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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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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Central Editors’ app picks for July 29, 2010

Applications — they make the world go ’round. OK, maybe not exactly, but there sure are a ton of great ones in the Android Market, and finding the right one can be a bit difficult. Take a look after the jump, as we bring you another edition of our wee…

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29 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google bolsters mobile apps with expandable app ‘extensions’

Back at Google IO in May, our benevolent overlords detailed their intentions to make mobile advertising more immersive, akin to Apple’s iAds. Today, we’re starting to see some of the fruits of that labor with AdWords location extensions. Businesse…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Twitter for Android updated, is ‘faster,’ gets basic functionality

Twitter for Android — the "official" Android Twitter client — just got another update (we’re at version 1.0.2 for those playing at home), and changes include the following: Is faster than the previous version Auto refresh is …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Maps makes finding ‘places’ even easier

Google Maps just served notice to every other location-based business app out there with the introduction of "Places." A tie-in with Google Maps, it makes it super easy to find any kind of, well, place. It’s location-based, so it knows where …

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25 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

PlayStation emulator released onto Android Market

Being a former N64 fanboy, this may not excite me as much as some PS1 die-hards out there, but the PlayStation has just been added to Android’s already-impressive list of game console emulators. The app that makes this all possible is called "psx…

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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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22 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

The Android Central Editors’ app picks for July 21, 2010

Apps, apps, apps! We get it, you guys love yourselves some applications. And because we love you, we are here with our weekly helpful hints at some great applications! With more than 70,000 applications in the market it can be a little difficult to dec…

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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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