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Google to create Android RCS with mobile carriers

03/07/201603/06/2016 Jennifer Goula

As the tech giant attempts to modernize SMS messaging, it is working to release rich communication services. Google and several mobile carriers are now working together to attempt to create Android RCS (rich communication services) as well as to be able to release it and encourage its adoption among device users. To start, the company will be working with the GSMA as well as a number of regional and global carriers. Working with Google to be able to create Android RCS, will be the GSMA wireless standards group, in addition…

Technology news headlines explode with KitKat Android 4.4 launch

11/04/201311/03/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

Google has released the very latest major build to its mobile operating system. The long awaited technology news has now been announced with the release of the most recent version of Android, the KitKat 4.4 operating system, which first became available on the Nexus 5, which was just launched. This new device is the very first one to operate in this latest build of Google’s mobile OS. As with all technology news, KitKat has been met with some mixed reviews, but overall, excitement seems to be standard. Android 4.4 has…

Technology news made when Android beats its own record

08/07/201308/05/2013 Julie Campbell

The Google mobile operating system is claiming 80 percent of all of the global smartphone shipments. The latest data that has been released by Strategy Analytics in a technology news report that has revealed that the worldwide shipments of smartphones has increased by 47 percent when compared to last year, to the point that in the second quarter of 2013, there were 230 million units shipped. Google, the maker of Android, must be thrilled as a record 8 out of every 10 devices used its operating system. During the second…

Gartner research shows Android takes more than half of sales of smartphones

11/17/201111/17/2011 John Montgallo

The Android mobile operating system from Google Inc. has – according to research from Gartner Inc. – now taken more than half of all of the smartphones that were sold in the 2011 third quarter. The popularity of the Android-based Samsung Electronics Co. handsets contributed to this success. In total, Android devices made up 52.5 percent of the sales of smartphones, which brings it to a position that is twice as big as it was in 2010 at the same time. According to the email report by Gartner, even as…