Android developers say Google's hands-off approach and lack of management of its Android Market is hurting the company even as it proudly hawks its operating system as an open-source platform for smartphones and other mobile devices. Some analysts agree and say Google needs to take a more active role in cutting down on spam and copyright and trademark infringement in the application store. Failure to address these issues could lead developers to abandon the Android Market for Apple's App Store. - When Google unveiled its Android Market in 2008 as a source of applications for its open-source operating system for smartphones and other mobile gadgets, it was pitched as the freewheeling alternative to Apple's more closed and proprietary iPhone App Store. The Android Market application count ...

I already keep pictures of my family on my Backberry 8800. I don’t wear a watch so I rely on the device for telling time. My Blackberry even let’s me leave my iPod at home because I can listen to my mp3s and watch movies on it too, but will I ever be able to save my credit cards, identification, and replace my cash with features on my phone? (more…)

iBand makes music with two fingers… and iPhone from news.yahoo.com by Luc Andre:

“Six fingers and three iPhones are enough to create a band, and Austria’s iBand is living proof, having scored a hit on the Internet by converting the little gadgets into a guitar, a keyboard and a set of drums.

The Viennese trio first gained attention in February on the video-sharing website YouTube with its music video “Life is greater than the Internet.”

Here’s the video from YouTube: (more…)

Converting videos to the correct format for my iPod Nano has been frustrating to say the least. The Videora tool has made it much more simple, however.

From videora.com:

“Videora iPod Converter is a free iPod video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD’s so you can play them on your iPod. The software, developed by the creators of Videora, can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD’s, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPod.

With Videora iPod Converter you can convert videos for any (more…)