Big news comes from Samsung today at the IFA Electronics Consumer Show at Berlin. It is the launch of Samsung's first tablet; the Galaxy Tab. Its portability is the main value proposition here.  With a battery life of 8 hours and handy, small sized 7-inch touchscreen, Galaxy Tab, is promoted as the tablet to use on the go. The other main features include phone call ability, GPS system, internet connectivity, e-book reader, support for various movie formats, a 1.3 megapixel front camera and a 3 megapixel back camera with LED Lamp.  Other  specifications are a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, 16 GB internal memory and 32 GB extend-able MicroSD storage, Galaxy Tab is sure to make some noise in the tablet market. This product is powered by th

Broadcasting live video from your Android phone is now available with Justin.tv.  The live, video-streaming service has launched an Android app, bringing the service to Google's mobile platform.  Broadcasting live videos has never been so easy with this innovation for mobile phones.  Though Justin.tv might not be the first to market (Qik, etc.), it has some advantages in the form of hardware video encoding which enables it to drain less battery power and bitrate adjustment of videos uploaded to strengthen wireless connections. You can start broadcasting by downloading it on your Android and registering for a Justin.tv account. You will never have to go to a website. It’s easy to use with only three buttons:  record, share and chat.

Today brings us a small slew of mobile related acquisitions. Starting with atel-Lucent who look to extend their range of mobile applications through an acquisition of OpenPlug through the company’s ELIPS Studio. This product is a developer tool, which allows developers to write an application once and have it translated automatically across multiple platforms. From the Alcatel-Lucent, While demand for mobile apps is peaking, so is the fragmentation of mobile development platforms and tools,” said Michael Cote, analyst for Redmonk. “This makes it very expensive to target all devices and can lead to putting all your eggs in one, often tightly controlled basket, like Apple's, or doing a least-common denominator, mobile web app that c

With the Android gaming market still living in the shadow of the iPhone it’s important to stand up and take notice of those businesses who are working to bring it into the light. One such company happens to be Scoreloop who hope to revolutionize the Android social gaming landscape. Scoreloop’s offering to the market is a sort of social discovery network for Android games. It takes advantage of the microblogging fad built up by Twitter and Facebook to deliver recommendations about games between friends. The need for a framework that embraces multiple different games within the Android platform is becoming more apparent as game families tend to cluster together and don’t play well with others. With the launch of their app, Scorelo

High quality DivX HD format movies are coming to the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone. This beautiful Android phone will be the first mobile capable of playing 720p resolution DivX HD movies on both the handset’s 4-inch screen and through HD capable devices. From the company statement, To enjoy DivX video on the Galaxy S, consumers can load their video libraries of both standard definition and HD 720p movies in the DivX format on the internal and external memory (expandable to 32GB) and then watch their collections anywhere they choose. In addition, the Galaxy S can connect directly to other DivX Certified devices, such as HDTVs, turning it into a powerful mobile set-top box in the living room. The Galaxy S will also support the secure p

The Galaxy Tab  is very real. I’ve personally played with this amazing device and it blew me away. Yes, I work for Samsung so I’m a bit biased, but as a geek and Android fan I can tell you that I’m extremely excited. And based on today’s hundreds of awesome tweets to @SamsungTweets, it is obvious that there are many out there who share the excitement. Here’s a glimpse of the awesomeness that’s soon to come… Get ready. [Editor’s Note: Esteban cross-posted this at his personal blog. He is a longtime contributor to SiliconANGLE, but also an employee of Samsung. –mrh]

Appolicious already provides resources for iPhone and iPad users to discover apps for those platforms have decided to diversify further into the app market by adding the Android and Yahoo! platforms. They write over at the Appolicious Adviser, Leveraging the technology and institutional expertise of Appolicious - which combines social networking, journalism and a cutting edge federated search tool - AndroidApps.com and yap.appolicious.com will help consumers source and share mobile and web-based applications that are most relevant to them. Appolicious features including Curated Lists, the app Library Builder and the ability to rate and write reviews for individual apps are all available on AndroidApps.com and yap.appolicious.com. As w

Just this last July, Google quietly killed their most hyped line of Android phones, the Nexus One, due to poor sales. As a result, Google commented that while they would stop producing the phone—and would push consumers to phones of other manufacture—they would still allow the remaining stock to sell itself out. The phone itself, in spite of poor consumer sales still remains one of the best Android phones ever made. So Google decided to make a batch available to developers, but they then underestimated the developer market for the phone. As seen in a recent press statement, published over at Android Developers, Google had this to say about the shortage, A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that registered developers could buy an unl

Diversity is key for mobile advertisers, as operating systems and devices become more attuned to consumer needs. The July 2010 Mobile Mix report from Millennial Media notes this trend, witnessing a widening sea of advertisements, applications and verticals across a number of mobile operating systems. Android Takeover The days of Apple iPhone domination have ended for the time being, and this is reiterated with the persistent adoption of Android’s mobile platform. It’s not just a fad—Android has now become the second-largest OS on Millennial Media’s platform for the first time since the mobile advertising network began reporting the OS mix in August 2009. Even more interesting is the growing domination of the Motorola

It’s official: Google is acquiring social collaboration platform Jambool. The company behind Social Gold, a virtual currency platform, was rumored to have been snapped up by the search engine giant earlier this week. A post today on Jambool’s company blog confirms the deal, though none of the financial details were given. From Jambool, "We are excited to announce that Jambool is becoming a part of the Google family today. Jambool started as a social collaboration platform in 2006. In 2007, we shifted our focus to build applications on social networks. Along with success, we found fun and lucrative ways to monetize our apps – specifically virtual currency and goods. That led us to create a platform to help developers create