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Talk about “value for money.” Pocket God got its 40th update, while the price of the popular game remained the same – 99 cents. The new episode, entitled “Battle of the Gods,” builds on the previous update where God Idols and God Island were introduced. Now your job is to use up to four of…
Sprint and McAfee are teaming-up to provide Sprint’s Android customers with an easy access to McAfee Mobile Security and McAfee Family Protection software, which protect users’ important information from loss, theft and viruses. Additionally, McAfee Family Protection Android Edition allows parents to filter inappropriate websites on their child’s mobile device. As part of the deal,…
In its new report titled “Mobile Security Opportunities: Strategies for Tablets, Smartphones & Feature phones 2011-2016,” Juniper Research predicts that the market for security software for mobile devices and tablets will reach almost $3.7 billion by 2016, with enterprise and business users accounting for almost 69% of the market. Unsurprisingly, the recent series of high-profile…
On the heels of our recent “Can Apple wow us again with the iPhone 5?” article, I decided to prepare a little chart (or that’s infographics?) to compare the iPhone 5 with its major competitors in the U.S. The competing devices (as far as I’m concerned) include Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Evo 3D and…
Starting from August 14th, Target will offer the Acer Iconia A500 for $399 along with a free $100 Target Gift Card, effectively making the price $299. That’s a pretty good deal for the full-fledged Android Honeycomb tablet which specs include a 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels touchscreen, dual-core 1GHz NVidia Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB…
Thus far Google Movies aka Videos app was only available for select Honeycomb tablets. Then we’ve noticed that some Samsung Galaxy Tab users spotted a new Videos tab on the Android Market, and now the search giant’s video renting service is available to pretty much any Android smartphone user, presuming his or her device runs…
KAYAK has updated its ever popular iPhone app, making it even more useful. There are few enhancements included in this release, including: New Tours & Attractions feature which allows users to book various tours like Boston’s Duck Boat Tours or audio walking guides right from within the app. In order to make this happen, KAYAK…
Motorola has finally started rolling out Android 3.1 updates for its Xoom tablet. The keyword here is “started” — just because some people you know already got it, it doesn’t mean you’ll get the update on the same day too. Quite the contrary, the launch will go “in stages”. Here’s what the company said at…
London-based developer Tamlyn made a neat Android-powered toy which some of us would gladly take for a ride. Made out of an existing RC powered tank, everything but the drive assembly and power supply was removed and replaced with an Android smartphone and the so called inexpensive IOIO (pronounced yo-yo) board to control the circuitry…
I doubt too many of you are too excited about the upcoming Samsung Conquer 4G. However it is an interesting device nevertheless, not least thanks to its low price that makes it the first sub-$100 WiMAX-enabled smartphone. Actually you can already pre-order the Conquer 4G from Walmart and get it for free, presuming you’re a…