Show Notes

• Google Public DNS no longer an experiment, now a public service
• Remains
• Should you tether your tablet to your phone, or get a 3G Tablet?
• Tasker vs Locale – Ease of Use vs Power? Next week, Llama?
• Minimal Reader Pro – Full Featured News/Reader Widget(Donate Version, Free Version)
• Shush Ringer Restorer (Market Link) – When you silence the phone with your volume button, it will ask you how long you wish it to be silent, and remain silent for that period.
• Platform News
• Cyanogenmod asks for money to resume nightly builds, achieves goal in a day
• Poor Flash Storage could be slowing down your smartphone.
• Google files for patent to combat Apple’s slide to unlock patent, seeks to add icons as shortcuts to basic functions.
• Why LTE sucks battery.
• Google Drive may be coming.
• Aura Slate may be successful as a Hacker-Friendly Tablet.
• HP’s CEO claims Motorola-Google may cause Android to end up as a closed system.
• Cyanogenmod may be baking Onskreen’s Cornerstone into the OS, adds improved multi-tasking.
• App News
• New versions of Opera browsers coming at Mobile World Congress
• XFINITY TV for Android updated with favorite and recent channels and more. (Market Link)
• Handcent 4.0 Public Beta now available, allows you to bind phone number and text messages for free using their network.
• Paper Camera updated to 2.0, now supports video and Android Beam(for those who have it)
• BackDrop Root backs up apps and settings, offers option to turn BackDrop to update.zip that will restore your data, and auto-restore option that will pull in backed up data when an app is installed. Might be an alternative to Titanium Backup (Market Link)
• Bump gets updated to 3.0, redesigned. Bump supports contact and photo sharing, as well as mutual friend search, device sync, and app recommendations (Market Link)
• Skype updated, adds new call interface and more.
• Clik Released on Android, starting the concept of pushing content to your TV.
• Swype Updated, adds support for the ICS and Galaxy Nexus.
• Barclays PingIt makes it easy to spend money and repay others. Currently limited to Barclays Bank customers, but will be expanded.
• Swiftkey passes 5 million installs, adds update and offers 25% off.
• EA Sims FreePlay released, offers simple Sims play. (Market Link)
• ICE Card – Simple App that can be accessed by emergency personnel…if they know about it.  (Market Link)
• Amazon MP3 app updated, uses Kindle Fire interface, offers tablet and ICS support. (Market Link)
• Utter offers compelling extension to Google voice actions support.

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Verizon…it’s an old person’s nightmare.

Show Notes

• SNL Spoofs Verizon 4G Advertising
• Platform News
• Sprint adds 1.6m subscribers in Q4 2011, sells 1.8m iPhones, but loses $1.3b
• Spray-on Antennas?
• Google Wallet revealed to be insecure if you wipe app settings and for rooted users. Google responds by advising Wallet is safe, but disables prepaid cards.
• Want an iPad or 3 Kindles for less? Amazon goes after Apple.
• Motorola says hardware is slowing Android updates
• Russian carrier MegaFon holds contest to use as much data as possible. The Winner used 419GB in a week.
• Google to launch cloud drive service?
• App News
• Google Chrome for Android beta released, available for ICS only.
• Comparison between Chrome vs Dolphin vs Firefox vs Opera
• Is Chrome for Android what ICS should have looked like?
• Chrome to become stock browser on Android 4 and above.
• PowerAmp updated, offers better support for for Android 3 and 4. multichannel FLAC, etc.
• Expensify app updated, support for viewing receipts, expenses, and reports.
• New App – Carrier Coverage released, seeks to collect data from users to put together an accurate picture of carrier coverage. Backlash from Root Users. (Market Link)
• Microsoft One Note Mobile now available in the market. (Market Link)
• Bolt Sizer uses your camera, a coin, and math to determine the size of any bolt. (Market Link)
• Netflix app updated, brings tablet volume controls, and improved audio/video syncing.
• Vonage Mobile for Android, looks to take on Skype. (Market Link)
• Kindle app updated, reduces app size, adds page numbers.
• Foursquare updated, includes NFC Beam Support
• Google+ updated with performance improvements
• Cubed Music Player updated.
• BaconReader Reddit Client updated. (Market Link)
• Google Voice update brings new icon, interface, and tablet features
• Seesmic updated finally, still no tablet version, offers bug fixes and removes Buzz support. Is this product being killed?
• Extended Controls – extensible and customizable version of the Power Control widget. (Market Link)
• Intents – One of the Best Android features. Allows integration between any app and any service, without the app developer having to do anything.

