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Google reached a significant milestone for its Android mobile operating system today: 100,000 applications are available in the Android Market. The company announced the news in a post to its Android Developer Twitter account, nearly two years to the day since the Android Market formally opened for business. An unofficial estimate of Android applications by [...]

iPad owners who are still upset that Apple won’t allow Flash in iOS might soon have a solution. A new application for jailbroken iPads called Frash allows owners to run Flash in their Mobile Safari browser. The app was developed by Comex, a company that created the Spirit jailbreak. Frash isn’t currently available for wide [...]

As part of Monday’s iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch on Monday shortly after 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. [ Stay up on tech news [...]

Apple will issue a fix to answer complaints from iPad owners of weak wireless signals, dropped connections, and slow surfing speeds, the company said in a recently published support document. But some users were skeptical that a patch would solve their problems. [ Keep up on the latest networking news with our Networking Report newsletter. [...]

AT&T and Apple probably have a quid pro quo in place that has extended the mobile carrier’s exclusive deal with the iPhone in exchange for heavily-discounted data plan pricing for the iPad, an analyst said today. “AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad,” said Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst at BroadPoint [...]

Apple is attempting to avoid an antitrust probe into its trade practices by revising some of the terms of its developer agreement, according to reports. It’s not clear which parts of the agreement would be revised, but government regulators are said to be interested in provisions in Apple’s iAd advertising program, as well as Apple’s decision [...]

Apple is attempting to avoid an anti-trust probe into its trade practices by revising some of the terms of its developer agreement, according to reports. It’s not clear which parts of the agreement would be revised, but government regulators are said to be interested in provisions in Apple’s iAd advertising program, as well as Apple’s decision [...]

Apple later today will start selling iPads that are able to connect to the Internet over AT&T’s data network. Customers who pre-ordered the more expensive models of the tablet will also receive them today. Priced from $629 to $829, the 3G-enabled iPad goes on sale at Apple’s retail stores and most Best Buy stores at [...]

Early adopters of Netbooks have a nice new option in Gmail, courtesy of a labs update that went out Thursday. The feature, called “message sneak peek” is a simple pop-up preview of the message. It’s not a full version of the message, but in most cases it’s enough to read the entire thing without having [...]