Digital industry tracker comScore, Inc. reported Tuesday via its MobiLens service the latest U.S. mobile phone industry trend for the three-month average period ending July 2011.
Using more than 30,000 mobile subscribers as respondents, the comScore MobiLens study concluded that Samsung Electronics Corp topped all phone makers (smartphone and non-smartphone) with 25.5 percent market share, and Google’s Android OS continued its dominance in smartphone platforms with an increased 41.8 percent …

The much-rumored Amazon Android tablet could sell three to five million units once it is out, market watcher Forrester Research recently said.

Forrester Research says that Amazon may ship 3 to 5 million units of the Amazon Android tablet after its launch. Image: Chris.Gray / Flickr (CC)

There has been much talk around in tech circles about the Amazon Android tablet. As early as May, DigiTimes – the Taiwanese publication perennially responsible to news about upcoming products of Apple …

Mozilla is making improvements to its Firefox web browser, the second most used web browser on computers, in order to gain more traction and market share in mobile computing, where browsers like Google’s unbranded Android and Apple’s Safari web browser are built into the device and dominate the mobile market. Mozilla, by contrast is not part of the operating system of mobile devices and must convince the user to make it so.
 

Firefox improvements aimed at mobile devices.

Mozilla is …

The CyanogenMod team of Android developers is now on the works to switch the HP TouchPad tablet from WebOS 3.0 to Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Reports of running Google’s Android OS on the TouchPad will likely come sooner than most users expected, as software developers are ramping up efforts to port the popular CyanogenMod custom ROM to HP’s discontinued tablet computer.
Considering the hardware specs, the tablet should be able to run on the Android mobile platform, which is good news for …

While it is still too early to be sure what specifications the next “pure Android” smartphone – the Nexus Prime – will have, one thing is for sure: Samsung may have unintentionally confirmed that it will be the maker of the third Nexus phone.

Samsung may have unintentionally confirmed that it will be making the third “pure Android” phone, the Nexus Prime, via a legal letter. Image: Geek.com

The news comes via a legal letter sent by Samsung to someone claiming to be in the …

Google today released an updated version of its Google Docs app for Android devices, adding a new online clipboard feature.
In a post on the Google Docs Blog, software engineer Tobias Thierer said that Android owners could now use their devices to capture, copy, and insert images into a Google document via a new Web Clipboard feature.
Here are the steps to accomplish this task (visit here for instructional photos):

From the Docs widget on your phone, tap the camera icon.
Snap a photo then …

Android still dominates mobile ad impressions with a commanding 61 percent market share, according to a recent report from mobile ad network Millennial Media on Wednesday.
In a post on its website, Millennial Media reported that Google’s Android mobile operating system jumped from a 54 percent foothold in June to 61 percent in July.
The dragged to the mud Apple iOS settled for second place at a distant 21 percent share of the mobile ad impressions market.
On a positive note for Steve Jobs’ …

The number of malware for Android has increased by 76% in the second quarter of this year compared to Q1, and has put Google’s mobile platform at the first place in the ranking of attacked systems, said the anti-virus company McAfee on Tuesday.
In the first quarter of this year, Android “held” the third place in the ranking of most attacked platforms, leaving first and second places for devices using Java ME (generally common mobile phones) and Symbian (most phones from Nokia). However, …

Yahoo search is quite popular in Japan, and third in the country mobile operator SoftBank is the largest shareholder of Yahoo Japan. It won’t come as a surprise that in September SoftBank subscribers can purchase the theme smartphone by the name of Yahoo Phone. The smartphone runs on Android platform, which is a bit strange, because Google and Yahoo are considered to be direct competitors.
In fact, it is not a specially designed device, but a re-branded SoftBank AQUOS 009SH, manufactured by …

 
Japanese telecoms carrier Softbank is living up to local and international sensation Hello Kitty, offering mobile phone users in Japan a new Android smartphone that revolves around the phenomenal icon.
Apart from the physically obvious Hello Kitty laden design, the Softbank 007SH KT uses a Japan-standard clamshell design and touts a 3.4-inch touchscreen display with 854×480 resolution, a top-tier 16.1-Megapixel camera that captures HD images, a physical T9 keyboard, microSD card slot …