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Sony Mobile wants developers to use its Timescape UI as a platform for further enhancing user experiences. To that end, the company unveiled a new Add-on SDK, bringing together a number of APIs for Xperia smartphones, tablets and related Sony products. The SDK “works” as an extension of the standard Android SDK and includes Smart…
The LG Optimus G is still by far one of our favorite Android handsets currently available today, and Sprint’s variant of the handset is now ready for a new update. Now users can expect a new and improved handset running on Android 4.1.2, which includes all of the Jelly Bean goodness you could hope for.…
A longtime contributor to ClockworkMod, Koushik Dutta has unleashed his latest creation on the Android community, the ClockworkMod Superuser App. Dutta, who is also known for his work on ROM Manager and Carbon Backup has created a free, open-sourced superuser app with some advanced features that you won’t find in other superuser apps. Here’s a list of…
The GSMA announced a new technical platform, the OneAPI Exchange, to deliver network capabilities to mobile apps. Operated by Apigee, this latest phase of the OneAPI global initiative has been undertaken with leading mobile operators including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone. Building on the work of the Wholesale Application Community (WAC), which was…
Just a few days ago at MWC, Sony announced that it to would be throwing its hat in the ring of Firefox OS device makers. Today, Sony is making good on that announcement by releasing an experimental ROM for its Xperia E smartphone. The new ROM solidifies Sony’s commitment to the new HTML-5 based OS. The Xperia…
Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK are now available download. The new version is described as a “major milestone” that includes many new features and improvements (when compared to Tizen 1.0 and Tizen 2.0 alpha). Here’s what’s new: Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support Web UI framework that includes full-screen and multi-window…
Gracenote launched the Developer program, making its music APIs and SDKs available for companies and individuals who want to integrate them within their apps. Here’s what’s it all about (from the press release): Developers can now access Gracenote’s Mobile Client featuring Gracenote MusicID, an audio fingerprinting technology that can be integrated into mobile Apps to…
With the proliferation of smartphones around the globe, smartphone owners are now holding a lot of sensitive data on their mobile devices. Getting a phone stolen now days brings a new set of problems; not only do you lose your phone, but any sensitive data on your device could potentially be accessed by whomever now…
Sony released the Xperia Z kernel source code even though the device is still not available in most parts of the world (except for Japan). The idea, apparently, is to allow custom ROM developers to get an early edge and already start making customizations for Sony’s superphone. Moreover, I would assume this is also a…
Well that was quick. Remember back in the stone ages (read: a few years ago) when you had to wait days or even weeks to get your iPhone jailbroken again when Apple released even a minor software update? Sometimes that wait still applies now for bigger releases, but that’s luckily not the case for the…