• Behringer Xenyx 1204USB mixer
• A MXL 990 Condenser Microphone
• A microphone scissor mount (Recently replaced a hacked Ikea lamp mount)
• A Pop Filter
• Behringer Shark FBQ100 Automatic Feedback Destroyer – Used as a Microphone PreAmp with a noise gate
• Behringer headphone amplifier
• Sennheiser headphones
• Droid 2 Global, which acts as a soundboard for voicemails, the opening music, etc, and could be patched in to add VoIP capabilities if needed.
• A UCA202, which provides the sound to/from the Skype hookup with Jere Jones
• An Asus TF101 Transformer on which the show rundown is read
• Tascam DR-40 Linear PCM recorder

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No studio audience this week, instead…a guest.

Show Notes

• Special Guest – Pat Davila – His first computer was a Commodore Vic-20…Pat currently resides in Pennsylvania and runs a collection of Linux machines, as well as Android devices and MythTV setups. He is the co-host of the MythTVCast with former guest Dan Frey, and also of The Linux Link Tech Show. Pat joins us to talk about why Pulseaudio is a bad idea on Android.
• In honor of Mother’s Day…Me, Android, and my Mom..Son makes ultimate sacrifice, shares tablet with mother. 
• In other News
• Wi-Fi Blocking Wallpaper may be commercially available next year. Blocks wi-fi signals, but not cell phone signals
• In-Flight VoIP call on a smartphone gets founder of Viber escorted off plane. 
• The Floppy Disk means Save and 14 other anachronistic icons…Radio Buttons, Clipboard, Bookmark, Address Books and Calendars, Voicemail as a Reel to Reel, Manila Folder, Handset phone icon, Magnifying Glass and Binoculars, Envelopes, Wrenches and Gears, Microphones, Polaroids, Televisions, Carbon Copy, Blueprints…
• Wolfenstein 3-D turns 20 years old, and there is a free browser version.
• Wi-Fi Alliance is making headway with Passpoint Initiative, which will certify hotspots and routers to handle seamless handoffs between cellular and local wi-fi.  For example, if you’re on AT&T, your phone could potentially transfer to a certified hotspot at a nearby Starbucks (which uses AT&T’s land line broadband connection to serve its Wi-Fi) without having to log in using a browser-based landing page or even an SSID/password combination. T-Mobile is the only carrier committed to Passpoint, the other carriers have indicated interest, but haven’t comitted. 
• Platform News
• There’s a new spammy ad system called SellARing that allows associated apps to replace the sound you hear after dialing a number with 10-second audio ads. 
• Thai government has signed a $32.8 million deal to deploy 400,000 Android 4.0 tablets from Shenzen Scope at $81 each, with an option for 530,000 more. 
• Are smartphones ad other personal gadgets making us mentally ill?
• Android is Google’s weapon in the Ecosystem War. 
• Companies may accept sturdier Android Tablet. There may be stronger interest in Android tablets due to customization possibilities for ruggedized constructions.
• Requiring a warrant to use cell tower location data would ‘cripple’ criminal investigations, says to DOJ. 
• The future of Cyanogenmod 7. CM9 continues, but CM7 will continue. 
• AT&T CEO says that Google determines update schedule for phones, Google denies this.

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Android Buffet…now with live studio audience…