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Show Notes

• Mobile Nations/Android Central steals Jere’s idea, starts Fitness Month
• Bring Back the Phone Booth as a place for Private Conversation
• Platform News
• World’s First mid-call transfer between VoLTE and 3G. Seamless switching is a requirement of the standards regulator and necessary for adoption.
• Ting launches no contract wireless network on Sprint
• Staples says…”Survey Says, People Love their Tablets.”
• MIUI Rom is going open-source.
• iOS apps crash more than Android, says recent data. For the top apps, more than three times more.
• Google reveals Bouncer, which scans the Market for potentially malicious software, insists malware is down 40% as anti-malware software manufacturers insist it is up.
• Asian Steve Jobs discovers the iPad. Taiwanese ad has Jobs hawking poor quality Android tablets
• HTC Sense on ICS, a step forward for Sense, but is not innovating.
• Android phones to be rolled out to U.S. officials and military.
• Infographics: Mobile Ads show staggering growth, clicks up 711 percent.
• Microsoft Ad attacks Google for Only caring about Money
• Google No Longer Supports the CDMA Galaxy Nexus. The phone will still receive updates from Google, but it is not an officially supported phone.
• Editorial: Market needs better User Support
• Kindle Fire may catapault Amazon Appstore sales.
• Statistics Time
• 87% of Android users surveyed use their phone on the toilet, compared to 84% Blackberry and 77% iPhone users.
• Match.com reveals that 62% of Android had sexual relations on the first date, compared to 57% of iPhone users and 48% of Blackberry users. Android users are always most likely at 72% to visit dating sites.
• App News
• Pindroid, Pinboard client, has a tablet beta. Requesting feedback and design suggestions.
• Doubletwist hears user comments. Managing/downloading Podcasts is now in the Premium version, streaming is now free. Podcast feature is no longer an add-on.
• WinAmp adds premium version to Market. Previously was an in-app purchase. Adds an equalizer, folder browsing, crossfade, FLAC, etc. (Market Link)
• Seesmic Ping schedules tweets, Facebook statuses, LinkedIn for future dates. Where is the update for Seesmic for Android? (Market Link)
• Rhapsody launches Android tablet app. (Market Link)
• Path for Android updated for 720p displays. (Market Link)
• Dropbox releases new beta build that supports Camera Upload feature
• Google Docs app updated, now supports offline access to to your files, new reading layout on tablets. Still no editing.
• Why Mint on Android tablets could boost its user base.
• Firefox 10 lands in the Android market (Market Link)
• Google Chrome to Phone updated. No significant feature changes
• GetGlue for Android updated, adds visual check-in stream and real-time conversation mode. (Market Link)
• Waze for Android updates, adds new UI.
• Humble Bundle launches on Android, name your price, help charity.
• Developer’s Corner
• New Social APIs in ICS
• Android Developers on Google+

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Show Notes

• Tablet Talk – Guru reports on his three days with tablets.
• EFF asking for help in renewing exemptions on jailbreaking/rooting, and asking for extensions to tablets and video game consoles.
• Google unifies privacy policies under one umbrella. World panics.
• Platform News
• T-Mobile USA Testing IPv6 on Select Devices
• RIM’s new CEO says that all Android devices are the same. “Just take a look where the Android OEMs are. I leave this to you. Take a look at their recent announcements and what you will immediately see is there is just no room for differentiation because they are all the same.”
• Flurry reports that the Kindle Fire is closing in on the Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet
• it isn’t the Menu Button, it is the Action Overflow
• We still need better Tablet apps
• App News
• Official Formspring App released. (Market Link)
• Doubletwist updated, adds a premium feature for podcasts. (Market Link)
• Fly Delta app updated, adds fixes and international support. Guru tries it out on his Delta trip. (Market Link)
• SwitchMe Dual boots Android with multiple profiles (Market Link)
• Touch-friendly version of ClockworkMod Recovery on the way.
• BBC News app updated for tablets, limited to UK users
• Decide for Android monitors electronic prices, tells you if it is a good time to buy. (Market Link)
• Producteev task manager releases Android app. (Market Link)
• Dolphin Browser adds Evernote and Skitch functionality.
• ReadItLater Pro paid app captures 45% of new holiday signups – during the holiday season, registrations grew 148% from November to December.

