Twitter begins beta program for Android - Nutech

Twitter allows Android users to specify a beta version of the app.

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reports Android Police Friday. The launch follows similar programs and Snap Facebook Chat.

Beta Testers get a newer version of the Twitter app than people who do not have to enter it here. The beta app can not be installed.

next to the stable app

Who wants to be a beta tester should join a Google Group and then a tester via this link.

It is not yet known what new features will test Twitter.

in the beta appBy: NU.nl / Jeroen Crane

Google Android smart watches maker acquired - tweakers.net

Google appears to have, a maker of Android smart watches a year ago. quietly WIMM Labs acquired The team behind the company has become part of Google’s Android division. WIMM Labs could include a development platform for “micro-apps”.

All

a year stands on the site of the company not WIMM Labs Developer Preview Kit delivers more ‘because an exclusive, confidential agreement relating to the technology. ” The kit was on the developer version of the WIMM One: a display device that runs on Android and can be for a smart watch to make stops in a wristband. Only last Friday, gave Google opposite GigaOM to have. WIMM Labs acquired Simultaneously with the acquisition, the Google domain Smartwatch.com got owned.

least part of the smart watch-maker is merged into Googles Android branch. It is not clear whether the developers will not really work on smart watch software. However, it seems the most likely reason for the acquisition that WIMM Labs a platform for developers had to make. “Micro-apps” Thus there are in WIMM Labs’ micro-app store apps to control smartphones, for example, to call or to operate the music player but there are also stand-alone apps for smart watch, like a calculator.

WIMM One was a relatively thick smart watch with 1.4 “screen that 22 grams weighed, support bluetooth and wifi and an accelerometer, magnetometer and disposal to 32GB storage memory. Should Google to a smart watch or platform before work, then that new evidence that “wearable electronics” from manufacturers strongly on the rise. So, Samsung will next week the Galaxy Wear smart watches announcement, Sony has already two generations of its smart watch released and there are rumors that Apple to such devices works.

Android ringleader of Google for smartphone maker Xiaomi - Volkskrant

Edited by: editor – 08/29/13, 14:31 – Source: BuzzT

© ap. Hugo Barra, last July in San Francisco.

Hugo Barra is the Android team at Google leaving for a new job in China. Barra is in the Asian smartphone maker Xiaomi vice president in the global branch of the company.

his own Google+ page Barra writes that he is very pleased with the new challenge and the opportunity to continue working on the Android platform.

Continue through Xiaomi

??It is the second major shift within the Android team in one year. Recently Andy Rubin showed even know anything else to do, but he’s remained active within Google.

In addition to his three years with the Android team, other work Barra also 2.5 years U.S. search giant made.

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Android CEO for Chinese phone giant - Telegraaf.nl

Android chief leaves for Chinese smartphone maker - NU.nl

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This confirms Google Thursday after a report by AllThingsD .

The departure of Hugo Barra, whose official title Vice President of Product Management for Android was, is unexpected. He presented a month ago the new version of the Nexus 7 (review).

Earlier this year, leaving Andy Rubin, the original creator of Android, when team. He remained with Google.

Xiaomi will help Barra Chinese phones also sell. outside the home “I’m really looking forward to this new challenge, and I am especially excited about the opportunity to continue to improve the Android ecosystem,” writes Barra on Google+.

being, Xiaomi phones for sale in Europe. The company is relatively cheap phones that still have good specifications. All Xiaomi smartphones run on a customized version of Android.

Xiaomi Recently sold 100,000 copies of his new Hongmi phone in 90 seconds. The device was also ordered for nearly 7.5 million times. On the Chinese smartphone market rapidly growing company in sixth place.

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Android most popular OS among developers - Nutech

Developers still give more priority to iOS than Android when they build an app. Android is generally called popular, but less often the first option.

According to research by Forrester among over 1600 developers worldwide.

35 percent of the developers give priority to iPhones when they are going to make an app. 27 percent prefer Android Phones. Forrester has handled the iPad and Android Tablets as separate categories.

In total, 78 percent interest in developing for the iPhone and Android is generally popular with 84 percent. Google’s operating system only receives less priority. This may have to do with the fact that often earned on iOS apps.

Developers give further research to prefer to make apps for Android Tablets than for the iPad. Three quarters indicates to want to develop for Android Tablets and the iPad is that ‘only’ 69 percent.

