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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2011
Read our Galaxy Nexus Review!
It’s not “rooting,” it’s openness
-- Nick Kralevich, Android security engineer
There's a bit of brouhaha on the Internet today a...
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by Joshua Munoz
Oct 10, 2011
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When Minecraft: Pocket Edition was announced as an exclusive for the Xperia Play, block-builders the world round collectively wept. How long would it be before we c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2010
You hear a lot of talk about rooting, especially when a new or difficult handset gets rooted. But what many of us forget, especially those new to Android, is that rooting, and having to root pho...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 25, 2010
For you tinkering types, HTC just released the source code for the Desire HD. As always, some proprietary code will remain under wraps. That's not going to mean much if you don't like taking apar...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 19, 2010
If you haven't heard by now, Steve Jobs pretty much lost his sh-- (shut yo mouth!) yesterday during Apple's earnings call -- going way above and beyond his usual diatribe over Google and Android. To ...
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by Android Central
Oct 03, 2010
In this crazy little world we called Android, we're all guilty of throwing around that four-letter word: Open. From the top -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt -- all the way to the bottom -- your f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 23, 2010
Our pal Robert Werlinger from sister site PreCentral.net has been at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference this week in Portland, Ore., and sat in on the "Your Smartphone May Not Be as Open as You ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 22, 2010
Finally! The days of lurking in forums, begging on Twitter, and hounding everyone you know just to get a Google Voice invite are officially over. Google announced that they have decided to...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 22, 2009
Google has an infamous saying, "Don't Be Evil" which is incredibly simple yet loaded with layers of meaning. Obviously, it's a dig at other companies who only make profit-based decisio...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 08, 2009
The New York Times recently covered the iPhone App Store, discussing the App Store's raging success and Apple's 'necessary evil' of a rejection process. Our good friend Rene over at the iPhone B...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 23, 2009
We've received news that HTC has just made the HTC Hero kernel source code public. For the average Android user, this isn't big news but for those who like to dib and dabble, tinker and mod thei...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 29, 2009
We didn't like it when Google sent CyanogenMod, maker of the best Android ROMs available, a cease and desist letter. We didn't like Google's explanation on why CyanogenMod couldn't distribute th...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 25, 2009
Google just penned a lengthy post regarding the controversy of CyanogenMod receiving a cease and desist letter. If you need to fill yourself in on the details of the Google vs CyanogenMod issue,...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 17, 2009
There are reports that users who have uploaded Cupcake onto their G1's are not being allowed access to the Android Market. So if you're running Cupcake, chances are you won't get any access to a...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
There's a pretty good article over at GigaOM that touches on the Open vs Closed argument of technology. Specifically, it pits Android and iPhone against each other because of the obvious contrastin...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 15, 2008
Microsoft Silverlight, the web plug-in from the folks at Redmond, has made no secret that they've been trying to get into the iPhone. But with Apple controlling all the gates into their one slab de...
