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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2011
For you Sprint customers out there who are signed up for the Total Equipment Protection service, you now have a new way to keep your stuff safe. Sprint's released the Total Equipment Protection App th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 25, 2011
A new twist on the "find my phone" genera of apps comes out today from Lookout Labs called Plan B. If the name didn't give it away, it's an application that tracks your phone that is i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2011
One of the chief complaints about Firefox for Android has been its speed and size. But with every new release, it's gotten faster. And with every new release, it's gotten smaller. And Mozilla's Mark ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2011
Looks like Android's "official" Twitter client just got updated. Here's what's new: Timeline now maintains its position when you exit/enter the app. Tapping on a map thumbnail...
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by Sean Brunett
Feb 23, 2011
A minor update to Android's Gmail app has hit the Market that fixes custom labels and improves copy/paste in Gingerbread. If you have custom labels in Gmail with custom colors, they wouldn't pr...
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by Kyle Gibb
Feb 21, 2011
Verizon has released a new update to its V CAST Music app that finally brings MP3s, ringtones, and ringback tones under the same roof. Notably the MP3s will come without DRM and in high-quality...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2011
The folks over at Lookout have released information about another Android trojan application -- named HongTouTou. As we saw with the Geinimi trojan, this one has only been spotted in re-packaged...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2011
Google does a lot of really cool things, but some times they just get it right the first time. Take Androidify for example. Making yourself, loved ones, bitter rivals, or co-workers into A...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2011
With well over 50,000 downloads in just a few hours, Words with Friends for Android is already a huge success. Yes, there's a few kinks to work out, but we totally expect Zynga to get everything...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2011
As Eric Schmidt mentioned in his keynote address at Mobile World Congress, the Android Market now has over 150,000 applications. The number of apps has tripled over the past nine months, and gro...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 08, 2011
If you love food as much as I do you'll know that finding great restaurants is often times a tough task. For that we have plenty of Android apps out there to help filter out the good from the bad. On...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 06, 2011
The Angry Birds secret code from the Rio trailer ad during the Super Bowl has been found, tested, and decoded. And none of it was done by me. Credit goes out to @AndroidThrasher for the sc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 06, 2011
More than a few of us (and us) noticed that when you got the latest update to Angry Birds, the app stated that it needed permissions to your SMS messages. At the time, Rovio told us it like...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 05, 2011
There are only a handful of things I like to be awakened by on a Saturday morning. One is the wife and kids. Another is a giant pile of pancakes. And a third is a massive update to Angry Birds, one t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 04, 2011
NetQin, China's market leader in mobile security, has brought their anti-virus application to Android. NetQin anti-virus offers real-time monitoring, instant scanning, contacts backup and restor...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 04, 2011
While there are quite a few torrent clients and torrent remote control apps in the Android Market, Bittorrent has never directly released an application to interface with your µTorrent installat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 02, 2011
We had a look at Fuze Meeting for Android when it kicked things up a notch and released a tablet-specific application, and now they have gone a step further. Fuze Meeting will be the first colla...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 02, 2011
We heard a lot of news at today's event at Google, and one thing many have been waiting for is in-app purchases. These will allow for things like buying songs, upgrading to premium versions of a...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 02, 2011
The much acclaimed SwiftKey by Touchtype is coming to Android tablets, the company announced. It's sporting a completely overhauled interface specifically designed for use on tablets, and we mu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 01, 2011
It's not just you -- the Android Market seems to be stalled. We're getting reports of users unable to download, and it's pretty widespread. We have no idea if this has something to do with...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 01, 2011
Mozilla just released a new beta for Firefox for Android, aimed at improving the browsers speed and performance. The list of changes are as follows: Now faster than stock Android browser Nea...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 01, 2011
Google has updated Google Maps for Android to version 5.1 today, bringing big changes to Latitude. Where Latitude once was just a pin on a map, now there are check-ins, to connect a place...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 28, 2011
Angry Birds Rio, a combination of what's surely the most popular mobile game of all time with an upcoming Hollywood animated feature, is said to be hitting "app stores everywhere" in March 2...
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by Menno
Jan 28, 2011
Beautiful Widgets, the popular clock and weather app from Level Up Studios, saw a significant update this morning to version 3.3. This update brought several welcome changes, including the...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Jan 27, 2011
Facebook just pushed out a an update for it's Android app. The new version is 1.5.1 adds Facebook Deals (though we can't quite see where they are in the app just yet) and has a few bug fixe...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2011
If you're a user of Slacker Radio, head on over to the Android Market and update the app. (This one deals with permissions, so it won't update automatically.) There are a handful of bugfixes, but the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingGoogle last week teased us all with a test of number porting. Today it's gone live for everyone. You're going to need to think about this a bit before you dive in, howev...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 21, 2011
The good news -- the T-Mobile Vibrant indeed is getting its Froyo update. The bad news -- it looks like (thus far) you have to do it through Samsung's Mini Kies program. That's right, in this day an...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 21, 2011
If you're currently making use of the popular Launcher Pro, you'll want to hit up the Android Market and check for updates. Version 0.8.3 is now available for download and while it's not a huge ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2011
You Fruit Ninja addicts need to mosey on over to the Android Market and wrangle yerself an update, as the long-awaited Arcade Mode has finally been added. One-minute rounds to do some serious damage ...
