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According to the Facebook blog usage of Facebook mobile products has grown from 5 million to 15 million active users since the beginning of the year.

Android has been under a lot of heat lately from some of the leading mobile companies such as Sprint. Google’s Android platform seems to be an open target for negativity. Microsoft has jumped on the bandwagon with reports that they find Android to be financially unsound.

The other day Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, spoke at Australian [...]

The T-Mobile G1 is showing up in the hands of those who pre-ordered one this week (mine is schedule for Tuesday arrival) and I have been seeing new applications appearing in the Android Market almost daily on my review unit. There are still a very limited number of games and I think only one or [...]

Something’s afoot with the Android Market, the place where Android users can go to find and buy software for their Android devices. Earlier today, the Android Market went from 50+ apps down to 13. Um, what happened,Google (NSDQ: GOOG)? Thankfully, MySpace has picked up the slack with a mobile version of itself.
In the HTC [...]

T-Mobile has totally overshot their sales expectations for the G1. After selling out their entire stock of pre-orders for existing members in a very short period of time, HTC tripled the order and has sold out of that entire batch as well. That means that 1.5 million G1s have already been sold in pre-orders on [...]

[via the Washington Post]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008; 2:38 PM

When I was man-handling the Android phone at the T-Mobile press conference earlier today, I couldn’t help but notice that one of the icons was for the App Market?Android’s answer to the App Store on iTunes. The app market launches on October 22, when the T-Mobile G1 [...]

Based on this article Apple is going to have some crazy competition soon. Blackberry is a major player and can really shake things up for Apple and their “dictator” ways.

Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM)’s answer to the iPhone Apps Store and the Android Market will be called the BlackBerry Apps Center. Images of it leaked over the weekend and give us some insight into how RIM will compete to provide content for its devices.

Back in May Google announced the first round winners of the Android Developer Challenge, since that date the winning teams have been working hard on improving their applications and getting ready for the second round.