Without too much fanfare, Eric Schmidt has announced the launch of a new magazine and newspaper subscription service through Google called One Pass. Publishers can distribute their digitized newspapers and magazines easily while Google manages the logistical side of payment processing and user authentication. The price and pricing model (one-time purchase, subscription, etc.) are all [...]

This has almost nothing to do with anything mobile or Android related, but T-Mobile felt it necessary to upload and I found it necessary to share with you… pretty funny: Since I’m sure you’ll demand an explanation why I’m filling your RSS reader up with this stuff, I’ll give you T-Mobile’s explanation: It all started [...]

The Wall Street Journal called Android, “the star of the show,” claiming it powered, “every significant device launched at the Mobile World Congress.” This is true. Android was here, Android was there, Android was everywhere – anything worth talking about at MWC 2011 was Android-based. Then the iPhone 4 won “Best Mobile Device” at an [...]

Mortal enemies Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs will put aside their differences and join emerging rival Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook to meet with President Obama as he travels to the San Francisco area, the base of many of the nation’s largest tech and web firms. Obama will be pushing his new technology plan. The details [...]

Virgin Mobile here in the United States has tweeted that they’ll be issuing the upgrade to Android 2.2 to their users starting March 25th. I assume it’ll be a staggered process, so don’t be surprised if you make it into April without the update. It’s also interesting how they’ve managed to throw up a solid [...]

Want to connect to your home computer through your phone? Maybe you’d like to be able to offer technical support through your phone while you’re on the go? TeamViewer has been available for awhile as a Beta Application, but it’s now officially out of beta and freely available on Android Market (for non-commercial use). Check [...]

Samsung’s head of product management in the United Kingdom said that the company doesn’t see the need for 3D on cell phones… yet. Rightfully calling themselves world leaders in 3D, they aren’t alone in opting to pass on 3D-enabled cell phones. To date, only LG and Sharp have made a decent push. Here’s the full [...]

HTC’s new lineup of Android smartphone unveiled at Mobile World Congress will supposedly launch this spring with Android 2.4. That includes the all new HTC Desire S. The original Desire will be getting a little treat as well: an Android OS upgrade. It won’t take the phone to Android 2.4, but it will bring it [...]

Windows dominates the PC Market but Microsoft isn’t replicating their strategy OR success of the 1990s, which is why the CEO of Kaspersky (Eugene Kaspersky) says Android will own 80% of smartphone market share while Apple and RIM will split the remaining 10%. Android domination, iPhones and BlackBerry playing niche, and Windows Phone nowhere to [...]

Rogers in Canada is giving 10 lucky winners a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and that’s cool, but what’s more interesting is that it revealed some preliminary pricing information. The contest rules state that the approximate retail value of the prize is $400, but it’s tough to put too much stock into that at this point. [...]

Remember that rather large shipment of NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips Samsung ordered up at the tail end of last year? Looks like they weren’t intended solely for the new Samsung Galaxy 10.1 after the reveal that the Galaxy S II would use Samsung’s own dual-core chip. Another report hinted we might see the device, but [...]

You might not be in Barcelona, but with all the Mobile World Congress coverage around the web you probably feel like you’re right around the corner. Even without attending the event, you’re able to view Official presentations given to members of the press – like this one where Huawei announces the IDEOS X3 and S7: [...]

The folks at Droid-Life have received word that the pre-order date for the Motorola XOOM has been pushed from February 17th back to February 20th. You’ll have to wait three extra days, but it’s not like the device is coming out any later now. The document that confirmed this also says that a reactivation fee [...]

At Eric Schmidt’s Keynote speech they announced a brand new Android App for tablets called Movie Studio that will allow you take your media and compose a video with lots of different editing capabilities and effects. Video was not permitted at the event, but luckily at least one rebel caught footage for your viewing pleasure:’ [...]

We originally thought we wouldn’t see this thing until the middle of March. Then it became early March. And now rumors are saying it’s going to be launching in 5 days. A supposed internal shot was sent to Android Central that said the Motorola Atrix 4G would launch February 22nd, but that’s all we have [...]

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband, too. There’s a new trojan running around climbing in your Android and snatching your data up. OK, you don’t need to be that scared, at all, really. The new malware attack called Hong Tou Tou (also known as ADRD) is mostly causing problems over in [...]

The pricing of the Motorola XOOM wasn’t the only news CEO Sanjay Jha dropped while at Mobile World Congress. According to a quote from Guardian UK, Jha also let it slip that Google Music would launch concurrently with Honeycomb. Considering Honeycomb is launching on the XOOM, and the XOOM is launching at the end of [...]

Looks like Verizon and Motorola are looking to introduce a sequel to the original DROID X – appropriately dubbed the DROID X 2 – and CrunchGear dug up some pictures and specs that Mobizone had taken down to keep things rolling. As you can tell, it looks almost exactly like the original DROID X. We [...]

Google’s Eric Schmidt said it himself, but Dan Morrill, one of the top dogs on the Android Team at Google has tweeted the same: In one way or another, all of the enhancements and updates made for Android Honeycomb will come to smartphones. This doesn’t mean we will be running a full Honeycomb experience on [...]

Google has released an update to Google Reader in the Android market that adds two new widgets: one for unread count and a news ticker. The news ticker will scroll through stories in any specific feed you select. Clicking on the item will take you to that story, while clicking on the folder will take [...]