A study that compared browser load times on Android versus iOS is being slammed with criticism. Yesterday, Blaze Software's study, which involved loading 45,000 websites on a Nexus S and iPhone 4, made big headlines all over the online news world. Now, it's making headlines for a different reason. According to Apple Insider, the study used a custom Internet browser for the iPhone, and not the built-in Safar ...

According to the results of a new independent test, Android 2.3 is able to load websites 52% faster than an iPhone running iOS 4.3. Blaze Software performed thousands of field tests to determine the speed and reliability of mobile Internet browsing - a total of 45,000 tests - using the Google Nexus S and an iPhone 4 with the most up-to-date iPhone software. The tests were performed with each phone's respect ...

Have you ever wondered what a robotic clone would look and feel like? Well, meet Geminoid DK, the robot of nightmares for Automatonophics throughout the galaxy. Looking like it walked straight out of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, the Geminoid DK is the latest incarnation of Aalborg University Professor Henrik Scharfe - in super realistic robotic form, that is. Designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osa ...

Look outside - is it raining cats and dogs? Are pigs flying? If so, then this latest rumor, which suggest Research in Motion is considering bringing Blackberry Messenger to other mobile platforms, may be true. This is a highly significant move if it is in fact true. Blackberry Messenger launched as a way for people - particularly business people - to communicate with one another in an exclusive chat system. ...

A platform-specific version of the popular Android Market is expected to arrive on Google TV sometime in the very near future. "It will happen shortly," Logitech VP Ashish Arora confirmed during a OTTCon keynote speech. Google TV to get Android Market access "shortly""It's a given that it will happen this year, 100 percent." According to Arora - who was quoted by PCMag - the Market will offer access to a wi ...

Simon Walker, developer program head at Sony Ericsson, has gone on record as stating that he isn't adverse to rooting - if the popular practice is executed correctly. "I need 2 take the discussion inside SonyEricsson again about rooting," Walker tweeted in response to a recent query. Sony Ericsson exec not adverse to rooting"[Because] I am actually in favor if we do it right. Anyhow, I hear [your concerns]. ...

Android has been called the fastest growing mobile platform ever in the history of the world, and now we have some numbers that pretty much back that up. The last 12 months have been quite an amazing ride for the Google operating system. There are now more than 250,000 apps available on the Android Market and people are counting the number of Android devices in the millions these days. No one could have for ...

After months of speculation about Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s game plan for reviving Nokia, he dropped a bomb on Friday announcing the company's "broad strategic" partnership with Microsoft. But not everyone is happy with the announcement, and thousands walked out of Nokia facilities in protest. The majority of the employees that walked are reported to have worked on Nokia’s Symbian OS, an operating system in ...

For years we have seen people toying with the idea of a digital display that can bend and fold like paper. Nothing has ever materialized into a mass market device, but we still like seeing the concepts, and this one with an Android interface looks pretty darn cool. California-based designer Andrew Namminga came up with the concept to use Android in a fabric-like "computer" of sorts that you could use to che ...

Would you ditch Android or BlackBerry for the iPhone? If so, you are not alone. Indeed, over 54% of Verizon subscribers who use Android or BlackBerry smartphones are ready to make the big switch. According to a recent survey conducted by uSamp, more than half are "very likely" (25%) or "likely" (29%) to switch to the iPhone when it finally arrives on the Verizon network on February 10th. As AppleInsider's J ...