Guru offers more of his treasures as prizes to those who participate in the show.
Show Notes
- Guru unveils schedule for coming weeks.
- Dilbert once again references Android.
- In Other News
- Platform News
- China is fastest growing Android market, 401% year-over-year growth between this and last July.
- Cyanogenmod unveils CM Tapp NFC Payment Service powered by Simply Tapp, allowing you to create gift cards for supported locations, or a universal gift card to support all locations. Each card type has a different fee, based on the actual cost of completing those transactions. Unlike Google Wallet, CM Tapp requires a data connection to complete the transaction.
- Google adds Recommended for You section in the Play Store
- Amazon boasts that Kindle Fire is sold out, owns 22 percent of US Tablet Market.
- Amazon App Store Comes to Europe
- Android in cameras?
- Google to open Wallet app to third party passes, loyalty cards, IDs.
- App News
- TabletSMS, from the creator of DeskSMS, lets you send SMS/MMS messages from your Tablet. (Play Link) DeskSMS service is $5/year
- Astro File Manager updated, UI improvements, complete cloud support, networking module. (Play Link)
- Firefox updated, now supports SPDY and tablets.
- Official Skydrive App for Android. (Play Link)
- Plume updated
- BeyondPod Podcast Unlock Key on Sale for $1.99. (Play Link)
- TomTom for Android to be released in October.
- Official RetailmeNot Coupons App released. Try dozens of coupons, hope one works for you. (Play Link)
- Skype updated for better support for bluetooth headsets, bugfixes and more. (Play Link)
- Baconreader updated, adds spoiler alerts, UI overhaul, and more. (Play Link)
- Amazon App Store updates to 4.0 with new UI and fix for battery bug.
- Official Lyft app, helping people find a ride from a screened driver, because what we want is a friendly stranger to drive us around. Available in San Francisco. (Play Link)
- Google Now updated, adds movie times, public alerts, and more.
- HBO Go updated with Jelly Bean Support and more. (Play Link)
- Cerberus 2.3 released, improved ICS/JB support, option to put call on speakerphone using “CAll Phone feature”
- New Flipboard update adds video. (Play Link)
- Audiobooks.com launches new Android app, offers all your can consume for $25/month. (Play Link)
- App.net Beta App Hooha available in market. (Play Link)
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