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		<title>Android App Usage is Very Top-Heavy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent post on Nielsen&#8217;s blog shows some interesting information about Android app usage. While the first part of the post talks about the seemingly obvious fact iOS and Android users prefer apps over Web, the second part is far more interesting&#8230;and possibly disturbing for developers. They mention that while there are hundreds of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android Phones Outselling iPhone and Blackberry in the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a blog post yesterday, Nielsen broke down the smartphone OS sales data from November to January. Not surprisingly, the top 3 phones were very close in share. However, Android-based phones edged out Blackberry and iPhones by 2%. Android &#8211; 29% iPhone &#8211; 27% Blackberry &#8211; 27% Windows Mobile/Windows 7 &#8211; 10% WebOS &#8211; 4% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-D Android Phones Coming From Sharp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Engadget reported that Sharp will be releasing Android phones that will display 3-D images without the need of special glasses. Two models have been announced with Japan release dates aiming for December and February. The two models are both named Galapagos (003SH and 005SH) with one being a touchscreen and the other with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android Market Tops 100,000 Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Android team announced yesterday that the Android Market has hit 100,000 apps.  While still trailing the Apple App Store by almost 200,000, this is a significant milestone for Android. However, some are surprised it took this long. The App Store reached the 100k mark in less than 500 days while it took the Market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android 3.0 SDK coming next week?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The great Android Police site let loose a little rumor that the Android &#8220;Gingerbread&#8221; SDK could be coming to our grubby paws as early as next week. There have been no official announcements, but the Android Police post claimed to have inside information from a source &#8220;very close to the Android core.&#8221; With the latest version, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Focus on 2 Free Game Engines for Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I decided to look around to see what options we developers have for game development on Android. The OS is still young, but there are already viable game engines popping up. Here are 2 that I found and played with that we should keep our eyes on: Rokon Rokon is an interesting open source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Android App Keeps You Safer While Driving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[App developer Binary Fusion recently released a new app for Android devices that attempts to help keep drivers focused on the road. The app works by auto-responding to texts with a custom message and silencing phone and text notification sounds. The app is designed with a very simple and easy-to-use interface. You simply provide the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iOS App Total Downloads to Surpass iTunes Song Downloads This Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to market intelligence site asymco.com, the number of apps downloaded from the Apple App Store will soon pass the number of songs downloaded from iTunes. They base this on recent data that shows that app downloads reached the same total in just over 2 years that the iTunes music store took about five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Announces New Relaxed iOS Development Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid reports of the significant growth of the Android OS, Apple has released a statement about some new App Store review guidelines and news on relaxed app development restrictions. Now, one may have nothing to do with the other, but it shows that Apple believes they need to allow some changes to their previously rigid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Websites? There&#8217;s A Phone For That.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Motorola takes another swing at Apple via the New York Times. This isn&#8217;t the first time in recent months they&#8217;ve put out a full-page ad attack, though. Either way, it&#8217;s pretty funny. I really thought that once Android devices supported full Flash, that Apple would come off their stance to not include it. Before a competitor [...]]]></description>
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