Archive for March, 2011
Best of CTIA Wireless Spring 2011 – Who Wowed and Why?
CTIA wrapped up last week and I left the event in Orlando feeling satisfied with what I saw as a member of the press. The industry is moving forward with new technologies, carriers and OEMs continue to understand the importance of taking into account the opini++ons of their subscribers with every move they make, and above all else there was just [...]
Bogus App Pranks Would-Be Pirates, Notifies Friends and Family of Errant Ways
It isn’t quite April just yet, but someone out there with a sense of humor and a knack for vigilante justice has pulled off quite the epic prank. A bogus version of Walk and Text, a paid app in the Android Market, has been uploaded to various pirated android app hosting sites around the web, hacking the handset of whoever installs it and [...]
Gameloft Announces Xperia Play Exclusive game BackStab [video]
![Gameloft Announces Xperia Play Exclusive game BackStab [video]](http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0d793_backstab_v2-392x540.png "Gameloft Announces Xperia Play Exclusive game BackStab [video]")
Gameloft has just announced a new and exciting game that will be coming to Android, and later iOS. The Xperia Play exclusive will be available for Play owners only for the first month or so according to sources, then will be released for the rest of the Android community so they can all wish they had the controls the Xperia Play has. This is a [...]
Playstation Emulator PSX4Droid Pulled from Android Market
Is Xperia PLAY to blame? That’s what developer ZodTTD believes, and with recent events surrounding groups like Twitter, for example, we’s mildly suspicious as well. If you’re unaware, several massively popular 3rd party Twitter clients were pulled just a few weeks ago right around the same time Twitter released their very own [...]
CyanogenMod 7 is at it again with RC4 now available
If you haven’t seen all the twitter posts over the last few days then you probably don’t know that the CM team has just released the RC4 of the ever so popular CyanogenMod. Hopefully you are all aware of what CyanogenMod is by now. If you don’t you should head over to their site posted above and check it out if you love Android. [...]
Olympic Paints Debuts ColorClix App
More and more people are watching home improvement shows, and are better informed now on buying a home, selling a home, and above all, redecorating a home. We can see homes from around the world, and we know what looks good. More so now than ever, are people rushing to their local hardware store to grab some paint, and bring new life to the [...]
Google Tightening the Android Reins
Google is taking steps to ensure that fragmentation and "willy-nilly" customization doesn't slow the growth and success of Android. According to roughly twelve executives spread across various players in the Android space, they have begun clamping down so much that Andy Rubin personally approves who gets early access to software. According to [...]
SnaPanda is a New Kind of Dictionary [VIDEO]
![SnaPanda is a New Kind of Dictionary [VIDEO]](http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5dade_imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidguys.com%2F2011%2F03%2F31%2Fsnapanda-kind-dictionary-video%2F&source=AndroidGuys&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2 "SnaPanda is a New Kind of Dictionary [VIDEO]")
Remember when you first tried Swype? How about when you got a DVR and didn't have to worry about watching TV shows when they were actually on? SnaPanda is a little like that: it takes a task we're all familiar with, looking up a word in the dictionary, and gives you a new, better way of doing it. Here's how it works: when you come across a word [...]
QIWI Wallet (Version 1.7)
QIWI Wallet is a convenient paying system which helps you to pay for thousand goods and services online, most of them are commission-free.\n\r QIWI Wallet application allows: To buy and completely use virtual card QIWI Visa Virtual for making purchases online all over the world. Fill up your card, take money out, get account statement, get card [...]
Wait, Did Steve Jobs Give Android Too Much Credit?
You may recall the iPad 2 launch event where Apple CEO Steve Jobs bashed Android for its limited number of applications. More specifically, Jobs claimed that Android had no more than 100 applications designed specifically for Honeycomb tablets. Now a report out of AppleInsider is claiming Jobs may have been a bit generous with the quoted figure. [...]
