With all the portable USB devices we carry around these days, from phones, to ereaders, to cameras, to tablets, have you ever thought about the extra electricity we use to...

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With a few hours of Ice Cream Sandwich familiarity under our belts, the looming question in everyone's mind is: when will the Android 4.0 update roll out to existing devices?

Well, nobody knows. But after talking with a few authorities on the subject, we at least have a few hints.

Read More: Google Promises Android 4.0 For The Nexus S, “Theoretically” For Gingerbread Devices, Too

Google today announced that it has seen 190 million activations of Android devices worldwide during its quarterly earnings call. Google has reported record earnings of just shy of $10 billion...

Read More: Google: 190 million Android devices activated worldwide. That’s about 576,900 a day since May

Microsoft launched several Windows Phone 7.5 devices during an event in New Delhi today, bringing the Marketplace to India for the first time, according to a report by WinRumors. Bhaskar...

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With so much attention and speculation being focused on the possible new iPhone model or models next week, it is easy to forget that people who currently own an iPhone 3GS or 4, iPod touch 3rd or 4th generation or iPad 1 or 2 are going to get a lot of benefit out of the iOS 5 update that should ship very soon as an Over The Air (OTA) update.


Read More: New iPhone to be Announced on Oct. 4? Don’t Forget iOS 5 is Coming to Current iOS Devices Too

Image courtesy of Cloud EnginesI've long advocated storage solutions like Dropbox and Box.net for mobile users because of their low cost and ability to expand the amount of information one can access from mobile devices. Some people do not like the idea of storing their data on another company's servers, and for those people Cloud Engines' line of PogoPlug storage devices is an appealing alternative. Today Cloud Engines announced the PogoPlug Mobile, which is their newest personal cloud solution [...]

Read More: Cloud Engines Introduces New Storage Solution Targeted At Mobile Devices

Cloud Engines, Inc., makers of the Pogoplug line of devices and accompanying software, are launching a new hardware product today called Pogoplug Mobile. The device works like the company's current Pogoplug product - you attach your hard drive or drives, plug it into your router and instantly have your own personal cloud. In short, it's like a NAS (network-attached storage) box for your home.

But with the new Pogoplug Mobile, the system has been optimized for use with mobile devices. It's more [...]

Read More: Pogoplug Debuts New Hardware For Streaming To Mobile Devices

Nielsen has found that Android users tend to spend over an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven percent of their time is spent "working" with apps while the rest is spent on the mobile web. Forty-three percent of those apps are top 10 Market apps while the top 50 apps are used 61 percent of the time. The rest of the apps - all 250,000 of them - are used the rest of the time.

The stats come in advance of Neilsen's free webinar, to be held on September 15.

Read More: Android Phone Owners Use Their Devices For An Hour A Day

Nokia is planning to launch its Windows Phone 7 handsets through China Mobile (China's largest mobile phone carrier). China Mobile accounts for two-third of the country’s total mobile phone user base i.e. over 600 million users.  This looks like a desperate move from the struggling handset maker to support his falling sales and hold off against fierce competition from Android devices and iPhone in China. It is expected that the initial launch will take place later this year and mass shipments wi [...]

Read More: Nokia To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices Through China Mobile

All Things D got a look at a report commissioned by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing. It was assembled by Nielsen and surveyed people to find out where they were watching video on mobile devices. The results may be a surprise to anyone who has not watch a lot of video on mobile devices. But, it makes perfect sense to those who have.Why Watch TV at Home When You Have a Perfectly Good iPhone to Squint At?The survey asked about using smartphonees, iPod touch units and t [...]

Read More: Where Do People Mostly Watch Video on Mobile Devices? At Home

Smartphones and Tablets are powerful enough that one might consider using them as their only computing device. While smartphones and tablets have the processing power equivalent to personal computers sold just a short time ago, one area in which they are significantly inferior to PCs is storage.


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Today during Google's Second Quarter earnings call a lot of focus was put on the success of Google Android, which was put in Larry Page's successful consumer products category.

How successful is Android exactly? Well the operating system is now on 130 million total devices, with six billion app installs from the Android Market. The last time Google announced device stats for Android it was 100 million at i/o. Apple was at 200 million devices as of WWDC.

Android is now seeing 550K activations a [...]

Read More: Google Android Now On 130M Total Devices, With 6B App Downloads