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Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 6: The Call of Sedona, iDatank, Infected (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 7:58:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It’s a new week and a new set of fresh Android apps. Find your Zen in The Call of Sedona, explore the dangerous universe with iDatank, and stop spread the disease in INFECTED.
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Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:40:38 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
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Glitches plague free Evi app for Android (Appolicious)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 4:15:00 PM CST
Appolicious - The free Evi app for Android eluded me for days while I was testing it out. Every time I tried to search using the app, it told me all circuits were busy. But the super friendly voice assured me that they were working to correct the issue in the near future. In this day and age, a few days are a lifetime.
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Android Games from Capcom and Square-Enix on Their Way ... In Japan (ContributorNetwork)
Friday, February 3, 2012 2:28:31 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.
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Android lead smartphone platform in 2011, will be used by government (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 2:12:00 PM CST
Appolicious - Android got some good news this week. Firstly, numbers released by comScore suggest the platform grew in the fourth quarter of 2011 in the U.S. Secondly, the U.S. government has decided to use Android devices as secure phones.
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Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN: union rep (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:24:19 AM CST
Reuters - Siemens AG is on the look out for a new chief executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wankel told reporters on Friday.
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Apple to resume full online sales in Germany (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:50 AM CST
Reuters - Apple Inc said it was cleared to resume selling older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads via its German online store on Friday, after the suspension of an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.
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Android OS rules in U.S., gets a Bouncer to keep malware out the Market (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:17:00 AM CST
Appolicious - The Android platform expanded its dominance in the U.S. smartphone market during Q4 of 2011, according to the latest ComScore report. Apple may have boosted its share of the mobile handset market with the release of the iPhone 4S, but Android’s still the clear winner in terms of OS use, powering 47.3 percent of surveyed subscribers. That’s up from 44.8 percent last year, growing by slightly more percentage points than Apple’s increase to 29.6 percent from 27.4 percent.
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Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 3: Waze 3.0, AI FloatNSplit Tablet Keyboard, Cartoon Wars (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 7:20:00 AM CST
Appolicious - As we enter the weekend, we’ve got three more fresh Android apps to keep you occupied. Waze, the popular navigation app, got an update which truly makes it shine. Meanwhile, A.I.type released another keyboard into the Market which is perfect for tablets. Finally, we’ve got Cartoon Wars, a popular iOS title that’s finally available for Android gamers to enjoy.
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TouchPal Keyboard Tablet tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 6:30:00 AM CST
Appolicious - The touchscreen keyboard gets an upgrade with TouchPal’s Keyboard for Android tablets. It lets you easily switch between swiping and tapping, as well as gestures to get the most out of your finger follies. This week also brought some big name updates to the Android Market, including special upgrades from McAfee Security and Mint’s personal finance app. Salesforce debuted its Rypple app this week, as did Eventbrite for managing events on-the-go.
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Japan's Panasonic projects record annual net loss (AP)
Friday, February 3, 2012 3:16:12 AM CST
AP - Panasonic on Friday nearly doubled its projected net loss for the fiscal year to a record 780 billion yen ($10.2 billion) amid weak TV and mobile phone sales and ongoing restructuring costs after acquiring smaller Sanyo Electronics Co.
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Just Show Me: How to see recently used apps in Android 4.0 (Yahoo! News)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:23:02 PM CST
Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to find out what apps are running on your Android 4.0 …
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Google tightens security in Android app store (Reuters)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:50:25 PM CST
Reuters - Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software.
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How Wireless Carriers and Manufacturers Screw Up Android (ContributorNetwork)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:31:00 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Google recently unveiled its new Android design guidelines, which are meant to help people develop apps for its open-source smartphone and tablet operating system. The guidelines work in tandem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich's visual overhaul, which was designed to "enchant" smartphone and tablet users in a way that Android's previous, bare-bones iterations, did not.
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Steve Jobs brought back to life as an Android fan in Taiwanese ad (Yahoo! News)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:43:42 AM CST
Yahoo! News - In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs's untimely death, we've seen him resurrected in many forms. He's already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we'd see him reborn as an Android supporter. Leave it to a Taiwanese tablet …
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The $23 Android Tablet You Can Buy in India (ContributorNetwork)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:01:15 AM CST
ContributorNetwork - You can buy it in India if you're a student, that is. According to Jamie Yap of ZDNet Asia, the Aakash tablet is priced at 2,200 rupees, or 45 U.S. dollars, while students pay a special subsidized price thanks to a government contract. 25,000 students have already requested one from the University of Mumbai, and more than 1.4 million people have ordered the tablet so far, with three new factories being set up to meet the demand.
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Angelic "Steve Jobs" loves Android in Taiwan TV ad (Reuters)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:43:09 AM CST
Reuters - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.
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Android “malware” turned out to be benign (Appolicious)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:15:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Consumers got a lesson in malware safety this week when Symantec and Lookout security companies presented different perspectives on “Android.Counterclank.” Symantec identified the string of apps as malware, but Lookout insisted the apps weren’t malicious but merely annoying adware Trojans. After several days of debating the semantics of malware, Symantec retracted its original statement, falling in line with Lookout’s assessment after all.
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Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 2: Steam, Handy Scanner, Super Bowl XLVI Guide (Appolicious)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:30:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Today’s Fresh Apps cater to the gamer, productivity mogul and sports buff in all of us. Valve Corporation’s Steam is finally allowing all users to use the app on their Android device, instead of just beta testers, while Handy Scanner is a useful way to copy and keep track of PDF documents. And if you’re visiting Indianapolis this weekend for the Super Bowl, NFL Enterprises has an essential app for you.
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Televisa says Mexico rejects Iusacell purchase (AP)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:58:27 PM CST
AP - The world's largest Spanish-language media company said Wednesday that its planned move into Mexico's mobile-phone market has been rejected by the country's anti-monopoly regulator.