Posted on 21 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
NitroDesk has released another solution to syncing your contacts with your Android-powered handset. This method is entirely within the application itself, no need for any PC client. TouchDown securely connects to corporate exchange systems to provide users with instant access to contacts, email and calendar information.
TouchDown not only provides users with a great way to fetch their information, but also ...
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Posted on 18 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
With an open source platform such as Android, there are going to be other sources for application downloads. One site that has started offering downloads for Android rather quickly is Phoload. Free games anyone?
Phoload who has offered plenty of games and applications for many different platforms and handsets in the past, is now expanding their reach to the Android platform. ...
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Posted on 17 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Pixelpipe has come to the rescue with an easy way to get photos off of your Android and out into the world. You can now upload photos to your favorite social network, micro-blog, photo/video and blog services then with Pixelpipe.
There are many photo and video service that are supported including, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Photobucket, Nokia Ovi, Phanfare, Smugmug, vimeo, ImageShack, ...
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Posted on 14 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
It appears that Tapulous, the developers of ever so popular iPhone applications such as Tap Tap Revenge, Twinkle, Fortune and now Collage, are eyeballing the Android platform for a port of Tap Tap Revenge. A developer has commented saying, “if there is a lot of demand for it, you never know…”
Sounds like it is all in the hands of Android ...
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Posted on 14 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
WeatherBug has announced their new weather application for Google’s Android platform. The WeatherBug applications integrates itself with Google maps to give users GPS-enabled Severe Weather Alerts, Customized Forecasts and More from the Largest and Most Precise Weather Network in the World.
This weather application is ad-supported so it will be free to G1 owners. WeatherBug delivers accurate neighborhood-level streaming information and ...
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Posted on 13 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Not long ago we told users that Facebook was probably not going to join MySpace in the Android Market because of the relationship with Google. There were even claims that Facebook executives were saying such things as “Android sucks, it doesn’t matter.”
Little did we know that there was a Facebook application being worked on at the time. Now adults who ...
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Posted on 13 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Veveo has announced the launch of their own WikiTap application for both the iPhone and T-Mobile G1. Now G1 owners can contribute to Wikipedia anywhere from the vtap TM web video service. WikiTap allows you to quickly search Wikipedia to find multimedia content such as pictures and video.
This is the first application that allows people to not only read articles, ...
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Posted on 13 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Loopt has just announced the development of their social networking application for Android. They are very excited to be able to bring this service to other platforms. Many of you may have had your first encounter with Loopt on the iPhone.
Loopt keeps you in the loop when it comes to knowing what your friends are up to. Looped has released ...
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Posted on 12 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
PhoneFusion today announced their Fusion Voicemail Plus service for Android Smartphones at the Under the Radar: Mobility event. This is fantastic news for those who went from owning an iPhone to the T-mobile G1. PhoneFusion offers services that their existing customers enjoy so much that they decided to bring them to Android.
Visual voicemail is an extremely useful service, that allows ...
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Posted on 09 November 2008 by Shawn Brown
Verizon made a bold move this week, taking shots at the Android platform. They have a few valid points, and a few points that did not make sense. It is really not fair to compare a service provider with a range of phones, plans and operating systems, to a single phone that is the first in production. In Australia a ...
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