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Now Google Is Discounting Holiday Music

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you didn’t hear, there was a 10 day period where Google is heavily discounting application in their Android Market. This was to thank all of us for downloading over 10 billion apps. They are doing a similar promotion for the holidays… 25 cent songs.

While these songs are very holiday oriented and not by too many modern artists, they are still worth paying 25 cents for. There are some really great classics from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martian and others.

Take a look and see if there is anything you wanna buy. I found a few.

Android Market is on the web… Finally!!

February 4, 2011 By 1 Comment

If you didn’t already see, you are now able to view and install the Android Market applications from the web. Prior to this, you would either need to look at applications from your Android phone or use a site like Appbrain to view and install apps. [Read more...]

Adobe AIR Apps and Games for Android on the Way

January 24, 2011 By 2 Comments

Adobe Air applications offer a lot of benefits to the desktop user. Applications such as Tweetdeck run on the Adobe Air platform. Typically these desktop applications are very smooth running and feature rich.

How would you feel about having Adobe Air applications for Android devices? Well, you will be getting your wish. The question though is when. I saw an article a few months ago on AndroidGuys talking about Air apps. To me, having these Adobe Air applications would be great for the Android devices. The problem I can foresee is trying to use an app with a slower processor.

If the Air apps are a resource hog, people and developers will have a bad taste in their mouth from the start. Currently the only application in the Adobe Air gallery slated to run on the Android platform is one for BlogRadio.

What are the applications you use on your desktop machine you would like to see as an Adobe Air app?

Text to 911? Really?

November 25, 2010 By 1 Comment

Apparently the FCC is all for you sending a SMS to your emergency services. I was a little surprised to read this article. I had heard the government was looking to start sending out SMS messages in case of an emergency like they do on the radio and television.

I am curious to see how this will work and if people abuse it.

Read more @ [techspot]

Google Shopper App Updated

November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today Google announced the update to the Google Shopper app for Android phones. If you are not using Google Shopper already, it offers a barcode scanning application which shows local availability. You can also search via voice.
The upgrade offers a major helper for mobile searching, Filters. The filters allow you to, well, filter products by a specific brand or at a specific store.
Read more on the Google Mobile Blog

Sony Has Plans for More Android in Their Electronics

October 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ian Muttoo via flickr

Recently, Sony launched four new Google TV-capable televisions for sale in the US.  Sony has more plans to utilize Google in their products.  The televisions were just the first attempt at the  Sony and Google pairing since  reaching an agreement in May.

read more at Android Headlines

Compare Android devices with Google phone gallery

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Are you in the market for a new Android phone? Well Google is helping you out with their phone Gallery.

You can select up to 3 different devices and compare the specs. You can see what phones are available currently on each carrier, by country or by manufacturer.

Take a look at your choices here.

via Google Mobile Blog

Adobe AIR now in the Android Market [Android News]

October 10, 2010 By 1 Comment

Adobe AIR (the cross-platform application system) that many of you have been waiting for since earlier this year is now available. Here is a link to the Adobe site talking a little bit about it. Adobe Air released on the Android platform. [Read more...]

Amazon Waiving $99 Fee for Developers [Android News]

October 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Amazon recently released an email letting Android developers know they are waiving the first year’s fee for new developers.
Developers are required to pay a $99 annual fee due to the terms and conditions for joining the crew. It isn’t known if this is for everyone, or if it’s completely random. [Read more...]

Unofficial Froyo for rooted Samsung Captivate [Android News]

October 3, 2010 By

Do you own the AT&T locked Galaxy S device known as the Captivate? If so, you can now get the unofficial Froyo 2.2 software . The guys at the xda-developer forums have made build UCJI6 Captivate ready and available to download. [Read more...]