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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2011
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There are a few things a voice-recognition app needs to do well to be successful -- and must do extremely well if it wants to call itself a competitor to Apple'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2011
Attention women, husbands, boyfriends and anyone who just needs to feel pretty from time to time: The Victoria's Secret app has slinked into the Android Market. The app itself isn't all that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 28, 2011
Now this is interesting. Seems that some of you who have purchased apps from the Amazon Appstore are starting to see conflicts with the Android Market. A couple scenarios appear to be playing out. I...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 25, 2011
Halfbrick Studios today announced that Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots will be avilable as Amazon's free app of the day on Nov. 28. (It'll be 99 cents after the promotion.) It's largely the s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 23, 2011
Everywhere you look you see Ice Cream Sandwich being ported to one phone or another. Anytime there's a version update to AOSP, it's fun to be an Android geek. And every time it h...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 23, 2011
If you have a Sony Internet TV you'll want to be on the look out for system updates as a new one has now started to arrive for some folks. The update indictates that it addresses some issues wit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 20, 2011
The Fly Delta Android app has gotten a cool little update with a few new features, some of which you can use every time you fly, and some we hope you never have to use. Probably the most useful addi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 19, 2011
We've gotten some clarification from Google regarding any changes to the app refund window in the Android Market after a couple of developers led us to believe it had been changed to 48 hours wh...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 18, 2011
Popular third-party Android keyboard Swiftkey X just got an update to Version 2.2, bringing with it new languages, new layouts and an update to its prediction engine -- the heart of the Swiftkey key...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Google said it could be days, but it looks like a good many of you -- and a number of our own devices -- are starting to see the Android Market update with Google Music. Odd that the version number ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Figured we'd do our best to asplode the Internet in this one picture. That's Firefox for Android running Flash. On a Kindle Fire. Yeah, yeah, Flash is dead on mobile and all that. But the fi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
At long last, Tiny Tower -- the 16-bit game that crams SIM City into a skyscraper -- is available on Android. You control "blitzens" who live and work in the building as you erect new floo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
T'was only a matter of time, right? The Android Market -- and all of its hidden secrets apps -- now runs just fine on the Amazon Kindle Fire. There are a couple of caveats (albeit not huge ones)...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Say, for some reason, you just got yourself a brand new Kindle Fire and for some reason don't want to run the custom launcher Amazon's whipped up. (And it's pretty darn good, actually.) ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
Here we have our first look at the new and improved Google Music app, which -- surprise, surprise -- is pretty much what we saw tucked into an early Ice Cream Sandwich build. Really, not a whole lot...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
As expected, Google this afternoon revamped Google Music, taking it out of beta, making it available to everyone -- and bringing online purchasing into the fold. That is, if you're in the United...
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by Sean Brunett
Nov 16, 2011
One of the features Google is offering to entice customers in the new revamped Google Music is exclusive content. Exclusive songs and albums from major artists is always something we like, so I thin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
The updated Google Music app -- part of what you'll need to take part in all this newfangled digital music goodness -- is now live in the Android Market. If you're into changelogs, it reads ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2011
If you're an event organizer and are looking to make organizing events a little easier, maybe take a look at Evenbrite's Easy Entry Android app. It aims to make running a live event much eas...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2011
We told you it was coming on last week's podcast (just another reason you need to listen to the Greatest Android Podcast in the World), and today Netflix has made official its redesign Android t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 14, 2011
Spanish-language site TecnoDroidve, thanks to some "tricks and beginner's luck" apparently has stumled head-first into the phone-facing portion of how Google is expected to sell music...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2011
Here it is, folks, the last version of Adobe Flash Player for mobile. Final. Kaput. Only, not really. While Adobe has halted work on future versions, we're still likely -- very likely -- to see ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 10, 2011
It's 1984 all over again, folks, and not in the scary way. The original Boulder Dash has come to the Android Market, bringing with it not one but five games (four accessible via in-app upgrades)...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 10, 2011
Google overnight sent out e-mails reminding users of its expiring App Inventor that it will no longer support the project on Dec. 31, 2011. As you'll recall, App Inventor was a tool that allowed...
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by Ashley Esqueda
Nov 10, 2011
Plus, we've got 500 beta codes!
There aren’t many truly successful free-to-play RPGs out there for mobile. As a WoW addict, Spacetime Studios certainly holds my interest with mobile MM...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 09, 2011
Amazon this morning's offered up a list of apps that will be available on the Kindle Fire tablet when it launches next week. And among the usual suspects -- Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, etc. -- i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 08, 2011
If you've got kids who love Disney music -- or, heck, if you do, too -- check out the Radio Disney app. It's a simple (and free) streaming service full of songs and and interviews via radio ...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 02, 2011
Google has been making a lot of changes as of late and while we knew an update to Google Reader for Android was coming we didn't know when, exactly. The update has now landed though and with it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 02, 2011
Rut ro, Raggy. The iOS -- and therefore the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch -- just got itself a native Gmail app, straight from Google itself. That means proper Gmail on iOS, in its own applicati...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 02, 2011
Good news for those of you who paid your 99 cents for Duke Nukem 3D (check out our review) only to be greeted with a few ads in the game menu -- they're gone. Finished. Kaput.
It's an inter...
