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by Richard Devine
Dec 13, 2012
Show season is right around the corner, and as such we're subject to the usual rumor mill churning overtime. What we're seeing here though isn't one of those rumors, it appears to be col...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 13, 2012
Tablets are hot property this Christmas, and there's no shortage of choice out there. One such choice is the Barnes & Noble Nook line, and today it has become a little easier to pick one up....
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by Richard Devine
Dec 13, 2012
Google is gradually building out its apps portfolio for non-Android platforms, notably iOS. In recent months -- and since being pulled from the platform at OS level -- we've seen Google release ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
There's nothing quite like the rollout of a major update on Sprint, folks. Never experience one before? Picture Times Square on New Year's Eve. Add a dash of a major chess tournament, a gian...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 13, 2012
Football Manager is the premier desktop soccer football management simulation game, with millions buying it every year. Last year, Sega brought the title to Android for the first time, in the f...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 13, 2012
There's just over two weeks left in 2012, and that means every major site and service is doing some kind of "year in review" feature. There's one company that has some of the most ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
With the last update to Foursquare we saw improvements to the usability of the "Check In" UI, and now it is improving the "Explore" tab to follow suit. When searching a location ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Field Trip has been updated today with some very notable improvements, first and foremost with the ability to save location cards for later viewing. When viewing a location or event card, you can dr...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Gameloft just rolled out its latest revision of the popular Modern Combat series just a few days ago, but unfortunately it was struck down with some major download issues. Users were purchasing the ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Sony has many divisions, one of them being Sony Digital Network Applications (SDNA), that are always working on cool projects. Today Sony released one of these projects, an animated .GIF creator cal...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 12, 2012
We first saw magazines begin to appear in the UK Play Store just yesterday, leaving us sure that the additional content wasn't far away. Turns out that hunch was right, and this evening Google&#...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
It was just a matter of time before we got something official out of Verizon indicating that its Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3) would be receiving a Jelly Bean update. Verizon has just published support d...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Google's own news reading aggregation platform, Currents, is receiving an update today with pretty much a complete UI overhaul. When first launching the app, you're now greeted by your news ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Well that certainly didn't take very long. The folks over at XDA, as they like to do, have unlocked the Verizon Galaxy Note 2 bootloader. You'll need to jump through a few hoops and have som...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Reports are indicating that Sprint will finally buy out the remaining 49-percent of Clearwire that it doesn't already own. Sprint finally took a controlling stake in Clearwire back in October, w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 12, 2012
Android is essentially Linux. There are a lot of qualifiers there, and Linux devotees will argue the semantics, but it is generally accepted to be a Linux distribution in the same vein as Debian or ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
What a big day for news of all types in the Android world. We wouldn't hold it against you if a couple of these stories slipped past you throughout the day. Luckily, we've star...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Dish has been battling with the FCC and other carriers over the possibility of using its current satellite spectrum holdings for a terrestrial cellular network. The TV operator turned carrier has fi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Scope, a client meant to help you manage all of your social media accounts, has been updated today with several improvements. On top of your usual Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr feeds, the update brin...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Remember Android 3.0 Honeycomb? Well, if you have an AT&T-branded Galaxy Tab 8.9 (SGH-i957) you're likely all too familiar with the software. Fortunately, AT&T and Samsung are ready to b...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Contre Jour, a dark and gloomy puzzle game that has received numerous awards as an iOS app, is finally coming to Android today. It's got a dark vibe, but that adds to the interesting gamepl...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Yahoo! Mail just received a notable update to version 2.0 this morning. As is the case when making a move to a new version number, many changes are in order. Right off the bat you'll notice a mu...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Starting today, Google will be improving the Google News webpage reading experience on 7- and 10-inch tablets. Rolling out over the next few days, the new interface provides a more intuitive navigat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 11, 2012
We've said it a number of times the past few months -- never before have we seen a time when there are so many good Android smartphones on so many U.S. carriers. We've practically been tripp...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
The official New York Times app for Android has been updated to version 3.0 today with a substantial improvement in UI and usability. The big news is that this new application is responsive to man...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Google is continuing its expansive rollout of content to different countries today by offering Google Play Books and Movies to the Russian market. On the Books front, Google Play will be offering ov...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Intel is hoping to become more competitive in 2013 with new manufacturing processes that will shrink chip circuitry from 32 to 22 nanometers (nm) in size. The chip maker has been trying its bes...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
Instagram is having a little spat with Twitter right now, but that's not stopping it from coming out with an update today. The update is bringing a new black & white filter called "Will...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
Pandora has been trialing its service in Australia and New Zealand via a web-only trial, and now it has launched the service fully in both countries. Users down under can now sign up and have fully-...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
With all of the big T-Mobile news that hit last week, one story that may have been buried was the carrier's continued rollout of 1900MHz HSPA+ markets. We like when carriers can give us a good i...
