News about Android


Flash Player temporarily returns to Google Play

By on August 31st, 2012
Flash Player temporarily returns to Google Play

Just when it seemed that Adobe Flash Player was a thing of the past on smartphones, it goes and makes an unexpected temporary return to the Google Play store. This has happened due to a backlash from certain influential strategic partners of the web player, including the BBC. Apparently, the Beeb asked for Flash Player [...]

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Google refuses to talk on paid bloggers and journalists

By on August 21st, 2012
Google refuses to talk on paid bloggers and journalists

Last week, the judge presiding over the Google – Oracle lawsuit demanded that both companies reveal the names of the bloggers, journalists and websites that they paid to cover the case. The outcome of the case was pretty decisive, with Oracle being humiliated by having to pay Google’s court fees, rather than get the $1bn [...]

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Google Maps receiving public transport update

By on August 16th, 2012
Google Maps receiving public transport update

Google Maps is quite possibly one of the internet’s most useful features ever. Now, it’s about to get another booster shot of usefulness, as Google are preparing to update it to contain public transport information for 500 cities across the world. This is to come as part of Google Maps’ update to version 6.10, which [...]

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App of the Week: Great Big War Game

By on August 15th, 2012
App of the Week: Great Big War Game

There is no man out there who hasn’t dabbled in fantasies of leading an army. Whether it’s playing toy soldiers at the age of four, playing Risk at Christmas, or – when you’re a disaffected adult – loosely planning on organising a rebel army to overthrow the banks, every adult male has a penchant for [...]

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PlayStation Mobile coming to Android later in the year

By on August 15th, 2012
PlayStation Mobile coming to Android later in the year

The whole Playstation Mobile phenomenon has been a bit of an anti-climax so far. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it’s the new (and improved) name for what was previously known as Playstation Suite; the service through which Sony lets you play their games on ‘Playstation-certified’ devices other than their own consoles. While [...]

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Adobe Flash Player leaving Android tomorrow

By on August 15th, 2012
Adobe Flash Player leaving Android tomorrow

Adobe Flash Player has for a long time been a loyal servant on many a home PC, forcing us to view unnecessarily glamorous Flash videos on websites where we’d much rather just skip the video and carry on getting to whatever content we actually want to see. For a while, it seemed that Flash would [...]

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5″ Successor to HTC One X coming out in October

By on August 9th, 2012
5″ Successor to HTC One X coming out in October

Despite revealing quite bleak financial figures for the last financial quarter, HTC clearly remain on the warpath judging by the kind of devices that have been leaking from their HQ of late. Alongside a promising-looking line-up of Windows Phone 8 handsets and a mysterious new tablet, it seems that HTC are working on a massive [...]

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Google vs Oracle: Judge orders names of paid bloggers

By on August 8th, 2012
Google vs Oracle: Judge orders names of paid bloggers

The Google-Oracle lawsuit is now over, with Google having come away victorious after Oracle tried to convince the courts that the search giant had infringed on several patents relating to use of the Java software platform. However, the judge who presided over the case, Judge William Alsup is not ready to end the ordeal just [...]

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