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Ask Maggie: Google's Ice Cream Sandwich and what it means

CNET - Marguerite Reardon - 13 May, 2011
By the end of this year, users of Google Android smartphones should be able to sink their teeth into the next version of Android OS: Ice Cream Sandwich. But what does this upgrade really mean for smartphone users? ...

Next Google TV Looks A Lot Like Android (GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎May 11, 2011‎
AP sources: White House set to unveil cyber plan 05.12.11 Google gave a first glimpse at the next version of Google TV at its I/O conference and it looks an awful lot like the tablet version of Android. There's a line of icons across the bottom, ...

Google Updates App Store to Counter Apple

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Ian Sherr - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Google's Android Marketplace, where it sells the tiny programs called apps, is getting a makeover. The Web giant used its annual conference for developers to lay out plans to revamp its virtual store for smartphone and tablet software. ...

How to: Use Google Music for Android

CNETTV - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Original video: http://cnettv.cnet.com/use-google-music-android/9742-1_53-50104713.html Music for Android lets you access on your phone or tablet your music stored in Google's cloud, even if you're offline. Sharon Vaknin shows you how.

Google IO Developers Conference

USA Today - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Attendees crowd the convention floor at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. Attendees film the keynote speech with Samsung tablets running on Google's Android software at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. ...

Google branches into music, movie streaming

CNN - Mark Milian - ‎May 11, 2011‎
With new music, movies and accessory services for Android, Google is taking on Apple in three major areas. The assault came Tuesday at Google I/O, the company's annual conference, where Product Management Director Hugo Barra announced a variety of new ...

Verizon Xoom First to Get Android 3.1, Movie Rentals

PCWorld - Nancy Gohring - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Motorola on Wednesday said users of its Xoom tablets on Verizon will be the first to get the new Android 3.1 update and the first to be able to rent movies from the Android Market. People with Xoom tablets running on ...

TechBytes: Movie Rentals on Android and YouTube

ABC News - Ronnie Reiss, Tina Trinh - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Good news for movie fans: Google Android users can now rent movies from the Android market for about $2, and YouTube has announced that it is making 3000 major Hollywood films available for rent, for prices ranging from ...

Nexus 3D Could Be First Android Ice Cream Phone

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎May 11, 2011‎
A Nexus 3D model could be the first smartphone to be powered by the upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Earlier this year we said that a new era in mobile computing would begin with Android 3.1. ...

Android Sets Stage for Smartphone Battle Royal

PCWorld - Jared Newman - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Apple iOS5. Windows Phone Mango. Aside from the edible nomenclature, they've got one thing in common: They're all coming later this year, setting up a huge battle between the ...

Google suffers curse of diversity with Android

The Guardian - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Sales of smartphones running Android have now overtaken those of iPhones. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images One of Apple's great advantages in the phone and tablet markets is the lack of choices it provides to customers. ...

Google I/O Day One: A Complete Rundown

PCWorld - Daniel Ionescu - ‎May 11, 2011‎
Google is putting on a show for developers at this year's I/O conference and the first day was a bumper one. It was all about Android, including software updates for smartphones and tablets, new movie and ...

Android figures from Google I/O: 400000 Android devices activated every day

The Independent - ‎May 11, 2011‎
In little more than two and a half years, Google's Android mobile operating system has grown from running on just one Google-designed device in the US to become the world's leading smartphone platform. During Google's annual developer conference, ...

Window into Google's Monopoly Maneuvers: More Internal Skyhook Emails

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎May 11, 2011‎
The initial set of documents from the Skyhook trial (which I analyzed here last week) gave a quick flash of Google's gamesmanship. But examining the larger set of documents from the initial phase of the Skyhook trial against Google is opening a window ...

Android 3.1 Gives Motorola XOOM Performance Boost

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎May 11, 2011‎
The new Android 3.1 upgrade for tablets will give the Motorola XOOM and other Android tablets a performance boost, several UI and app improvements, and more. Google has officially unveiled Android 3.1 for tablets ...

