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Android developers looking to boost their bottom lines will be happy to know that Google’s mobile platform is narrowing the gap with iOS by offering in-app purchases next week. For Android developers, this could be a killer feature because it allows you to vary your business model. Instead of selling an app for a dollar…
Are you a regular jetsetter, or perhaps you’ll be hitting the skies within the next three weeks? Are you also addicted to Twitter and keeping up with the news and your friends’ whereabouts on the social network? Gogo Inflight is hooking it up with free access to Twitter from now until April 14, so you…
So you went ahead and got Verizon’s first 4G LTE phone, the HTC Thunderbolt, eh? The phone is great, but you want to do more, do you? Well, below is a tutorial for rooting the device and unlocking the bootloader. This is by no means for someone who doesn’t know what they are doing. If…
When Motorola launched their Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola XOOM, they hadn’t yet blessed the device with support for Adobe Flash web content. Now, all that has changed. Motorola and Adobe have made good on their promise of rolling out Adobe Flash Player 10.2 to the XOOM – as well as Android 3.0 Honeycomb,…
The iPad 2 came out last week, and some of you may still be mulling weather or not it’s worth the $499 and up it’ll cost. To help you with the decision, David Letterman, of Late Show fame, has given us his top 10 reasons to pick one up. I won’t spoil them for you,…
Twitter asked third-party developers recently to stop making new Twitter clients, and instead focus their efforts on building a vertical experience for the social networking service, rather than just emulating it. The initial reaction was a bit of anger, and the general knee-jerk response was that Twitter is just being selfish, controlling and a bit…
If you’ve got an extra $499 kicking around for an iPad 2, and $39 for a polyurethane ‘Smart Cover’ (or $69 for a the leather version), not only do you have a brand new ‘magical’ device to play around with… you’ve also bought yourself the world’s most expensive refrigerator magnet! Illustrated in the pictures you…
The great thing about SXSW 2011 is just roaming the beautiful Austin streets and running into CEOs and founders of really cool mobile companies. One issue with handing them a business card is that sometimes that can get lost. We spoke with Hashable CEO Michael Yavonditte about how his apps make exchanging contact information fun…
Path is very slowly, but surely rolling out updates to keep up with the times. The photo-sharing application was released late last year, but its feature set was pretty limited. Actually, it was very limited. At a time when Instagram and other photo-sharing apps were allowing users to post their photos to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr…
We’ve seen a number of accessories for both the iPhone and iPad that allow you to play games on the device without using on-screen controls that end up taking valuable real estate, but what if you want to play your games with some robotic drones inputting the commands for you while you order them from…