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comScore is a global leader in measuring the digital world and in their own words are the ‘preferred source of digital marketing intelligence’. According to their recent reports for last year, Android’s share of the US mobile market has grown more than a 100%, taking its overall share from 2.5% in September 2009 to 5.2% [...]

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Responding to Google’s recent updates to the Android platform that brought a free version of their turn-by-turn navigation software to the Motorola Droid in the USA, Nokia have responded by releasing a free version of Ovi Maps for users in several countries.
Usually, navigation software for smartphones comes with a flat fee or sometimes a monthly [...]

Today Adobe announced that it plans on releasing developer versions and, later,  open beta versions of its Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm webOS smartphones by the end of this year, but that Android won’t even get a beta until sometime next year – 2010.
That’s a far cry from what we heard from [...]

I personally believe that this one sounds worse than it is.  An Illinois man is suing Google and members of the Open Handset Alliance for trademark infringement over the use of the name Android.
Erich Specht had registered the name Android Data back in 2000 for his then existing software business.  At the time, the US [...]

Many sites have been re-hashing a loosely worded story posted by T3.com that stated that LG’s KS360 QWERTY slider would be re-released with the Android OS this summer as LG’s first Android powered device.
This didn’t sit well with me for a number of reasons.  Firstly, it simply makes no sense to release the same device [...]

Over at the Boy Genius Report, the rumor mill is churning over leaked pictures of an (allegedly) upcoming Acer handset to be announced at the Mobile World Congress in a couple of weeks. The BGR speculates that this device could be an Android smartphone, but we think otherwise due to the lack of hardware keys [...]

Reuters has posted an interesting piece on whether or not Android can save Motorola from its current woes.  For those living under a rock, Motorola’s cell phone sales have dropped by 50% in the past year, and the company is now thought by most to be the 5th largest handset manufacturer in the world.  We’ll [...]

According to an official statement passed through T-Mobile’s forums admin, Will:
According to the Android team, “Cupcake,” which is the code name for an Android software build, is still a work in progress that is considered to be a development branch and not for general availability.
We will update you as T-Mobile G1 software updates are made [...]

In a story seemingly about the T-Mobile G1’s global sales figures, Australian site Smarthouse makes a statement that implies that HTC feels that the sales of its T-Mobile G1 are eating into its Windows Mobile device sales.
The HTC executive has also admitted that the new Google offering is hurting sales of Windows Mobile devices of [...]