Move the cursor over the chart to see the percentages. The data comes from Forrester. View a larger version. – (C) NU.nl / Jerry Warn

The study is bad news for Windows RT and Blackberry 10. The relatively new operating system for Windows 8 tablets, respectively, and the new BlackBerry devices are not popular. No developer Blackberry sees 10 as a priority.

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U.S. Government indicates danger old Android versions - NU.nl

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according to a study by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

Around 79 percent of all threats that were found in the study were focused on Android. Another 19 percent was focused on Symbian operating system, which includes Nokia used before it switched to Windows Phone.

Other mobile operating systems, according to the survey hardly threatened by malware. Apple’s iOS was 0.7 percent of all cases the target, while Windows Phone and Blackberry were each to endure 0.3 percent of the attacks.

According to the research, it is a problem that many Android users still use old versions, called Gingerbread,. Android updates to be distributed by the manufacturers of phones, but who do this often late or not at all.

Move the cursor over the line to see the percentages . The data comes from Android. View a larger version. – (C) NU.nl / Jerry Warn

More than half of all malware earns money by sending. expensive SMS Also rootkits that the keystrokes of the user record are common.

Security researchers have been warning for some time about the malware threat to Android devices. According to a recent survey 1 percent of all Android devices infected with malicious software.

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"Microsoft wanted revenge for switching to Android" - Macworld

Aug 27, 2013 by Jasper Bakker

Aug 27, 2013 by Jasper Bakker

News – Microsoft and Motorola are back for the U.S. court over patents and license money before. Wild Microsoft Windows Mobile apostate destroy or early Motorola aware too high patent fee?

long-running patent dispute between the Windows-maker and the U.S. smartphone manufacturer has now come before the court in Seattle. Microsoft and Motorola (now owned by Android maker Google) argue about for years on patent fees. It is Motorola smartphones and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console, plus Windows itself hit by the patent fire.

Angry intent, or response to revenge?

The lawyers of both companies have yesterday in their opening statements focused on the intentions behind the stalled negotiations royalty. The local newspaper Seattle Times following the case closely. Motorola has deliberately too much money requested patent, so Microsoft would refuse? Or does the former Windows Mobile partner responded to a reprisal from Microsoft for switching to Android?

Motorola was late 2010 when Microsoft a fee requirement for use of patented Wi-Fi and video technology. That use as the Xbox 360 and Windows, the patent owner 2.25 percent of the sale price demanded. According to Microsoft, which amounted to a total of $ 4 billion per year. The company countered that patent fees do not apply to sales, but for component prices.

essential for standards

Furthermore it comes to patents on technology that is essential for standards such as Wi-Fi and so H.264. Licensing services for these so-called FRAND patents (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) should be provided to everyone who is interested. Reasonable fee The role of this Motorola in patent war with Microsoft is already come under fire.

Microsoft has therefore argued in court Monday that Motorola has intentionally placed. compensation requirement high So Microsoft would refuse, and Motorola could then demand for Microsoft products. Courts through sales and import bans The requirement of October 2010 was also the latest step in a long process of requirements for additional patent valid, Microsoft now in court.

Patent Cash requirements for Android use

Motorola defends himself by pointing to the context of the letter patent in 2010 more money early end. The two companies already had a relationship that had soured considerably. Motorola was switched from the old Windows Mobile to the emerging competitor Android, while Microsoft had just launched.

its new Windows Phone

The successor to the overtaken Windows Mobile was unveiled in early 2010 but would not arrive until the end of that year. After a difficult start Windows Phone now still small. Microsoft had sued Motorola in October 2010 twice, bears the smartphone maker now in the last trial began. That was according to the company to patent cash requirements for the use of the open source Android, and make.

Motorola broken

Miljardeneis been scuttled by court

This is the second round of this patent case. In the first round, the court already ruled in April this year that the royalty requirement of Motorola was far too high. He lowers the $ 4 billion to $ 1.8 million. Motorola now says that was 2.25 percent based on the personal experience of licensing deals with hardware companies. Lawyers of the firm further argue that the percentage was only an ‘opening bid’, and then further negotiation.

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Company starts production autonomous Android smart watch - tweakers.net

Omate The company, which is partly run from the Netherlands, is two days after obtaining the KickStart target the production of its smart watch True Mart started. In October and November the first people to support the project their Android watch.

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Omate True Mart is one of several smart watch-projects on Kickstarter has achieved his goal, but unlike many other initiatives, the production began almost immediately after reaching the target. Thursday, 13 hours after the start of the support of $ 100,000 by 650 people inside, but now that amount increased to more than 380,000 dollars by 1900 ‘backers’ and has started production.

