Google not only restricts movie rentals on Android devices regionally, but also excludes devices that have been rooted. "Failed to fetch license for [movie title] (error 49)" is the error message that users with rooted devices receive when they try to rent a movie with a corresponding device, according to Winfuture.de. Google justifies this measure [...]
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After Apple has been offering the option of installing application features for a fee for some time now, Google is now also catching up and offering in-app purchases. This is particularly pleasing for developers, who are hoping for higher sales with their apps - users are apparently more willing to buy something later than to buy a more expensive app from the outset.
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Following the release of Firefox 4 for desktops last week, the mobile version is now available, which runs on Android and Meego. It uses the rendering engine of the desktop version and also includes Firefox Sync and support for plugins. Overall, Firefox 4 Mobile should be significantly faster than the Webkit-based browsers that are already available.
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The promised Flash integration for Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" tablets seems to be taking shape: Version 10.2 is now available in the Android Market, which should bring better integration into the browser under Android 3.0 as well as support for dual-core CPUs, as used in many tablets. Under Android 2.2 and 2.3, the changes are smaller, but here too
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Until now it was more of a hypothetical possibility, but now Google has made use of it for the first time and remotely deleted an application on users' cell phones. Even if users with a tendency to paranoia are now up in arms, the deletion was justified: the application is a research application that was used to investigate the possible
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As wired.com reports, 50% of accesses to the Android Market fall on Android 2.1, and around 25% each on Android 1.5 and 1.6 - so either the manufacturers have launched updates for their devices or customers have switched to newer devices. However, this does not make the problem of the segmented market any smaller
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As the AndroLib website has determined, the Android Market now contains over 10,000 applications, a good two thirds of which are free. Google itself does not publish any data on the number of applications (and does not keep the store searchable on the PC), meaning that only estimated figures have been available to date. Apple, with over 60,000 apps
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