Show Notes

• Get Stuff Done in the Cloud. Go Google.
• Dilbert once again nails it with App Privacy…and Google Glasses
• Furious Judge decries blizzard of copyright troll lawsuits. Copyright trolls have likely stiffed the judicial system to the tune of millions of dollars.
• Discovery Communications buys Revision3…anyone want to buy us?
• Netbook shipments down 34 percent from last year, now about 5 percent of total shipments, compared to 13 two years ago. Has the tablet killed the netbook?
• The State of Mobile: Less Talking, Fewer Texts, More Data
• How Smartphones and Tablets are fueling Commerce. Nielsen reports 79 percent of respondents in a survey conducted in the first quarter said they had shopped using their smartphone or tablet. But when it came time to buy, 42 percent of tablet owners said they bought purchased items on their device compared to 29 percent of smartphone owners. Less than 30 percent of users have used their device for mobile payments.
• Infographic: Features your next Smartphone might have.
• In 2011, for the first time, smartphone sales outsold computers
• By 2015, it is estimated tablet sales will parallel computer sales, while smartphones will hit 1 billion sold
• In 2016, 72% of smartphones will include touchscreen only interface, but in the future, physical gestures, eye tracking, and voice control may play a bigger role.
• Multitasking
• Better Cameras
• NFC
• HTML5
• Platform News
• ICS now on 4.9% of devices.
• IDC claims tablet shipments dropped 38% last quarter.
• Oracle vs. Google reaches a unanimous decision by the jury on all but one question. Jury to take weekend to see if they can reach a decision about the remaining question.
• Meanwhile, EU rules that APIs can’t be copyrighted, as this would monopolize ideas. Computer code itself can be copyrighted, but functional characteristics—such as data formats and function names—cannot be. “To accept that the functionality of a computer program can be protected by copyright would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development,” the court stated.
• Ars Technica reports that several malicious apps remain in the Google Play store despite Bouncer, and numerous malicious reviews.
• Samsung open sources ICS Code for the Galaxy Tab 2.
• Are Verizon reps pushing 4G Android Smartphones over the iPhone? 
• Play Store now lets you charge purchases to your phone bill on select carriers. 
• Android Open Kang Project reaches Milestone 5.
• Pause for Station ID and feedback request in middle of show.
• App News
• Facebook responds to feedback and removes camera/messenger buttons in latest update
• Titanium Backup Pro adds Google Drive support.
• Adobe Flash Player updated, bringing more security patches.
• Facebook Messenger updated with read receipts and usability tweaks 
• D7 Google Reader updated to 2.0. Offers a new UI redesign, featuring an action bar inspired by Gmail, Readability mobilizer support, Save to Readability, bug fixes, and more. Guru’s phone reader of choice (Play Link)
• HBO and Max Go updated with ICS phone support. 
• Calculations: An ICS style multi-function calculator with currencies, tipping, mortgage, measurements. Still needs improvement. (Play Link)
• Flipboard for Android is coming, exclusive to the Galaxy SIII, but eventually to the store. Flipboard was the original magazine style news viewer.
• New Swiftkey Beta available, offers improved ui with dedicated comma key, refined smart punctuation popup, improved lag and functionality. 
• Firefox tries to unify design amongst all versions of browser.
• ESET Mobile leaves beta. (Play Store)
• Soundwire streams audio from your PC to your phone.
• Paper Camera update to version 3, bringing front-facing camera support, social and more. (Play Link)
• Alt Mounter simulates usb storage on ICS, and acts as a MTP replacement with the help of a help app on the computer.
• Ally Bank debuts mobile banking apps. (Play Link)
• Lookout introduces Install Monitoring and File System monitoring (Play Link)

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Guru and Jere plan for North Carolina

Show Notes

• Facebook Likes aren’t protected by the First Amendment
• 10 Uses for Old Smartphones
• One in Five Drivers would spend $3000 to add self-driving to their next car
• Federal Ban on Cell Phone Use sought by U.S. Secretary of Transportation, unifying enforcement among 50 states.
• Can Google Drive dethrone Dropbox? Drive offers a 25GB/$2.49, and 100GB for $4.99 option. Dropbox offers 100GB for $9.99. 
• Google selling the GSM Galaxy Nexus for $399
• Turn off your electronics based on bluetooth proximity
• Platform News
• Carriers continue to be the crunch point for many updates
• Android is failing to get into business as iPhone and iPad do.
• One pundit claims that merging the Windows desktop and phone will cause Android to “Fade away”. Is the key to Android’s future integrating desktop and mobile experiences?
• Business Insider claims the end of Android approaches, as iPhone captures 59% of new U.S. sales 
• Kindle Fire grabs 54.4% of overall Android tablet sales, followed by the Galaxy Tab at 15.4%
• Samsung introduces tablet-ready DVD drive with Android compatibility. Wondering what makes a DVD drive Android compatible.
• Apps News
• Twitter updated, fixes for various international users. Second update this week, first included adjusted design, activity in discover tab shows updates to your connections, new push notifications, and more.
• Facebook updated for improved performance, installs extra icons, including Facebook Camera icon as part of its app, XDA shows you how to hide them.
• Wi-Fi Tether for Root back to Play…until someone pulls it. (Play Link)
• Skype 2.8 for Android updated, now with faster startup and better video support. (Play Link)
• Taptu reading app updated, now allows linking to an account to have sources and articles saved across devices, offers a cleaned up UI. (Play Link)
• Pocket continues to improve its app. 
• Turntable.fm teases Android app. Turntable.fm is a social music listening app.
• Scalado launches photo gallery app. (Play Link)
• Dropbox allows for sharing via link.
• TGI Fridays will soon allow you to pay for your meal with your phone.
• HP Releases Snapfish for Android (Play Link)
• Biggest Developer Complaints Against Google

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Android Buffet moves to a new streaming server and Guru buys a boatload of new equipment.

