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by Victoria Ho
Dec 04, 2012
Google Play services is now at version 2.0, and a couple of great new features are on board.
First is an update to the Maps API for Android apps. Version 2 of the API now includes vector-based...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 28, 2012
Chrome for Android has been updated to fix some stability issues, says Google.
This news comes on the back of Google’s announcement last week on their Google+ page that it will bring mobile C...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 17, 2012
There seems to be a crop of fake apps from “Apple Inc” on the Google Play store. The six apps are masquerading as Apple’s Garageband (erroneously called Garage Band on the faked ve...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 15, 2012
Amazon this morning announced that its users in Japan now have access to its Cloud Drive service.
The company is inviting users to store their files on the Amazon cloud and is dangling 5 gigabytes ...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 08, 2012
AT&T’s giving customers $100 off tablets purchased under a two-year data plan.
The offer starts tomorrow, Friday, and applies to devices bought online or...
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by Victoria Ho
Nov 06, 2012
Gamers get set, Nyko’s PlayPad and PlayPad Pro controllers are now on sale in North America.
Aimed at bringing console-style gaming to the increasingly powerful devices we have, the two PlayP...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 31, 2012
AT&T and T-Mobile have struck up an agreement to share their networks in the New York and New Jersey area. They will enable roaming to mutual customers to share network capacity, so that those h...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 31, 2012
The NFC marketing bandwagon is coming out in full force, and Sony’s latest campaign will pit users against each other in a racing game with real toy cars, as part of its "Xperia Face Off&...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 30, 2012
Good news if you’ve pre-ordered the new Nooks. Barnes & Noble will start shipping the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch HD+ tablets this week.
The devices will also start arriving at the book ret...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 30, 2012
Mobile game Diner Dash has made its Android debut on the Amazon Kindle Fire.
Bad news for fans without an Amazon tablet though, because the game appears to be exclusive to the Kindle Fire for now. ...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 30, 2012
Soti is preparing to release its Pocket Controller Pro software for Android, in beta.
The product allows you to view and control your device from your PC, as well as display your mobile device on you...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 24, 2012
Sprint has launched an Android app to allow push-to-talk on some phones. The Kyocera Rise budget phone will support it, as will the upcoming LG Optimus Elite, it said.
Push-to-talk is a transm...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 24, 2012
Samsung has updated its TecTile app to add more features like batch actions and the ability to set tags to private.
The mobile app is meant to program Samsung TecTile NFC hardware tags that ca...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 22, 2012
Google’s teasing a new version of its Google Wallet over on the official site, and what's interesting is it might finally be rolling out to non-Android devices.
Upon requesting an invite ...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 18, 2012
Following the update for iOS developers a few weeks ago, Facebook has completely revamped the Android SDK, it said.
The new changes, touted as the “bigge...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 18, 2012
The LG Lucid is finally getting upgraded to Android 4.0. Verizon will start pushing the OS upgrade to users in phases, starting tomorrow. If you’re impatient, you can trigger the download from...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 18, 2012
Apple has lost its appeal against a UK ruling in its long-running suit against Samsung, and will have to wear a little egg on its face for a while — a month, to be specific.
Back in July, the...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 18, 2012
The latest beta of the Swype keyboard is out, and available to download from the Swype Beta website.
The popular third-party keyboard from Nuance Communications packs a number of new updates.
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 17, 2012
UK phone retailer Phones 4u has started to carry the Samsung Galaxy S3 in amber brown. It will sell the brown version alongside the stock “marble white” and “pebble bl...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 17, 2012
We’ve just reached the final expiration date of the Google Wallet prepaid card.
Google announced the end of its early payment experiment just last month, and has started phasing out the card ...
