Episode 145 – Buffet for One

By | April 29, 2013

English: Wikipedia Android app

Slow news week and Guru rants about how singles are discriminated against.

Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • House Judiciary Committee announces comprehensive review of U.S. Copyright Law over the coming months.
    • Clothing companies reengineer pockets in response to growing smartphones.
    • Verizon’s new device payment plan will allow people to keep their deprecated plans.
  • Platform News
    • Google Glass runs Android 4.0.
    • Google amends Play Store rules to prohibit Play Store apps updating themselves.
    • Intel confirms sub-$200 Android notebooks coming.
    • Report is that Microsoft is releasing an Android app to help users migrate to Windows phone.
    • Nook Color gets CM10.1 Nightlies.
    • Google addresses privacy concerns by removing access by developers to name and email information, leaving only general geographic location .
    • Universal Arduino Serial Adapter will Interface with Android.
  • App News
    • Vine for Android coming soon.
    • Amazon’s Kindle App updated, matches Kindle Fire interface. (Play Link)
    • Beautiful Widgets now offers a freemium version. (Play Link)
    • Remember the Milk updated, new UI and Tablet Support. (Play Link)
    • Media Utilities, in beta, tries to unify media widgets, including cover art and meta data.
    • Swype arrives in the Play Store for $0.99. (Play Link)
    • Tango updated with Group Chat, seems to be a trend. (Play Link)
    • eBay for Android update brings new shopping cart feature. (Play Link)
    • Facebook Pages Manager receives update. (Play Link)
    • Minuum Keyboard finishes funding, beta coming in June.
    • Llama now lets you decide which triggers can cause an event to fire.

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