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by Dieter Bohn
Jul 13, 2010
We stepped out of a killer panel Monday from MobileBeat 2010 titled "How to turn Android into a money machine," and the answer from the panel to that very question seems to be "al...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2010
I admit, I'm an AppBrain fanboy. Using a phone to dig and search through all the 68,000+ apps things in the Android Market is enough to drive anyone insane, so I don't do it unless I have to.&nb...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 23, 2010
Another little bomb dropped at the Droid X event came from Google's Andy Rubin. There are now 160,000 Android devices being activated every day -- up from the 100,000 number he gave us at Google IO i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 15, 2010
We showed off the new Android Market with the "update all" and "allow automatic updating" earlier, and we've been waiting for an app to come along to talk about this part. I ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 15, 2010
(AT&T Aria, left, and the Nexus One)Here we go again, folks. The HTC Aria -- AT&T's second and arguably best foray into Android -- is limited to only loading applications from the An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
Update: And just like that, Google says its fix is in place and developers are seeing their apps again. Huzzah! [Google, Google Developer blog]Original: Apps have been disappearing from the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 02, 2010
Google is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the search world. It's about darn time the folks at Mountain View did this one. Now, when you enter a search at google.com on your Android ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 02, 2010
Just as we reported they would, the folks at doubleTwist have updated their Windows application, and a good program just got better. Here's the official announcement from their user forums:Pleas...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 28, 2010
A Skype PR rep confirmed to SkatterTech today that an Android app is coming to the Android Market, never mind that it's currently exclusive to Verizon. In an e-mail, the rep wrote:"We will b...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 28, 2010
Good news for you folks running Froyo who are sorely missing your favorite paid applications from the new and improved Android Market. A fix has actually been around at XDA Developers for a coup...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 27, 2010
Along with Android 2.2 comes a new version of the Android Market. While we still wish something could be done in regards to content (the Wild West still is in effect), Google's begun to at least...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 26, 2010
Guest writer Amit Kulkarni, Co-Founder and CEO of Manymoon, took to the Google Code blog recently with a very interesting article that gives four important tips to would-be app developers. While...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
One thing that apparently already is working its way out in the open (unlike the mythical Nexus One Froyo update that's only reaching a blessed few) is the new crash report tool for Android applicatio...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
The good news: The Android Market web page has gotten a bit of a freshening up ahead of Google IO this week. The bad news: It's not that much more useful. Sure, you can browse more apps (and do s...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2010
Is the Android Market acting up for you? Updates not installing? Can't connect? We've heard from a number of you, and you're not alone, as some of you half sought help in Google's forums, to. We've re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2010
One of the larger issues surrounding applications and the Android Market (OK, one of a number of larger issues) is the current inability to update more than one application at a time. The above screen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
Androlib unofficially has the Android Market surpassing 50,000 applications, quite a leap from the 38,000 figure Google used last week during its first-quarter earnings call. In fact, when we asked Go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 22, 2010
It's been a not-so-secret bug that not all apps in the Android Market have been available on all handsets. And it's been particularly egregious on the HTC Legend, with such apps as Google Goggle...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 15, 2010
The Android Market now has 38,000 applications available for download, Jeff Huber, Google's senior VP of engineering, said during this afternoon's Q1 earnings call. It's not often we get even semi-of...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 09, 2010
Google is reportedly pulling all of the Android games in the Android Market in South Korea because laws in South Korea mandate that all games, of any kind, be reviewed by the South Korea Gaming Board....
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 08, 2010
Before you go getting all excited about seeing that 9,300 applications were added to the Android Market last month, know this: There'es a lot of fluff in there. It is always great to see that you are ...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 01, 2010
For reasons we'll never know, it has taken a very long time for Canadian Android users to gain access to paid apps in Android Market. Don't our friendly neighbors to the north have what we have?...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 20, 2010
Thirty thousand. That’s a big number being thrown around. Thirty thousand of anything is a lot. Last June, an asteroid hit a young boy on his way to school in Essen, Germany. It was going 30,00...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 18, 2010
There are now over 30,000 apps in Android Market. Which is amazingly awesome considering there were only 16,000 apps in Android Market in December 2009. That means that apps in Android Market ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 17, 2010
We're back to bring you another round of our favorite Android applications. Find out what we like this week after the break.
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2010
Good news for those of you in Canada looking to spend your hard-earned pesos on the latest Sexy Bodies No. 38 Android app -- for-pay apps are finally available in the Android Market. Now you, too, ca...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
There are upwards of 20,000 apps in the Android Market. Some good, some not so good, and many are flat-out great. So what do your favorite Smartphone Experts editors have on their Android phone...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 06, 2010
Hey everybody! Jerry here again for our weekly get-together. I hope everyone survived another crazy week of things like data outages and Eris leaks. And Droid users, don't fret – your time i...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 26, 2010
Surprisingly, Android Market doesn't currently support paid applications in Canada (11 other countries have access to paid apps). But given that Canadian carriers have built a rather formidable Androi...
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by Jeremy
Feb 26, 2010
If you know any of us here at Android Central, you'll know we love our Twitter so when I had the chance to check out the latest application from LevelUp Studio, Touiteur, I jumped at the chance...
