Facebook is not evil like Google [ which caused the death of many good products such as picnik.com and Kevin Rose’ Oink…

  • Androidify your PC

    Android fans, get that damn OS from tablets and mobile phones to pc and laptops Google’s Android OS is possible on your notebook or desktop?  Yes, you can run Android!   1. What Android OSs can you run on a pc? Now, all of them. Android  1.6 , 2,1  , 2.2  , 2.3 , 3.0…

  • Google is evil, and wants to take over the world!

    Anybody who knows Bill Gates, also knows why he is rich? Because he owns the largest platform, on which other applications are built. It has been quite clear for a very long time now, that you can’t just make a product and get super rich. For that, you need a platform. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of…

  • Tech-giant Google releases Ice Cream Sandwich source code, The Next Gen Android!

    Are you ready for this? Because this is one hell of a release! After months of life-hurting wait, Google has finally released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This means you will soon be able to get the latest update running on your Android devices, assuming you have the programming skills. Or…

  • iPhone envy? Forget about it. You can have Android.

    Since the rise of Apple as a major smartphone manufacturer, people worldwide have been suffering from a great plague. iPhone envy. They have spent nights praying for an iPhone, or for it to be available at cheap prices in their respective countries. India, not being as developed in the telecom sector, not yet into the…

  • Flash is finally dying!

    Steve Jobs had said last year that the world needed to get over Flash, and move onto newer technologies like HTML5 – ‘New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and…