PayPal has introduced an app for Google’s Android today. The app gives PayPal users easy access to their accounts from Android Phones.
A post at the PayPal Blog lays out the features:
Report Looks at Ad Requests for iPhone vs Android
Mobile advertising platform AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report looking at statistics for the month of March. It highlights some interesting trends in smartphone applications.
AdMob serves ads for over 6,000 web sites and 1,000 apps and stores and analyzes the data from each ad request, impression, and click. The report is intended to provide insight into trends in the mobile ecosystem.
Google’s Android Going to Set-Top Boxes
Google is expecting a good year for Android, and it’s got plans for the mobile operating system. The company is planning "significant" products and partnerships.
Rumor: Plethora Of Android Phones On The Way From Orange
Fair warning: a new tale concerning Google’s Android operating system actually started in another language and remains unconfirmed. That said, it looks like the software may be ready to really take off, as telecommunications giant Orange is supposed to launch around half a dozen more Android phones in the next nine months.
Google Welcomes Priced Apps To Android Market
Get ready for Android to become a lot more popular with developers. In a move that may have several other interesting ramifications, as well, Android Market has finally made room for applications that aren’t free.
Coming Soon To Android Market: Priced Apps
Google shouldn’t be surprised if people are unhappy when they’re told they’ll "get" to pay for Android apps; this hardly sounds like an improvement over the price of "free." But priced applications are en route to the Android Market, and the development may have a couple of beneficial effects.
Ballmer: Android Does Not Compute
CEOs can be terribly stiff, always either reading from statements or phrasing things in the most cautious and neutral way possible. Steve Ballmer doesn’t suffer from this problem, however, and the Microsoft CEO mocked Google’s Android operating system while at an investor briefing in Australia.
MySpace, Imeem Announce Android Applications
Unlike the iPhone, Google’s Android operating system hasn’t seemed to burst onto the scene with ten marching bands in tow. The "little bit here, little bit there" approach looks to be working pretty well, however, as MySpace and Imeem have announced a couple of new applications.
Motorola Adds To Android Development Team
The market’s been open for about 90 minutes, and the Dow’s down 265 points. Corporations are likely to keep cutting jobs and staying away from everything risky. But a new report indicates that Motorola’s quite confident in Google’s Android platform, as it’s putting around 350 people on an Android development team.
The Android Phone T-Mobile G1
T-Mobile’s G1 phone was officially announced today. It’s going to be the first mobile phone based on Android, the Google-and-partners powered (and supposedly soon to be open source released) mobile operating system.