Android gained market share to end up with 7.1% of the mobile OS in quarter ending Jan 2010. RIM still leads the market with 43% share, followed by Apple with 23% share.

Polarbit is a company with the most popular android games like ToonWarz, Raging Thunder, Wave Blazer, Armageddon Squadron and Iron Sight, under its banner. The company has claimed that the games from Polarbot have been downloaded over a million times now only on the Android platform.

Sony Ericsson has confirmed that it will be updating its Android handsets (Xperia X10, Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro) to Android 2.1 or even Android 2.2 later this year.

The last time Google made an attempt to get its Android code into the Linux kernel, it failed. But, this time in a recent reply to ZDNet, Google’s Chris DiBona has accepted the possible of an inclusion this time.

Panda Research Labs discovered Mariposa Bot, Conficker and Lineage password stealing malware in a brand new HTC Magic handset supplied by Vodafone Germany.

Apple has sued HTC for infringement on 20 patents related to iPhone. In a case that seems more like an iPhone vs. Android battle, Google has clearly expressed their backing of Android manufacturer HTC.

The Android robot is one of the most charming things I have seen in a long time. Now, you can get that little robot as a companion for the Google Chrome browser, by using the unofficial Android theme for Google Chrome.

Android 2.1 update will be made available to all US Android phone by March end. The Android 2.1 update will be made availebl OTA or through a Software update on tthe PC.

Today at Mobile World Conference, HTC announced two new Android based phones – HTC Legend and HTC Desire. Both the Legend and Desire run on Android 2.1 and uses the latest version of the higly popular Sense UI. Continue reading this post to find out more about these phones.

Samsung is gearing up to launch an Android 2.1 powered phone which will feature an 8-megapixel camera along with a DLP Pico Projector.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, announced the launch of Adobe AIR and Flash player 10.1 on the mobile platform, at the Mobile World Congress 2010.

Opera announces its plans for the Mobile World Congress 2010. Get ready for Opera Mini on iPhone and Opera Mobile on Android.

Apple has asked the developer of Flash of Genius to drop the “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge” sentence from the App description or face the removal of the app from the App Store. Is Apple really so pissed off about it’s competition?

Firefox for Maemo say its final version 1.0 release a few days back and now, Firefox for Android pre-alpha screenshots have been released to prove that work is in fast progress.

This week’s Indian Telecom weekly roundup where we discuss what’s happening in the Indian Telecom sector.