| 2009's most awesome Android apps
The quality of applications available on Google's Android platform is improving by leaps and bounds. Whereas most of the apps that Google showcased last year in its first Android Developer Challenge were relatively simple location-based applications that relied upon Android's Google Maps program, this year's Android Developer Challenge showed off an enormous variety of complex applications that let users play guitar, learn about astronomy, get information on famous art or even chase down ghosts. In this slideshow we'll comb through some of the coolest apps from this year's Android Developer Challenge, whether they're games, reference apps or productivity tools. Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?
Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms. Analysts Predict App Explosion in 2010
IDC analysts have published a list of predictions for 2010. One of those predictions is that 2010 will be the year of the app. It may seem like apps are ubiquitous now, but if IDC analysts are even half right you haven't seen anything yet. Real or Hoax? Photos of Unreleased Motorola Phone Appear
One day after details leaked about the code-named "Sholes Tablet" comes a second, seemingly similar Android smartphone from Motorola. Only two pictures, which appeared in a comment thread on BoyGeniusReport, have been taken, but the phone seems to slightly surpass the capabilities of the Sholes Tablet. RFID: A New Hope in a New Decade
For the past 10 years, radio-frequency identification (RFID) has followed the classic buzzword trajectory that is typically a blessing and a curse for new technologies: Next-generation appeal, bursting hype, rampant confusion and fragmented success. AT&T Quietly Ditches Verizon Ad Lawsuit
Without saying why, AT&T dropped a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless that claimed the competitor's advertisements on 3G coverage were misleading. BlackBerry-Maker RIM Hit With Another Patent Complaint in US
RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, has been served yet another patent-related complaint, and the motion could potentially lead to the barring of sales of certain BlackBerry products and/or services in the United States--though that outcome is unlikely. Windows 7 Starter includes hidden wireless feature, says sleuth
Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in Windows 7 Starter, the edition installed on most netbooks, but it did not actually disable the ad hoc wireless feature, as the firm's marketing materials claim, a noted Windows blogger said today. Slideshow: The year in tech industry apologies
Kanye West, President Obama and David Letterman grabbed headlines this year when they apologized for assorted ill-advised acts or rash statements. But they more than met their match in the high-tech industry, where big names from Amazon to Apple to Microsoft were forced to issue mea culpas in the wake of bad and worse decisions. Here's a recap of what the tech industry has been most sorry about in 2009. AT&T: Not As Lousy As Everyone Thinks?
Is it possible that AT&T is getting a bad rap? It is hard to be sympathetic to such an unsympathetic company, but suppose AT&T isn't quite as bad as everyone assumes? Or more likely, that other carriers aren't much better? AT&T customer satisfaction tanks
AT&T received some bad news from Consumer Reports this week, as the magazine's latest survey shows that the carrier now has the lowest level of customer satisfaction in the United States. Sprint Admits Giving GPS Data to the Government
There was a time, I suspect, when this news would've been a very big deal: Sprint turned over customers' GPS whereabouts to law enforcement 8 million times over the last year. But today, very few people seem concerned about the revelation. Alcatel offers to streamline mobile app creation
Alcatel-Lucent is helping mobile operators bring their network resources to developers so they can build a richer set of applications. Keeping us safe the Sprint way
Mark Gibbs wonders about why we don't want to be monitored yet when we are monitored we don't care too much. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up and The VEPA standard -- a potential game changer?; On Microsoft Subnet: Fake Microsoft security e-mail spreads malicious code; On Google Subnet: Google releases free public DNS Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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