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Have you recently used the hand-dandy Find Friends feature found in the official Android and iPhone Twitter apps?

If so, you have authorized Twitter to upload the contents of your entire contacts list to its servers — and to keep them there for 18 months.

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Networking Blog: "Now, with Google purchase of Motorola Mobility, Android's maker will have the patents it needs to retaliate."

As Google is given clearance in the US and Europe to buy Motorola Mobility, Matt Warman looks at how the purchase could give Google a new platform in the home.

Google’s Chrome browser has finally arrived on Android in beta form, and it’s really rather good. It’s really only a beta in the way Google understands “beta.” Chrome for Android is stable, feature-rich, and blazing fast.

This is definitely a new reason for Android users to start pestering device makers about an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) — and that might be just the start of Google’s real agenda for Chrome on Android.

Do apps that run on Apple's iOS crash more than Android apps? We take a close look at some data.

Datamation: Android apps to extend battery life, improve communication, optimize RAM and otherwise boost your smartphone's performance.

Datamation: New Android phones are bloated with unwanted apps. Is there no way to avoid the mess?

LinuxLinks: "In this article, we feature the best free UPnP clients that are available for the Android platform.

These clients enable users to stream multimedia from a UPnP enabled media server, or control a UPnP enabled media renderer from their Android phone or tablet."

As I watched Intel CEO Paul Otellini at CES 2012 announce that both Motorola and Lenovo would be shipping x86 Android smartphones, just one question echoed around my skull: So what?

Reading through the details of Medfield, the SoC that that provides the foundation for Intel’s smartphone push, the same question began to reverberate.

While politicians continue to pretend that SOPA support is a minor issue, there's been more and more evidence that it's a big deal to an awful lot of people.