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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 15, 2012
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The fleeting feeling of nostalgia, a quick virtual swipe of the credit card, and everything is new again. Well, that's not quite true. World of Goo has still be...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 15, 2012
When we hosted our 2011 Android Central Editors' Pick Awards we chose IMDb Movies & TV as the tablet app of the year. Now, IMDb is gunning for that title again in 2012 having just released a...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 15, 2012
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Tank Riders, you had such promise. You look beautiful, you run incredibly well, and you involve tanks. Tanks, I say! Made in the same vein as many a game before you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2012
Just a quick heads up that if you can't watch the games in the NCAA Tournament (things get going in earnest tomorrow), Slacker Radio will be streaming audio through the championship game on Apri...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2012
Google Earth just got a bump to Version 6.2, which brings a number of new improvements. Probably the biggest is the addition of the Earth Gallery, which highlights such things as new imagery updates...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 14, 2012
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With all the talk of building a base on the moon, I started thinking about space travel, other planets, and eventually retiring on Mars. I understand that Mars will...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 13, 2012
The latest update to NOOK for Android has bumped the app into v3.1 and aside from having the normal bug fixes and stability improvements in it, you can now also have access to Barnes & Noble&rsq...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 13, 2012
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The first time we took a look at Nova Launcher, I could only pine away for the day I'd actually have a phone that could run it. Finally that time has come, so a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2012
Android's Facebook app got an update today. Presumably something has been fixed in Version 1.8.4. But just like the last update, there's no changelog to be found, and Facebook's Android ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 12, 2012
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I've always got my eyes peeled for the next great Twitter client on Android. Ever since I discovered Plume, I was hooked, but that doesn't mean I'm not ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2012
Google Maps for Android has received a minor update today, bringing it up to version 6.4.0. The new version introduces some minor changes to Google Maps Navigation on ICS devices. Gone is the large,...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 09, 2012
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It's not often I come across an app that both humbles me and causes me to have an existential crisis, so when I find one, I know it's a keeper. Solar System...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2012
Oxford University Press -- the folks behind that big book full of words and defintions -- have just put out an android version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 8th edition. It's ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 09, 2012
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I don't have kids myself, but when I came across Deep Trip, well, it's fairly obvious which market's being targeted. It's a pleasant, cheerful game ...
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by Android Central
Mar 08, 2012
The Google Play Store has been updated to Version 3.4.7. We repeat: The Google Play Store has been updated to Verison 3.4.7. You folks on Motorola phones can now hit that secondary store link in you...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Mar 08, 2012
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I'm always curious about how tower defense games try to differentiate themselves in what can sometimes become a saturated environment. With heavy hitters like R...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
I've long since raved about services like Tripit, which aggregate and organize your travel itineraries into a single application. Slice has been doing that for shopping for some time now, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
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In case you're a little worried after seeing this, the international space station is still up there. (We chceked.) And it's presumably doing stuff other th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Citibank just announced a Kindle Fire edition of its mobile banking app, which it says has "every component, graphic, touch action, button and slider customized for the device." Along with...
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by Android Central
Mar 07, 2012
Google Currents so far has survived the Google Play rebranding. (Play Currents?) So now's as good a time as any to check in and see how it's doing. And at the time of this writing, Android C...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 07, 2012
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Tetris has been all the rage since, well, whenever it came out, as far as I can tell. The classic block-dropping game has an official Android port and a free, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
We've gotten more than a few e-mails today from folks wondering where the heck their Android Market app has gone and run off to. (Don't laugh, it's perfectly OK to take a day off from ob...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 06, 2012
If you're an Android tablet owner, you'll likely have noticed that most banking apps out there haven't really been optimized for tablet usage. Looking to change that is Bank Of America, ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 06, 2012
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If there's one company I've been incredibly impressed with as of late, it's got to be OnLive. First they bring their popular game streaming service to A...
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by Android Central
Mar 06, 2012
You know, suspicious activity like this.
Download: Suspicious Activity Reporting; More: Press release
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 06, 2012
It's been a while since the last Amazon App Store update was pushed out and it seems Amazon has been working on some improvements in that time. The latest update pushes the Amazon App Store into...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Tired of quickly snagging a game only to learn you still have another 200MB (or worse) to go in a separate download? Following through on a promise made at its 2011 developer conference, Google'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
AccuWeather today announced that it has updated its Android application to push severe weather alerts to your phone. That's a big deal, because it means you won't actually have to check the ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 05, 2012
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Ordering pizza is important. Pizza is the everyman's food, and without it, countless people wouldn't know what to eat at birthday parties, late night gaming...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 03, 2012
Looking in the Android Market to see what apps are possibly on sale this weekend? If so, you'll want to check out PowerAMP. The folks from Max MP have are celebrating their success and wanted to...
