Within days of Google's launch of its newest version of its Android mobile operating system - version 4.1 `Jelly Bean' - for smartphones and tablets, the company's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has now released the next raw version of the open-source code to the developers, so as to enable them to start working on future updates and releases.

After bringing on Microsoft Office functionality to the iPad version of its app in April, budding cloud platform CloudOn has now announced that Microsoft Office support is now available for the Android-based tablet computers.

Ever since recent reports revealed that the trendy photo-sharing social app Instagram is being taken over by Facebook, the users of the app - which was widely considered to be a real `cool' one thus far - are already on the lookout for an alternative to Instagram, as they apparently do not like the idea of using the `Facebookstagram' version of the app.

In a Thursday report, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed that Internet search giant Google is apparently working out ways to mark its return to the hardware retailing arena - after a rather short previous attempt at marketing and selling Google-branded smartphones - with an online store which will sell co-branded Android-based tablet computers.

On Tuesday, popular micro-blogging service Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps; thus fixing the issues and shortcomings identified in these apps, and optimizing the service to run on Android-based tablets.

Close on the heels of its last-week announcement about having detected what it termed as the Android. Counterclank "threat" involving the most widespread fraction of Android malware, Symantec has now retracted the `malware' claims to align with a much hushed assessment of the threat by Lookout Mobile Security.

According to a recent announcement by Samsung, the upgrade to the Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ (ICS) version – which is scheduled to debut on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus handset this month - will come aboard the Galaxy S II handsets in the first quarter of the next year.