The history of Google’s Nexus series of smartphones has been very interesting. First came the Nexus One, the device promised users an unadulterated Android experience. This at a time when most Android device manufacturers were busy customizing their Android offerings came as a breath of fresh air to the purist Android user who didn’t want all the bells and whistles that most other snap on UI’s offered. 

Holding on to your good ol’ HTC Desire waiting for an official update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread? Well your wait might have been for naught because if we are to believe an update on HTC’s official UK Facebook page, the device will not be officially receiving the much sought after update. The reason for leaving the Desire is because HTC thinks the HTC SENSE experience on a Desire running Gingerbread would not be up to the mark.

There is little doubt that Google’s Android platform is gradually taking over smartphone market share. After leaving Symbian behind, the previously dominant OS, Android seems to be in no hurry to give other operating systems a chance.  It even looks like they will increase the gap between the other players even more as well. In the UK for example, according to latest data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Android smartphones account for almost half of the total smartphones sales in the country.

If you happen to be an Android tablet user and are unhappy with the kind of attention the iPad gets for its superior UI, apps availability and other "do no wrong things and features" in general, here’s something that might make you happy. Folks with lots of money to spare from over at Square Trade decided to find out which of the three popular tablets in the US was the most durable one out there. Here’s what they came up with.

Waiting to lay your hands on the latest Android Honeycomb tablet? Well, if you are in the States, your wait is over because today Samsung releasing its latest Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States. The device is now available for pre-order at BestBuy. However, if pre-ordering isn’t an option for you and you want the tablet in your hands now, head to New York where the tablet is a actually available for purchase at the Best Buy Store in Union Square.

Back in the early days of Twitter, it was exciting and fresh to see a major company with a Twitter presence. Back then a company like Comcast could make a big splash in the world of social networking simply by providing users with an alternative platform through which to contact the company. These days, though, it seems like you can throw a rock in any direction and hit a company with a Twitter presence, often run by a so-called "social media expert."

With the announcement this week that Twitter is going to start integrating photo sharing into their website, a lot of users seemed to realize all of a sudden that they didn't actually realize that you could post images on Twitter. To make matters worse, after making the announcement that Twitter photo sharing was in development, Twitter removed the old instructions about how to post pictures on Twitter from their website in preparation for the eventual launch of their own Twitter image sharing features.

Twitter launched their new Twitter follow button this week, and web developers are already scrambling to figure out how to implement it on their websites. Luckily, getting the new Twitter follow button on your website is a lot easier than you might think - in most cases, it's as simple as copy/paste.

For years now Twitter has been widely considered to be one of the most open platforms in the world in terms of third-party applications, but from all appearances, that seems to be changing as Twitter is taking an increasingly hard line against developers who step on the microblogging platform's toes.