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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
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Dunno what's better — the fact that you can get five new games (well, new to Android) and pay whatever you want, that you can designate where you wan...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
The folks at Fitbit over the weekend slipped an official Fitbit Android app into the Google Play Store. It doesn't take the place of the Fitbit tracker, but it does let you check your daily prog...
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by Sean Brunett
Mar 19, 2012
Adele won numerous awards at the Grammys about a month ago and with her official Android app, you can enjoy up-to-date info on the singer right from your pocket.
The app offers a lot for the huge o...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 15, 2012
EA Sports has released two long-awaited titles on Google Play in Europe and North America today -- FIFA (Soccer) 12 and NBA Jam.
FIFA 12 is the latest in the long-running soccer football franchise,...
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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 Sean Brunett
Mar 12, 2012
An official Roku Android app has been in the works for some time and was finally released at the beginning of March. There have been many unofficial apps available but it's nice to have the one ...
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by Rene Ritchie
Mar 12, 2012
Rene Ritchie is the editor of iMore.com and knows a thing or three about Instagram on iOS.
Why do you want Instagram on Android? Because Android users have the right to take beautiful, modern, digi...
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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 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...
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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 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 Alex Dobie
Mar 06, 2012
We could tell something was up when a bunch of leading applications suddenly appeared on the Android Market for just 49 cents. And now we know why -- Google is celebrating the launch of its new Goog...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 06, 2012
Google's content portal for Android apps, music, books and video content has been consolidated under a new name -- Google Play. Google Play which is now live on the web at play.google.com, will ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2012
Looks like the Android Market has another big sale under way, with apps like SwiftKey, HomeRun Battle 3D, SoundHound, Shadowgun, World of Goo, NFL Flick Quarterback, Osmos HD, Quell Reflect and othe...
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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 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 Sean Brunett
Feb 29, 2012
Who Becomes Rich is a fun multiple-choice trivia game where you compete to win big bucks. It closely resembles Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and is very addicting, so watch out.
The questions start...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 29, 2012
The Application Statistics dashboard within the Android Market's Developer Console has been upgraded with new functionality and a revamped UI in order to help developers better track their apps&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2012
That's it -- no more business cards for me at Mobile World Congress. Googler Trevor Johns has coded up (and open-sourced) a little app called, appropriately enough, Badge Scanner, which will pr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
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Not a day goes by in which we don't get an e-mail from you fine folks out there asking about antivirus and security applications, and which one we'd recomm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
Getting a hot pizza delivered just got a little easier, thanks to Domino's Pizza and their Android application. Getting a cool Android phone free with a new contract did as well, again thanks to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2012
Android's Foursquare check-in app got an update this evening, bringing a few bugfixes. They are:
Bug fixes for the 2-08 release.
In-line commenting on Check-in Details.
Updat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2012
So Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft and RIM have all decided to hold hands and form a circle around the California attorney general and agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the in...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 22, 2012
The Google Docs app for Android has received a substantial update today, adding some significant new features which to bring the phone and tablet app in line with the full desktop version.
First up...
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by Sean Brunett
Feb 22, 2012
If you're a fan of the NBA and live wallpapers, you'll want to check out the NBA All-Star Live Wallpaper app, which enables you to customize your background with your favorite NBA team.
The...
