Angry Birds

Angry Birds proves popularity of Android as a portable gaming platform

The quirky game has been downloaded a million times per day on Android over the weekend.

If there was ever a question of Google's Android being a viable gaming platform, RovioMobile's release of the full version of Angry Birds may have answered it.  On Saturday and Sunday, Rovio distributed a million of their Angry Birds apps for Android through GetJar and then the Android Market.  They added another million on Sunday.

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Today in Tech: News around the Web

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.

In yet another situation of cable negotiations gone awry, News Corp. yanked Fox programming from Cablevision. "This is an unfortunate attempt to extort unreasonable and unfair fee increases from Cablevision and our customers," stated a Cablevision email MORE