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Show Notes
- Miscellany
- Platform News
- “Android is a Malware Cesspool…and users don’t care.”
- Are Hardware Keyboards Going the Way of the Dodo?
- Apple claims Amazon Appstore ‘tarnishes‘ App Store trademark by being ‘inferior’.
- Amazon will offer Movie Streaming service for free on upcoming Android tablets
- App attrition on market twice as high as vs App Store. “Of the 300,000 apps that have been published overall on Android Market, 95,000 or about 32 percent, have been pulled over time.”
- Cyanogenmod begins Droid 2 Support
- App News
- eBay app updated, improves seller capability. (Market Link)
- Crackle rereleased into the market as a free service. (Market Link)
- Starbucks for Android now serving…buy coffee with your phone. (Market Link)
- Google Voice update improves battery life
- Sony launches Music Unlimited for Android. (Market Link)
- Google Maps getting offline rerouting
- Strava offers free app for cyclists. Android users can now track their power, speed, climb, and more in real-time on their mobile phone. (Market Link)
- Lookout Mobile Security, antivirus/malware app for Android, releases update.
- SHREDroid Securely deletes data on your device. (Market Link)
- Adobe Air for Android updated to 2.7, discontinues Linux support. (Market Link)
- Adobe releases Content Viewer for Android, for magazine style content.
- My Receipt Manager released. Take a photo of an expense receipt and the app will watermark and record it, eliminating the need to keep a hard copy. And if your mileage is reimbursable, My Receipt Manager will track and record it using Google’s mapping API. The app will even let you send your records straight from your phone to your company’s HR or payroll department at user-defined intervals. (Market Link)
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