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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2011
The folks at Swiftkey just released a new beta keyboard this morning, with the following improvements:Redesigned installer processRedesigned settings menuSwiftKey shortcut launcher on keyboardNew typi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Have 11 minutes? Wanna get Hulu streaming on your hacked Nook Color (or another Android device)? Android Central Forums member Huskermaina -- who also brought us the excellent Netflix on a Nook C...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2011
Malicious files once again have found their way into the Android Market, with a set of applications being hijacked, reverse engineered with malicious code injected, and published alongside the legitim...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2011
Slacker has announced Slacker Premium Radio, which adds a third level of service to the streaming radio giant's offerings. Slacker Premium Radio brings on-demand access to the complete Slacker m...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingDid our exclusive first look at the Seesmic Honeycomb Twitter client leave you hungry for more? No worries, folks. Our pal Stephanie (aka The LG Girl) snagged ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 12, 2011
Barnes and Noble have updated the Nook app for Android, giving high resolution devices (read: tablets) support for magazines as well as a few bug fixes for the HTC Thunderbolt and Android 3.x (Honeyco...
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by Andrew Melnizek
May 12, 2011
Yes, you did read that headline correctly. Netflix has finally come to Android -- well, select Android devices that is. Everyone's favorite loving movie app just hit Android Market for those rocking t...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Pop quiz: What's black and white, has 88 keys and makes beautiful music with Android? That'd be a piano -- and the new Android ADK. That's short for Accessory Developme...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2011
We've gotten a few e-mails from you folks out there worried about why the new Adobe Reader update needs permission to read your gmail. Sounds scary, eh? Not really. Just as we expected, it's so the ap...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 06, 2011
It was less than two weeks ago that we predicted the major Twitter app developers would soon (but not soon enough) be unleashing Honeycomb apps for Android tablets. Here, friends, is one of the f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 02, 2011
According to reports from Tech Crunch, Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, at a cost of about $50 million. Congrats go out to the TweetDeck team for the know-how and ability to create such a lucrati...
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by Kyle Gibb
May 02, 2011
Bump, the popular contact and content sharing app, recently was updated to version 2.0. The update contains new features such as the ability to send more than one app, picture, or contact card a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 02, 2011
Lloyd gets around, and now Android Central member Benny879 has him strutting his stuff in his very own Launcher Pro theme. Besides the calendar above, the skinnable widgets in this theme include...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 27, 2011
If you're a fan of Slayer and have an Android phone, you're in luck. Sony Music has released the Slayer app for Android, and it's really good. And loud. And evil. You'll find everything you ever wante...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Apr 27, 2011
The Viewdle SocialCamera, that nifty little facial recognition app we first saw back at CTIA, is now available for download. The concept is really cool and from what we saw back in March, it works ...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 27, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Sometimes a video is just the best way to explain exactly what you can be looking forward to when purchasing a new game. That is exactly the case with Hero Princess, a ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Apr 25, 2011
The Amazon Appstore is pushing a minor update tonight, bumping it up to release 1.11. It looks like nothing major, just some miscellaneous fixes and improvements, all listed in the screenshot a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2011
Judging from our inbox this morning, more than a few of you have discovered the Dog Wars app. We'd been hoping it would slink back into the depths from which it slithered, but such is not to be t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 21, 2011
We mentioned last month that the folks at Skyfire were working on a big update that would bring a new set of features as well as a new pricing model, and today is the day it becomes available. T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2011
Fear not, people of Earth. Your weeklong national Skype nightmare is over. The essential communications app has plugged that security hole we didn't actually sweat too much over -- the one where some ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 19, 2011
Hey, you. Evernote fan. (We'll wait while most of you out there raise your hands.) Know this: Your favorite note-taking and syncing app just got a big update. Actually, it's a HUGE up...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 05, 2011
The Amazon Appstore got itself a little update tonight -- it's now at version 1.08 -- and we'd start to get excited about it if we had any idea what was changed. But, hey, an updated app is always be...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 05, 2011
When we last saw Mobiata, we were getting a demonstration of the FlightBoard application for Android phones. In a nutshell, it's an app that looks like the departure and arrival screens you'll see in ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2011
As we first told you last night, a developer test Market has surfaced, along with a new version of the Music application from Google. Here's your (and mine) chance to get some hands-on time wit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 04, 2011
This isn't, strictly speaking, just an Android issue. But enough of you Android peeps have pinged us over ESPN's text alert service no longer working on Sprint's network that we'll make an exception. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 01, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewing 4shared, the popular file sharing site, has released an Android application allowing users the same access to their 4shared account on their Android device that the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 29, 2011
At long last, after months and months (and months), Firefox Mobile is final, official, and ready for prime time consumption. We just showed you our walkthrough of the release candidate, and we've gon...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2011
Google just announced that in-app billing -- first announced at the Honeycomb event we were at in February -- will launch next week. In-app billing is an unsexy name for the way an app developer can ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 23, 2011
Maptec from XDA has a working copy of Netflix for Android, streaming video just fine on his HTC Evo 4G. This is supposedly the same Netflix app from the LG Revolution system dump. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 22, 2011
Springpad has updated their Android client, adding in new ways to share your notes and memos, as well as new widget options. Springpad is a popular cross platform service, that stores and sorts ...
