Friday, February 17, 2012


Motorola's Messy Ice Cream Sandwich Speaks Volumes On Android
InformationWeek
Motorola says that many owners of its most popular devices will have to wait as long as six months for Android 4.0 updates. The Android update model is clearly broken. Android system updates have been a contentious issue for as long as the platform has ...
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Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' May Arrive By Summer
InformationWeek
Google is already preparing the next version of Android, believed to be called Jelly Bean. Android 5.0 will follow its dessert-themed predecessors in the alphabetical sequence, starting with the letter J. This new operating system, which could arrive ...
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HP's Whitman Warns On Android, Optimistic On WebOS
InformationWeek
Google has said over and over that Android will remain an open platform. HP CEO Meg Whitman isn't so sure. When Google announced its intent to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, there was an immediate fear that Google would close the OS and ...
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Nvidia's Tegra 3 plan: Superphones, Android tablets soon, Windows 8 later
ZDNet (blog)
The challenge for Nvidia's Tegra 3 plans are that the tablets are largely based on Android, an OS that hasn't dented Apple's iPad juggernaut, and Windows 8, which may not become a tablet superstar either. Huang, however, noted that Windows 8 isn't ...
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Why Android will never be closed source
ITworld.com
By Brian Proffitt Add a new comment February 16, 2012, 10:20 AM — The oddest thing about HP CEO's assertion that a Google-Motorola deal will eventually lead the the closing of Android's source code is not that she made the assertion, but that Whitman ...
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What do Path's privacy violations mean for Android?
CNET
What does it mean, if anything, for Path's Android users? The revelations about Path's contact list uploading, and the resulting mea culpa's first from Path and now from Apple, might have Path's Android users a bit spooked. In fact, they should have ...
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Motorola Android 4.0 Upgrade Accelerating in Q3
eWeek
Motorola, which has been cleared to be acquired by Google, updated its Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade schedule. Some ICS bumps are coming in Q3, but most are coming later. Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), which just received the approval to ...
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Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' could push fragmentation to new heights
BGR
Despite the fact that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is only found on a handful of Android devices — Ice Cream Sandwich penetration currently sits at 1%, just as it did more than one month ago — a new report suggests Google is preparing to launch the ...
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Google: Android Won't Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
paidContent.org
In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was all too happy to confirm Wednesday that its development model for Android applications makes it ...
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Motorola: Most Android Ice Cream Sandwich updates due late 2012
Los Angeles Times
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles We can now add Motorola to the growing list of Android gadget-makers that will be waiting until the second half of the year to update the majority of its devices to Ice Cream Sandwich. On Wednesday, Motorola announced its road ...
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Los Angeles Times

Blogs5 new results for android
Rumor: Android 5.0 Jelly Bean due in 2nd quarter | Android ...
By Michael Crider
Put this one squarely in the long shot column. Supplier tipsters at DigiTimes claim that Google is encouraging its hardware partners to consider new tablets and.
Android Community
Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Could Launch As Early As This Summer ...
By Chris Chavez
While some of you are still waiting around (possibly indefinitely) for Ice Cream Sandwich to land on your Android device, inside sources are reporting.
Android Phone Fans
Utter Robustifies Voice Control In Android, Adds App Support ...
By Devin Coldewey
Android was doing voice recognition for a long time before Siri came around, but the truth is Apple's implementation of voice commands made Google's look limited and out of date. And that hasn't changed in the last few months, despite a few ...
TechCrunch
Motorola outs Android 4.0 upgrade schedule, adds Atrix 4G, Photon ...
By Michael Gorman
Ever since the debut of Ice Cream Sandwich, the masses of Motorola owners have yearned to discover when (if?) their devices would receive Android's latest.
Engadget
Making Sense of the Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" Timeline
By Dan Rowinski
There should be a new bounty of dessert coming to Android lovers later this year. Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" is rumored to be announced in the second quarter ...
ReadWriteWeb

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