Show Notes

• The streaming server migrates to a third-party host. What should we play the rest of the time?
• Are you waiting for Google Drive?
• Platform News
• iHome decides to make Android accessories. 
• Tablets second most popular way to watch TV says Viacom study. The survey questioned 2,500 on where and how they watched full-length TV shows, and found that 15 percent of people’s total viewing now occurs on tablets. The change has largely been at the expense of computer viewers. 
• Mobile content and ad sales to hit $67 billion in 2012. 
• Larry Page said Android wasn’t ‘critical’ for Google, because before Android’s arrival, competing operating systems used Google search and other services. 
• Cyanogen brings new build servers online. 
• State of New York sues Sprint for more than $300m, claims carrier failed to bill customers for $100m in taxes. State attorney general Eric Schneiderman claims they didn’t collect taxes to make its service less expensive and compete with AT&T and Verizon. Seems suspicious as no one advertises cell phone costs with taxes included.
• Google Cloud Print now can print to a Fedex office and can generate a PDF that will open in Chrome for Android(if you have it)
• Google’s legal slides paint Oracle as Gold Digger and Java as free and open software. The case hinges on whether if a language is free and open, if the APIs to use it are also open. 
• The Google Play Store has a Customer Support Line. 
• Twitter vows not to join patent wars, the company will not use any patents derived from employee inventions in offensive lawsuits without the inventor’s permission.
• Roaming
• WSJ explores why Roaming Charges overseas are so high. Carriers claim they have to negotiate, but the EU has declared roaming charges have “outrageous” profit margins, and is about to cap roaming charges. 
• Verizon announces $25 for 100mb plan, still a ripoff, but an improvement over 50mb for $30. 
• Better off getting a prepaid plan
• Support the Podcast
• Using a Case on Your Phone
• App News
• ReadItLater becomes Pocket, as if that name is less confusing, now totally free. (Play Link)
• TWC TV goes live. (Play Link)
• Wave Control controls Media Playback with a wave of your hand. (Play Link)
• Facebook updates, includes Messenger capability, and a camera shortcut.  (Play Link)
• Lilypad HD offers a floating messaging client. (Play Link)
• 500px photo sharing app released for Android, designed for more serious photographers to share photos. (Play Link)
• SmartShift Lockscreen allows you to customize a lockscreen with all your custom apps, on sale till the 28th. (Play Link)
• WidgetLocker updated, removes menu, adds more ICS actions, and more. (Play Link)
• WordPress for Android offering a beta of their new version. Includes Autosave timer, comment editing, new reader, and reliability improvements. 
• Spotify revamped with totally new design. (Click here for the Preview Version)
• Chrome for Android receives update, allows requesting of desktop sites, shortcuts as bookmarks, and proxies.
• Amazon shows developers how to obscure code to avoid cloning

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Guru sings again, Jere is coming to SELF…we hope, and more.

