USA Today released an updated version of its iPad app. There are two major improvements included: Popular Life section crossword puzzle – which now you can solve with nothing but your fingers. Money section financial tools for managing portfolios and stock quote lookups. In addition, the media company also announced new third quarter advertising partners…
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LG Cookie Plus Coming to TELUS
Who wants a cookie? You want a cookie? If you’re located in the great white north (Canada) and feel like one, TELUS is now the place to go. The carrier has just launched the LG Cookie Plus as an exclusive. You won’t find it anywhere else in the country. So what can you expect in…
Namco brings Crush the Castle to the Android Market
After porting Firemint’s Flight Control to other mobile platforms, Namco continues to bring popular iPhone games to more mobile phone users. This time their target is Armor Games’ Crush the Castle, which so far has been downloaded for more than 1.5 million times from Apple’s AppStore. If you don’t know what Crush the Castle is…
Free Animal Planet App Makes its way to the Android Market
The good folks at the Discovery Channel hit me up from time to time with some solid app news. Today was no different. They dropped some info on me regarding a new app for Android users… and it is a freebie that many will enjoy for sure. That is, if you’re into ‘Animal Planet’! The…
Cable operators to bring subscription TV to the iPad and other tablet devices
At least seven of the ten major cable operators in the US are looking to the iPad and Android-based tablets as a new platform for consuming subscription TV. One of the first operators to hit the market with a tablet application is AT&T, which recently launched a free U-Verse application for the iPhone that offers…
DROID 2 gets torn down and analyzed by iFixit
Day one of the Verizon DROID 2and the handset has already been dissected by the folks at iFixit. The traditional teardown analysis reveals little surprises regarding the DROID 2. As expected, the Verizon DROID 2 is almost identical to the original DROID; so identical that it is difficult to tell the two handsets apart when they have been broken down…
Oracle sues Google over Android patent infringements
It looks like nothing could stop that Android momentum, right? Well, how about a big fat lawsuit from a tech giant? Oracle is suing Google over patent infringements related to Java in the Android platform. “In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property,” Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman said in a…
Hands-on: BitBop streaming TV and movies for Android
While streaming music apps like MOG and GrooveShark continue to soak up the lion’s share of attention in the streaming media space, apps like BitBop are gaining traction for their ability to stream video (TV and movies) over 3G and WiFi networks. BitBop for Android is still strictly in beta and not yet available for…
Mysterious HTC Merge Android phone appears in Verizon’s computer system
A new Android device from HTC was spotted in Verizon’s inventory system, and it’s called the Merge. We don’t have much to go on for the device, but with a name like that, it might just be another tablet/phone mash-up mutant phone, like the Streak. From the picture above we can see that it uses…
Android propels HTC to top 10 mobile phone makers
That little green robot has proven that it can do some amazing things and now we’re getting word that Android has propelled HTC into the top ten mobile phone makers around the world. This information comes from the Gartner report we covered earlier, but I thought it was interesting to spotlight how far HTC has…