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Jere is tired, so we did a slightly shorter show.

Show Notes

• China set to surpass 1 billion mobile connections
• EU Commission set to rule on Motorola-Google on February 13th
• Smartphone Purchases up Big in Q4 2011, Android biggest percentage of market. In December, 91% of Smartphone Acquisitions were Android or iOS, according to Nielsen.
• Sprint pushes its wireless network for smart grid
• Platform News
• Nokia’s CEO still talking Android fragmentation, “”We don’t want fragmentation being introduced into Windows Phone because we are beginning to see how in a certain other eco-system that fragmentation becomes a problem.”
• What is a ‘Made for Android’ Headphone?
• Security Enhanced Android released by NSA. It is based on SELinux, which uses contexts in addition to traditional user permissions to limit damage down by flawed or malicious apps.
• Pantech may be next to sign a licensing deal for Android with Microsoft
• Samsung working toward all-day battery life in 2012. Who isn’t?
• Open NFC Stack now available for Android 4.0 to make NFC hardware easy to use for OEMs.
• Steve Wozniak admires many features of Android, thinks some are better than iOS.
• Oracle claims they believe Google earns 10 million a day in annual revenue from activations.
• Linux Foundation trying to bring Android drivers back into the Linux mainline.
• Android is about differentiation, not fragmentation. Differentiation is positive. Schmidt claims they allow anyone to change the interface as long as it doesn’t break apps.
• App News
• Photo Calendar – a photo gallery app which organizes all the photos according to date. (Market Link)
• YouMail partners with LetsTalk.com to preload its app on select phones.
• Official Wikipedia App released. (Market Link)
• Airbnb releases Android app. (Market Link)
• Textie for Android launched, yet another cross-platform messaging app.
• Turbotax Snaptax for Android updated.
• Official NBC App released, full episode coming soon. (Market Link)
• How to Buy and Test a Third-Party Battery for Android - Have you Bought a Third-Party Battery?
• How to Hold Your Touch Screen Gadget Correctly and avoid RPI
• Developer’s Corner
• Want more in-app sales? The best way to make in-app purchase pay is to build loyalty and engagement, which can result in more revenue overall than a quick sell.

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Show Notes

• Two years ago yesterday, Pat Archibald received his Nexus One. Happy Anniversary, Pat!
• Platform News
• Google engineer takes to Plus to dispel the myth that wiping battery stats changes the battery life displayed to you. It is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the “Battery Use” UI in settings.
• Global broadband subscribers inches up to 600 million, 152 million in China, 90 million in the U.S.
• The Moneto NFC microSD will enable any Android phone to use the technology, for $30. Doesn’t seem worth a $5 a month fee.
• Verizon 4G LTE Devices will be updated to allow GSM roaming. Meanwhile, Verizon has made 4G a requirement of all future smartphones.
• Microsoft gets another Android maker to pay up:LG.
• Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
• Cyanogenmod hits one million users, nearly half of them unofficial installs.
• Motorola releasing home automation hardware, interface through Android or iOS, will partner with service providers to offer the boxes instead of direct sales.
• Motorola showing off Televation product, which will integrate into set top boxes and as a standalone device, allows users to stream live TV directly from their cable provider to their internet-connected tablets and smartphones over a local WiFi network.
• Clockwork Tether removed from the market at the request of Sprint, developer files FCC and FTC complaint.
• As a result, Koush is thinking of creating a Root Only App Store. Offered the idea to Amazon, but they are not interested.
• App News
• Aldiko named Best EReader for Android by Lifehacker.
• Samsung announces smartphone app allows you to monitor a washer/dryer.
• F-Droid Repository App updated
• Google Search updated, featuring an updated user interface, search results grouped by type, better location-based searches, and the ability to remove searches in your history by long-pressing the offending item.
• Nuance Dragon Go voice control for Android. (Market Link)
• TuneIn Radio takes its streaming act on the road, now part of AppLink.
• Google Body becomes Zygote Body built on open source 3D viewer. Product discontinued.
• Official Vimeo app released. (Market Link)
• Astro File Manager Launches Cloud Storage Public Beta
• Google Maps gets power and location improvements, upcoming Map Game.
• Verizon partnering to bring previously iPad only newspaper the Daily to Android tablets.
• Developers Corner
• Introducing The Android Design Site
• Google introduces Android Design Guidelines for Ice Cream Sandwich