The True Mart is a smart watch that runs on Android, a 1.54 “touch screen with resolution of 240×140 pixels and has a slot for a micro-SIM card. The phone has wifi and 3g support and can function independently, but can also be combined with a smartphone or tablet to work, to be $ 199 supported by Bluetooth 4.0. For the first developer versions then could support 179 or 189 dollars now amounts.

First, in 1000 developer editions of the smart watch built, sent in October to developers. In November, then get the first ‘backers’ within their unit, in several batches of 500, says Dennis List of Omate against Tweakers. “We could start as soon as we have good connections with Chinese manufacturers. We had all parts and materials aside,” said List, who says the company strives in the first quarter to roll through partners such as telecom companies. Commercially from This should be kept still negotiating. The team behind the True Mart is an international company that, among other operates from the Netherlands, New York, France and China.

The device features a dual-core Cortex-A7. This is the MediaTek MTK6572 which runs at 1.3 GHz and the Mali 400 GPU as is. Working memory is 512MB big. The watch has support for GPS and there are a 5-megapixel camera, microphone, speaker, accelerometer, gyroscope and compass available . The battery has a capacity of 600mAh.

According List compared to last week, when the Kickstarter project was announced, further to report that the True Mart is the only smart watch will support so far Google Play Store: “We are working hard to optimized variants of to develop. “the main apps The operation of the device takes place including through gesture controls and voice control. The onscreen keyboard Omate works with a large party, who does not want to indicate List detail. New features the company hopes to add via so-called “stretch goals.” The first of these should bring strong sapphire crystal to the watch, which is possible if $ 500,000 is won. New targets are determined from user input, but according List is at least more memory high on the agenda.

Google+ Photos: The new 'Android app Google+ - Android Planet

Saturday, August 17, 2013 (18:13) | Daniel Verlaan

Google+ Photos is a new Android app that along with the recent update of Google+ comes. The Google+ update had one of my biggest annoyances on my Nexus 4 suddenly disappear: the Messenger icon is gone after the update. And before we get Google+ Photos in the post, an app for all your photos stored on Google’s servers.

Google+ Photos is actually a compilation of all the pictures include on Google+ and Picasa are, and through Hangouts are sent. This gives each Hangout call his own album containing the bundled pictures. This may make the list a little confused, but Google+ Photos provides enough sorting options, from highlights to photos and albums.

However

it remains difficult to Google+ Photos to mention. complete app The icon is rather a shortcut to the photo section within the Google+ app. Although the icon is beautiful to look at and can, as Hangouts is increasingly used, a handy app are.

Google+ Photos will appear automatically when you update the official Google+ app. The app can be identified by a blue icon with a white figure that looks like a house, and a white circle. Google+ Photos is usually right next to the Google+ app in the appdrawer.

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My Android and Me: Tit Sinatra - Android Planet

Saturday, August 17, 2013 (14:12) | Editorial Android Planet

In the two weekly section My Android and I Android Planet tell readers about their Android device: what they love about Android, what tips they have and which apps they use every day.

The first edition we will start with Mees Sinatra. Mees is a student in daily life, plays guitar and is a graphic designer / coder, comes from the Brabant Bergeijk and is happy with his girlfriend and HTC One.

We Mees five questions on Android are:

My first Android has surprised me. I never thought I would get, really addicted to a phone so be nice! Android OS which is for me the great opportunities and freedom combined. To create a note, a few games, or hard-coding and test your code on a local server. It all can!

I would probably go ballistic. It might be a small device, but it’s just become a limb for me. If I had hit my Android lost I would probably first be in complete panic. Then quickly buy a new one and my cloud backups recover!

Ingress
Ever thought that a game would change? your daily life Ingress has succeeded with a great augmented reality game! Ingress is a game in which two parties (The Resistance / The Enlightened) struggle to change the world. Together Special buildings or statues in your environment are often Portals. This can be blue (The Resistance) or green (The Enlightened) are. The goal is to get them all to change by walking around (or cycling) and attack the portals and take.

about the color of your team

I am a member of the Enlightened called Ameesdotme. Eventually you go in really naturally look around you, or perhaps a particular building is what a portal can be! The game is still invite-only. If you want an invite, let me know in the comments

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Google Currents
I’m pretty obsessed with tech news, so I always aware of the latest news. Currents is a true replacement for the printed newspaper. You indicate which news you find interesting, and read it! The app also stores news articles offline, so you can be.

without mobile Internet up-to-date

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uTorrent
As you may not expect, but even without your laptop, you can via the mobile app uTorrent many movies, music and apps bringing with torrents. The download is almost as fast as on my laptop, but of course this depends on the type of device and your internet connection.

