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How RIM could learn from Ubuntu, and why it needs to before it’s too late

Posted on February 21, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Today Ubuntu announced Ubuntu for Android, an app that will sync all your Android apps into a Linux-based interface. The new app is the latest step in the platform’s expanding mobile agenda, part of Ubuntu’s multi-screen agenda. “This isn’t the ‘Ubuntu Phone,” as Canonical’s Mark Shuttlesworth puts it. “The phone experience here is pure Android. This announcement is playing to a different story, which is the convergence of multiple different form factors into one most-personal device.”

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Twitter App Updates Bring New Features for iPhone and Android Users

Posted on February 21, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps on Tuesday, re-introducing some well-loved features and adding new improvements as well. But the updates don’t impact all mobile tweeters equally.

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How to Get a Free BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted on February 14, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

COMMENTARY | RIM, the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, has a problem. That problem would be $485 million worth of unsold BlackBerry PlayBooks. People aren’t buying them, opting for the iPad and inexpensive e-reader tablets instead. And while long-promised features, like a native email client (which doesn’t need you to hook it up to a BlackBerry smartphone) and the ability to run Android apps are coming in an OS upgrade this month, it remains to be seen whether or not that’ll have any effect on sales.

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Android Apps Coming to BlackBerry App World in February

Posted on February 1, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

RIM has been promising Android apps for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet since before it was even released. But now, almost a year since its April debut, the pieces finally seem to be falling into place.

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Google, MIT bestow App Inventor to the unwashed masses

Posted on January 24, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Google must be feeling generous: it donated Sky Map to undeserving armchair astronomers and it’s letting the great unwashed get at its App Inventor development platform. The software toolset was cooked up in partnership with MIT : a web-based interface that lets anyone build Android apps without getting elbows-deep in code. Those Massachusetts king-geeks won’t be accepting submissions just yet, however: it’s still got to work out how it’s going to deploy the public server and foster a “robust and active open-source project” under its new name: the moderately unimaginative MIT App Inventor

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ESI 250 deskphone wants to make business smartphones easy (hands-on)

Posted on January 11, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Over at Showstoppers, ESI offered up an Android-based desktop phones hoping to bring the world of Google’s OS kicking and screaming onto a business desk near you. The ESI 250 runs on Android Froyo (2.2), with a color display capable of running a limited bunch of (ESI-vetted) third-party Android apps like Evernote, text messaging and visible voicemail and reminders. Looks-wise, aside from the touchscreen, it’s business as usual. The Android interface is a little sluggish, although our major issue , we’d prefer to be handling Gingerbread by now, if not Ice Cream Sandwich. The enterprise phone is pegged for a Q2 launch, with prices pegged at a suitably business-like price of $300 per unit.

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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 hands-on (video)

Posted on January 10, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

Highlighting RIM’s presence at CES 2012 is the official unveiling of PlayBook OS 2.0. On track for a February arrival, this release will deliver many features that productivity-minded users have pined for since the tablet’s arrival.

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WowWee’s AppGear turns toys into smartphone ‘appcessories’ (video)

Posted on January 3, 2012 by droidmike| Leave a comment

WowWee , the company best known for its endless supply of adorable robot toys, is kicking off 2012 with something a little more virtual than visceral . AppGear combines actual physical toys with iOS and Android apps, like the launch title Foam Fighters. Each collectible, action figure or playset is paired with its own free, downloadable app that offers an augmented reality game or virtual way to interact with the toys. The line will be launching in “early” 2012, for between $9.99 and $19.99 depending on the particular toy

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