Android

Google responds to World War Patents, says hostile, organized campaign against Android

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011 a 6:34 pm

Google SVP and Senior Legal Officer, David Drummond has blogged about the recent trouble Google and their manufacturing partners have had over patents with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle.

Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.

Mobile Nations 3: Full house

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 22, 2011 a 3:21 pm

Google says Apple sues rather than innovates. Google's problem is Apple does both.

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 a 3:05 pm

Former Google CEO, current Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, had this to say about Apple patent infringement suits against Android manufacturers.

"We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market and, because of our successes, competitors are responding with lawsuits as they cannot respond through innovations. I’m not too worried about this.”

Because a) he's not the one being sued and b) it's nonsense.

Microsoft wants to make Android more expensive, Apple wants to make it less usable

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 18, 2011 a 9:52 am

Mobile Nations 2: Not yet begun to fight!

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 8, 2011 a 2:16 pm

Google brings Pi, Apple beats them to Nortel LTE patent punch?

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jul 2, 2011 a 12:06 pm

Some more information has come to light about the Nortel patent auction, which saw a consortium that included Apple win big, and Google get frozen out. According to Reuters, however, Google had some fun along the way:

"It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi," the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion.

"Either they were supremely confident or they were bored."

App for That: How to sync lists between iPhone and Android

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Jul 2, 2011 a 9:51 am

There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything -- so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb's new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, Jeremy asks:

Is there an app that would allow me, an iPhone 4 user, and my wife, an Android user, to share a task list? Help!

To see our solution for Jeremy, follow along after the break!

Mobile Nations 1: Where the magic happens

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jun 24, 2011 a 5:41 pm

iOS surging as Android declines

By Cody Allison, Friday, Jun 24, 2011 a 2:17 pm

Preliminary market share results are in and it looks as though Apple is surging while Android declines. With the release of the iPhone on the Verizon network less than six months ago, reports are saying the device is putting a halt to the sale of Android devices and with the much anticipated iPhone 5 coming soon it could put Android even further away from the momentum Apple is gaining with the iPhone.

Verizon users waiting for iPhone 5 to ditch Android en masse?

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Jun 21, 2011 a 3:34 pm

Needham analyst Charlie Wolf thinks most Verizon Android users have been holding out for the iPhone 5, and once it's released, a mass exodus from the Android platform will ensue.