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Australia’s puritanical laws could squash Android gaming down under

August 19, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Android gamers in Australia may eventually find it tougher to discover good games if one member of the government has his way. Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor wants to force mobile game develope…

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Android users don’t have a lot of sex partners, but they do watch a lot of mobile TV

August 11, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Internet dating site OKCupid reported yesterday that Android users have half as many sex partners as iPhone users by the time they reach 30 years of age. Maybe that’s because Android users spend so much t…

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Steve Ballmer: Windows should be able to crush Android tablets

August 2, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is up to his old tricks again when discussing Android tablets. Known for dismissing rivals in early stages and watching them later rise to eat away at Microsoft’s market shar…

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Pulse News Reader has a pretty face and flaws [Video app reviews]

July 28, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The war between fashion and function rages on in Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad and iPhone app that is now available on Android. While Pulse is a news reader that is much easier on the eyes thanks to a less conven…

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PSX4Droid is finally downloadable after Android Market woes

July 27, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Google does things exceptionally well. Usually. The Android Market is not one of those exceptional cases, evidenced by the problems faced by PSX4Droid customers unable to download the app from the Android Ma…

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TIME Magazine Android app now available for news readers

July 22, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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TIME Magazine spends a great deal of time working on content for or about the iOS system, but it’s one of the few mainstream publications that gave Android its due last year. TIME called the Droid one of the…

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Nexus One officially sold-out. Google closes phone store. (Forever?)

July 21, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Well that didn’t take long, now did it? Google announced last week that it was receiving its last shipment of Nexus One’s from HTC and would stop selling the device directly. Just a short time later…

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FOX NEWS Android app is now on-air, pinheads

July 14, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Don’t tell Keith Oblermann, but an official Android app for Fox News has arrived in The Android Market. Bill O’Reilly and the gang are now hunting down “pinheads” with “fair a…

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Spoiler Alert! Ari Gold uses a Nexus One

June 28, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Until last night, the best cameo that an Android product had achieved was the G1 appearing on some silly CW teen drama. Well, move over 90210; Android has graduated to appearing on silly HBO shows! Super-agent A…

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Wunder Radio radio app for Android is like carrying a radio in your pocket without the limitations [App Reviews]

June 18, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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When I got my HTC Incredible and started playing with it I was surprised and maybe even alarmed that there was a radio on the device. Yeah, a radio. Like scan for channels and listen to things that you have no contro…

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New York Times Android app is an easy and polished way to view the Times [App Reviews]

June 16, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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The NYTimes Android app has been around for a little over a month now on the Android platform and with most of the bugs worked out it’s time to see how it holds up. It’s always interesting to see how the…

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HTC Desire heading to Cellular South and U.S. Cellular

June 16, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The HTC Desire has been so successful in Europe that carriers have trouble keeping it in stores. U.S. Cellular and Cellular South may have that problem soon as both regional carriers are expected to offer the ph…

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Vuvuzela apps arrive on Android to terrorize the world

June 14, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Anyone who has watched a moment of the FIFA World Cup has undoubtedly heard the vuvuzela, an air horn that sounds like a mash-up between Boromir’s horn in Lord of the Rings, the anguished cries of a dying el…

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Space: The Android Frontier

June 14, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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People wise enough to follow the Androinica Twitter feed may already be familiar with this story, but the rest should learn more about Astdroid. That’s the Kickstarter project by Danny Pier, who contac…

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Rumor: HTC Scorpio(n) coming to Verizon with 1.5Ghz CPU, will the madness ever stop?

June 3, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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According to an “infamous ROM hacker”, conflipper’s Twitter page a new HTC device named (or codenamed) the Scorpion is on it’s way to Verizon as well as Bell Mobility. MobileCrunch…

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Four teens build Android app, win $35,000 in contest
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Four teens build Android app, win $35,000 in contest

May 14, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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I keep thinking that I should try my hand at Android app development, but I chicken out due to my lack of time and faith in my ability. Then I stumble across a story of four teenage girls who created their own Android…

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