Google’s Android is slowly taking over the cellphone market, now it sets it’s sights on your television. Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp. How will Google search be utilized in your cable or satellite set-top box?

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With the expansion of Android launching in different markets all across the world, many of these markets still doesn’t have access to paid apps. This often times lead users to find “alternative” ways of obtaining these highly sought after apps. Paid apps usually offer more features and more options versus their free counterpart. Most of the time there is no free version so if you want the app, you just cant get it through the Android Market.

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Available for Apple’s iPhone since 2008, Google Earth is now finally available for Android, too – although you need to have an Android 2.1 device (like the Nexus One) to use it.

The Android version of Google Earth is the fastest mobile version yet and comes with Roads layer, a feature that you might know from the desktop version (it provides “road labels drawn on top of the satellite imagery”).

Leveraging on the integrated voice recognition capability of Android 2.1, Google Earth for Android also features a “pocket globe that responds to your every command,” so every time you want to search for something, you can do it by voice only.

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Google Shopper lets you find product information quickly by using your phone’s camera. It can recognize cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games, along with most barcodes. You can also speak the name of the product you’re looking for. Use Shopper to make smart decisions about what to buy, what price to pay, and where to buy it. You can star items for later and share them with friends. Shopper also saves your history so you’ll always have the information at your fingertips, even when you don’t have a signal.
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Google has updated its Android podcast app Listen to include several new features, namely the ability to sync and manage podcast feeds through Google Reader. The previous version of Listen required users to search for feeds every time they switched phones or performed a data wipe, which can be particularly annoying for people who frequently change ROM’s or reset their phone. Version 1.1 can now store those podcasts in Google Reader and quickly sync them whenever necessary.

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The Motorola Shadow has been revealed as the possible follow up to the Google Nexus One

Google’s follow-up to the Nexus One has been touted as being the Motorola Shadow. So, while Google’s one of the biggest brands in the world, it still chooses to rely on the pros for its Android handsets.

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Following the launch yesterday of the Google Nexus One handset, Adobe have released video footage of their Flash Player 10.1 running smoothly on the handset.

Thanks to the Nexus One’s powerful Snapdragon processor and the Android 2.1 software, the Flash player software runs surprisingly well.

The Nexus One Android phone has just been officially announced by Google. Manufactured by HTC, the handset is available now through the Google phone store priced $529 unlocked, or $179 on contract with T-Mobile.

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Google Goggles seemed amazing to me when it was first announced. The thought that I could perform visual searches on things I didn’t recognize was intriguing and something I thought would – cliche alert – revolutionize the way people discover information. Goggles might still do that someday, but not yet. Despite the impressive features that Goggles promise, they do not live up to the hype at the moment.

The official video touting Goggles suggests that scanning a business card will allow the app to scan the text and add that person to a phone’s contacts directory. Nice in theory, but real world tests of the application are not as smooth or successful. Below is a video of my attempts to get Goggles working in object recognition, text recognition for adding business card info to contacts, and using the augmented reality mode.

Results are mixed in this video and on several other attempts that led me to make it. Goggles is still an interesting app, but it’s not quite there yet.