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Google Chromecast Announcement Causes Other Digital Media Receivers To Sweat Bullets

Yoni Gross — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:31:18 +0000

One of technology’s biggest battles today is the war for the living room. As more and more content becomes available online, users continue to prefer viewing it on their television. Plenty of companies have provided ways to handle that transition. Roku and the Apple TV being among the most popular, but Google has had little […]

Google To Sell Digital Textbooks Dirt Cheap

Matt Algren — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:00:05 +0000

Google made several big announcements yesterday, and while most people (including yours truly) are excited about the second generation Nexus 7 and Chromecast, Google announced another service that has the potential to be a major game changer for education. Google Textbooks will launch in early August 2013, just in time for the start of classes. […]

Facebook Home: The App That Thinks It’s An Android Skin

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:25:16 +0000

Yesterday’s leak of the HTC First gave the impression that it was going to be the much ballyhooed Facebook Phone at last. Instead, HTC and Facebook gave us something far more interesting. The HTC First is indeed a phone with strong connections to Facebook. However, the solution that powers it, Facebook Home, is more than […]

On The Cheap: Google Play Gives You Gifts For Its First Birthday

Justin Davis — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:03:04 +0000

Today marks the first birthday of Google Play (even though it’s been around as Android Market since 2008) and the company is celebrating by offering you major discounts (i.e. free for many choices) on some of its most popular games, apps, books, books, TV shows, and movies offered through the store. Here’s a short list […]

On Ur Android, Readin Capshuns

Matt Algren — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:47:02 +0000

Waiting in line just got a whole lot more fun! The good folks at Cheezburger Network have released a new Android app to view I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, and 44 more of the humor juggernaut’s meme sites. While Cheezburger previously had dedicated apps for a couple of its biggest sites, […]

NBC Potentially Kind Of Fixed Its Horrible Olympics Apps So They’re Almost But Not Quite Usable! USA! USA! USA!

Matt Algren — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:00:45 +0000

With days left before the opening ceremonies at the 2012 London Olympics, NBC and Adobe has made their Olympics Android apps available to a wider (but still not universal) audience. You might want to hold off on celebrating, though. The predictable basics (schedules, results, breaking updates) are present, but past that, both the main NBC […]

NBC Has Two Olympics Apps For Android That You Probably Can’t Use

Matt Algren — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:00:30 +0000

With just days left before the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in London, it’s time to get your mobile devices ready. NBC, which again has the exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the games, has partnered with Adobe to release two separate Android apps to augment its official coverage. The main app, NBC Olympics, […]

Run Android Apps On A Mac With BlueStacks

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:00:14 +0000

BlueStacks has released a public alpha test version of its App Player for OS X at the Google I/O conference. The product was originally announced as a beta release for Windows users in March, allowing users to run any Android app without modification. The current attempt to extend this functionality to Mac OS X users […]

Apply Voodoo To Unlock Samsung’s Galaxy S III

M. Gilden — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:10:34 +0000

With Samsung’s iconic Galaxy S III about to hit the U.S. shores tomorrow, potential buyers (or perhaps those of you who already pre-ordered) may rejoice in knowing that you won’t be locked into a particular carrier now that a SIM-unlock app is available courtesy of XDA’s supercurio. The app, available for free in Google’s Play […]

Google Music Almost Became a Problem For Custom ROMs

Yoni Gross — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:46:35 +0000

If you’ve read my previous articles, you may have noticed that I use a lot of different mobile devices in the course of a year, in addition to the ones I own myself. Plus, I love to try out custom Android ROMs. So, when the news broke yesterday that Google had implemented some pretty severe […]