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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Security firm details privacy concerns; developer tells us its side of the story

Let’s recap: Late Wednesday night (or early Thursday morning), we reported on a story published at Mobile Beat that came out of the Black Hat online security conference. At the conference, Kevin MaHaffey, CTO at mobile security firm Lookout…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google to provide copy protection to Android Market applications [updated]

Google has announced that it will be rolling out a copy protection mechanism for Android Market applications when used with phones running Android 1.5 or higher.  It works kind of like this:Google sets up a special licensing server, which keeps re…

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24 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Sprint gets own tab in the Android Market

No, you’re not seeing things. Sprint phones will now see a "Sprint" tab in the Android Market instead of the (preferred by many) "Downloads" tab. It’s the same on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile Android phones (at least th…

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24 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Sprint gets own tab in the Android Market

No, you’re not seeing things. Sprint phones will now see a "Sprint" tab in the Android Market instead of the (preferred by many) "Downloads" tab. It’s the same on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile Android phones (at least th…

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24 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

PSA: Android Market DDA updated; developers need to log in

A PSA for all you application developers out there: Google has updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement "in preparation for some work we’re doing on introducing new payment options, which we think developers wil…

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Central Podcast Episode 22

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Phil, Mickey and Jerry are back to talk up the Droid X, the Galaxy S, what's wrong with the Android Market, plus more of your voicemails and e-mails. Listen in!

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Quick App: Advanced Launcher

Advanced Launcher is an application for those of us looking for an app that alleviates a bit of homescreen clutter, groups the favorite things on our phone, and keeps us from having to dig through the app drawer.  What, you thought you were alone …

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22 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Barnes & Noble’s Nook app lands on Android

 Barnes & Noble has released the Android version of its Nook e-book reader (an Android-based device, natch) onto the Market. The app is similar to functionality to Amazon’s Kindle, and comes with a number of free "sample" segments of…

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21 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

SwiftKey beta sees 100k downloads, most of any app on Android Market last week

TouchType has announced its SwiftKey keyboard hit the 100,000-download milestone in it’s first week of availability on the Android Market, making it the most downloaded app of the past week.  For those of us using it, it comes as no surprise.&nbsp…

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21 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

SwiftKey beta sees 100k downloads, most of any app on Android Market last week

TouchType has announced its SwiftKey keyboard hit the 100,000-download milestone in it’s first week of availability on the Android Market, making it the most downloaded app of the past week.  For those of us using it, it comes as no surprise.&nbsp…

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