Download : uTorrent (free)

Riptide GP 2
Most new Androids have a decent computing power. This game gets the most out of your Android with amazing graphics where you will be guaranteed to love. It is ultimately a water racing game where you fight a jet ski to go with other jet skis, and now even against other real players!

Download : Riptide GP2 (free)

MX Video Player
MX Player plays it all. The video player supports all video format after some ate out there, accompanied by a fine interface with convenient gestures.
Also support for subtitles is present.

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Are you somewhat technically? Then you must have heard of Android launchers. The launcher of Android is the screen where you can open ones apps and widgets you use. The developers have decided that you can also change (without rooting your phone or jailbreak). Launcher of Go to the Play store and search again on ‘Launcher’. Immediately fly launchers your ears, including my personal favorite. Apex Launcher

ability to always default to get Android. Many manufacturers provide a custom version of Android on their devices, and that’s not always nice. Thus, the so-called HTC Sense developed and Samsung Touchwiz. Touchwiz is in my opinion, for example, a lot less beautiful.

Google itself has a great team of designers to look beautiful to show. from Android And she certainly succeeded. So I think that as a user should be able to return to the original Android back the chance of Google

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Do you want to participate and answer five questions about your Android experience? Send an email to editor [at] androidplanet.nl or please contact us via Twitter and we’ll do the rest!

Cloud Book now also available for Android - eReaders.nl

all you can read children’s book Cloud platform has recently made its application for Android tablets. For a fixed monthly fee, parents can give their children access to a few hundred ebooks from publishers like Gottmer, Kluitman, Holland and The Unicorn.

Book Cloud was launched in February this year. The service consists of a tablet online application that provides access to digital children’s books. Subscription-based Initially, the application is only suitable for iPad, but there is now support for Android tablets added. A version for Windows 8 is available later.

According

initiator Rikky Schrever currently make ‘a few hundred subscribers’ use of Cloud Book. The digital book shelf is especially popular with children between 8 and 11 years. Schrever hopes to offer via Cloud Book 500 titles by the end of this year: “Publishers were waiting until early this year, or had no clear plan what ebooks are concerned. I notice that there happy change comes. Previously, I had to myself, behind appointments now they call me. “

Overall, tablet owners are enthusiastic about the initiative. Avid readers of paper books still see some bears on the way: around the holiday was the most asked question or Book Cloud also offline use (in the back “), but Book Cloud currently works only if there is an internet <. / p>

Although exact statistics are not available, it can Schrever to report that series as Floortje Bellefleur and Koen Champion are very popular among younger readers. The older children The Ranger very popular.

Google warns of new crypto weakness in Android - Macworld

Aug 15, 2013 by Jasper Bakker

Aug 15, 2013 by Jasper Bakker

News – encryptiegat along Bitcoins are stolen, is an Android-wide security issue, confirms Google. It provides patches, but that is not the solution.

This week is a vulnerability revealed in encryption capabilities on Android. Along there have malicious virtual currency Bitcoin stolen, valued at $ 5700. The random number generator in Google’s mobile operating system does not appear to create. Truly random numbers On the basis of random numbers are encryption keys are generated, which in the case of Bitcoin-apps that serve for the exchange of virtual currency.

Much more vulnerable apps

Google confirms the previously suggested suspect that this vulnerability not only undermines Bitcoin apps. The Android security team concluded after its own research that all apps are vulnerable to the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) for different beveilgingsfuncties. These are to create encryption keys, digital code signing or content, and creating random numbers.

Apps that do this via JCA, “could potentially receive cryptographically strong values”, the team blogs. This means that the resulting security is to crack. The reason is that the underlying random number generator (PRNG) is not initialized properly. In addition, apps are also vulnerable to the OpenSSL PRNG Android calls directly, without explicit initialization thereof.

