launched Chrome for Android earlier this month. It's in beta, and is only available for select countries and languages for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich, but an Android version of the browser has been long awaited. It's bound to be popular as availability expands. It could even prove to be the first step in the convergence of Google's two operating systems : Android and ...

update to their Android operating system sooner than expected. Android 5.0 Jelly Bean may be coming as sometime in the second quarter of 2012, possibly at Google's I/O conference in late June. According to a report from DigiTimes, the launch will be timed to coincide with the launch of Windows 8. Jelly Bean will increase Android's tablet optimization, and may allow ...

Siri clones for Android . A new one called Utter does something different, as it taps into the various apps on your phone. "The difference being that it tends to use the default applications already installed on you device to give you a more personal experience with more functionality - unlimited functionality even, depending on the applications you already have installed or ...

an app in the Android Market called Fake iPhone 4S , which is designed to "Trick your friends into thinking you have the new iPhone 4S!" That's what the app description says. I guess having idiot friends is a prerequisite. The description continues: This app is a full-screen working replica of the iPhone 4 home screen. It even replaces your phone's status bar, so ...

and are running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on your Android device you can now get Chrome for Android. As the Google Mobile blog promises Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you've come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on ...

study shows that Android has overtaken the iPhone as the most-used smartphone in the UK. Among smartphones in use by consumers on a daily basis - not just sales - Android has 36.9% of the market, compared to 28.5% for Apple's iPhone. The survey data comes from Kantar WorldPanel ComTech and was published earlier today in The Guardian. The data covers the four week period ...

Pocket Edition for Android got an update today, adding survival mode and some other features. Here's the full list of what's new, from the Android Market : 1. Major version 0.2.0 (first survival update) 2. New mode! Choose between Survival and Creative mode when creating a map 3. New blocks; most notably doors, fences and fence gates 4. Added flying to Creative mode (double tap ...

works to bring the Android operating system to desktop and notebook computers. The new patent is one of several recent filings that suggest that Android will be making the jump from phones and tablets to computers. As reported by Patently Apple, the patent details some of the ways in which the touchscreen controls already present in the Android operating system could be matched to a ...

Google is rushing Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean to market in the second quarter . The reason? "Adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012." Huh? True, Ice Cream Sandwich is only on roughly 1 percent of smartphones and tablets, but that's because OEMs haven't launched new ICS gadgets or upgraded their ...

your iPhone or your Android smartphone, it's update time. Both platforms are seeing and "new and improved" Twitter app, although, the changes are a bit cosmetic; at least for the iOS environment. Over at the Twitter blog , the changes are detailed, and for Android users, there isn't much in the way of new features, save for the fact you can now run the official Twitter app on ...