Google had a major announcement today and introduced Google Buzz, a Social Networking tool to compete with twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. The highlight of Google Buzz is that it takes full advantage of your location (and Google Maps) when you send out messages (or “buzzes”?!). People can reply and you will be notified via email when that happens (sorta annoying). Just visit buzz.google.com on your Android phone to check … Read More

Point Inside, a very popular and successful application that made its debut on the iPhone platform, is now available for Android!

Point Inside is an application that displays shopping mall maps on your Android device. The app includes an extensive 100,000+ stores, kiosks and other mall related amenities. While the app does not include every mall in North America, it does have support for all the major malls across the USA … Read More

During Google’s Nexus One event held yesterday in California, Android lead Andy Rubin indicated that a future Android software update will allow developers and users to store a large number of apps on Android devices, such as seen on the iPhone.

Currently Android users and developers can only store a very small amout of apps on an Android device as apps are stored to the ROM. The future update … Read More

Today, Google held an Android Press Event at its California HQ which debuted the new Nexus One.

The Nexus One is the newest Android-powered mobile device running Android 2.1. As expected, the device comes will all of the great Google Mobile apps such as Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Talk, Maps Navigation and Google Voice!

Under the hood, The Nexus One delivers a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, … Read More

Google’s operating system Android is no longer the fledgling platform that it was when it launched. With 2010 approaching and many new Android devices coming, the OS is gaining ground very quickly.

One of the methods in which Android will continue to grow is through the Android Market and the availability of an increasing number of applications ranging from games to producitivity applications and many more.

A website called AndroLib … Read More

Aside from the tongue twister of the new Android application, Google Goggles is a new visual search/augmented reality app.

The new app allows users to search Google in two ways:

Search by photo taken by the device camera
Search by Augmented Reality via the device camera

Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to … Read More

With the release of Google Maps 3.3, Google has added a “What’s Nearby” feature to Maps that displays the 10 closest places to a users location.

Today we’re announcing “What’s Nearby” for Google Maps on Android 1.6+ devices, available as an update from Android Market. To use the feature just long press anywhere on the map, and we’ll return a list of the 10 closest places, including restaurants, … Read More

Android owners looking for advanced device syncing software that also includes WiFi sync should check out The Missing Sync by Mark/Space. The PC/Mac compatible software has been released for Android.

The Missing Sync is device synchronization software but what makes it unique is that the application uses WiFi to wirelessly sync contacts between an Android device and the host computer. The Missing Sync supports most popular contacts applications including Microsoft … Read More