Android

Tokyo, Japan and Mountain View, Calif. (May 20, 2010) – Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced an alliance to provide a range of new and rich entertainment experiences that combine Google’s open-source Android OS platform with Sony’s expertise in technology and product design. The two companies are exploring the joint development of compelling new Android-based hardware products for the home, mobile and personal product categories

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (20 May, 2010) - Today at its annual I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco, Google announced Android 2.2. Codenamed Froyo (short for Frozen Yogurt), it is the latest update to the first open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.

Android 2.2 offers valuable new features for consumers, including portable hotspot functionality, support for Adobe Flash within the Android Browser, and improvements to Android Market.

March 23, 2010 -- SAN MATEO, Calif. -- AdMob, a mobile advertising network, is expanding the ability of publishers and application developers to effectively and easily monetize their mobile traffic across platforms with the launches of new SDK’s for Android, Flash Lite and iPhone platforms.

The company is also launching a number of new tools to enable publishers to manage their mobile business including a new Publisher Dashboard, an enhanced Reporting UI, a new Reporting API (beta), and new Server Side SDK Controls.

New Version Released for iPhone and iPod Touch

March 23, 2010 -- WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Ad-ology Research announced their popular Marketing Forecast app is now available for Android-powered mobile devices. Marketing Forecast provides industry research, news and trends for advertisers and marketers.

The latest version for iPhone and Android includes a new small business section, social media sharing functions and more content for all marketers.

Oslo, Norway -- March 11, 2010 -- Opera Software today launched the newest beta version of the world's most popular browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini 5, on the Android platform. Opera Mini 5 beta for Android brings a fast and cost-efficient Web experience to any handset built on the Android platform.

GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- March 9, 2010 -- Jumptap, the leading mobile advertising solutions provider, today announced a new self-service application for publishers of mobile websites and mobile applications, including iPhone and Android.

Publishers can quickly and easily integrate their properties into the Jumptap mobile ad network and gain access to hundreds of leading advertisers looking to reach consumers on mobile sites and in smart phone applications.

Keyword targeting completes the Lat49 location-focused online and mobile device ad serving solution

VANCOUVER, BC – February 3, 2009 - Lat49, a location-focused ad network, today announced the addition of keyword targeting to the company’s ad targeting arsenal.

Lat49’s proprietary Location Logic technology allows advertisers to target the delivery of their ads by including or excluding audiences based on where the audiences are living, along with the audiences’ expressed geographies of interest.

FRAMINGHAM, MA. - January 25, 2010 - By 2013, IDC forecasts that worldwide shipments of converged mobile devices, also known as smartphones, will surpass 390 million units, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9% for the 2009–2013 forecast period.

comScore Releases New Report

RESTON, VA, December 17, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the release of its latest report on the mobile market, Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party.

The report provides an overview of the current U.S. mobile environment and offers an in-depth look at how the Android operating system is impacting the market.

Launches First Full-Screen Mobile Advertising Units for Google’s Android Platform

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – December 9, 2009 – Greystripe, the leading mobile brand-advertising network, announced today it has delivered ads into over 300 million ad-supported games and applications on the iPhone and Java platforms and their full screen ad formats will now be available for the thousands of Android game and application developers with an Android SDK.