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A Google-developed social network has been on the map for some time now and even if we didn’t know what incarnation it would appear in, we’ve witnessed the company try out a few schemes recently before hitting on ‘the big one’. Remember Wave and Buzz? Well, we all make mistakes! Google’s...

While Android may be the world’s best selling smartphone OS, when it comes to rolling out quick fixes Google still has a long way to go before it’s in Apple’s league. Exhibit A: in recent weeks the press was in a lather over Apple’s location tracking issues. Rather than hanging about, Apple released...

It looks like confidence in Android is riding high. The world’s reigning smartphone OS has received a nod from the investment world to the tune of $100 million. The so-called A-Fund will invest between $500,000 and $4 million in Android-focused startups and developers. Managed by venture capitalists...

Not content with being the newly-crowned ‘King of the Smartphone Operating Systems’, Android now has Apple’s ‘Grand Poobah of Mobile Applications’ title firmly in its sights. At Google’s recent Q1 financials conference call, the company revealed that over 3 billion apps have been installed...

Nothing gets Android boffins’ juices flowing like talk of fragmentation. As of February 2, 2011, active Android handsets were running on no fewer than five platform versions. Froyo 2.2 claimed 57.6% market share, while the recently-released Gingerbread 2.3 was available on just 0.8% of active devices....