Guru will be out at the Northeast Linux Fest in Worchester, MA this weekend.
Show Notes
- An Ode to the Pocket Calculator
- How to Live in a Connected World – “The industry has moved beyond starry-eyed soothsaying about a world of 50 billion connected devices to start talking about how these mammoth networks of objects and appliances would actually work and how they would be managed.”
- Man without cellphone ticketing for talking on cellphone while driving.
- Digitimes is reporting there will be an Asus Nexus Tablet.
- Do Android fans really care about the new iPad?
- Reuters reported that the Google Market is forcing in-app purchases to be through Google Wallet. Google insists this has always been the case, with the exception of physical and transferable goods.
- Distribution share – 62% of users are on GIngerbread, 3.3% Honeycomb, 1.6% on ICS. 25.3% on Froyo.
- Market is now Google Play
- What does Google Play Mean?
- How we got from apps to Google Play?
- Why Google Play isn’t a bad name?
- Google to offer unified game platform by 2013
- Are audiobooks and magazines next for the Google Play store?
- Are you an Android developer or a Google Play Developer?
- Is Google looking to sell Motorola’s Cable Box Unit?
- Amazon Appstore app updated, lets you adjust notification settings.
- Google opens Android market to apps up to 4GB.
- App News
- Google Music and Google Books now branded as Google Play
- Path updated with UI. (Google Play Link)
- Reddit is Fun updated to version 2.0, offering tablet interface (Play Link)
- Readability for Android released…exclusive to Amazon Appstore initially.
- WiFI Timer shuts off wifi for a predetermined period of time. (Play Link)
- Google Maps updated with minor UI redesign. BIgger buttons, more ICS-like.
- Yet Another ICS launcher reaches the market. PhoenixLauncher will work on Gingerbread, phone must be rooted. (Play Link)
- More ICS Launchers…ApexLauncher now available. (Play Link)
- Solar System Explorer (Play Link)
- ChainFire Releases New SuperSU Root Tool – OTA Rootkeeper and Temporary Unroot Included (Play Link)
- Quick ICS Browser – yet another improvement on the Stock ICS Browser (Play Link)
- Boid Twitter Client released in Alpha, uses an ICS Styled interface. (Play Link)
- Slice Released on Android. Acts as an online shopping organizer, scans recent purchases from your email account, aggregates your shopping. (Play Store)
- Siine keyboard for Android provides shortcuts for keywords and phrases. (Play Link)
- SetCPU updated to 2.3, including ICS UI overhaul. (Play Link)
- AIDE lets you build Android apps on device. Integrated IDE for Android. (Play Link)
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