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Facebook’s much talked and written about “Home on Android,” event saw Facebook taking the wraps off Home, a suite of apps and a home screen replacement for Android phones. Facebook Home replaces the lock screen with Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people on your Friends list instead of apps. Facebook users swipe between pictures, status updates and other important events. It also [...]

Twitter was fast in rolling out the new Twitter Card formats Twitter’s mobile iPhone and Android apps and mobile.twitter.com. Twitter for Android gets a brand new look and feel to the social app which according to Twitter  “reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.” New in this [...]

Samsung and Mozilla announced plans today to jointly develop a web browser engine called “Servo” which will be designed for Android and the ARM architecture. Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich provided more details in a blog post : Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities [...]

Reports of Facebook launching a Facebook-built Android phone on  HTC  got traction last week after Facebook sent invites for a April 4 media event. AndroidPolice shares that it obtained a software dump of Facebook Home. The site’s analysis of the software seems to confirm some of the mid-range technical specifications reported by some bloggers. Reportedly Facebook Home is an experience on top [...]

Facebook is up to something. Facebook sent out an invitation to the media early this morning (Thursday afternoon San Francisco / Pacific Time), inviting media personnel to attend an event on April 4 where Facebook would show off their “new home on Android.” The invitation, as pictured on the right, says, “Come See Our New Home on Android,” and includes no other details as to [...]

Developers are understandably not ready to bet on a native Blackerry app, so they have offered some shortcuts designed to get programs running on devices like its Z10 like using an emulation engine that enables Android apps to run. “We give them a very nice on-ramp to get onto the platform,” said Mallick in an interview with All Things D about app development. Citing a need for users to [...]

Google has launched it’s own note-taking and archiving app named Google Keep to compete with the market leader  Evernote. Google announced it in a Blog Post : Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you’re like me you probably [...]

After a lot of hype and leaks Samsung’s Galaxy S IV has finally arrived. Samsung unvieled its new 5-inch smartphone at a  event in New York City yesterday night. Galaxy S IV has to live up to its hugely successful predecessor the Samsung Galaxy S III which currently is the world’s most popular Android phone with sales of over 40 million devices. “With the GALAXY S 4, Samsung is again [...]

Andy Rubin, who co founded Android a decade ago and spent several years at Apple as an engineer, spearheaded Android until now.  Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Android head Andy Rubin is moving on to other projects, and that Sundar Pichai is taking over. “Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning [...]

Android tablets will continue to grow and cut into Apple’s worldwide tablet market share according to Research firm IDC’s  2013 forecast for worldwide tablet shipments. Tablets powered by  Android Operating System will reach to 49 percent of the market in 2013, while iPad’s share will drop to 46 percent. In 2012, Apple commanded 51 percent, compared with Google’s 46 percent. “One [...]