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Some great news from our US cousins this week – as Android increases its market share to 41% stateside. Nice work, US fellas.

Also this week, Firefox confirms its developing a dedicated Honeycomb version of its browser, whilst in other news Instagram’s CEO has also confirmed an Android app is in the pipeline. But our favourite story this week has to be the Japanese Android app that allows paranoid girlfriends to spy on their other halves. It takes deviousness to a new level, which we can’t help but applaud. Bravo. read more

If you’re fortunate enough to be the proud owner of an Android-powered tablet, then you’ll doubtless be interested in a new app that drops a customisable app tray onto your homescreen. The brand-spanking Wizz Bar appears as a barely perceivable collection of dots on your Honeycomb tablet’s homescreen until you tap them, whereupon they spring to life in a cornucopia of colours, icons and barely concealed Android joy… read more

This week, we’ve been reeling from the news that our good friend Sonic is on his way to Android. Words fail us. Truly awesome. Also this week, 13-year old Android coder Sivan Sundar proved himself to be a bona-fide genius with his globally downloaded Where Am I? Geocode app. Elsewhere, Android malware was in the news again with the discovery of Gingermaster, a Gingerbread trojan based on DroidKungFu. And finally, it appears that new QNX-toting Blackberrys will get access to Android apps in 2012. read more

Another busy week for Android-kind. The big news from the past seven days is that Google has swallowed Motorola Mobility whole, forking out a cool $12.5billion for the privilege.

In security news, top dog cruelty app Dog Wars – now deleted from Android Market and every other right thinking app store in the world – has been hacked by PETA, or rather an old version of it has, according to Symantec.

And, it turns out, the top 10 Android apps account for 43% of total Android usage. A huge kick in the teeth for first time developers looking to make their millions on Android. For shame.

But without doubt our favourite story of the week is the news that Blackberry managed to inadvertently advertise an Android handset in its BB7 fan night video. Priceless.

Given the title of this post, it’d be remiss of us not to mention the five Android apps of the headline. So here they are… read more

It’s been another stonking week for Android lovers everywhere with reports that malware is now twice as likely to infect your Android than six months ago. And then there was the cheery news that Android now has a virus that secretly records your phone calls. Wonderful. Oh, and as it turns out, Android is three times more profitable for Microsoft than Windows Phone 7… ‘Go figure’, as our transatlantic brethren might say… read more