The second big news at the press event at the Google campus today was their new Webstore for the Android Market. Obviously Android relies heavily on cloud services and now the Market is really going to take advantage of these services. the new Android Market Webstore was announced today, and is even live at this very second. However please [...]
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Google Announces New Android Market Webstore
February 2nd, 2011 
B_ren 
Posted in Apps, Google, Google Play Store, News 
Tags: Android, apps, Google, market, webstore 
No Comments »Wrap up Of Google’s Honeycomb Press Event, All Kinds Of New Goodies!
February 2nd, 2011 B_ren While I was not able to make it down to Google’s campus for the event, not being invited had a little something to do with it, I was still able to tune in live on their Youtube channel. We saw some really exciting features of the new tablet optimized Honeycomb OS, and we also got [...]
Google Holds Press Event Tomorrow, Honeycomb For Sure And Maybe New Music App And Market
February 1st, 2011 B_ren So tomorrow is Google’s press event where we aere expecting to see Honeycomb in all it’s glory. Now there are some new rumors that perhaps we will see a new music player and the new Market that was previewed at Google IO last year. The new Market enables users to search for applications on a [...]
Google Maps Updated To 5.1, Brings Check-Ins To Latitude
February 1st, 2011 B_ren The idea of sharing your location every chance you get seems to have really taken off this past year. We have apps like Foursquare, Facebook has added Places to their apps, and now we have Check-Ins for Latitude on Google Maps. Today the Google Maps app was updated to version 5.1 and now you can [...]
Android Takes Lead As Highest Selling Smartphone Platform In Q4 2010
January 31st, 2011 B_ren With activations numbers of 300,000 a day it is no wonder that Android took the lead for Smartphone sales in Q4 of 2010. According to U.K. research firm Canalys Google’s Android platform became number one, surpassing Nokia’s Symbian. “In total there was over 100 million smartphones shipped in the quarter and that Android-based devices made [...]
Google Invites Everyone To Get A Better Look At Honeycomb On February 2nd
January 28th, 2011 B_ren Yesterday we saw Google release a preview of the new tablet OS, Honeycomb, when Google released a little tidbit of the SDK. Well Google today sent out invites to select members of the press to come to their Mountain View campus on Feb. 2 for a closer look at Honeycomb. The good thing is that [...]
Canadian Launch Of Nexus S Points Towards AT&T Launch Perhaps
January 27th, 2011 B_ren During a sit down Dave Dobbin, the CEO of Mobilicity, talked about the Canadian launch of the Samsung Nexus S on not only his network but also on the Rogers,Telus and Bell. Now this should have set off the alarms for me, as I am from Canada and have used an AT&T Blackberry Torch with [...]
White Nexus S Makes Another Appearance, And Now Rumored To Be Heading To Vodafone
January 27th, 2011 B_ren We saw a render of a white Nexus S the other day, and it looked good then. Well today there is an actual photo of it, and it looks even better! The white version of the Samsung “pure Google” phone is now rumored to be making it’s way to Vodafone in the UK, and maybe even the [...]
Posted in Google, Leaked Device, Samsung Tags: Android, Google, leaked devcie, nexus s, samsung, vodafone, white 1 Comment »In-App Billing Coming To Android
January 26th, 2011 Patric At the Inside Social Apps conference, held in San Francisco yesterday, some exciting things were revealed. Amongst the hundreds of mobile apps on showcase, one seemed to stand out for the applications devs or there. Google, in the near future, will be implementing a standard app billing system. Along with PayPal, Google will push out [...]
Posted in Apps, Google, Google Play Store, News Tags: apps, billing, Google, market, paypal 1 Comment »Google IO 2011 Site Goes Live, And Registration To Open February 7th
January 26th, 2011 B_ren If you are unfamiliar with Google IO it is Goole’s annual developer conference. Registration will open on February 7th according to Google’s Vic Gundotra, and the prices will be $450 through April 16, $550 thereafter. Students and faculty can register for $150, and the optional Bootcamp session is an extra $100. If you are a developer for [...]
