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Boxee Wi-Fi Remote turns your Android phone into a Boxee remote (Duh!)

Boxee is a free, cross-platform that organizes your music, video, and photo collection in a beautiful navigation system. Boxee has stated that it is working on an official Android app, but being the impatient techie that I am, I was happy to finally discover a decent Boxee Android remote app in Boxee Wi-Fi Remote. There are other Android [...]

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Slacker Radio 2.0 caches stations for offline playback

Slacker Radio has made good on its promise to deliver cached stations to Android phones. Anyone with a Slacker Radio plus membership will now be able to listen to their favorite stations even if they lose their connection while riding the subway or going into remote areas with weak data connections. A “Cache Station” will include [...]

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Slacker Radio to support offline playback in Android app

Slacker Radio made a major announcement last night at the Showstoppers event at CES. Slacker 2.0, the latest version of the music streaming service for Android, will support wireless station caching. This new feature will allow Slacker members to enjoy their favorite music stations even if they lose their network connection. Station caching saves a user’s [...]

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Android Apps Alert 10: The Replacements are coming

Looking for the best Android apps? Good luck finding them on your own. But if you do stumble across apps people will love, let the world know. Androinica.com encourages users to tweet great apps with the #androidapps tag on Twitter, and we plan to incorporate that into our weekly notifications of new, updated, or recommended [...]

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MySpace purchases imeem, shuts down service and apps

MySpace has owned imeem for less than a month but they’ve already closed the doors on imeem, shutting down imeem’s servers and effectively killing its Android application. I received repeated errors when I attempted to log-in last night, and when I went to the imeem website to get help, it redirected me to MySpace Music. [...]

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Clear Channel’s iheartradio app coming to Android by Christmas

Clear Channel Radio, one of the largest media conglomerates in the U.S., has announced that its popular iheartradio app will arrive for Android devices by Christmas. Already available on iPhone and BlackBerry platforms, the Android iheartradio application will give users a chance to listen to almost 400 radio stations. iheartradio streams popular local radio stations, digital-only [...]

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Ustream Viewer streams live video to Android devices, starting with tonight’s KISS concert

Video platform Ustream has uploaded its Ustream Viewer app into the Android Market, enabling users to watch live or recorded content directly on their Android handsets. The new app is available for free and capable of watching live feeds, music videos, recorded clips, and user-generated content over Wi-Fi or 3G. Ustream already released its Ustream Broadcaster [...]

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Hey, Android fans, want a FREE Slacker Radio Premium membership? [Contest closed]

UPDATE The contest has ended. I will be contacting the winners shortly. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest. We’ll be hosting more contests in the future, so make sure to bookmark our website and follow us at Twitter.com/Androinica —————————————- Slacker Radio recently launched an Android client for its personal radio service. We made a post [...]

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Slacker Radio releases official client to stream music to Android phones

Internet radio streaming service Slacker Radio has launched its official Android client. Less than a month after promising to release an Android client at CTIA, Slacker now lets U.S. residents bring “your radio everywhere.” Available only to U.S. residents, Slacker is a streaming service that sets up personalized music stations based on a user’s favorite songs, [...]

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Watch or listen to live NBA games on Android with League Pass & Game Time

The NBA has joined the ranks of sports leagues that offer live mobile viewing options for fans of their respective game. NBA League Pass Mobile, a new Android app from the association, brings unprecedented access to NBA games with the ability to browse scores, watch live games, and replay games on-demand. That’s the good; now for [...]

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