Google: 160,000 Android activations per day

At today's Droid x event, Google noted that it was activating 160,000 devices a day.

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At Google I/O, just over a month ago, Google announced that it was activating 100,000 devices per day.  That was surprising given that the platform isn't yet two years old. Today's announcement that Android was activating 160,000 is startling.

Just back of napkin here:  That means that every week over a million devices, MORE

Analysts scramble to raise AAPL targets

The iPhone 4's momentum is beyond "our bullish expectations," says Kaufman's Shaw Wu

The Wall Street analysts who follow Apple (AAPL) -- and there are dozens of them -- continue to take a second look at their spreadsheets in the wake of those 3 million iPad sales, the extraordinary flood of iPhone 4 pre-orders and the glowing reviews this week in advance of Thursday's iPhone launch.

As is their wont when Apple MORE

Liveblog: Verizon unveils the Droid X

After weeks of speculation, teasers and leaks, the day many Android aficionados have been antsy about has arrived: the unveiling of Verizon's Droid X and Droid 2.

Thanks to a recent "pre-review," we have a pretty good idea of what to expect in terms of features, at least as far the Motorola (MOT) Droid x, including a new 45 nm 1GHz TI OMAP processor that's almost double the raw speed of MORE

Android's Maps get public transit schedules

Another update to Google Maps for Android (4.3) adds the times to public transit as well as Latitude and easy restaurant ratings.

Just a month after the last feature update of Google Maps for Android, Google has updated the application again with more standout features.  This time, the app receives big help for commuters using public transportation and Geo-social networkers.

Now, if you click on a train or bus stop, Google (GOOG) gives you as MORE

Google already has a music store!

It is called YouTube and they sell thousands of songs and more than a few videos every day.

There was lots of talk yesterday about when or if Google will enter the online music sales business this week. I'm here to tell you they are already knee deep in the music sales game and have nowhere to go but deeper.

When you do a Google search for a song, one of MORE

Chrysler's engineering software shift

The automaker is embracing engineering software from Siemens where it once used Dassault. A case of open vs. closed?

Cars like the 300C will now be designed using Siemens software, not just software from Dassault. Courtesy: Chrysler

Before it hits the road, every car first lives digitally on an automaker's computers, where engineers can keep track of engines, electrical systems and every other detail.

Chrysler, the struggling U.S. automaker that owns the MORE

App Store: 1% of Apple's gross profit

Since its launch in July 2008, it has generated revenue of $429 million for the company

Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray

Apple (AAPL) claims to run the App Store at or near break even, and apparently that's not terribly far from the truth.

In a report to clients issued Wednesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster uses two data points Steve Jobs delivered in his keynote two weeks ago -- 5 billion apps MORE

Developer interest in tablets soars

Apple's iPad leads the way, but Android tablets are gaining fast, even before they exist

Click to enlarge. Source: Appcelerator

There's lots to learn about where the next generation of third-party mobile apps are coming from in a survey published Wednesday by Appcelerator, maker of a popular Titanium cross-platform development tool that seems to have escaped the wrath of Steve Jobs.

The survey, conducted last week among 2,733 of its more than MORE

Disassembling the iPhone 4

iFixit has taken a screwdriver to Apple's newest phone. This is what they found.

Source: iFixit

The folks at iFixit reported Wednesday that they "had a blast" taking apart Apple's (AAPL) newest iPhone -- which they got their hands on two days early thanks to FedEx and a friendly Silicon Valley engineer.

Their findings, in their own words:

Apple's iPhone 4: The reviews are in

Mossberg, Pogue and Baig all loved it. With reservations.

Photo: Apple Inc.

Wednesday's papers will carry the first official reviews of Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 4. The usual suspects have been playing with the device for the last week or so and they are, for the most part, pleased. A sample of what they had to say:

The New York Times' David Pogue: New iPhone Arrives, Rivals Beware

Despite the MORE