Sling Media Launches $29.99 SlingPlayer App For Android 'Honeycomb' Tablets

Giving Windows Phone A Chance

If you take a look at Techmeme right now, you’ll notice that the top conversation in the tech blogosphere is about Windows Phone, and more specifically why it has failed to catch on compared to Android smartphones in particular (according to Charlie Kindel, former GM of the product division...

Official Flickr App Arrives For Android

Being an Android user as well as a Flickr user has been dangerous territory for quite a long time now. There’s been no official app, and the third-party ones haven’t been too hot. Luckily for us, Yahoo has finally dropped a Flickr app that not only has their official blessing, but doe...

Distimo: Being Featured In The Android Market Can Boost Apps' Rank By 172%

Earlier this morning, we looked at the findings from analytics providerDistimo‘s latest report, which examined what happens when mobile apps go on sale. (Spoiler: when priced correctly, revenue goes way up). The second part of the report looked at the ranking gains that occur when an app ac...

Steam Takes First Steps Into Mobile With iOS And Android Apps

As a gamer with admittedly poor impulse control, the newly-released Steam app for iOS and Android has me very worried. On the one hand, it seems like an ideal way to to keep tabs on the popular gaming service on the go. On the other though, I could easily see myself going overboard on buying game...

AT&T Set Sales Records For Both iPhone And Android Devices In Q4 2011

AT&T this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011. Consolidated revenues clocked in at $32.5 billion, up 3.6 percent compared to the year-earlier quarter. Net income for Q4 2011 was $6.7 billion, or $1.12 per diluted share.Zooming in on smartphone sales, it’s worth ...

All AT&T Android Phones Released In 2011 Will Get Gingerbread

The HTC Status might be a sort-of-weird, kind-of-gimmicky (with its dedicated Facebook button and all) little piece of kit, but it’s got at least one thing going for it: it’s the only phone on AT&T running on the latest (phone-friendly) version of Android: v2.3, or “Gingerbr...

Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones

Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly attractive target group seems to be women, given how many Japanese companies say they design Andro...

Picture Messaging App Zlango Hits 1 Million Android Users Four Months After Launch

Zlango, a goofy but fun icon-based text messaging app, just hit one million U.S. users on the Android platform only four months after launching. Backed by Accel and Benchmark Capital, the app originally arrived in the U.S. market in October 2011, following the opening of its San Francisco-based o...

Android Hack Exposes Google Wallet PIN On Demand

Like most hacks, this discovery of a way to find an Android phone’s Google Wallet PIN requires a lot of initial access but is disturbing nonetheless. Google knows about the hack and is repairing it. Discovered by Joshua Rubin of Zvelo, the hack is one of the most interesting attacks on Goog...

Yesterday's iPad Event Was Only Half The Story

Because of the way Apple structures its major announcements - iPad in the first quarter, WWDC and iPhone in the summer though perhaps with the iPhone, now it’s fall - the iPad event is a little weird, because it’s really only half an event. The first half is what happened yesterday - ...