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HTC’s First smartphone which was the first flagship Android phone for Facebook Home, now is priced at less than one US  Dollar. US carrier AT&T has discounted the price of the HTC First from $99.99 to $0.99, with a two-year agreement. Facebook has tied up with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home, the heavily modified Android experience. User reviews for Facebook Home [...]

Google  I/O conference, Google’s annual conference for Developers which features more than 120 sessions on the Android and Chrome operating systems and  one keynote begins May 15 and ends on May 17  in San Francisco. This conference is eagerly awaited each year as it usually brings some exciting new development for Android and Google’s other projects. Last year at Google I/O was announced [...]

Google was reportedly working on launching its Android based information aggregation tool Google Now to iOS. Google has now officially made Google Now available on iOS  with an update to the Google Search application. The look and feel is identical to it’s Android version and is available for both the iPhone and iPad, “Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the [...]

Latest number from market researcher Kantar confirm’s  Android’s overwhelming dominance of the UK and the Global smartphone market Among the nine countries (Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and the U.S.) surveyed by Kantar   Android on average accounted for 64.2% of all handset sales in Q1 2013.   Windows Phone accounted for 6.5% of sales with an increase of  [...]

Google is testing waters to adding Google Now functionality to the Google home page according to Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog. Google Now is currently available for Android users and Google Glass users, “Google Now uses your location to show relevant information like weather, traffic conditions, and nearby places. Google can know your location based on your browser settings and [...]

A Malware  family called Badnews has been discovered by Lookout Security in Google Play developer accounts, Badnews avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded between 2-9 million times according to Lookout . Google was notified of the outbreak and all affected apps have been removed from the Android store. Lookout found 32 applications that contained code from [...]

 Prices for Windows 8 powered touch screen devices, including laptops, are set to plunge according to Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Mobile devices based on Intel  running Windows 8 currently are at least 60% expensive than Android powered hardware in the same segment. “If you look at touch-enabled Intel-based notebooks that are ultrathin using [Bay Trail] processors. Those prices are going to be [...]

Rumours of Microsoft prepping Office for iOS and Android has been surfacing at regular intervals, Microsoft repeatedly kept denying those were real, according to a fresh report by ZDNet  Microsoft’s Office app will not be on iOS or Android mobile devices until mid-2014. The report is based on a roadmap for Office supplied by a source. Microsoft, as expected, has declined to say anything [...]

Google’s store for Android mobile OS is getting a redesign. Google announced on Tuesday that it has started to roll out a new look for the mobile version of Google Play. Users around the world will see the new design as early as today, it will be rolled out to various markets and devices over the next few weeks. Out goes the text heavy interface, the app gets light colours, a clearer layout [...]

Facebook  unveiled HTC First, the first Android powered smartphone that will debut with the Facebook Home suite of integrated apps with it right from the start at the “Home on Android” event. HTC First is equipped with a 4.3-inch screen, a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs Android Jelly Bean. The smartphone will be released in four [...]