The war between Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone is far from over. There have many battles, many accusations and many lawsuits fought and won all over the world between the pair. The lawsuits mostly involve patent infringements and accusations that each company is copying the other's designs.
There's no doubt jailbreaking an iOS device opens the door to so many new and previously unattainable possibilities.
There is a growing perception among the smartphone enthusiast crowd that Android is an insecure mobile operating system which is riddled with viruses, trojans, rootkits and what have you, and that an Android phone will be open to these malicious pieces of software unless and until you install an antivirus. While some parts of this perception are completely wrong (we will discuss them in a separate post), we still believe that it is better to be safe than sorry and that is exactly why we’ll be talking about an supercharged new security app from avast! for Android after the jump.
Have you wanted to play console-quality games on your iPad or Android smartphone/tablet? Well, you can now do exactly that with OnLive’s new app. Details after the jump!
Android-packing Facebook fans rejoice - you're now able to download the newly updated Facebook app for your smartphone, and it brings with it a whole new user interface and design. If you've played with the iPhone or iPad version of Facebook's mobile app, then you're probably already pretty familiar with the changes that the social network just pushed out to Android owners, but here's the general rundown anyway.
It's been a big few days in the world of Microsoft's Xbox 360. There was the whole Xbox Dashboard update palava, where the update was scheduled to go live and then was delayed for less than a day and now there is a whole new iOS app in Apple's App Store which is Microsoft's first Xbox related app to be released for the iOS devices.
Microsoft has made some significant changes and announcements this year, most of which have been met by favorable public opinion.
We’ve heard Apple’s next venture into a new product would be into the TV market. Steve Jobs said he finally cracked whatever was holding the company back from diving in. That’s really as much as we know so far. It doesn’t mean we can’t speculate, though.
We saw this happen with the Kindle Fire and HP TouchPad, and we’re seeing it happen with the BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM, just like HP, is struggling to sell their iPad-competing tablet. The PlayBook is now expected to go on a fire sale soon to get rid of excess stock. You may actually want to get yourself a PlayBook now, though, since the modding community recently managed to “jailbreak” it and you can now even install Android Market on it! Check out our step-by-step guide after the break which shows you exactly how you can install Android Market to play around with the wide variety of apps that Android offers.
Despite rumors suggesting that Microsoft would release a beta version of Windows 8 at CES in January, the company has now laid those claims to rest by announcing that it will give people a chance to test the software out in February.
