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  • Android increasingly more important to developers: Ovum

    Google’s Android is expected to overtake Apple’s iOS as the platform of choice for developers in the Asia Pacific region within the next 12 months, according to Ovum.

  • Monday Grok: Android has a problem with OS fragmentation

    The culprit — operating system fragmentation. There are just too damn many generations of Android out there.

  • Apple Lion: 5 things you need to know

    1. Integration could pose challenges. Possibly the biggest issue with Lion has been how it gets along with existing applications-especially Adobe's-because it doesn't support Flash. Both sides say they are working on this, but for now this limitation restricts the use of Adobe applications. Bryson Payne, CIO of North Georgia College and State University, says, "if these [Adobe] issues aren't 100 percent resolved, we'll halt the rollout of Lion completely." Tom Catalini, VP of IT at William Gallagher Associates, also noted that the download and upgrade process was anything but quick: "It was confusing at points because the install process did not report a lot of progress."

  • 5 really bad Android apps from companies that should know better

    Here are some of Android's biggest app fails, featuring big-name companies like Facebook and Skype.

  • LG, VMware aim to deliver two phones in one

    The agreement announced this week by VMware and LG electronics will act a proof of concept of VMware's virtualization technology on mobile devices, but may not do either VMware or LG much good otherwise, analysts say.

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