Random and really random

Security Supplier Symantec has blogged that “Bitcoin-hole ‘may lose hundreds of thousands of Android apps. The company has identified through a search of its Norton Mobile Insight data more than 360,000 Android apps that use the Secure Random function. This makes those apps are not inherently vulnerable. Of the 360,000 found there are definitely 320,000 using the number generator in a similar way as the Bitcoin apps that will be proved vulnerable.

various types of Android apps are equally affected by this new cryptolek:
Via:. Symantec

The Android security team eases that not all Android apps that use security no longer be trusted. The security is guaranteed in cases where secure TLS / SSL connections are created by using. The classes HttpClient and Java.net Using these components namely the OpenSSL PRNG by running from the Linux interface / dev / urandom. Those random values This provides Androids Linux underlay the random numbers, not the generator that is included in the Java-derived Dalvik.

Patches, and Android apps

While Google has now released patches for the various Android versions, carries the first advice for app developers to customize their products. Apps should get updates so that they now only use the built OpenSSL PRNG in conjunction with (really random) numbers from / dev / urandom or / dev / random. The Android-maker carries in the blog post also an example implementation of this.

The importance of updates to apps is great because patches for Android itself are distributed in practice. along a detour This is done via smartphone makers and telecom providers that Google’s partners in the joint venture for Android, the Open Handset Alliance. Those companies have Android updates always handle yourself in the software and then cast for their customers.

Android versions and fragmentation

It has been repeatedly proven in the past that a lot of time to go over it. Moreover, it is not always true that updates come through for all Android versions and devices. Sometimes this is for performance reasons. This old versions are still much in use, with newer versions delay trickle down to devices. It does not penetrate updates also concerns also fixes for security holes and vulnerabilities, as is the case with the encryption weakness.

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Yahoo Weather: popular and visual weather app released for Android - Android Planet

Friday, August 16, 2013 (09:43) | Daniel Verlaan

Yahoo Weather is finally released for Android. The app, which has long been available and very popular on iOS, let users current weather and forecast a very visually oriented app to view. How to use Yahoo Weather photos from the Yahoo also service Flickr, taken by photographers who were chosen by Yahoo and where they find the lovely photo.

And yes, you can hear the selected photos, the snapshots if you upload to Flickr and limited rights granted to you.

Yahoo Weather: what can you do with it all

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Yahoo Weather app places a photo of the actual location where the user can see at that moment, with the current weather. So you always have a nice view of the current weather. In the app include the appropriate weather to see.

a five day weather forecast

To view more information, you can turn the phone sideways. Include the wind and air pressure, rainfall and position of the sun and moon can be viewed.

in the app

In total, it is possible to save. again ten different locations All information is taken from Yahoo Weather The Weather Channel.

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Yahoo Weather is free to download in Google Play. The app was already available, but the official update has the same app as iOS got new looks.

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KPN and Hi implement carrier billing for Android - NieuweMobiel.NL

Users of KPN and Hi have will no longer need a credit card to apps from the Google Play Store download. The operator enters pay by phone account, also known as ‘carrier billing’ called.

Carrier billing with costs charged by the telecom operator via the telephone bill is abroad much more common. For now it is only possible to pay. Apps and other content from the Play Store Android via the operator To prevent abuse or unwanted acts, there is a limit of 10 euros per transaction with a ceiling of 100 euros per month. Users can expect the new payment option in the coming weeks.

Yahoo Weather for Android released - Nutech

Yahoo Weather is now available for Android devices. The app has long been popular in the App Store.

The Yahoo Weather app is characterized by the use of pictures that match the weather at your current location. This gives according to Yahoo a visual image of the forecast.

In the app include many associated with weather view. a five-day weather forecast The additional information can be read by turning the device. The information comes from The Weather Channel.

It is possible to save. again 10 locations in total The user can navigate with a swipe between these locations.

Also sharing the forecast with accompanying photos via social media, and users can put a widget on the homescreen.

Yahoo Weather is free for Android download.

By: NU.nl / Daniel Verlaan

Samsung announces Android clamshell Hennessy for China - NieuweMobiel.NL

A clamshell with two displays under Android Jelly Bean. The Samsung W789 Hennessy is both familiar and a stranger in our midst. Unfortunately the device only for China is announced.

In theory, the W789 can work here, but you can not use all functions, reducing the likelihood that these Hennessy to the European continent is virtually zero. Nevertheless, it indicates that Samsung is willing to think of other form factors than just monoblocks. A with two displays of 3 3 inch, Android 4.1 and a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. Hopefully that’s not all this Hennessy only we see the future even more interesting phones from Samsung.