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Our special guest this episode is Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek, co-host of Linux for the Rest of Us, LinuxBasix, Android App Addicts, and the recently launched Droid Nation. “You too can run Linux each and every day and feel safe and productive doing anything you set your mind to.”

Show Notes

• In Other News
• File Sharing is now a Religion known as Kopimism, and has been recognized as such in Sweden.
• “Let science flow, through fiber an’ through copper. Let knowledge fly through our satellites and back. Let understanding be copied to each others minds, through dialogue and reading. Now seed, download and seed. Let love flow, through fiber and through copper. Let knowledge fly, over fax and over irc. Let bits sweep, over torrents and over mail.”
• Platform News
• Latest Platform numbers: Cupcake: 0.6% Donut: 1.1%, Eclair: 8.5%, Froyo: 30.4%, Gingerbread: 55.5%, Honeycomb, 3.3%, ICS: 0.6%.
• Barnes and Noble is violating the GPL by not releasing source code for the Nook Tablet that will actually compile.
• Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World’s Bandwidth. In 2009, the top 3 percent of users generated 40 percent of network traffic, now this has increased to 70%.
• A $250 unlocked dual SIM Viewsonic phone?
• The Android Market now contains over 400,000 active applications, 68% are free or freemium vs paid.
• ICS is forcing availability of Holo Theme as a precondition of being a Google branded device. This means that while the manufacturers can skin, the holo theme must be available for use, offering a consistent theme for developers. They have created a DeviceDefault designator to specify the device’s default skin. This will break some things in earlier versions. One developer explains the solution.
• FilmOn Air portable tuner brings OTA HD channels to mobile devices. Battery operated streaming tuner?
• How Getting Featured in the Android Market boosted Runkeeper App Downloads by 637%.
• App News
• Tether by ClockworkMod – USB Tether App, no Root Required (Market Link)
• Tasker updated, adds ‘scenes’, allows users to design custom graphical interfaces, which appear as overlays, dialogs, or full activities. (Market Link)
• TIVO releases app.(Market Link)
• Sandisk Memory Zone exiting beta.
• Google Listen updated…didn’t they promise that at Google I/O two years ago?
• Should Listen get rolled into Google Music, instead of being part of Google Reader?
• TuneIn Radio adds car mode with voice control. (Market link)
• Siri alternative Iris partners with ChaCha for more information.
• Asus says Transformer ICS update to come soon after Prime update.
• Smugmug
• Smugmug Mobile (Market Link)
• SmugFolio for SmugMug HD (Market Link)
• If you don’t like Smugmug, Snapwood Apps offers not only SmugFolio, but FotoFolio(Facebook), PicFolio(Picasa), FlickFolio(Flickr).

