| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter
— Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing.
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Nvidia Shield pre-orders start today, priced at $349 and ships in June
— Three days earlier than expected — Nvidia is starting orders of its new Android-powered handheld console, Shield, today. After announcing a $349 price tag and June release date earlier this week …
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3
— Google I/O didn't give us the Android update we were expecting—or did it?? — Google covered a lot of ground in its three-and-a-half-hour opening keynote at Google I/O yesterday, but one thing it didn't announce was the oft-rumored next version of Android.
| Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me: |
White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming June 10th
— Rumors suggested that a white Nexus 4 might appear at Google IO, and they were right. We obtained the elusive white Nexus 4 and we can confirm it's a carbon copy of the previous Nexus 4, just with a different color casing.
| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
iOS, Android Games' Revenue Beat 3DS, Vita's at Best & Worst of Times
— As if you needed any further reminding that phone and tablet games are where it's at, take a look at the new portable gaming report that IDC and App Annie are releasing today. — The report, obtained in advance by AllThingsD …
| Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews: |
iOS BBM app will not support iPad at launch
— With a summer iOS BBM app release having been confirmed, BlackBerry has revealed that the Apple friendly messaging application will not be available to iPad owners. — Leaving iPad mini and iPad 4 users out in the cold, the iOS BBM app …
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry
— Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
| Nick Hide / Crave: |
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4
… Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google adopts Bluetooth Smart, hints of a new Android version within two months
— According to a just-issued press release from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy) “in the coming months.”
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Google Hangout video chats don't work on AT&T cellular connections on Android, but why?
— Shades of last year's FaceTime controversy show up at Google I/O — As reported by SlashGear today, video chat capability in Google's new Hangouts app for Android is disabled when connected …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).