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Google’s Android OS no doubt is the leading platform for manufacturers and with nearly a million activations each day, Apple and others are simply ‘eating dust’. But how secure are these devices? The answer may be a bit unsettling for the millions of people who own and trust their Android smartphones. Mobile security company, Duo [...]
September 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
The mobile apps industry is worth over $500 million a year and employs thousands of people—many in the US alone. It comes as no surprise then that these applications are in high demand. Nielsen is reporting a 32% increase in the number of apps owned by mobile phone owners and estimates the average number of [...]
May 30th, 2012 by Anthony West
The Apps market is dominated by Apple; that much is sure. But that hasn’t stopped Google Android from making a strong push to being number one. So daring has been that push that the Android Apps market rebranded as Google Play, now has over 400,000 Apps in its repository. To put that in perspective, Apple’s [...]
April 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple is now the world’s largest company but you’d never tell that based on how fast Google’s own raft of offerings is growing—especially Android. The mobile OS now accounts for 50% of the US market and by the look of things, this will be trending up. According to data-mining an analytics company ComScore, Android topped [...]
April 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
As milestones go, it really doesn’t get bigger than 25 billion, and we can now report that Apple has made a bit of history with its App Store. The company had been running an online competition for several weeks, starting back on February 13, 2012 to honor the 25 billionth App download. The lucky winner [...]
March 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
The little green robot is on the move again, and this time, it’s exploding to the tune of 850,000 activations each day; this from Google’s SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, Andy Rubin. According to Rubin, this spectacular growth in activations has generated a stunning 250% growth over last year and presently, Google Android is [...]
March 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google is a thief—a thief of Microsoft Hotmail users that is. Microsoft announced recently that its Hotmail App for Android has now been downloaded more than 5 million times—in just five months. The announcement is one of those things that will make analysts scratch their heads in bemusement because it’s obvious that even Hotmail users [...]
March 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s amazing how generations can have shifts in their ways of going about life. 50 years ago, the bathroom was pretty much out of bounds for things like a phone, today a mobile phone is pretty much standard for any location in the house—even the loo. And helping to cement this in the annals (pardon [...]
February 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
When Apple executives go to bed at nights, they must have awful nightmares of little green robots, you know, the kind that looks like Google’s Android. Those nightmares will probably now get worse with the release of the latest mobile statistics from ComScore. According to the popular market analysis and traffic curator, Google’s Android is [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
The Google Android mascot may be cute and cuddly-looking, but as horde, it is marching steadily and relentlessly towards world domination. And this is by Google’s own admission. According to the search giant’s latest earnings call, there are now over 190 million Android activations worldwide. This surging growth in the mobile OS has helped Google [...]
January 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google Android is gaining momentum so fast that it is hard to expect it not to demolish Apple’s market share before the end of 2012. The latest set of data reveals that a staggering 700,000 devices are activated daily—up from the 500,000 or so daily activities recorded in June. The figure was sent out via [...]
December 30th, 2011 by Anthony West
The battle between Apple’s mobile platform and Android is intense and it is happening on all fronts, especially on the social networks. Apple seems to have switched focus away from Facebook and is now looking to build on its partnership with Twitter. Android on the other hand, has cemented its commitment to Facebook. These establishment [...]
December 25th, 2011 by Anthony West
The battle among mobile applications platforms is well and truly on. According to an infographic released by Quixey, Apple is still the leader among mobile platforms and now has a commanding lead of 54.7%, followed by Android with 35.5%. The applications market is a mix bunch of free and paid apps, and developers and mobile [...]
December 22nd, 2011 by Anthony West
Google and its Android OS seems ready to take over the world and to prove it, the search giant announced recently that so far Android has had over 10 billion App downloads. The milestone was relayed via a blog post by Android’s Director of Developer Ecosystems, Eric Chu. Mr Chu stated among other things, that [...]
December 11th, 2011 by Anthony West
People might be losing jobs, houses and heaven knows what else, but one thing is certain about the good folks in the US: “shopping is a must, no matter what the circumstances”. Early indications are that Thanksgiving shopping 2011 has been very good—and according to some sources better than predicted. Thanksgiving sales are reportedly up [...]
November 29th, 2011 by Anthony West
The race for mobile Apps dominance is an intense one at the top and although Apple long ago got a head start, many are predicting that the Android apps store will eventually overtake Apple’s. At present the Apple Apps store has just over 600,000 registered applications while the Android Apps store has just over 500,000. [...]
October 26th, 2011 by Anthony West
It’s the news Flickr and Android users have been waiting for quite some time: Flickr is finally releasing an official Android App. Until now, users on the two platforms haven’t had much to work with in terms functionality or efficiency and most third-party app creators are not truly committed to solid end-user experience. All that [...]
October 5th, 2011 by Anthony West
This week Google discovered several apps in the Android Market that were infected with malware. The company discovered that a total of 26 apps contained the malware called DroidDream Lite which is a more compact version of DroidDream that previously spread on the Android platform. Google suspects that DroidDream Lite is created by the same [...]
June 3rd, 2011 by Chad Buenaflor
