There aren’t too many hurdles left to big business adopting Android tablets as productivity tools. They integrate with secure email solutions (Exchange and Good are two examples), they run most of the same apps as iOS tablets do, but there’s always been one hurdle — there’s the perception that they don’t integrate too well with [...]

In the smartphone space, there’s really only three real players these days; Android of course, iOS and Windows Phone, with an honourable mention to Blackberry which will probably be out of business within a year or two. Microsoft, being desperate to increase its market share by taking users away from iOS and Android, are ramping [...]

Microsoft and SEVEN Networks have released a new version of the Outlook.com application for android today with a huge update pushed to Google Play. The name SEVEN might sound familiar to you; they’ve previously built push email solutions for Nokia’s Symbian platform and earlier Windows Mobile devices, as well as the Hotmail app for Android. [...]

Let the games begin, Microsoft has been pretty good about releasing applications for Android, including a Hotmail app, SkyDrive app and more recently their My Xbox Live now they’re expanding their Xbox 360 offerings by releasing their Smart Glass app which offers Android users a whole slew of options for interacting with and controlling their [...]

Microsoft has released their SkyDrive app for Android giving people the choice to use their cloud storage over other options on the market such as Dropbox, Box or even Google Drive. The app allows you to store and access your files from pretty much any device as most of the cloud storage options these days [...]

Microsoft has today released a My Xbox Live app for Android, offering the hope that some day we could see the functionality offered by the Windows Phone Xbox Companion app on Android. The app is available to devices running Android 2.2+ and obviously requires an Xbox Live account as well. Currently the app’s functionality is [...]

Early this year we saw some jobs at Microsoft appear that were for Android and iOS programmers who were to work with Xbox Live staff to bring ‘the latest and greatest gaming and entertainment experience to mobile platforms’. It would seem from Microsofts keynote presentation at E3 in Los Angeles, that what they were hired [...]

Google announced their Q3 earnings this morning on an earnings call with investors which was simultaneously aired on their Investor Relations YouTube Channel. After this mornings announcement of the Samsung/Google event happening at next weeks All Things D:Asia conference, I wanted to see what else they had in store. Hit the break for the Android [...]

Hotmail, the worlds longest standing free cloud email solution has finally delivered an official app in the market for Android. With a reported 355 million active Hotmail accounts worldwide at the end of 2010 (compared to Gmail figures of 193 million), it’s surprising that it’s taken Microsoft so long to deliver an app for Android [...]

Android is getting battered by big companies claiming its infringing on patents left, right and center. We’ve seen this clearly here in Australia with the latest attack by Apple at Samsung, and Google wants it to stop. They don’t want the patent system to cease existence, rather they want it to once again have meaning. [...]