Stories by Brad Reed

Google takes on iTunes store with Google Play

Google has finally created the last missing piece that it needs to compete with Apple in the digital content retail space: a unified store for all forms of digital entertainment.

850,000 Android phones activated daily: Google

Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice-president of mobile and digital content, posted on the official Google Mobility blog that Android device activations now average around 850,000 each day. Additionally, Rubin said that there are more than 300 million Android devices active around the world and that there are now more than 450,000 applications available on the Android Market, roughly triple the applications that were available in February 2011.

Is smaller better for iPad size? Two gadget repair gurus weigh in

<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> may be the most successful tablet in the world, but few manufacturers seem willing to copy it from a size perspective.

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