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Rumor: Google set to open an Android Market for business? Probably not.

A few people have sent in tips about Google releasing an Android Market geared towards business users. The rumor suggests that the new Market would be a way for Google to highlight Android’s enterprise capabilities, drawing attention away from an app store full of games, soundboards, and “sexy lady” apps. A new market sounds good in [...]

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Google Labs launches Gesture Search for Droid & Nexus One (English only)

The latest experiment to make it into Google Labs is Gesture Search, a product that searches for items based on letters of the alphabet entered onto the phone. When a user draws the letter ‘H’ on the designated gesture pad, it will become easier to locate contacts, bookmarks, apps, songs, and other file or data [...]

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[UPDATE] Shuffle is a free productivity app with GTD geeks in mind

If you are stressing out about work or school deadlines, can’t find time to finish things at home, and just feel like an overall, unproductive mess than you may be in need of some type of productivity system. Shuffle is a free productivity application that uses the “Getting Things Done” system made famous by David [...]

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Sync Outlook and Android with CompanionLink (software review)

Microsoft Outlook is a must-have tool for millions of people. Outlook controls their email, daily appointments and agenda, tasks, and memos that power them through the day. For Android users with such a dependence on Outlook, not having those critical elements can be challenging – and in many cases unacceptable. CompanionLink is an Android/PC sync solution [...]

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Dial2Do “hands free assistant” sends and reads texts, emails, reminder

Drivers and frequently on-the-go people should take notice of Dial2Do, a “handsfree assistant” that can read or write communication and reminders. Dial2Do works by taking voice commands and performing functions. Users log-in by dialing a number and saying what actions they wish to take. Say “Email Dad” and Dial2Do will then record a spoken message, [...]

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Turn your Android phone into an image-to-text scanner with SnapIt

Everyone has at some point read an interesting tidbit in a magazine and then purchased the mag, ripped a page out, scribbled on a napkin, or snapped a photo with a cellphone. With Android app SnapIt, you can avoid spending money or destroying paper and just let your phone be your own personal scanner. SnapIt is [...]

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Synthesis SyncML client for Android coming in 2010

In a move that should take away one of the longstanding thorns for many Android business users, Beat Forster of Synthesis AG confirmed that his company is actively working on an Android SyncML client which should be released in Q1 or Q2 of 2010. Synthesis AG is a Swiss company that has been a leader [...]

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Don’t like the Android Calendar widget? Get a “Pure” one

Google Calendar is great on the web and on Android. On the homescreen? Not good enough for some people. The widget is limited to a small portion of the screen and a smaller list of events, which simply doesn’t cut it for some folks. If you don’t like the default Android calendar homescreen widget, here [...]

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The Android Intelligent Home Screen concept: yay or nay?

How’d you like to make your Android homescreen a little friendlier to business and personal distinction? Maybe you’re a Windows Mobile or BlackBerry convert who actually prefers the organization and content display systems you left. Wouldn’t it be great to have the apps that attracted you to Android but still have a homescreen geared toward [...]

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Remember The Milk app now available for Android

The Remember The Milk Blog has just announced the availability of their new Android app. For those unfamiliar with Remember The Milk, it is basically a system to manage and track your to-do list items. The nice part, at least for me is that it offers access just about anywhere you may be. You can [...]

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