Google unveils cloud-based music service

Newsday (subscription) - ‎May 11, 2011‎
By AP Photo credit: AP | Hugo Barra, Product Management Director, during a keynote speech at the Google IO Developers Conference in San Francisco Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Google Inc. unveiled its long-planned music service Tuesday, but it will likely ...

What the Android update consortium must do to help consumers

ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - ‎May 11, 2011‎
One of the announcements made by Google addressed the lack of consistent OS updates at the consumer level. Here's what Google must do to make the update process as good as it can be. ...

Google TV getting update to Android 3.1, access to Android Market this summer ...

ZDNet (blog) - Sean Portnoy - ‎May 11, 2011‎
While far from the highlight of Google's I/O conference keynote yesterday, new Google TV features were announced to help the struggling platform get a second wind. But will they be enough to finally get ...

Google announces music, movies

ZDNet Asia - ‎May 10, 2011‎
At the Google I/O developers conference, the company rolled out updates for its Honeycomb tablet OS, announced the Ice Cream Sandwich mobile phone OS, and debuted new music-streaming and movie rental services. In order to post a comment, you need to be ...

Google announces new Android updates and music and movies services

Telegraph.co.uk - Matt Warman - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Google has announced details of an update to its tablet operating system, Honeycomb, previewed a whole new version of the operating system called Ice Cream Sandwich and revealed new music storage and movie rentals services. ...

Google rolls out Honeycomb 3.1

ZDNet Asia - Stephen Shankland - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Google's update to its tablet version of Android is available, and phone-capable sequel called Ice Cream Sandwich is due in fourth quarter. With them, people can plug in USB ...

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Update Will Have More NFC Functionality

PCWorld - Ginny Mies - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Google disclosed some more details regarding the newly announced Android update, Ice Cream Sandwich today. It also showed off some of the cool things Android app developers can do with NFC APIs. ...

Android Challenges Apple With New Devices, Software and Services

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎May 10, 2011‎
San Francisco -- Day one of the annual Google I/O developer's was all things Android. The day began with a recap of Android's growth in the two and a half years it's been on the market. Google says that there are now 100 million activated Android ...

Four Essential Productivity Apps For Android Tablets

PCWorld - Robert Strohmeyer - ‎May 10, 2011‎
A few weeks ago, I grabbed an Acer Iconia A500 tablet to replace my aging first-generation iPad. (Personally, I find the Iconia a better value than the iPad 2, and I'm addicted to Android's widget support. ...

How to force your Xoom to check for the Android 3.1 update

Computerworld (blog) - Jr Raphael - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Jonesing for a taste of the new Android 3.1 Honeycomb release but still waiting for the update to roll in? You can't force the update to begin, but with a little trickery, you can force your Xoom to check in and see if your ...

Best of Android packed into "Ice Cream Sandwich"

AFP - ‎May 10, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Google on Tuesday said it is packing the best of its Honeycomb tablet computer software into a new "Ice Cream Sandwich" version of Android for mobile devices. The California-based Internet titan planned to release Ice Cream Sandwich by ...

Google ups mobile competition with music and movies

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Google Inc. took big steps to improve the competitiveness of its mobile offerings on Tuesday, heating up the already fierce battle for supremacy in the smart phone and tablet spaces. Most notably, the Mountain View Internet giant used the first morning ...

Will the new Android consortium fix the update fiasco?

ZDNet (blog) - Jason Hiner - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Lagging Android updates have been a major frustration for Android users. Google plans to fix it with a new Android consortium. Get the details and see which vendors are involved. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief ...

Google Entices Honeycomb Developers

InformationWeek - Eric Zeman - ‎May 10, 2011‎
The Android team at Google's I/O developer conference asked attendees to write applications for Honeycomb and described the new features in version 3.1. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek One of the bigger announcements Google made at its I/O developers ...

Bits: Google Plans to Streamline Android

New York Times (blog) - Claire Cain Miller - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Android phones have been a runaway success for Google â€" perhaps too runaway. Now Google is trying to add some order to the craziness. On the first day of Google I/O, its developers' conference here in San Francisco, ...

 

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