Show Notes

• 100 years ago yesterday, the Titanic sunk
• Eclair floats away…
• National database aims to catch smartphone thieves. U.S. mobile operators will ban any phone or 3G/4G tablet reported stolen from their networks and will work together to ensure that thieves don’t simply transfer stolen devices to a competitor’s service. The GSM database will be set up by October 31st, the LTE database in 2013. Senator Schumer (D-NY) hopes to introduce legislation to criminalize changing the IMEI number, in the same way changing the VIN number on a car is illegal. 
• Commodore founder Jack Tramiel died at the age of 83. Tramiel was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 and joined the army, where he learned to repair typewriters, founding Commodore Portable Typewriter. Commodore moved from typewriters to adding machines to digital calculators to home computers. Tramiel left Commodore in 1984, and bought the consumer division of Atari. The Commodore 64 and Tramiel were responsible for driving down the price of personal computers. 
• Automating Simple Tasks with NFC Tags and an NFC capable phone. 
• Platform News
• The court case between Oracle and Google began today, regarding licensing of code. It is the only patent case regarding Android that seems to directly advise Google as a defendant. 
• Boeing making secure Android handsets for government and defense. 
• Larry Page indicates Google is focused on the lower priced tablet market
• New Seller Countries in Google Play…Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, and Mexico
• RIM calls the Google Play App Market a chaotic cesspool
• Amazon App Store launches In App Purchasing 
• App News
• Radiant Defense is yet another Tower Defense game, Jere’s favorite type. (Play Link)
• Google Wallet updated. Do you want to pay for things with your phones?
• Dolphin Browser HD updated with UI enhancements and improved performance. 
• Google Goggles updated, adding more than 30,000 images from 150+ museums around the world. 
• Springpad relaunched, including Android client. (Play Link)
• Google Currents updated, expanding outside of the United States, offering speed increases. 
• Angry Bird updated with 15 new tropical levels. (Play Link)
• Wuala updated, offers share intent integration, the ability to download entire folders. (Play Link)
• Team Win Recovery Project updated. 
• Tapatalk 2.0 now available. (Play Link) 
• Morning Routine forces you out of bed by making you scan a barcode to turn off the alarm. (Play Link)
• Tumblr updated, brings new UI, faster load times, notifications and more. (Play Link)
• Flashify launches alternate browser when Chrome for Android users need Flash. (Play Link)
• Official Daily Show Headlines App launched. (Play Link) 
• Linux Tycoon, the world’s premier distribution building simulation game, is heading for Android.
• My Verizon app updated, finally not as painful to use.
• Netflix for Android is updated, gets new volume control UI. (Play Link)
• ICQ releases new ICQ Messenger for Android, tries to regain relevancy outside of Russia.
• Adobe Reader now allows you to electronically sign and send documents. (Play Link)
• Coach to 5K App comes to Android. (Play Link)
• Developer’s Corner
• Google to expire old client login authentication keys, and will periodically expire keys for increased security. 
• Android design guidelines updated with best practices for settings and navigation
• Accessibility: Are you Serving All of your Users?

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Guru and Jere chat, and make further plans for SELF

Show Notes

• Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glasses to Blindness Foundation Event. “Next week, debut new Google Music Player at National Association of the Deaf!” Glasses are part of recently revealed project to develop augmented reality glasses.
• Americans top at using tablets and smartphones while watching TV, most commonly to send email, though plenty used them as TV companions.
• Arizona proposes making it illegal to be offensive or annoying online.
• Samsung is producing microSD cards that are 4x faster than current crop.
• Google responds to European questions on new privacy policy.
• Next-Gen NYC Taxis to have USB ports for phone charging…where else should there be charging ports?
• Innovation may boost battery life by 40%.3M has developed a new kind of battery anode made of silicon that can deliver a significant boost in energy density.
• iPhone users twice as likely to use wi-fi as Android users. 29% of iPhone users stay on mobile, vs 68% of Android users.
• App News
• Instagram hits the Google Play store, then quickly gets a tablet upgrade. (Play Link)
• Facebook Messenger updated and is faster. (Play Link)
• IMDB app updated to support streamers HD trailers. (Play Link)
• Friendcaster updated to version 5.0, seems to work better than official Facebook app and offers tablet layout (Play Link)
• TWC TV promises to add streaming, which is currently available for their iPad app…but only for the 3% of people who have ICS.
• Seekdroid releases Woot Check, a completely rewritten version of the company’s first app. (Play Link)
• Keyring updated. (Play Link)
• Hipmunk app updated, adds calendar integration, displaying your calendar events during flight search. (Play Link)
• SparkNotes released, brings literature study guides to Android. (Play Link)
• Cinemark Theaters releases official Android app. (Play Link)
• Zynga releases paid version of Scramble with Friends, remove the ads. (Play LInk)
• Gmail, Books, and Street View updated.  Honeycomb users get popular ICS features, such as 30 day sync, other users get performance improvements and a new labels API.
• Yet another Task app, called Task, released, syncs with Google Tasks and offers a tablet and phone interface. (Play Link)
• Opera Mobile Browser gets experimental support for existing Opera extensions.
• Swiftkey 3 beta released, optimized to cope with missed spaces, and long strings of sloppy text. new themes, a larger spacebar, backup to your Google account, if enabled, and more.
• Platform News
• Larry Page summarizes his first year at the helm of Google. Youtube has well over 800 million users each month, Android is at 850,000 activations daily.
• Cyanogen unveils new mascot as part of their attempt to portray themselves as an Android-based OS, as opposed to just another ROM. Meet Cid, which stands for Cyanogemod ID. Reviews are mixed.
• Android Bootcamp 2012 offers over 20 hours of Android Development Instructions on Youtube.

