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by Jared DiPane
Jul 18, 2011
Social media has taken over the better portion of our life -- if not Twitter or Facebook, it's Foursquare telling our friends where we are. Or the new Google+. But if you're more the stay-at-home kind...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 18, 2011
Looking to win one of the hottest Android tablets out there? Of course you are -- and the folks from SmrtGuard are looking to give one away to one lucky Android Central reader. So how exactly can you...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 16, 2011
One of our favorite parts of Android is the wide variety of applications that are readily available to be installed on your device at any given time. One of the hard parts is finding a good sele...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 16, 2011
While music players for Android smartphones are aplenty, when it comes to music players optimized for Honeycomb the selection is still rather slim. Enter, Hive Player -- a Honeycomb optimized music pl...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 15, 2011
If you're looking to create notification sounds and ringtones right on your Android device, there is nothing better than Ringdroid. Ringdroid was one of the first apps of it's kind when it came out, a...
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by Menno
Jul 15, 2011
One of the first apps I downloaded on my tablet was the TegraZone, a special app browser developed by NVIDIA to showcase applications that were optimized for its Tegra II chipset. ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 15, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingOur latest gaming excursion from the fellow who brought us Magic Cuts is Sheep at Stake, a cutesy, colorful game that hides its insane difficulty under a facade of an ad...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 15, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Just 48 hours since Google announced a major update to the Android Market, Susan Wojcicki, senior vice president of advertising, announced during today's second-quarter earnings call that the Android...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
The Google+ app has just received a pretty major update that brings bug fixes, some UI changes, and new features to Googles new social media venture. From the changelog in the Android Market:Cus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Google CEO Larry Page just dropped a few numbers on the new Google+ social network, which technically is still in a semi-private beta."The Growth on Google+ has been great," Page s...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 14, 2011
If any of you are as gung-ho about saving money as I am, I'm sure you've heard about dealnews. Their slogan is "Where every day is Black Friday" and as such, they 're constantly trying ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
Anyone interested in open source development with the means to attend should check out Portland on July 25 to July 29, where O'Reily Media's annual open-source convention will be held. This year...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 14, 2011
If you are a Facebook lover who has yet to desert to magic of Google+, you will be happy to know that they are hard at work behind the scenes to continue to bring additional features to the mobile wor...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 14, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingEvery so often a game comes around that makes you stop, take pause, and admire it's design. As the hardware we're using continues to improve, I think we'll be seeing mor...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Swiftkey X -- the latest generation in what has proven to be an excellent predictive-type keyboard for Android -- exits public beta status this morning and enters the Android Market as a full-fledged...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Take just about every feature from every streaming music service available, and you you get Spotify. But until today, those of us in the United States were left on the sidelines. No more. Spotify's n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 13, 2011
Google just showed us the new updated Android Market client that brings a UI overhaul, as well as Google Books and Movies for folks in the states. Not long after, we gave you a way to download...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 13, 2011
PayPal has shown their new peer-to-peer NFC payment system at MobileBeat 2011 today, using two Android powered Samsung Nexus S phones. The premise is simple -- open the app on both phones, enter...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
You might have heard that Google was rolling out a new Android Market, complete with book and movie rentals. You also might have heard it would coming in the next few weeks. Well thanks to...
