This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Even if you’ve done everything you can to banish paper from your office, those little white sheets can still creep up on you. You’ll want to digitize those crinkly analog fugitives… Continue reading 5 Android Apps to Turn Your Phone Into a Mobile Document Scanner

Android‘s box of sweets has gotten much more diverse since launching its first dessert-themed operating system, Cupcake, in 2009. Mobile app developers [x]cubelabs have laid out a timeline of these versions — from Cupcake to Ice Cream Sandwich — in the infographic below. What updates do you think were most influential? At what point did… Continue reading The History of Android [INFOGRAPHIC]

Google has won another small victory in the long and documentedbattle between Android and Apple operating systems. For the first time, Android phones are the most coveted smartphones among U.S. mobile consumers, according to a survey Nielsen released Tuesday. In a series of monthly surveys between January 2011 and March 2011, 31% of consumers who were planning on… Continue reading U.S. Mobile Customers Now Prefer Android Phones Over iPhones

Starting at the end of 2011, the Great Schism of the Android mobile operating system — between Android version 2 for phones, and Android version 3 for tablets — will finally end. The rollout of Ice Cream Sandwich will signal the start of something new. At Google I/O this year, the company announced that Ice Cream Sandwich was coming… Continue reading Androids Unite: How Ice Cream Sandwich Will End the OS Schism