Project BBX: Android could be the salvation of BlackBerry - Android World

BlackBerry Android

This news comes after the news that BlackBerry has established a committee to investigate what they can do to save the company rumors that the once powerful business for sale.

When the investor the necessary six billion dollars on the table had managed to get he would have implemented drastic measures to save the company. Central point in this bailout is the dumping of BlackBerry 10 and the introduction of Android operating system. 33 slides in a presentation component shows Chen where it went wrong according to him and where he sees the opportunities for the company.

What went wrong?

you the slides of the presentation takes is clear where, according to Chen went wrong, BlackBerry failed time after time to adapt to the changing market situation. soon The problems started with the introduction of the BlackBerry Storm, the first touchscreen BlackBerry device without the typical keyboard. The reviews were dramatic and the press denounced the device, logical consequence was that the unit remained lying on the shelf.

BlackBerry 2011 launched its first tablet because the company had naturally along with the Apple iPad. The Playbook was a 7-inch tablet that at first sight had everything to be a success. It was nicely decorated, 7 inches tall and would be the perfect companion for every BlackBerry device.

But it soon became apparent that this PlayBook inside was missing some vital functions. Thus one could no e-mail, calendar and contacts sync data at the launch of the device and needed you to online software to come. Via a bridge a BlackBerry device In other words, the PlayBook was not to be used.

Where were the odds

Although the situation as he saw dramatic Chen was still plenty of opportunities for the company. BlackBerry traditionally had a strong and good position in the business market and there are also layers of the opportunities.

When the company would switch to Android they are in the business segment master. operating system Because none of the currently prevailing Android Brands had a device that could measure the business level.

BlackBerry

thought they were masters of the premium business market but they were mistaken in the BYOD principle. BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device, from 2011/2012 had the workers themselves often better than the BlackBerry device that they got from the case. More and more companies went allow these devices on their network. With the corollary that the BlackBerry will no longer be experienced in the business segment.

for granted

Chen’s plan was fully developed and he had even thought about how the devices should see.

out

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Unfortunately for Chen and actually has these plans be put in the garbage to BlackBerry. well for Android In retrospect this seems a silly mistake because BlackBerry 10 is still not really call it a success ….

What do you think, with Android or BlackBerry had made a chance?

Source: Mobile Geeks

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Google+ Android app gets major update - Nutech

Google+ Android app gets a major update that lets users easily switch between profiles and removes the unnecessary Messenger icon.

That makes Virgil Dobjanschi Google in a Google+ blog known. The Google+ Android app was no longer provide a considerable time an update.

In the new version of the Google+ app, users can easily switch between profiles and pages. In the menu of Google+ is available now on a button that lets you quickly switch between profiles and pages, in the same way as the Gmail app.

addition, the new Google+ users share more details about their location, are Google Apps for business and associated profiles are supported entirely by the social network and can be viewed photos and videos from Google Drive directly from the Google+ app and shared.

A final change is the removal of the Messenger app. This app is used together with the current version of Google+ installed and refers to the messenger service of the social network. This has now been replaced by Hangouts which the app does not offer more functionality.

update for Google+ rolled out in the coming days, and the new version comes in Google Play.

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"Android grabs market share of 79 percent" - Elsevier

by Elmar Rekers 14 Aug 2013

Android was the quarter on 79 percent of all smartphones to find

Android was at 79 percent of all smartphones to find the last quarter. According to new research from Gartner. This subject appears to continue. Growth of Google’s operating system Apple sees the market share of iOS easing.

Had Apple iOS in the second quarter of 2012, a market share of 18.8 percent, a year later, this had fallen to 14.2 percent. Android grew briskly during the same period, from 64.2 to 79 percent. The companies have jointly over 93 percent of the smartphone market.

Windows Phone

This automatically means that other players fight in the margin to perform. Windows Phone is in third position, but with a meager share of 3.3 percent. BlackBerry’s market share was halved in one year: from 5.2 to 2.7 percent

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Apple saw the number of iPhones sold during the quarter or rise, growth lagged behind that of the total smartphone market. The market grew by 46.5 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period a year earlier. A total of 225 million smartphones shipped worldwide.

Samsung

Samsung, Apple’s biggest competitor, is still the undisputed leader among phone manufacturers. The South Korean group accounts for 31.7 percent of all smartphones shipped. Apple’s iPhone has to do with 14.2 percent. LG is the third player, and has grown to 5.1 percent market share. However, LG does Lenovo have come fast. The Chinese manufacturer growth of 2.8 to 4.7 percent.