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Android Overtakes BlackBerry As the Top US Smartphone Platform [REPORT] Mashable The trend was obvious for quite some time, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among US subscribers. According to comScore's data, Google's Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% in ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Android Market kills Droid Dream malware in Trojans Computerworld (blog) The company's using its great power to remove Trojans from users' Android devices. If you downloaded a rogue Trojan from the Android Market last week, expect email from la GOOG explaining how it's murdered your malware. Also, the vulnerability that the ... See all stories on this topic »

iOS vs Android 3.0 vs webOS: which is the best? TechRadar UK By Dan Grabham We've already pitched iOS vs Android vs webOS vs MeeGo on TechRadar, but that was purely on the specs and and experience of earlier versions. We've now used and evaluated all the three main tablet OS options. And although we won't have ... See all stories on this topic » TechRadar UK

Kik Messenger Gets $8M, Adds Group Chat for iOS, Android PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius Kik Interactive, the company that created a BlackBerry Messenger-esque Kik Messenger service for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry before getting sued by Research in Motion has received an $8 million cash infusion and updated its app ... See all stories on this topic »

Biz Break: Android army: Google app steers you around freeway backups San Jose Mercury News (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Today: Google releases an Android app that steers you around backups on the freeway. Plus: Western Digital intends to buy Hitachi's disk drive unit, which has its US base in San Jose, for $4.3 billion. And: Skype adds ads; ... See all stories on this topic »

IN Media Launches Android 2.2 IPTV Set Top Box PR Newswire (press release) IN Media's IP Set Top Box is now integrated with Google's Android 2.2 operating system providing consumers the ability to download the latest and most advanced games, on demand content, creating widgets, and applications from the web. ... See all stories on this topic »

Apps to Trade on the Go Wall Street Journal Vanguard Group and Charles Schwab Corp. added fund trading to their iPhone apps in December, and both plan to offer similar apps for phones using Google Inc.'s Android operating system by this summer. Previously, fund trades on mobile devices weren't ... See all stories on this topic »

Android Compatibility For Playbook Could Goose Shares Of RIM, Google Forbes (blog) RIM, which competes with Apple, Motorola Mobility and Nokia in the mobile phone market, is expected to face stiff competition from Apple's iPad and Google's Android-based tablets. RIM lacks the apps ecosystem strength enjoyed by Apple and Google, ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes (blog)

Google's Secret Web-Based Android Music Service Discovered By Hackers (GOOG) San Francisco Chronicle Hackers have uncovered Google's long-awaited online music locker service for Android, which will let users store all their music on Google's servers and then stream it to any device. The service is a nice selling point for music fans who can't fit all ... See all stories on this topic »