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New Feature Explored: Event Attributes

We are happy to announce the availability of new client libraries for Android, Blackberry and iPhone apps that support performance improvements and a number of new features.  One feature I particularly want to highlight is Event Attributes.  Developers have always been able to record events in their applications, but now in addition to recording events you can record attributes associated with the event.

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Google Phone - Emergence of the Nexus One

The Google phone is real. In the spirit of the holidays, Google said Saturday on its mobile blog that they’re “taking dogfooding to a whole new level” by first distributing the new phone to Googlers around the world. The phone, called the Nexus One, will be part of a “mobile lab” where Google employees will help test the latest technology.

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DROID Delivers in November

Verizon is reportedly spending $100 million to make the case that the DROID DOES where other smartphones don’t. Verizon and the Motorola DROID may not have unseated King iPhone yet, but the DROID did deliver very solid numbers in the first few weeks after the launch.

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Should Android developers be targeting Android 2.0 and the Droid?

A year ago the Android ecosystem was pretty simple: there was one device, one operating system version, and developers knew exactly what they were building for.  Android has come a long way and today there are a number of Android devices available with many more expected.  One device that is now getting a lot of attention is the new Motorola Droid, which will be introduced on Verizon’s network tomorrow.  While this excitement bodes well for the future of Android, it leaves mobile application developers wondering how quickly the Droid and especially Android 2.0 will be widely adopted.  To explore this, we looked at the mobile application usage of 20,000 Android handsets over the last week to determine the breakdown of users by phone and by Android OS.  We have also used these data to make some predictions on device uptake over the next few months.

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How to reliably establish a network connection on any BlackBerry device

Establishing a network connection within a BlackBerry application is a challenge which tends to surprise developers new to the BlackBerry platform.  This is especially true for developers coming from another platform and expecting the ability to simply call Connector.open(url) and get back a connection to that url. This article explains why connecting to the internet on a BlackBerry device can be tricky and presents some of the popular ways of doing it along with the source code for our own solution.

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