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Review: Door 6’s “Vacuum: The Global Competition”

Door 6, developers of “The Training Mission,” an Android game that finished in the TOP 20 games in ADC2, will soon have something new for Android gamers to try out. “Vacuum: The Global Competition” is scheduled for release on March 20, and offers more incentives for winning than your typical high score entry. Apparently, Door [...]

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Review: TwonkyMedia Server Mobile

Announced at this year’s CES, TwonkyMedia Server Mobile allows you to stream media from your Android phone to any UPnP or DLNA capable device on your network. This could include your computer, XBox, or Playstation 3, among other things. Just to see how well this could work in my home, I set up TwonkyMedia Server [...]

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Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Force Recon

Oh man. At this point in time, I’m pretty sure you’re well aware that a video game came out a couple weeks ago. It was a pretty big hit. And with any kind of smash-hit like Modern Warfare 2, I guess everyone and their cousin should have realized some kind of spin-off was due. Maybe [...]

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Seesmic makes its way to the Android Market

Have you gone through the Twitter clients available in the Market already, and just haven’t been able to pick one that you like? Or, you know, one that you use more than another one? If that’s you, then here’s another application that will surely make you happy. Or just frustrate you some more. It’s Seesmic, [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Associated Press’s “AP Mobile” is a great Android news app

Through cooperative agreements with some of the world’s largest newspapers and television networks, the Associated Press supplies much of the news items that you’re likely to come across in a given day. With its new AP Mobile Android app, those stories can now be piped directly to your Android device. AP Mobile delivers the hot-topic news [...]

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App Review: CoPilot Live takes Android voice navigation in the right direction

Put on your seatbelt, check your mirrors, and launch CoPilot Live for Android? That’s not the traditional pre-driving routine, but it’s what I did when testing CoPilot Live, a new GPS application that offers turn-by-turn voice navigation for Android. The ALK-produced service creates Android GPS navigation systems on the fly thanks to massive map libraries [...]

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App Reviews: Babbler is another Facebook solution for Android

Android went without a strong Facebook app for some time, so who would have thought there would be two good native Android Facebook apps released within a matter of days? Last Friday, I reviewed Bloo and was impressed by the app and the the developer. Today, I came across Babbler, another Android app that works [...]

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Bloo, The Facebook Android App you’ve been waiting for, is here ( #android )

Bloo – The Facebook Android app that you have been waiting for is here. No, Facebook and Android haven’t played nice since the T-Mobile G1 debuted last October, but the premier social networking website finally has a decent app in Bloo. Androinica first reported on Bloo last month and said we thought it might be the [...]

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Round Robin 2: What’s the best Android Twitter app?

What’s the best Android Twitter app? Twitter has gone from tech playground to a place frequented by Oprah, soccer moms, and openly un-tech-savvy politicians like John McCain (or his aides). Those who have survived the great microblogging hype may ask: what’s the best Android app for Twitter? Our first Twitter Roundup suggested that Twidroid was the best [...]

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App Reviews: NRU brings Zagat to Android phones

Zagat promotes its website as “The Web’s Most Trusted Guide to Restaurant Reviews and Ratings.” With their Android app NRU (pronounced ‘near you’), Zagat hopes to be the leading mobile source of restaurant guides, night spots, and shopping destinations, too. NRU is a clever way of tapping into Zagat’s massive resource of restaurant locations and reviews. [...]

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