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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 26, 2012
Amazon is running a promotion that has many popular apps for free through its Appstore today. It has always run a free app of the day promotion, but Amazon is feeling a bit more generous today by dr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 28, 2012
It's been nearly two months since Amazon started accepting submissions for its Japanse appstore, and today it's gone live. The usual suspects are all there -- Amazon singles out Cut the Rope...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 04, 2012
Amazon today announced that it is accepting app submissions for distribution in its Appstore later this year in Japan. That'll bring a strong alternative source of Android applications to millio...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 21, 2012
Amazon has announced that they will be opening their appstore to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain this summer, with a "global" expansion planned to follow. There&#...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 21, 2012
Amazon has pushed out an update to their Appstore, bringing it to version 2.6.53. Besides the always-present bug fixes and stability enhancements, this time around there's a slick new feature fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
For a lot of people, the ability to install apps that aren't offered in the "official" Android Market is a big draw. Android devices (for the most part) allows applications to be...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 30, 2012
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has reportedly identified "Android app traffic" as the cause of a recent network outage which affected some 2.5 million of its customers. According ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 09, 2011
With a case of bad communication now cleared up, YouMail has made its way back to the Android Market. As it turns out, T-Mobile was to blame for the pulling but it was all pretty much a misunderstan...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 08, 2011
The beloved visual voicemail app YouMail has been pulled from the Android Market, which eplains the big "URL was not found" that sits in the place where the app formerly occupied. Rather t...
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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 Anndrew Vacca
Nov 21, 2011
While it's easy to overlook the Amazon Appstore's daily free app picks, we'd be remiss if we failed to mention this one: Documents to Go, the powerful document editing app, is today'...
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by Sean Brunett
Nov 10, 2011
Amazon's Appstore for Android has received an update, just in time for the Kindle Fire's release next week.
The update, which brings the app to version 2.0, is largely focused on UI improve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 04, 2011
KMLProxy in our forums brings up a good point, if you're looking at purchasing an Amazon Kindle Fire. You won't be able to easily transfer apps that you purchase in the Android Market to the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 02, 2011
We've been patiently sitting back and watching the rumors surrounding Amazon's supposed Android tablet, because, frankly, that's all they've been. Rumor and conjecture. But TechCrunch's MG Siegle...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
There she be, folks -- Fieldrunners HD. It's tower defense done like never before, with excellent graphics and sounds. It's got more than 400 levels and four battlefields, seven towers and three...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 27, 2011
The Amazon Appstore is pushing out a minor update this evening, brining it to version 1.14. Besides a few compatibility fixes and the ever-present "stability improvements," they have i...
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by Andrew Melnizek
May 16, 2011
PopCap is finally bringing its quirky, bright colored games to Android. The Seattle based company has signed an exclusive agreement with Amazon to bring its first Android games to the Amazon App...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Apr 25, 2011
The Amazon Appstore is pushing a minor update tonight, bumping it up to release 1.11. It looks like nothing major, just some miscellaneous fixes and improvements, all listed in the screenshot a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 05, 2011
The Amazon Appstore got itself a little update tonight -- it's now at version 1.08 -- and we'd start to get excited about it if we had any idea what was changed. But, hey, an updated app is always be...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2011
Remember that blog post from Amazon a couple days back detailing how DRM (digital rights management) would work? Basically, it said if you download an app from the upcoming Amazon App ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2011
Android applications purchased in Amazon's app store (which may finally go live to consumers any time now) will use Amazon's special sauce of digital locker/digital rights management to help combat pi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2011
It's still way too early to tell how much traction Amazon's Android Appstore will gain. But we know developers have been testing the waters. And it makes sense. Registration is currently free (they'v...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2011
Android users will be able to download apps through Amazon later this yearAmazon today announced its Amazon Appstore Developer portal -- an Android app store within the Amazon ecosystem. It's largely ...
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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 ...