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Show Notes

• 2011 is Over
• Androinica had a list of great Android dissappointments of 2011. They include: The Death of Unlimited Data, Mobile 3D, Verizon Galaxy Nexus, Verizon’s 4G LTE, despite the increased features offered in ICS manufacturers still intend to cover it up with the same interfaces, U.S. only features and launches, Google TV and the Logitech Revue….adding a few more, Android@Home and Android-controlled lightbulbs.
• Mobile Apps in 2011
• 30 Billion Cumulative App Downloads from all platforms, 10 billion from Android
• Nine of the top 10 highest-grossing Android apps are games. (The only non-game is DocumentstoGo).
• On Christmas Day, there were 242 million mobile app downloads, and 3.7 million Android devices activated over the Christmas weekend.
• Android is still the top operating system ending 2011, with 46.9 percent share of the total number of smartphone subscribers in the United States.
• More people are using Mobile Apps than browser, although the numbers are still close.
• Mr. Android 2011
• A Year at the Android Open Source Project(AOSP) – factory images are now being distributed, Intel CPU support, bitterness from the decision to not open-source Honeycomb…and its clear HTC, Motorola, and Qualcomm are not cooperating.
• The Death of the Document Web in favor of the App Web?
• 2012 Predictions?
• What dessert will J be?
• Some Great Apps We Discovered from Other People’s Top Lists
• Android Pro Widgets – It was suggested as one of the top apps of 2011. It is a very full featured set of widgets inspired by the Sense UI. Includes Agenda & Calendar, People, Bookmarks, Messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Timeline(with license), and Google Reader. (Market Link)
• Shush Timed Ringer Restorer (Market Link) – allows you to set a custom time period for your ringer to be off.
• Winter Wake Up – Alarm clock that wakes you up earlier if there has been snow the night before. (Market Link)
• TextOnly-Browser – browser/reader which reduces data usage by 80-90% by displaying only readable content from webpages/webpages.It strips unwanted content like ads,scripts/images etc. (Market Link)
• SpeakToIt Assistant – a Siri Competitor for Android (Market Link)
• Krispy Kreme for Android (Market Link)
• Weather Underground for Android (Market Link)
• Platform News
• There’s no Such thing as Android, only Android-compatible. Fragmented implies an initial unity that was never there.
• For Jere and Guru: A buggy port of ICS for Nook Color…CM9 is coming
• Apple Files for Face Unlock Patent
• Roll your own Cyanogenmod with CMC Compiler 
• All HTC devices launched after September 2011 have unlockable bootloaders
• Android is Pentagon Certified. The Pentagon has certified Android 2.2 Froyo for use on all Department of Defense projects, and the Dell Venue has been approved for use in military applications. Classified information and proxy access can now be granted to that model of phone.

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Show Notes

• In Other News
• Jacob E. Goldman, founder of Xerox PARC, passed away at the age of 90. Goldman convinced Xerox to start a laboratory dedicated to research. The PARC facility originated landmark technological breakthroughs including the first personal computer, object-oriented programming, the graphical user interface, the Ethernet network, laser printing, and the first commercial mouse. The PARC GUI was demonstrated to Steve Jobs, who was heavily influenced by it.
• Platform News
• Samsung releases Android dual-SIM smartphones – Dual-sim is used in many countries for people to share a cell phone, but is particularly interesting as a potential use for businesses, where you can add a work number into a phone coexisting with your personal number. This, if the release of Android is customized to keep your work and personal information separate on the phone, could eliminate the need for some people to carry a work and personal phone.
• Android is the New Windows - Bloatware, frequent rebooting for stability, etc.
• Should Google merge Talk and Messenger into one app? How about News and Reader?
• No ICS for Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab due to Touchwiz?
• Low prices boost Android’s tablet market share to 40 percent
• Distimo determines 65 percent of revenues for the top 200 Android apps are from in-app purchases.
• Mobile will take 15 percent of global ad spend by 2016.
• Apps News
• Widgetsoid2.x customizable Power Control widget. (Market Link)
• Highlights from Techcrunch’s Top 30 Android Apps and Games of 2011
• Any.Do: To Do List (Market Link)
• Swiftkey X Keyboard (Market Link) and its Tablet version (Market Link)
• Fooducate Shopping Scanner (Market Link) - translates nutritional information found on food packaging into plain English, and offers a letter grade as to how healthy or harmful an item can be.
• Path (Market Link) – “Path was designed with the people you love, your close friends and family, in mind. Share in a trusted, intimate, environment like the dinner table at home.”
• Lightbox (Market Link) – Another photo-blog/sharing app
• Airdroid (Market Link) - lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android device from a web browser Over-The-Air.
• Waze named top Turn by Turn navigation app by Lifehacker (Market Link)
• Engadget Distro (Market Link) - Weekly wrap-up of the best gadget, electronics and tech articles from Engadget – curated content in magazine form.
• The classic Oregon Trail game is now available for Android. Complaints regarding the pay to play design. (Market Link)
• Official Papa John’s App Now Available (Market Link)
• Google Currents updated, improving data sync performance
• As mentioned last week, WordPress app updated, much more useful. Adds tablet support, full post editor, dashboard, and more.
• Nuance buys Vlingo to become the big power in mobile voice recognition and interaction.
• New version of Dropbox app, adds favoriting, bulk upload, renaming, improved gallery view, upload from and export to external storage, etc.
• SBNation App released, if you like sports. (Market Link)
• Watch the Ball Drop with Official Times Square App (Market Link)
• Productivity
• Is Your Smart Phone Making You Less Productive?
• How to Turn Your Tablet into an Awesome, Productivity Boosting Second Screen
• Tablet Talk
• Reader HD (Market Link) – Great Looking Google Reader app for Tablets
• Dolphin Browser for Pad Beta (Market Link)

