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The Dreaded Cease-and-Desist Order [CYANOGATE '09]
Folks all over the Androidosphere are freaking out about the cease and desist order Android modder extraordinaire Cyanogen reportedly received from Google. It’s disappointing, but honestly, not terribly surprising. Let’s all step back, take a couple deep breaths, and count to ten.
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Quick Look: BuzzDeck
Yesterday we mentioned a new app from mippin called BuzzDeck which is their entry into the second Android Developers Challenge. Due out early next week, I wanted to give you guys a sneak preview of the app. It’s an excellent title that responds very well …
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Quick Look: APNdroid
What is one of the most heard complaints about the current Android phones? The battery life. Today we are going to take a quick look at one of the most useful applications in the market.
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Motorola’s “Derivative Version” of Android
The MOTODEV podcast popped up in my Google Listen “Android” search results today, and I heard something really interesting in this week’s edition. Jason Warren, part of Motorola’s software product management team, talked about the Cliq and in general about what Moto is doing with …
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Don’t Hold Your Breath…
..because I don’t think we will ever see Google itself manufacture a handset for Android. One of the pieces of buzz right now is how people are wishing that Google would be like Apple and create a piece of hardware that will run the Android …
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App Review: Contacts GroupU
This simple yet highly functional application syncs Google contact groups to a user’s phone. In addition, it also provides full options for editing and creating new groups from the convenience of your handheld device. Groups you create using Contact GroupU are actually synced back to …
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Newbtorial: Getting the Most From Your HTC Exhange App
It may seem strange at first to write an article about the pre-installed HTC Exchange app; however, for a great deal of new MyTouch3G users, one selling point of the phone has been the integrated Exchange service. Has HTC created what should be considered a …
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Be Heard! Vote in the ADC2 With Your Android Phones!
Ready to get your hands on all sorts of new Android apps? Head to the Android Market and download the new “Android Developer Challenge 2″ from Google. Once installed, the app will randomly present users with titles for downloading and scoring based on specific criteria. …
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ODROID Demo Gives Best Look at Device Yet [VIDEO]
The fine folks at HardKernel were kind enough to pass along another video showing their ODROID device running an Android app up close. The demo below shows the app RockOn, a music player downloaded from SlideME. As with the last video, we’re more and more …
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First Sony Ericsson app in the Android Market
While checking new apps coming into the Android Market (via androlib.com RSS feed), I came across the 1st app from Sony Ericsson called AmbientTime Lite 1.0. If this is to get a taste of the design of the apps going to be included in the …
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Mippin to Release ‘Buzz Deck’ Next Week
Be on the lookout next week for an app called Buzz Deck. It’s the first Android title from Mippin and it also happens to be their entry into the Android Developers Challenge. If you haven’t heard of Mippin, they help bring your favorite web content …
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Consolidated Apps – The Good, Bad and the Hefner
As a general rule I like to stay away from the all-in-ones. Sure, it’s cool to show off how the DVD tray slides out of the side panel on the plasma or how the “this” also functions as a “that” at the push a magic …
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Android SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
In computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a set of principles of governing concepts used during phases of systems development and integration. Such an architecture will package functionality as interoperable services: software modules provided as a service can be integrated or used by several client interfaces/organizations, even if their respective client …
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Do I Really Want a Swiss Army Phone?
When I was a kid I really wanted a swiss army knife. I wanted to be able to survive the day that I accidentally ended up in the wild forest with no food or water, and be like McGuyver. I wanted to be able to …
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Android in Ireland… No Luck for the Irish!
This post could be rather short because as of today (23rd of September 2009) none of the 4 main mobile phone operators doing business in Ireland have an Android device on offer… not one! You can get the latest Nokia N97, the iPhone 3GS, any …
