What’s in your wallet? Stage an Email Intervention, your loved ones are counting on you. And more.
Show Notes
- App News
- Capital One Releases Android App (Market Link)
- Gmail App updated, offers performance improvements, chance to sync only priority mail, separate notifications for labels, etc. (Market Link)
- UberMusic Released into Market (Market Link)
- Gogo In Flight Internet app coming soon.
- Poetry Foundation launches Poetry app. (Market Link)
- Browser to Phone offers enhancements to Chrome to Phone. Download files, convert, add ringtones, etc.
- Google Authenticator updated, adding countdown timer.
- Google Maps updated, adds to Places, including photo upload
- Dolphin Pad released as next big Android tablet browser (Market Link)
- Onkyo Remote App to allow control of any Onkyo Network ready stereo receiver.
- Zocdoc, app/service to book doctor’s appointments, launched. (Market Link)
- Quickbooks Mobile launched, requires subscription. (Market Link)
- What’s in Your Wallet? Free Finance Roundup
- Mint – Personal Finance Management (Market Link)
- …Too Many Bank Apps to name.
- Paypal (Market Link) – Deposit checks, send money, etc.
- Square (Market Link) – Easy Payment Processing with free reader
- Google Finance (Market Link) – Real time stock information, synced to Google Finance portfolio
- Tip Calculator (Market Link)
- Security and Data
- Save your Friends from Outdated Email – Help Them Switch to Gmail
- What to Do when Google Deletes 7 Years of Your Life. While Backupify, the company who wrote it, offers a solution for businesses, they also offer a personal account for free, and other paid options, should you wish to have redundancy.
- I Am Not a Product has launched in response to recent Google issues. Guru contributed an article, and the site is based on the idea, “You wouldn’t invest only in one company with your money; nor should you trust all of your personal information and data to any one company.” This site is not a project of the Weneca Media Group.
- User complains Android passwords stored in plain text in SQLite database. Android developers respond that it is as secure as anything else, and they will continue to look at better security methods.
- Platform News
- Are High Return Rates Spoiling Android’s sales? – Some handsets returned at an excessively high rate. Same article claims the Droid 2 had the lowest return rate on Verizon.
- Oracle Deletes Blog Post pointing to Sun’s Approval of Java in Android.
- Developers Fuming over missing App Comments
- AT&T to throttle top 5% of mobile users.
- Mobile Internet Cost Around the World….hint, the United States is last.
- Google launching Page Speed service. Google will take over your DNS, redirect your site through its servers, and compress it for improved delivery.
- Recent Nielsen studies indicate a 39% OS share for Android, compared with 28% for iOS, although Apple is the top device maker.
- The Sprint Evo 4G to EOL.
- Developer’s Corner
- New Tools for Managing Screen Sizes, including better support for the 7 inch tablet
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