Android Nears 50% Market Share: Microsoft, Apple Sue

Google’s Android smartphone platform continues it meteoric rise to claim nearly a 50% market share. Meanwhile competitors Microsoft and Apple team up to spend billions to acquire dubious patents in an attempt to sue Google to try to make Android more expensive. Currently Android is provided for free to smartphone manufacturers.

Google Speeds up Google +1 Button Loading

The Google +1 button is Google’s version of the Facebook Like button, but one problem it had was the slow load speed. Google has just addressed that with a super charge to the Google +1 button load speed, combined with a new asynchronous code snipped that you can use to ensure that the Google +1 button doesn’t slow the load speed of your site.