box mobile developer challenge
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Box is offering prizes ranging from $25,000 to free HP TouchPads for the developers who can build the best 10 mobile apps.  Between now and Sept. 9, Android, webOS, and iOS developers c...
Android Central
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Blue Drone is a Bluetooth controlled R/C car that can be controlled by any Android device running Android 2.0 and higher.  It's currently in its initial phase at Kickstarter, where the developer...
Dolphin Browser v6.0
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 18, 2011
Current Dolphin Browser users awoke to a nice surprise this morning -- the release of Dolphin Browser v6.0.  The latest version of Dolphin brings some updated features and improves upon some of ...
Winnie the Pooh hits Android
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 18, 2011
Disney Publishing has released its first Android application, "Winnie the Pooh: What's a Bear to Do?".  It's an interactive children's book, starring one of the most loved characters of...
Win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 From SmrtGuard!
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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...
Hive Player
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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...
Before
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 15, 2011
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Android Market
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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...
Google+ update
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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...
Google+
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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...
OSCON 2011
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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...
Facebook
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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...
Swiftkey X for Android
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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...
Spotify
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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...
Android Market
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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...
PayPal NFC payments
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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...
New Android Market
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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...
IMDb
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 12, 2011
Although the IMDb website works pretty good on a Honeycomb tablet, the dedicated app has now been Honeycomb optimized for users. The UI is pretty slick looking and features built-in such as movie rati...
Updated Android Market
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
Google has announced a huge Android Market update, bringing a slew of changes, including books and movie rentals to users in the US.  The update (for Android 2.2 and higher) will bring the abilit...
Evernote
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The folks at Evernote have pushed out the Honeycomb version of their popular organization app to the Market, and it looks like it was well worth the wait.  The big changes are rich text and check...
Ustream
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 12, 2011
Been looking to make use of that front-facing camera on your tablet by sharing your daily adventures with the World? If so, Ustream has now given you a Honeycomb optimized way of completing that missi...
Scrabble for Android
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 11, 2011
EA's official Scrabble game (the one we first told you about last week) has just been released. (If for some reason you've managed to get this far in life without ever playing Scrabble, you get seven...
Twitter
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 11, 2011
Twitter, which in the past has been accused to treating third-party developers as second-class citizens by basically borrowing their functionality before telling them they're not longer needed, has ju...
Compatibility toggle
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 11, 2011
Here's an interesting addition coming to a future version of Android. Apps that don't properly scale up to Honeycomb tablets' greater resolution and larger screen sizes will be able to be zoomed in on...
Permissions
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2011
We've all heard about bad apps that steal your valuable data and ship it off to the far east, and those discussions always end with one thing -- someone says you need to read an app's permissions befo...
Android Central
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 08, 2011
So you just bought this great game from the Android Market, and notice it says you have to download another 600 jiggawatts of files to run it.  Don't be alarmed or surprised, if you haven't seen ...
IM+ for Android
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 08, 2011
Having lots of friends that use a variation of IM protocols sometimes makes it rather difficult to keep track of everyone. Often times it means installing numerous apps and switching between them wh...
KIK mobile SDK
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2011
Attention, developers!  Are you looking for a way to add user-to-user sharing in your mobile application, using an already established cross-platform messenger service?  If so, the people at...
News 360
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2011
Last May we saw the release of News360 for Honeycomb devices, and today they have released the version for the smaller screen.  In a nutshell, News360 is a news aggregator app with over 4,000 glo...
Star Legends
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2011
Spacetime Studios has released the beta of Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles, the new sci-fi MMO and Android Central has 50 beta keys to give away.  You might recognize the name Spacetime St...