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Android: What do you use for Twitter?

By Ewan on September 19, 2011 in Applications

We had a question posed to us this afternoon by reader Benjamin Lethbridge who asks: What do you hear to be the best Android Twitter client? I actually quite enjoy the plain vanilla official Twitter client — I thought it would be interesting to see what people suggest. What do you use?

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Samsung Stage talent competition highlights the Galaxy SII

By Ewan on August 24, 2011 in Devices

I came across Samsung’s latest promotion — Samsung Stage — this morning. It’s to promote their mobile devices, more specifically, of course, their rather gorgeous Galaxy SII. I’m on record as saying I’m not a big fan of the SII battery, however I’d like to clarify that the rest of the device is gorgeous. You [...]

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40% of Android devices are returned… well, sort of, maybe

By Ewan on July 27, 2011 in Devices

There’s a wee bit of a storm kicking off over at TechCrunch today because of comments from a source. First the introduction: It’s generally accepted that, on the aggregate, Android device sales will far outpace iOS sales year after year. However, there’s a dirty little secret about Android devices that most manufacturers are facing the [...]

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Jobs: Community Manager needed for Android app company

By Ewan on July 18, 2011 in News

Right then, please do pass this one around to anyone you think might be on the lookout for work. My very good friend Ilana is recruiting for a Community Manager to help out with a company that produces a mobile payments app for the Android platform. This is a super, *super* opportunity to get a [...]

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Premium rate spammers now hitting Android

By Ewan on July 7, 2011 in News

One of the problems with enabling consumers to download and install apps from anywhere on platforms such as Android is that unscrupulous folk can have a lot of fun with it. And make a pile of cash. I do like the flexibility myself however I can’t help but shake my head at the poor end-consumer [...]

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Google+ and the Android Trojan Horse

By Michael Selvidge on July 5, 2011 in Opinion

I was skeptical at first, but I think there is a future in Google+. I’ve been using it this last week, and it’s not perfect, but not bad either. I was skeptical because of Google’s massive social fails in Buzz, Latitude, Wave and +1 (although to be fair +1 on its own is a fail, [...]

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Uplinq: Brian Spencer, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC demonstrates in-browser camera functionality

By Momchil on June 17, 2011 in Applications, Devices, Opinion

This is Momchil here with a video of Brian Spencer, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC. Brian demonstrates AllJoyn camera functionality in a web page. Using a little Android doll and two smartphones, Brian shows us how AllJoyn technology works inside a web browser. Here is the video:

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Uplinq: Jeb Brilliant of aBrilliantBlog gives us his take on the Qualcomm Uplinq event

By Momchil on June 16, 2011 in Opinion

Here at Uplinq 2011 we interviewed the well-known mobile blogger Jeb Brilliant, who runs aBrilliantBlog. We asked Jeb to give us his perspective on the Uplinq event and the latest Nokia announcements. More from Jeb

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Uplinq: T-Mobile’s Director of Device Technology, Kathy Barnes

By Ewan on June 1, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Kathy Barnes arrived into the presentation suite at Qualcomm HQ clutching a variety of next generation devices. I spotted a few tablets, some handsets and one or two other gizmos as she arranged them on the table. As Director of Device Technology for T-Mobile USA, Kathy holds sway over the device choices of tens of [...]

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Arrived into San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq event

By Ewan on May 31, 2011 in News

Here I am in San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq 2011 conference taking place this week. It’s looking like it’ll be a rather interesting event — with some notable highlights (schedule here), including the participation of Nokia’s Stephen Elop, HTC’s Peter Chou and HP’s Jon Rubenstein. I’m looking forward to checking out: – Qualcomm Labs (to [...]

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Shash Anand introduces SOTI Inc at BlackBerry World – Part 2

By Momchil on May 17, 2011 in Opinion

This is Momchil here with a video of Shash Anand of SOTI Inc. Shash Anand, Product Manager of MobiAssist at SOTI talks about Mobile Device Management. The award-winning tool of SOTI allows remote management of a wide variety of devices, such as BlackBerries, Windows Phones, Windows Desktops and Laptops, Android devices and iPhones. Over to [...]

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