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Show Notes

• Upcoming Schedule
• April 16th is our Titanic Episode, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
• June 11th would be our 100th episode, episode 99. However, June 8-10 is SELF…
• April Fools Test
• Google launches Google Maps for NES
• Gmail Tap replaces your phone keyboard with 2 buttons
• RoboBonobo aims to provide a weaponized telepresence robot for Bonobos armed with Android tablets. Donate to the project on Kickstarter.
• Blind man drives to Taco Bell in Google’s self-driving car
• Google Voice…for pets
• Canada decides to end minting of pennies in April. All payments in catch will be rounded to the nearest nickel. This will save an estimated $11 million a year
• June 6th is World IPV6 day. Unlike last year, companies will turn on their IPV6 compatibility and leave it on.
• Platform News
• Flurry Claims Amazon App Store provides 3x revenue compared to Google Play but the data was for in-app purchases.
• Google Play Store experiencing difficulties over the last week.
• Amazon Appstore app updated, fixes notification settings, adds option for higher maximum download limit over cellular, etc.
• Linus Torvalds provided a deposition about a newsgroup posting Motorola had located that predated a Microsoft patent on long filenames used in a compatible manner with short ones by three years. The patent was one of several being used by Microsoft to force licensing fees on Android handset manufacturers. A judge declared the patent invalid, but it could still be reversed by the U.S. International Trade Commission
• WSJ claims Google will begin selling tablets directly to consumers.
• iOS wins over more smartphone buyers as Android holds steady, however, 48 percent of both recent acquirers and smartphone owners had Android phones.
• Google Play Movies goes live in France
• European lawmakers to cap roaming data charges in EU member countries at EUR0.20/USD0.27 a megabyte.
• Google Android Developer identifies an 8 month period between time of release and the launch of new devices with the software.
• Lenovo to offer Enterprise App Store, which can be customized on a company by company basis.
• U.S. Army deploys its own Android store.
• James Kendrick of ZDNet asks if Android is even a platform
• App News
• DoubleTwist adds Google Music support and an alarm clock, only works for Google Music songs you’ve set for offline access. (Play Link)
• Hyatt releases official app, view hotels and book your next stay. (Play Link)
• Hulu Plus updated, select tablets now supported. (Play Link)
• Seesmic updated, now with ads. Remove ads, combine views from accounts, with the $3 pro version.
• Square updates credit card reader to add hardware encryption due complaints reader was being used for skimming.
• Square renames and updates its Card Case App to Pay with Square. (Play Link)
• Appbrain releases AppBrain Ad Detector. (Play Link)
• Cerberus 2.2 released, adds ability to hide GPS icon, remote SMS send, speak command for SMS, etc.
• AMC Theaters released Android app. (Play Link)
• Handcent SMS 4.0 released, now with ICS support and new interface. (Play Link)
• Babbel helps you learn a new language from your phone. (Play Link)
• Ustream app downloaded 2.5 million times, new version released. Offers in app purchase for ad-free options. (Play Link)
• Rite Aid launches app, lets you scan your prescription bottle to get refill. (Play Link)
• Handwriting Note Taking Apps
• Papyrus offers a notation app in beta for pen-based input. (Play Link)
• Quill handwriting app (Play Link)
• FreeNote, Note Everything. (Play Link) – Only app that is not a tablet only app
• The Door to Door Geek recommends Talkatone as a free Google Voice/VoIP client. (Play Link)
• Developer’s Corner
• Google Launches Translator Toolkit to help developers provide localization for apps
• Google releases class on Transferring Data without Draining the Battery

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Android Buffet introduces supporter subscriptions.

