A moment of silence, please: Google has discontinued support for two of the oldest Android operating system versions. In an upcoming update to Google Play Services, Google will finally kill off support for Android 2.3 Gingerbread and ...
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Devices running the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system continue to jump up in market share, it emerged on Friday. The deliciously-themed update accounted for 39.9 per cent share of all Android devices visiting the Google Play Store in ...
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Google has told Android developers that they can start offering free apps in Iran, while Apple has removed Iran from among the countries to which sales of its products are prohibited. "Developers, starting today you can make your free ...
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Given Android and iOS together control 90% of the worldwide smartphone market, what chance does Mozilla have to find success with its new Firefox OS for smartphones? Will Firefox OS even matter, given the struggles Windows Phone, ...
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Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and the ability to more easily translate apps. Their allegiance will become increasingly ...
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Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
Google showed off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS. The improvements include new file ...
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Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
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Google has introduced an integrated developer environment (IDE) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Android developers could use the Android ...
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Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offerings with the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services, which lets enterprises skip building their own infrastructure for streaming on-demand video. The service, released Tuesday, ...
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It's starting to look like the BlackBerry store will be well stocked with apps when Research In Motion launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of this month. The company held an event over the weekend where it offered app developers incentives ...
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The fledgling Research In Motion may well find that the BlackBerry store could be packed with apps when it launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of January. The company held an event over the weekend, when it offered app developers incentives ...
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PlayJam, the global platform for casual and social games on Smart TV, launched its Kickstarter campaign today in a bid to bring its dedicated games console - GameStick - to life. The team behind GameStick hope to accelerate the race to ...
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While Wednesday's release of Android 4.1 -- better known as Jelly Bean -- introduced a host of improvements to Google's mobile platform, a "fireside chat" that evening demonstrated that the developer community is far from completely ...
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Intel is dishing out a total of $29,000 in cash prizes to Android developers in an effort to encourage coders to write games for tablets and smartphones using Intel chips. Developers are expected to provide a short background and ...
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