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Android Apps

Android Apps Alert #39: Hockey, Horsepower, and Hot Tracks

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Happy Halloween, folks. Before you go out with the kids and eat enough candy to keep your local dentist in business, why don’t you take the time to see what’s new in the Android Market? Every week, Androinica…

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Android Games

Will id Software’s first-person-shooter RAGE get an Android port?

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The legendary 3D graphics and game programmer John Carmack at id Software, who played an integral part in developing groundbreaking action titles such as Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, hinted on his Twitter ac…

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Rumors

Facebook hosting big mobile event next week. Is Android on the menu?

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As I sit here pulling out hairs dealing with my always-stressful local cable monopoly, I got a peculiar gift in my inbox. Facebook has invited us to an event at their headquarters next week. Facebook has hosted d…

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Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson set to upgrade X10 line to Eclair beginning Sunday

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Sony Ericsson has confirmed that it will begin updating the Xperia X10, X10 Mini, and X10 Mini Pro beginning on October 31. The update will begin Sunday evening in Nordic countries first, and then take place in s…

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Samsung

Sprint to give new Epic buyers $50 for Media Hub

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Beginning Sunday, new Epic 4G buyers will have extra incentive to give Media Hub a try. From October 31, 2010 to January 8, 2011, Sprint will offer a $50 credit for new Epic 4G customers to rent videos from the Sams…

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Tablets

Notion Ink puts an asterisk on Adam tablet 15 hour battery life claims

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Notion Ink excited folks when it said that the Adamn could “easily get 15 hours from the device,” but Rohan Shravan has taken to the company blog to clarify those statements. The 15 hours of battery…

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Sprint

Sprint poll about best OS leaves Android in the dust; vote now

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Sprint is asking customers what smartphone OS it should focus on in the future. One would think the answer to that question would be obvious in light of Sprint all but admitting that Android brought it to the prom…

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Acer

Acer Liquid Metal coming to UK with Android 2.2, new UI

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Acer added to its Android line-up by announcing the upcoming release of the Acer Liquid Metal. Sharing some basic form similarities with the original Liquid, the Liquid Metal is more fashionable with smoothe…

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Google TV

Logitech giving Revue pre-order buyers $25 gift code for late delivery

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Yes, Logitech accepted pre-orders for the Revue; however, it inexplicably allowed Best Buy to beat it to the punch. While people who ordered their box “early” were twiddling their thumbs waitin…

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I survived the Android Market Blackout, and all I got was this Android toy [CONTESTS]

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The Android Market crashed hard on October 28, 2010. A Twitter Search query of “Android Market down,” revealed that the problems started periodically for some as far back as October 24. However,…

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Google

Google Maps: now with better Places reviews, filters, and Latitude

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Google recently updated the desktop version of Places to have a better, more organized results page for reviews. The mobile version gets the same treatment in a new update to the Google Maps application (Andro…

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Android Devices

Barnes & Noble opens Nook Developer program: we’re not building app store, just enhancing book store

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Nook Color is more of an Android ereader with “extras” than it is an Android tablet. Barnes & Noble makes it clear that this is a reading device first and foremost. Naturally, they want apps that will enh…

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Lifestyle

Pulse News Reader adds Facebook support

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Pulse News Reader first achieved must-have status as an iPad app, then earned a cool but not quite there status on Android. We loved the app in our review but were displeased to that it didn’t have unlimite…

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Google

Google beefs up Android device management for Google Apps accounts

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Google has made another move to improve Android as an enterprise operating system, and increased the appeal of Google Apps as well. Enterprise professionals now have more administrative controls thanks to t…

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Win a Free NDrive navigation license [CONTESTS]

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There’s been a lot of activity in the mobile phone mapping and navigation space recently. Let’s see if we can move that along even farther with another giveaway, this time for NDrive. NDrive is an a…

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