Google Videos Brings Movie Rentals to Android Phones
Google’s Videos app, the official video player for Android Market movie rentals, has been updated to work on Android smartphones. Previously, the app was only supported on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the Android tablet operating system. The latest update is not compatible with all Android phones, however, only those running the two latest versions of Android for smartphones: [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-5-2011
Microsoft and Google Twitter Tiff Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, sick of all the patent pressure against their Android operating system, went in on several of Google’s competitors for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy the mobile OS. More specifically, Drummond called out Microsoft for getting in bed with other rivals [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-22-2011
Google’s Eric Schmidt Slams Apple Lawsuits Google’s Android OS and entire ecosystem is definitely a thorn in the sides of many other companies. From Google Music to the Android mobile devices themselves, Google is pretty much in competition with everyone. This has resulted in numerous lawsuits from all sides from companies trying to make a [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 5-27-2011
Microsoft Gets $5 Everytime HTC Sells an Android Phone Windows Phone 7 may not be the hottest mobile platform out right now, but at least Microsoft can make some change off Android. Wait…What?! According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, this is exactly what’s happening. Microsoft makes 5 bucks for every Android device sold by HTC. [...]
Read MoreBuild a Business Around Your Mobile App With Google’s App Galaxy Guide
Conceptualizing, developing, and marketing an app is an entire process that should be viewed and treated as more than just “I’ve got a great mobile app idea. Let me throw some code together, submit my app and see what happens” The mobile app industry is what’s hot in the streets right now, so treating your [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 5-20-2011
Android Users Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack Due to an insecurity in Google’s ClientLogin Protocol, it seems any Android user running 2.3.3 or earlier could unknowingly give away access to personal data. Researchers at uulm claim that authToken information, stored for 14 days any time you login to sites like Facebook and Twitter, can be easily [...]
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