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Show Notes

• Google Zeitgeist’s 2011 Top 10 Searches
• Rebecca Black
• Google+
• Ryan Dunn
• Casey Anthony
• Battlefield 3
• iPhone 5
• Adele
• 東京 電力 TEPCO
• Steve Jobs
• iPad2
• NTSB recommending states ban the use of cell phones and other portable electronics by drivers except in emergencies.
• Platform News
• Has Android reached its Peak? Ewan Spence of Forbes claims that Android is as good as it is going to get.
• Android 4.0.3 Kernels now available
• Amazon Kindle redirects all Android market requests to its own AppStore.
• Google Translate for Android now recognizes handwriting in seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, as well as English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
• Facebook more popular than Search, Gmail, and Maps on Android, according to Nielsen.
• Sprint distances itself from Carrier IQ – has disabled data collection using the tool.
• Android Market Stats
• Sunday at 9PM is the most download friendly time, Monday at 4AM is the least
• The top countries in apps per capita are, in order: South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States
• 25.6 percent of downloads are games
• 12 billion miles are navigated each year in Google Maps
• The 10 billionth downloaded app was Photobucket Mobile.
• Google Music has lost its Beta tag, and is now open to all U.S. residents.
• Matias Duarte not troubled by manufacturer skins, but hopes they are lessened by ICS. The hope is the manufacturers will spend less time and more on new features.
• Online Petition seeks to convince Logitech to unlock the Revue bootloader
• Nokia’s director of Portfolio, Product Marketing, & Sales claimed that Android phones don’t sit well with young people, and that young people don’t want the iPhone because everyone already has one.
• British Telecom is the latest major company to sue Google. It filed a lawsuit in Delaware claiming nearly every Google product and service infringes at least one of six patents, including Google Search, Android, AdSense, Gmail, Google+, Google Docs, Google Music, and Google Maps.
• Developers still heavily favoring iOS over Android.
• Android may be building a Siri competitor code named Majel.
• Tablet Talk
• Tablets Responsible for the Rebirth of Reading?
• 42 Percent of tablet users regularly read in-depth articles, with another 40 reading them occasionally
• Tablet readers are 3x more likely to read an article than watch a news video
• Some users believe the content received in an app is even worth more than content received elsewhere, with a large majority saying they find it easier to learn new things and enjoy the news more when using apps
• 71 percent of tablet users prefer reading or hearing news over pictures or video, compared to roughly 50 / 50 in the general population.
• American Airlines adding Galaxy Tab 10.1 to select premium class cabins.
• TweetComb for Honeycomb, a Twitter client designed for Honeycomb (Market Link)
• Next week…RSS Readers for Honeycomb.
• Root Report
• New Recovery Tool – Team Win Recovery Project 2.0, a touch-enabled alternative to the simple ClockworkRecovery Mod. Essential for the Kindle Fire, which has no buttons.
• App News
• Yamaha updated AV Controller app, now supports DLNA streaming.
• Time Warner Cable launches app for account management. Hopefully streaming, currently offered on their iPad app, is coming soon.
• Adobe Flash now has support for ICS
• Grand Theft Auto 3 now available for Android (Market Link)
• Dolphin Browser now supports Box.net add-on for saving files to the cloud.
• Facebook’s Timeline now in Android app
• Sonic CD speeds into market for $2.00. (Market Link)
• MIUI Releases MiLocker, a lockscreen app, into the Market. (Market Link)
• Microsoft Lync now available in the market. Lync is an IM/contact management/VoIP client used for Exchange. (Market Link)
• Plants vs Zombies now in Android Market. Previously exclusive to Amazon App store
• DroidEdit Free – text and code editor (Market Link)
• Developer’s Corner – Android introduces Android Training, a collection of classes to help developers make better apps.

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