OUYA console allows 3D printing of case, thanks to Makerbot partnership
A partnership with 3D printer manufacturer Makerbot allows OUYA console users to print custom cases for their consoles. And since Kickstarter backers will get their consoles starting today, having a...
View ArticleDo programmers “loathe” developing mobile games for Android?
With Android accounting for the lion’s share of mobile device operating systems worldwide, you might think that developers are absolutely head over heels in love with it. But the truth tells a...
View ArticleJelly Bean sees rise in Android market share as Google changes metrics for...
Google regularly releases figures on Android version statistics, in which we usually glean the market share of the various major releases. This month, Google has changed its metric a bit, and we can...
View ArticleGoogle Drive developer features added, including app data folders
New Google Drive developer features have been announced on the Google Drive blog, allowing for the service to be used in a safer way by app developers. It seems Googles does not want Google Drive to...
View ArticleMicrosoft slams Facebook Home over lack of originality, tells customers to...
The Facebook Home Android launch has triggered a pretty strong reaction from Microsoft, in an article that executive Frank X. Shaw posted on the official company blog. Shaw says that Facebook’s event...
View ArticleMotorola bootloader unlock method works on Droid RAZR HD, Razr M and more
Never say never. According to a blog post yesterday by DirtyDroidX, Dan Rosenberg (a.k.a. @djrbliss) has successfully managed to do what many before him have tried to do but failed — and that is...
View ArticleHTC One source code available for download
The source code of the HTC One has been made available to developers, HTC has announced on its developer program’s Twitter account. The latest Droid DNA source is now available along with some...
View ArticleHow to get Facebook Home working on your Nexus 4 (and other devices)(Updated,...
This is a guide being written up to get around compatibility problems with Facebook Home. Use at your own risk. This method was not discovered by us. It was discovered by Krzysztof Bryk and sent our...
View ArticleGoogle Glass API doesn’t allow developers to serve ads
The recently released Google Glass API has a very interesting detail in its Terms of Service: not allowing developers to serve ads. The detail is a pretty important one in terms of how Google plans to...
View ArticleHTC patent reveals unlikely dual-screen smartphone
Patents offer a nice window to see what kind of innovative and quirky ideas manufacturers have for new devices. Sadly, many of these don’t come to fruition, sometimes due to lack of practicality or...
View ArticleApkudo wants to address fragmentation by becoming the gold standard of...
Don’t you just hate it when your apps keep crashing? Ever wonder why not all carriers release their mobile devices at the same time? Or how about Android updates? While Google is now at version 4.2.2,...
View ArticleGoogle Now may be coming to the web, code in test page suggests
Google Now may be becoming part of Google’s standard web search, according to code in a Google test page, unearthed by the guys at Google Operating System. While developer Francois Beaufort (a man...
View ArticleAT&T Galaxy S4 ships with a locked bootloader, CyanogenMod founder reveals
An U.S. Galaxy S4 variant has been found to ship with a locked bootloader, potentially making the lives of developers and/or Android fans that love to customize their Android devices by running...
View ArticleGoogle smartwatch plans surface in patent application
How smart can this wristwatch be? We asked before why everyone was making a smartwatch, and whether you even want a smartwatch in the first place. Well, analysts say 1.2 million smartwatches will be...
View ArticleBudget MediaTek big.LITTLE chip supposed to be available this year
I love the idea behind the big.LITTLE architecture; powerful cores for peak processing backup up by less power hungry CPUs for the more simple day to day tasks, it makes perfect sense. But the...
View ArticleWill Firefox OS change the face of smartphone operating systems?
The jury is still out on whether Firefox OS poses a legitimate threat to the mobile OS status-quo; many are writing it off for simply being too late to the party and others are quietly rooting for...
View ArticleGoogle Glass sensors list unearthed, augmented reality apps very possible in...
The Google Glass sensors list has been unearthed by developer Lance Nanek, and, judging from it, it appears that AR apps will be a very definite probability sometime in the future. Nanek says that he...
View ArticleIs a Google Now OS X implementation coming in the future?
A Google Now OS X implementation could be possible in the future, according to a Chromium issue log pertaining to rich notifications. The new feature has been promoted on his Google+ page by Francois...
View ArticleHere’s what voice-controlled Android home automation looks like [video]
With help of Nexus 4, apps and some extra gadgets an Android user turned his home into a voice-controlled environment, capable to respond to various voice-based inputs and offer a desired action....
View ArticleAndroid 5.0 notebooks, a Google smartwatch, and an Apple TV competitor coming...
Whilst the new Nexus 7 may have been the big news from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo yesterday, he has also released some information, or shall I call it speculation, about some other future...
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