Tag Archives: Android2.1

ICS and Jellybean now on a quarter of all Android devices, but over half still stuck on Gingerbread

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It seems like only yesterday that Google bundled Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 in its little biscuit layers and sent it off into the world (it was December, 2011, actually). That Android flavor has since climbed the charts rapidly, around four percent each …


Google: Ice Cream Sandwich now accounts for 7.1 percent of Android user base

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Well, it’s about time that Ice Cream Sandwich made some headway — even if the process is much slower than consumers deserve. According to the Android developer hub, Android 4.0 now accounts for 7.1 percent of all Android smartphone and tablet instal…


ICS reaches 2.9 percent of active Android devices, 63.7 percent still on Gingerbread

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As we check back in on Android’s Platform Versions dashboard for the first time since January, we can finally see notable growth in the percentage of devices running some flavor of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, up for 0.6 percent then to 2.9 percent…


Yahoo Hub offers free messaging to anyone, locks horns with RIM and Google

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Yahoo, evidently tired of being passed up by hundreds of free messaging apps floating around the various smartphone application stores, has launched a service of its own to take on the likes of BBM and Google Messenger. The new app, called Hub, is…


Norwegian bookseller begins selling e-books on memory cards, for some reason (video)

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Literary changes may be afoot in Norway, where one bookstore is looking to drastically revamp the e-book medium. Last week, Norwegian retailer Norli Libris announced that it would begin selling books on small plastic memory cards that can be inserte…


Duke Nukem 3D hits Android, explosions ensue

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As promised, our favorite cigar smoking, wise cracking first-person protagonist has hit the Android Market, and it didn’t even take 15 years. The mobile version of the classic FPS is available now for Android 1.6 and up (that’s according to the Mark…


Verizon’s My FiOS app puts your entire living room under one Android roof

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Leaving home is hard, especially when you’ve got a backlog of on-demand movies and TV shows staring at you with big puppy dog eyes. Fortunately, however, Verizon has now come out with My FiOS — a new app for Android users that promises to keep yo…


Duke Nukem 3D is coming to Android, old rope shares soar

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There are a few rarefied moments in the conscious of the world that unify us all. For nerds of a certain age, it’s that point in 1996 when we first heard those hideous but oft-quoted one-liners spilling out of Duke Nukem’s pixellated mouth. Thanks…