Vodafone Australia makes good on their Jelly Bean promises

Vodafone Australia makes good on their Jelly Bean promises:

Last month, we reported a story regarding OTA Jelly Bean updates and its delay to the Nexus S. Then a few days after, we put out another story about the Nexus S getting the eventual update after the delay. Then just a few days ago, we reported about the Samsung ICS OTA update. What does all of this mean? It means

Trial reveals Samsung and Apple U.S. sales figures

Trial reveals Samsung and Apple U.S. sales figures:

One great side effect of the Apple vs Samsung trial is that all sorts of juicy details and secrets are revealed. Exact sales figures for all the different models can be difficult to come by, but yesterday we got a look at the U.S. sales figures for Samsung and Apple. You’ll never guess what Samsung’s top selling phone was. Go on,

HTC Thunderbolt and Desire S upgraded to ICS soon

HTC Thunderbolt and Desire S upgraded to ICS soon:

Still waiting for an official ICS upgrade on one of HTC’s (too) numerous 2011 phones still running Android 2.3 Gingerbread? Well, we have some (partially) good news for you. While no exact rollout dates have been announced yet, a Facebook comment from the company’s official account should be reason for optimism.

MoboPlayer: Multi-format audio and video player for Android

MoboPlayer: Multi-format audio and video player for Android:

Most Android devices, if not all, have in-built audio and video players. Although, there is never a guarantee that these players can support all audio and video file formats. Because of this, users sometimes resort to

Taiwanese government to lend HTC a helping hand

Taiwanese government to lend HTC a helping hand:

The once mighty Android hero HTC has lost its financial prowess due to bad sales and investment in recent months. This, in turn, has spooked investors from holding on to HTC’s shares in the stock market and they

CyanogenMod says CM9 is full steam ahead!

CyanogenMod says CM9 is full steam ahead!:

It has definitely not been easy, it has taken quite some time and there have been some bumps on the road, but CM9 is finally stable and ready to roll out to all supported devices. Everybody’s favorite independent dev team has managed to crack Ice Cream Sandwich once and for all and will now be concentrating only on Jelly Bean-based CM10 work.

Competition in tablet market set to explode

Competition in tablet market set to explode:

It has been a sluggish year for branded tablets thanks to the economic downturn. Things are tough all over. DigiTimes research projects conservative half-year shipments at 49.18 million units, for a whole-year total of 88.69 million units.

Strategy meets simulation in new Kingdoms & Lords Android game from Gameloft

Strategy meets simulation in new Kingdoms & Lords Android game from Gameloft:

Although fans of real-time strategy games have had their share of interesting new releases on Android lately, the niche still seems to need some work. We wouldn’t honestly expect to see anything as complex as, say, Age of Empires hitting our favorite mobile platform anytime soon, but we can surely hope to see something baring even the slightest similarity with the highly acclaimed PC RTS franchise.

Principal Mozilla Engineer Mike Hanson Departs, Joins Greylock As EIR

Principal Mozilla Engineer Mike Hanson Departs, Joins Greylock As EIR:
Greylock Partners announced tonight that it has added a new member to its team, with Mike Hanson joining the firm this week as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Hanson joins Greylock from Mozilla, where he has been a principal engineer at Mozilla Labs for the last three years, playing a central role in conceiving the company’s distributed identity verification system, also known as BrowserID, and developing APIs and apps for Firefox’s apps platform — among other things.
Prior to Mozilla, Hanson was a principal engineer at Cisco, working on app delivery, particularly device virtualization, clustering, as well as data center strategy. Hanson also co-founded and was the chief architect at Reactivity and spent several years at the Apple Research Lab working on Sherlock, perhaps better known as the precursor to Spotlight. He also counts 16 patents to his name.

HTC Reaffirms Android 4.0 Updates Are Coming This Month

HTC Reaffirms Android 4.0 Updates Are Coming This Month:
HTC smartphone owners, take note. Your Ice Cream Sandwich update is coming this month says HTC on its Facebook page. The company previously released a laundry list detailing the ICS roll-out schedule but failed to meet many of its own target dates. But HTC is now stating all the devices on that list will get Android 4.0 by the end of this month.
If HTC follows through with this plan, Android 4.0 should hit devices like the Droid Incredible 2, Thunderbolt, Rhyme and Desire S. This is especially good news for the latter two, which HTC previously stated would have ICS by the end of July.