Google Remotely Pulls Apps From Android Phones

Internet giant Google is unleashing a new feature codenamed Bouncer in order to beef up the security aspect of its Android devices. According to the Mountain View based tech heavyweight, the new feature will primarily be aimed at...

US mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless has announced that it is axing a $2 ‘convenience fee' that it planned to charge from its users from next month. It was recently revealed that the company planned to charge a $2 fee...

Google continues to celebrate the 10-day extravaganza that marks the 10 billion app download milestone by the Android Market, the official Android app store. The celebrations, into their 9th day, offer premium apps for 10 cents...

Search engine giant Google has dished out a revamped version of its Android Marketplace application store for smartphone devices.The company said in a blog post that the new Android Marketplace comes with a movie rental service...

Google has announced a bunch of updates to its Android Market, giving the site a new coat of paint and tweaking some of the terms and conditions. In a post on the Android Developers blog, the company claimed the updates would...

Android's rumoured partnership with online payment giant Paypal may well spell big trouble for Google's own Checkout payment service. The potential move comes as rumours emerged of a recruitment drive by Apple that may convert...

Leading technology blog MobileCrunch has reported that the number of applications in the Android Market Place has crossed the 30,000 mark and that hundreds of new applications are being added everyday. Citing an emailed response...

Google is said to be a few hours away from launching its first consumer hardware, an Android-based smartphone called Nexus One, ahead of the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CES 2010 officially starts on...

The number of applications currently in the Google Android Marketplace has apparently reached more than 20,000, slightly more than one year after it was launched. The figures were collected and crunched by Android-focused...

In a move that could pave the way for rather widespread dissemination mobile porn in the future, a full-fledged adult app store has been released for the Google’s Android mobile operating system.A Seattle-based start-up...

Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has demoed a new smartphone called the Liquid which is build around an ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 1GHz which runs on Google's Android 1.6 OS. It is the first time that the two...

Google has released its first patch, v1.1, for unlocked G1 Smartphones which have been used by developers and apparently fixes a number of issues and bugs. The patch also allows users to see paid apps in Google's Marketplace and...

Vodafone has announced that it will be shipping the HTC Magic, the second phone based on Google's Android platform, later in April 2009; punters can already pre-register to get it first. The phone is essentially a leaner,...

Mobile application stores seems to be the flavour of this year’s Mobile World Congress, as after Google, the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has also unveiled its signature mobile applications store for its wide range of...

The launch of the first Android phone yesterday did not spark as much buzz and frenzy as when the original iPhone was launched. There were queues formed outside the T-Mobile Store on Oxford Circus from early morning but early...