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Today at Google I/O, the search giant went official with Music, a new beta service for the United States that will allow invited users to store up to 20,000 tracks in the cloud and stream them wirelessly to your Android phone or tablet. The app will work with Android 2.2 and up, and has all…
Google is moving right along as it just announced the Android Open Accessory Development Kit, which basically allows developers to create apps that will interface with accessories. Apple has been doing this for quite some time now with the iPhone and iOS, sort of like apps that work with dedicated accessories like Nike’s embedded chip…
Today at Google I/O, the next Android build, Ice Cream Sandwich, went public, as expected. Launch will be in the fourth quarter. This next version of Android promises to bring all of the cool features that were introduced in Honeycomb (the tablet-optimized version of the mobile OS) to smartphones, and other platforms like TV. This…
Love ’em or hate ’em, Pomplamoose can really rock the hell out of the covers that they do. Their arrangements are pretty clever, and they’re clearly musically gifted, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before they gave Angry Birds some of their treatment. The popular game has seeped deep into every crevice…
Skype has been in the news recently because of rumors spreading around that either Google or Facebook were going to buy them. That looks like it isn’t going to be the case and instead it’ll be Microsoft picking up the voice and video over IP firm for a cool $8.5 billion. The official press release…
The Google I/O 2011 conference officially kicks off tomorrow, and we can expect to Android to be the largest focus yet again. A lot has happened in Android-land since last year, and Google has likely been working around the clock to get the latest and greatest ready to be announced. Whether it’s in the form…
[Update: We’ve extended this contest until May 13th at 11:59pm PT. Please feel free to submit your entry from now until then.] If you’re an app publisher or developer then you’ll be excited to hear this week we’re giving app publishers & developers some love with a free Qualcomm MDP up for grabs. The Qualcomm…
Skyhook is suing Google over its exclusion of its location services on Android and some internal e-mails which were made evident from the case show that Google itself may be unclear of how open Android should be. When Google introduced the Android operating system years ago, it crowed about how open it will be to…
NVIDIA has just announced that it has agreed to acquire soft modem company Icera, a baseband and RF technology company who makes chipsets and other RF components. NVIDIA plans to combine Icera’s technology with its own line of Tegra products to compete against the likes of Qualcomm and Broadcom. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, says,…
As our mobile phones grow more and more capable each passing year, with the latest hardware coming out with dual cores and the ability to capture video in full 1080p, keeping your battery alive for a full work day becomes somewhat of a challenge. ARM, the British firm that designs the processors that go inside…