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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
Read our LG Optimus 3D reviewWhat's a 3D phone without 3D apps, right? And the LG Optimus 3D just got a nice boost from Gameloft, which now has 17 titles ready for the first m...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
There she be, folks -- Fieldrunners HD. It's tower defense done like never before, with excellent graphics and sounds. It's got more than 400 levels and four battlefields, seven towers and three...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Remember when we all wondered why, exactly, I shelled out $100 for 100GB of storage space for Amazon's Cloud Music Player? I'm really regretting that decision now, as Amazon just announ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
One of the more interesting (if less publicized) additions to Google Maps 5.7 is the ability to download map data locally to your phone. That's a godsend if you're traveling somewhere...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 06, 2011
Yes, we know -- you've heard this before and things never really panned out but this time around it might be a little bit different. Streaming music service Spotify, which has had great success in Eu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Google Maps just got a sizable update, with a slew of new features that those of you in major metro areas are going to want to check out. First and foremost is the addition of Transit Navigation.&nbs...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 05, 2011
Admittedly, it's been a few weeks since I last let my wife beat me had my butt kicked at Words with Friends. And in that time, it's disappeared from the Android Market for Honeycomb devices, and reap...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 02, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Over the past little while we've seen plenty of portions of the Windows Phone 7 UI land on Android devices. The music player, contacts, app launcher and more have all ...
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by Menno
Jul 02, 2011
Way back at GoogleIO, Google showed off their upcoming movie rental service, releasing the service to the Motorola Xoom, promising that other devices would be added in "a few weeks." ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2011
Thanks to a generous reader, we've found ourselves taking a couple of laps through the Pool Party, the photo sharing application developed within Google by its "Slide" team. Whether Po...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 01, 2011
Sometimes, Google does something just because it's fun. Nexus Contraptions, a browser-based game in the style of Apparatus is one of those things. Move objects around so they get in the pa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing It actually works. What's up with Facebook rolling out updates that break things? This isn't the first time, either....
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2011
We got our first look at Flight Track's Honeycomb tablet update back at Google IO in May. Today, that update's available in the Android Market, and one of our favorite Android travel apps get ev...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 30, 2011
Opera has released Opera Mobile 11.1. The big strokes are that Google text and autocomplete are improved, the rendering engine should be faster, and there's now experimental support for Adobe Flash o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 30, 2011
Fire up Skype today, and you'll be greeted with a nicely redesigned user interface, as well as the ability to use SMS from Skype. But that's not the big feature the internet calling giant is really p...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 29, 2011
OfficeMax has announced a new Android application that ties directly into all of their printing solutions direct from your device. The app allows you to print documents, images, emails and anything y...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 29, 2011
Google has updated the imagery for Street View in 13 of their Street View countries, making for the biggest update of this kind. Images for places in Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands,...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 29, 2011
One of the most popular games on the iOS platform is getting ready to make the jump to Android and they're planning to do so in a very big way. Yes, Fieldrunners HD goes live in the Android Market th...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 28, 2011
Shazam is now rolling out their latest update for Android users who are looking to get more social with their music. Shazam has labeled this one as a major update for Android users as it now includes ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 28, 2011
If you happen to have a Nook Color and love Angry Birds, you're in for a treat. Rovio and Barnes & Noble have teamed up and made B&N stores the very first "magic location" for ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 28, 2011
Real Estate is big business and having the right tools to get things done is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Sprint is looking to help out real estate professions with their latest Sprint ID pack -- ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2011
Android app gives full access, but it's currently in private beta Google's just taken the wraps off Google+ -- its answer to Facebook, more or less. More, actually, we believe, though for all the deta...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 27, 2011
Google has suspended paid applications for users in Taiwan, as a result of a NT$1 million (US$345,500) fine for failing to offer Taiwanese consumers a seven-day free-trial. While Google sticks t...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 27, 2011
If you've spent any time looking into purchasing a car in the past, then you know how tough of a situation it can be at times. Auto Trader -- the UK's largest motoring website has launched their Andro...
