Google Touts Android

Release Date 20 Oct, 2011 in Wall Street Journal

Android identity crisis: Is it for nerds or everyone? ZDNet Asia - Stephen Shankland - 20 Oct, 2011 commentary There are signs Google understands what's necessary to make Android resonate with mainstream customers. But techie marketing messages undermine the effort. commentary The ...
Google rings up iPhone fight Boston Herald - Brendan Lynch - 20 Oct, 2011 Google announced two new smartphones this week, as well as Android 4, the latest version of its mobile operating system �" ratcheting up the war between Google's Android and Apple's iPhone. “Competition is at an all-time high in this ...
Google Touts Android Wall Street Journal - Evan Ramstad, Loretta Chao - 20 Oct, 2011 HONG KONG�"The chief of Google Inc.'s mobile-technology unit said the company will boost its media and services offerings to better compete with Apple Inc., as the company launched a new version of the Android operating ...
	Why Google Doesn't (And Shouldn't) Care About Tablets Yet Wired News - Tim Carmody - 20 Oct, 2011 Google held two big events within 24 hours: one with its subsidiary Motorola in New York, and another with its partner Samsung in Hong Kong. While there was some loose speculation around the web that maybe we'd see a new Xoom tablet or a ...
	Boot up: Google's Matias Duarte on Android evolution, bit.ly announces ... The Guardian (blog) - 20 Oct, 2011 Rubin: "[It] will have a little twist - it will have a little Google in it. It won't just be selling 99 cent tracks." Matias Duarte, Android's head of user experience: "We're designing something bigger. We're designing a showcase product for people ...
Morning Tech Wrap: Apple, Google, RIM Forbes - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎ I've covered European business and technology news for Forbes since 2006, and as London bureau chief since 2008. I'm using this blog to explore some of the disruptive technology and ideas coming out of this region. Before all this I tracked the highs ...
NH Investment's Kang Says Android 'Neck-And-Neck' With Apple IOS Bloomberg - Jun Yang - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ Kang Yoon Hum, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities Co. in Seoul, comments on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s latest version of its Android software. Google showcased the Ice Cream Sandwich in Hong Kong today and ...
	Why Samsung's Nexus Prime Will Kill iPhone 4S? International Business Times AU - Kristin Mariano - 20 Oct, 2011 Samsung finally launched the new Nexus Prime yesterday that is speculated that will be an intense competition for the iPhone 4S. The Nexus Prime is the third handset by the search and internet giant ...
TI touts role in Android 4.0 rollout EE Times - Sylvie Barak - 20 Oct, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO�"While the mobile masses enthused over Google Inc.'s announcement of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in Hong Kong on Wednesday (Oct. 19), chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) was also excited about the role it was playing in the new OS ...
Opinion: It's A Great Time For Smartphones Everywhere Gizmodo Australia - Alex Kidman - 20 Oct, 2011 This is probably spitting into the wind, but I've got to wonder: Why can't fans of opposing smartphone teams celebrate the remarkable successes everyone's having? I was reading over the stories that emerged ...
Interview With Android UX Lead Matias Duarte: "Google Is Taking Design A Lot ... Android Police - 20 Oct, 2011 Let's get the preliminary question off the plate first: who is Matias Duarte? Well for one thing, he oversaw the designing of a few small projects such as webOS, Sidekick OS, and Helio (the little carrier that could... be bought out). ...
Google And Rim Unveil New Operating Systems Portfolio.com (blog) - J.D. Harrison - 20 Oct, 2011 Google and RIM have unleashed their newest weapons in the smartphone wars, but while one of them stands as a serious threat to Apple, the other can merely hope to distract attention away from a recent string of failures. ...
There's A Bounty Out For The Kindle Fire: $200 For Reversible Root, $800 For ... Android Police - 20 Oct, 2011 It looks like the HP Touchpad isn't the only tablet to have a bounty placed on its head - Kindle Fire Forum is now offering a substantial reward to the first person who's able to provide a reliable, reversible root method, or either a Honeycomb or Ice ...
Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Closer Look - Android's New Camera Packs A Serious ... Android Police - Liam Spradlin - 20 Oct, 2011 One of the features I'm most excited about in Ice Cream Sandwich is the camera. The new camera app really raises the bar, bringing a heap of improvements, as well as plenty of features we haven't seen before. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of ICS' ...
NH Investment says Android is "Neck-and-neck" with Apple Macgasm - Corey Tamas - 20 Oct, 2011 NH Investment & Securities analyst Kang Yoon Hum has said a few words about the state of Apple versus Android, and seems to think it's too close to call. After today's presentation from Google and Samsung of ...
