Archive for February, 2011

Google Employees To Receive Motorola Xooms?

February 28th, 2011

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha spoke at the Morgan Stanley technology conference today and spoke a lot about Android, of course.  We reported earlier in the day that he said the Droid Bionic, among other Motorola high end smartphones, will receive their Lapdock webtop accessory. When the conversation turned to the Motorola Xoom and enterprise ...

Motorola Droid Bionic To Get Lapdock Accessory, Possibly More

February 28th, 2011
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Just when you thought the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Droid Bionic were two very different devices separated by the Motorola Atrix's exclusive line of docking accessories like the Lapdock accessory, Motorola Mobility CEO Sajay Jha has said the Droid Bionic will receive the Lapdock accessory. The Droid Bionic was one of the four signature/flagship 4G/LTE ...

Official Twitter For Android App Gets Another Update 2.0.1

February 28th, 2011
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Back on February 11th Elijah reviewed Twitter for Android 2.0, now a mere two and a half weeks later the folks at Twitter have updated the "official" twitter app again.  For those who aren't familiar, the Official Twitter for Android app is actually made by the people at Twitter. Many Android users actually use Twidroyd, ...

Enterproid’s Divide Takes Top Spot at DEMO Competition

February 28th, 2011
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Founded by former executives of Morgan Stanley, MTV, and Smule, Enterproid has put out a new app for enterprise and business people using Android devices. The app which they call Divide, is available starting today. Divide allows the user to have two totally separate profiles within their Android device, one for personal use and one for ...

Honeycomb Moves Into The Googleplex

February 28th, 2011
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Honeycomb has made it's way to the Googleplex lawn right along side the statues of the other sweet treats that Android borrows their names from. The Honeycomb statue, a piece of honeycomb with a bee on top and an Android poking his body through, joined it's place alongside the Donut, Eclair, Froyo, and of course Gingerbread ...

Ocean House Brings More Dr. Seuss Classics To Android

February 28th, 2011
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Back in December we brought you the story of Ocean House Media bringing the Dr. Seuss classics,"The Cat In The Hat" and "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" to the Android platform. Ocean House Media has since brought six more of the most popular Dr. Seuss books to the Android Market as well. The Lorax, Dr.Seuss ABC's, ...

Did Your 25% Off Motorola Xoom Ship?

February 28th, 2011

During this years Super Bowl the Chad OchoCinco News Network gave away 25% off coupon codes to the Motorola online store that don't expire until March 15, 2011. The coupon code wasn't good for phones but it was for accessories. When the Motorola Xoom went on sale last Thursday Motorola naturally didn't group the Xoom with ...

Def Jam Opens Catalog To App Developers

February 28th, 2011
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Def Jam Records has been the soundtrack to many console games, with their own co-branded fighting games as well. Now Def Jam, a division of Universal Music Group, is partnering with The Echo Nest and opening up their entire catalog to app developers in the Echo nest eco-system. Def Jam's stable of new and catalog artists ...

iPhone Getting A New Unlock Screen? Look Familiar?

February 28th, 2011
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Popular iPhone website 9to5mac is reporting that Apple is working on a new gesture based lock screen for iPhones. The lock feature requires users to set a dots pattern and get that pattern correct to unlock the phone or app. Apple has reportedly already released the lock screen to their internal "Apple Connect" application for IOS. ...

Girl Scout Mobile Cookie Finder Now Available In The Android Market

February 28th, 2011
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Last week we reported that Intuit had made it possible to pay for Girl Scout cookies with a credit card using a mobile app available on Android.  This week we're glad to report that there is a Girl Scout Cookie mobile cookie finder app being tested in Northern Illinois and available for Android users in ...

XDA Creates BlueputDroid: Use Your Android As Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse For PS3

February 27th, 2011
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XDA, the community of developers that is always rooting, romming, modding, hacking and creating something has created a new app called BlueputDroid.  The BlueputDroid app is in a BETA release and available to select Android handsets. BlueputDroid allows you to use your Android device as a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for your PlayStation 3. Here is a ...

UPDATED: Motorola Atrix Lapdock $1450 (you thought it was expensieve when announced huh)

February 27th, 2011
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At this years CES the winner in our book was the Motorola Atrix (which still ranks high) because we weren't expecting it. Everyone knew the Xoom was coming and we had heard time and time again about the "Terminator" twin Motorola devices first reported by Androidandme.com however when the Etna and Olympus were released as ...