Ainol Electronics, one of the most famous Chinese tablet and media player manufacturers and one of the OEM suppliers to other companies that offer such products, announced an update for its line of tablets: the Ainol Novo 7 Crystal model.
Based on Amlogic 8726-M6 hardware solution that provides a Cortex-A9 core clocked at 1.5 GHz and an ARM Mali-400 graphics processor, both dual-core versions, Novo 7 Crystal offers an IPS screen with a diagonal of 7 inches and a resolution of 1024 x 600 …

In a Google blog entry, the company announced it will remove 3 more mobile and web products. It will also deconstruct blogs that are rarely updated by its several communications channels.
Google will remove, first and foremost, Google Apps for Teams. This app allows school or business users without a gmail account to access Google tools.
Max Ibel of Google wrote that this tool, which started in 2008, is “not as useful for people as we originally anticipated.” Beginning September 4, Google …

Google’s $25 Google Play store credit strategy has pulled a strong demand for downloads of several Android apps.
Google’s strategy of a $25 Play store credit has enticed users who have purchased the device to pay apps in cash, causing massive downloads on several Android apps.
Since the release of the much awaited 7-inch tablets, people have flocked from online to brick-and-mortar stores just to get a grab of the Nexus 7. Alongside their purchases is a big leap on app downloads of …

Google is sending out its Nexus 7 handset models to more online retailers all over the world. However, current listings indicate that its $199 unit remains exclusive to its online store.
Best Buy Canada, Staples, and B&H Photo and Video said that only the 16 GB Nexus 7 model, which comes at an initial price of $249, varying from region to region, is currently available in their store shelves and that the $199 8GB model is still exclusively distributed on the Google Play online store.
Google …

The Android vs iOS debate has developed into quite a battle between the two best mobile operating systems to date. The main question is, which one is better?
In general, the good side of Android is that it is a wonderful open environment, which allows users to engage in high mobile customization. Meanwhile, people think of iOS as being simple, functional and beautiful.
On to the negative side, some see Android as ridden by viruses, while Apple binds and cripples iOS.
Let’s compare the two …

With its recent ability to access Google Play, the Kobo Vox eReader has just been converted and measured up into a tablet.
The Kobo eReader is now ready to put on the pressure to Amazon Kindle Fire with Google Play in the virtual scene. Given Amazon Kindle’s limited access to its own retailer’s app store makes it an edge for the Vox device. The Google application will come as an update and set to be built-in on Kobo’s forthcoming productions. Kobo also boasts its ability to access over …

Facebook App Center, Available Only In The U.S. (Image via USA Today)

Facebook has officially launched its new online applications store, App Center. The store brings together applications for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and for web as well, with the main menu divided in two sections.
Submenu of each section offers categories such as games, music, news, sports, utilities, etc. – in total about 600 applications that use Facebook integration, their number following to grow rapidly in the …

Movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer has signed a deal with Google to bring the studio’s stash of movie classics to both Google Play and YouTube. The deal, announced yesterday, will see more than 600 titles available for rental on Google’s two media websites.
These include popular titles such as Robocop and the Terminator series of movies. Google has been angling to increase the user appeal for its media websites, especially Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, to offer an …

In case you have not been following Google’s plan to dominate the social space, here is a quick recap. Google has been consolidating and streamlining all its services to align with one thing – social, which is to say, Google Plus. However, that’s not all, Google has also been working hard to recreate the Android Market – now called Google Play, as it seeks to bolster credibility and trust in the market.
The market has succumbed to low consumer confidence, with users only being …

Google has decided the time is ripe to dump the “Android Market” brand for “Google Play” in an attempt to create an online store that directly competes against archrival Apple’s iTunes store, expanding its range of publicly available digital content.
The Mountain View based search giant rebranded its massively popular apps store to make room for additional content ranging from eBooks to movie rentals to music.
“Today we’re launching Google Play, an integrated destination …