Android yearns to become more usable, lovable, iPhone-like GigaOm - Ryan Kim - 20 Oct, 2011 You'd think with a world-beating market share in smartphones, Google executives would be happy. But the team behind Android is making clear it's not enough to be bought, you want to inspire wonder and ...
	Will Android Beam set the standard for phone to phone content sharing? PhoneDog - 20 Oct, 2011 To put it lightly, the way we use our phones, what we use them for and what we store on them has greatly changed over the years. Just three years ago, the only thing I would store on my phone was contacts in my address book and a handful of pictures ...
Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video) Zimbabwe Guardian - 20 Oct, 2011 Remember when HP showed off transferring webpages from the TouchPad tablet to the Pre 3 just by touching? Remember thinking “Wow, that'd be cool if I actually had a TouchPad and a Pre 3?” Android Beam is the answer to that problem, a version of that ...
Andy Rubin: Ice Cream Sandwich's Face Unlock is developed by PittPatt Engadget - Richard Lai - 20 Oct, 2011 Liking that Face Unlock on Ice Cream Sandwich we saw this morning? You can thank PittPatt for that. Here at AsiaD's opening session, Android head honcho Andy Rubin just confirmed that said Pittsburgh-based ...
	Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich unveiled ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) - Alun Williams - 20 Oct, 2011 Seeking to unify the Tablet codebase of 3.xx "Honeycomb" and the 2.3.x Smartphone codebase of "Gingerbread", Google says version 4.0 of its mobile platform "adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing", including network data usage control, ...
Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Closer Look - Face Unlock Keeps Prying Eyes From ... Android Police - Liam Spradlin - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ If you find PIN codes or gesture patterns too predictable to keep your phone secure, Ice Cream Sandwich has the ultimate solution: face unlock. Face unlock utilizes your phone's front-facing camera to "recognize" your face. If anyone else looks into ...
	ICS rules phones and slates as Honeycomb and Gingerbread crumble SlashGear - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ As far as versions of mobile operating systems go, Google has been rather up front with the names for Android, each of them sticking to a kind of delicious food �" this week in Hong Kong we've confirmed that no longer will the treats Honeycomb and ...
Android Beam Lets You Quickly Share Your Information via NFC TechnoBuffalo - Sean P. Aune - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ It appears that Google has come up with a way to make NFC (Near Field Communications) a bit more useful to Android users while the world waits for more payment terminals to show up in stores that can ...
Android's near-instant voice dictation This Is My Next - Joe Flatley - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ Matias Duarte asked ”how do we make Android enchanting?” Aside from the new Roboto typeface, we would like to suggest that the near-instant talk-to-type has a magic unto itself. Of all of Ice Cream Sandwich's latest and greatest tricks, this one will ...
	Google's Ice Cream Sandwich: Battling Apple's iOS 5 International Business Times - David Zielenziger - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ Now that it's betting $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, Google plans to unveil its latest version of the Android OS, known as "Ice Cream Sandwich," at a Hong Kong event Wednesday with ...
	Motorola Xoom to get first bite of Ice Cream Sandwich? HEXUS - Steven Williamson - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎ The Motorola Xoom could be the first tablet to feature Ice Cream Sandwich, the new update to the Android operating system. The rumour comes from Fudzilla, who claims it has heard repeatedly that Xoom will ...
	190 Million Android Devices Shipped: Thats $2.25 Billion For Google Mobile Magazine - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎ By Radu Tyrsina, October 17, 2011 @ 3:46pm According to the latest financial figures of the company, over 190 million Android devices have sold around the world, with CEO Larry Page at the ship's wheel. While 190 million is quite a large number, ...
Ice Cream Sandwich To Support Native Screen Capture Phandroid.com - Chris Chavez - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎ It's a feature many rooted and Sense 3.0 users take for granted. Screen capture. The ability to take a snap shot of whatever is displayed on your screen is not only fun for sharing (or boasting) but ...
Encryption and Android: A Sad State of Affairs SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎ I want to make something very clear: I'ma big fan of Android. I've been using it since Verizon debut a few years ago, and I love the versatility and freedom that the platform provides. I don't think mobile devices would be as advanced as they are today ...
	Ice Cream Sandwich Photo editor possible MyBroadband - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎ Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming. He is also regular columnist and hardware... According to enthusiast site Android Police, Google is working on a photo editor for Ice ...