Show Notes

• Subscription – Support your favorite podcast.
• Paper Level – $1.00 a month
• Steel Level – $11.00 a year
• Silver Level – $25.00 a year
• Golden Level – $50.00 a year
• Diamond Level – $5.00 a month
• Tin Level – $10.00 a month 
• Make a One-Time Donation of your Choice
• The Manfrey reviews the Capta, a simple stand/tripod mount for a smartphone.
• Bagel Guru Murray Lender Dies at 81 in Florida. Lender introduced the bagels to many Americans.
• Platform News
• What Google hasn’t Done: Explained Why We as Users Would want a Unified Online Identity
• Sanwa USB Reader/Dock Station for Android offers dual SD slots and full-sized USB, as well as pass through charging. Only available in Japan.
• Asus wants to be the top non-iPad tablet manufacturer.
• 90% of Tablet Users are only using wi-fi.
• Developers will now be able to submit a privacy policy for their app, which can be viewed by users. ” The privacy policy field is an additional tool that will allow users to better evaluate the apps they wish to download.”
• App News
• If you are waiting for Instagram on Android, there is now a signup list.
• BeeRaider is a unique radial shaped keyboard for Android. (Play Link)
• MVideoPlayer HD is a video player that takes advantage of tablet real estate in the interface. Free in beta. (Play Link)
• Flight Track updated, adds support for customizable time zones for flight times, a reduction in app size, and more. (Play Link)
• Tapatalk, popular forum app, has version 2.0 in beta. Offers a new UI, moderation options and more. (Play Link)
• QuickPic updated, fast and easy gallery app (Play Link)
• My Tracks updated, offers option to play track as a tour using Google Earth client. (Play Link)
• Aldiko Book Reader updated, adds tablet interface, support importing files directly from other apps and more. (Play Link)
• Papermill, a new Instapaper app, competes for Marco Arment’s blessing as official Android app. (Play Link)
• Politico Now Available for Android Tablets (Play Link)
• Kindle for Android updated, allows for Send to Kindle functionality, as well as illustrated children’s books, comics, and graphics novels. (Play Link)
• Google Voice updated, adds inbox labels, voicemail integration with the ICS dialer.
• Google’s Authenticator updated to Version 2.0. However, it is a new app, and must be installed. It will then uninstall its predecessor. (Play Link)
• Dolphin Browser Bookmark Extension now available in the Chrome Web Store, to sync Chrome and Dolphin.
• Angry Birds Space now available. (Play Link)
• More interviews from NELF.

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Show Notes:

• “The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.”
• Guru visits the NorthEast Gnu Linux Fest and is back with interviews.
• 27 Years of .COM dominance
• NetZero is back as a ‘free’ 4G service provider. Not truly free, as users may only use the free service for 12 consecutive months.
• FAA to revisit the use of certain personal electronics in the cabin for the first time since 2006. “With the advent of new and evolving electronic technology, and because the airlines have not conducted the testing necessary to approve the use of new devices, the FAA is taking a fresh look at the use of personal electronic devices, other than cellphones, on aircraft.”
• Google Chrome Paid Link Penalty removed after 60 days.
• FBI stumped by pimp’s Android pattern lock, serves warrant on Google.
• Root Report
• CM9 will ship with Root Off by default. Users will have to explicitly enable Root.
• CM7.2 RC now live with support for 69 devices.
• Platform News
• Linux 3.3 kernel released, merges code from the Android project back into mainline.
•  Ad-supported apps drain battery faster.
• Google drops the ball and leaves developers out of pocket.
• Panasonic offers a Rice Cooker that can be operated using an Android phone for only $1000
• If the barrier for Android entry is too much for you, Virgin Mobile is offering an Android 2.3 handset called the Venture for $99 no contract. Cricket Wireless is offering a $70 handset through Best Buy.
• This is why Google is losing the future – “First, the search giant offers a little traffic boost to sites that organize data in certain useful ways. Then it turns the game on its head and — without any notice — starts using that structured data to inform its own services. Finally, with a disturbing inevitability, it launches its own competing product that steps in and replace yours.“
• Google sued over Play Store’s 15 minute return policy. `
• Paypal competes with Square by launching Triangle-shaped Here.
• App News
• New Google Play store update will now show all apps ever installed.
• Reddit is Fun banned from Google Play for “Sexually Explicit Material.”
• Twitter working on new Tweetdeck app with power users in mind.
• Titanium Backup updates and adds Box.net syncing, better ICS support, and more.
• Autodesk releases Buzzsaw for Android, providing cloud based sharing for design projects and files.
• Taskbar Switcher, a different approach to multitasking.  (Play Link)
• Slider widget offers volume and brightness sliders for your homescreen. (Play Link)
• IMDB app updated with new tablet design and ICS compatibility. (Play Link)
• CW Network gets an app with full episode streaming. Now only needs show on CW worth watching. (Play Link)
• Readability app uses iOS design principles.
• Amazon celebrating their appstore’s first birthday.
• Netflix now used on close to 1000 different types of Android devices.
• Beautiful Widgets updated to 4.0, adds web skin market and multi-forecast. (Play Link)
• `

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