More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Google’s Android Market, to mark the moment Google said that for the next 10 days it would cut the price of some top apps to 10p each. The search giant announced the milestone on its blog adding that the store’s apps were being downloaded at a [...]
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3rd November 2011
Android accounts for 52% of the mobile market
It looks as though Android is winning the battle of the mobile operating systems as a new report from Garner suggests that 52.5% of mobiles that were sold between July and September used this system. This represents more than double the 25.3 percent share Google’s mobile OS enjoyed the year before, and up from a [...]
28th October 2011
Samsung overtakes Apple
Samsung has shipped nearly 28 million Smartphone’s in the last quarter and overtaken Apple to become the world’s largest vendor of Smartphone’s, according to new research from analysts at Milton Keynes-based Strategy Analytics who have estimated that Samsung had shipped 27.8 million Smartphone’s in the last quarter giving them 23.8 per cent of the global [...]
1st September 2011
How does the Sony Ericsson Arc compare?
The Sony Ericsson Arc, an Android smartphone from Sony Ericsson mobile phones, is a super-slim beautifully designed smartphone. Offered in two sophisticated colours of Midnight Blue or Misty Silver, the Sony Ericsson Arc is a match for many of the other smartphones on the market. Powered by Android 2.3, the latest version of Android, the [...]
17th August 2011
Google Chrome overtakes Firefox
It seems such a short time ago that Google Chrome was launched, it was in fact only three years ago, but now nearly one in four British internet users now use Chrome as their web browser. It is now the second most popular browser, overtaking Mozilla’s Firefox and quickly gaining ground on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [...]
11th August 2011
The history of Motorola Mobile Phones
Motorola have been at the forefront of mobile phone development since the market began, however the company really came into their own in the mid 1990′s after being the first manufacturer to introduce flip phones. After pioneering flip phone technology and enjoying a significant boom, the company’s rivals eventually caught them up and forced Motorola [...]
26th July 2011
Google toolbar no longer available in new Firefox updates
Much to the dismay of its many supporters, the toolbar, which Firefox users could download as an add-on to the service, and contained features such as Google Translate, will no longer be available via the latest versions of Firefox. Google is understood to be keeping all other arrangements with Firefox the same, including its funding [...]
22nd July 2011
Google affected by malware
The discovery of some malware has prompted Google to warn more than a million internet users that their computer is infected with a virus that intercepts their web searches. The malicious software hijacks Google and other search requests and redirects them to websites that pay the cyber criminals behind the scam for traffic. If a [...]
19th July 2011
LG Optimus One – a great smartphone for the price!
The LG Optimus One is a relatively low cost smartphone from noted electronics manufacturer LG and was released to replace a number of other cheaper models in the company’s handset portfolio. However, despite the phone’s low price, the LG Optimus One is still a very capable phone and comes packed with the same features and [...]