> RIM is entering the tablet market as an underdog and will have to work hard to gain credibility and be viewed as a serious contender. Honeycomb’s incompleteness and Android’s early stumble out of the tablet starting gate have created a window of opportunity for another player to stake a position. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/03/android-apps-on-playbook-tablet-could-be-a-mixed-bag-for-platform.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)I love how quickly the story has changed from “Android will soon overtake Apple in tablets just…

> **Motorola Mobility, which has been Google’s only major licensee fully committed to Android, is now working on a new web-based mobile operating system apparently intended to give it more control over its future, enraging Android advocates anew just weeks after Nokia opted against adopting Google’s mobile OS.** > > Word of Motorola’s new project was [reported](http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097) by *Information Week*, which attributed “a source familiar with the matter.” > > While the company issued an email statement insisting that “Motorola Mobility…

> More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google’s application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/158304/2011/03/android_malware.html#lsrc.rss_main)I hate to say it, but this is the tip of the iceberg. And while I continue to believe that malware is possible on any platform, even Apple’s very tightly controlled iOS, the fact of the matter is that Google…

> The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty > … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it > was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by > Motorola. via [instapaper.com](http://www.instapaper.com/go/135636816/text)From Andy Ihnatko, of course.…

> right now it’s a small island in a sea of phone titles — and the majority of those titles do not look right on a 10.1-inch screen at this resolution. via [engadget.com](http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/motorola-xoom-review/)Funny, I don’t remember anyone saying this last year when the iPad was released. Oh yeah, that’s because there were thousands of titles available at launch that were native. Because Apple released the SDK to developers long enough before the iPad shipped. Honeycomb is just getting…