Android Market Now on PCs, Auto Download to Mobiles

Starting today, says Google, the Android Market client for mobile devices will be available for desktops. Anyone can now easily find and share applications from their favorite browser. Once users select an application they want, it will automatically be downloaded to their Android-powered devices over-the-air.

Android Market on the Web dramatically expands the discoverability of applications through a rich browsing experience, suggestion-guided searching, deep linking, social sharing, and other merchandising features.

Google is releasing the initial version of Android Market on the Web in English and will be extending it to other languages in the weeks ahead.

Android Developers Blog

Google Hotpot: Discover Places You Like

Android 3.0, Honeycomb Designed to Drive Tablets

Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets.

Honeycomb will feature a brand new, truly virtual and holographic user interface, refined multi-tasking, elegant notifications, access to over 100,000 apps on Android Market, home screen customization with a new 3D experience and redesigned widgets that are richer and more interactive, Google says.

The web browser includes tabbed browsing, form auto-fill, syncing with Google Chrome bookmarks, and incognito mode for private browsing.

A Sneak Peek of Android 3.0, Honeycomb - Official Google Mobile Blog

Text content sales grow with 4G

Apps for content are one area where consumers are downloading and continuing to use apps, say researchers at the Yankee Group. A new forecast from Yankee Group predicts that e-book sales will reach $2.7 billion by 2013, an annual growth rate of more than 70 percent.

Researchers believe more than 380 million e-books will be purchased by 2013, four times the amount purchased in 2010. One negative: e-book prices are expected to drop to about $7 on average, a $2 decrease over 2009 prices.

Yankee Group believes that growing 4G mobile penetration is going to help.

Yankee Group: How connectivity, content is changing the game

Isis CEO: Mobile payments making "good progress"

"If you're going to make payments work in the United States on a mobile phone, you're going to need a lot of players to come alive in the ecosystem to make that happen--everything from the merchants to the OEMs to the phone manufacturers," says Isis CEO Michael Abbott.

"The point of why we made the announcement about Isis before we were out there marketing it is to let all of the ecosystem players know, here is the place you can come to talk about the open standards we're developing, what we'd expect people to adopt and that we're bringing the wherewithal of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon and the 200 million subscribers they have and the 100 million who re-up their phones every year," says Abbott.

Isis CEO: Mobile payments making 'good progress,' but no specifics yet

Corning Incorporated to Acquire MobileAccess

These days, if you run a business in the fixed-line business, in any way, and you don't have a mobile play, you have a problem. So it is that Corning has signed an agreement to acquire MobileAccess, a leading provider of wireless network solutions.

With headquarters in Vienna, Va. and a technology center in Tel Aviv, Israel, MobileAccess provides distributed antenna system solutions for flexible wireless coverage in the rapidly growing wireless market.

Corning Incorporated to Acquire MobileAccess

Skype Competitor Viber Hits 10 Million Downloads

An Android version is said to be coming.