Category Archives: Google

The tech giant is pushing itself into new territory with Android and Chrome OS. But will it succeed in the dog-eat-dog market of OSes and phones?

Droid X2 official – launching online tomorrow, in stores by May 26 (Update: released!)

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Sina Hamedian

Motorola and Verizon have just announced the Droid X2, a 4.3″ smartphone sporting Android 2.2 Froyo, a qHD screen, and the NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset powering this device. On the backside of the device, there’s a solid 8MP camera capable … Continue reading →

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Google patches Calendar and Contacts bug in Android 2.3.4, fix rolling out for all users

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Sina Hamedian

After several researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany published and confirmed a flaw in the latest version of Android that allowed to you to grab authentication tokens from select Google products (namely Picasa, Contacts, and Calendar) over an insecure WiFi … Continue reading →

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Android passes iPhone in US market share

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Sina Hamedian

After months of companies, like Motorola and HTC, pushing their Android phones in sales and marketing, Android has finally passed Apple’s iPhone in US market share, according to the NPD group. The results were determined by a survey of smartphone owners, which … Continue reading →

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Google: No plans to bring Maps Navigation to iPhone

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Sina Hamedian

After much rumor and speculation that Google would bring its popular (and free) turn-by-turn GPS to the iPhone, Google shot down the rumor today by saying that they have no current plans to bring the application to the iPhone – … Continue reading →

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Nexus One’s 3G problems no longer of interest to Google

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Sina Hamedian

There’s no denying that the number of complaints about the Nexus One’s 3G have been numerous. Now, after several updates, Google says “we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements”. Google feels that the patch they supplied took care of most of … Continue reading →

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