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Guru returns from abroad.
Show Notes
- Travel Report
- Feedback
- “you do have a listener in South Korea man!enjoy your show guys! keep up the good work!” -Jeremy from Seoul, Korea.
- In Other News
- Alec Baldwin vs. Flight Attendants
- Should we be required to turn our cell phones off during takeoff/landing? There is currently a petition(here) at whitehouse.gov to allow airline passengers to use electronic devices in airplane mode during takeoff and landing.
- Platform News
- Google Currents released. (Market Link)
- Google Voice to remain free to the U.S. and Canada through 2012.
- Coby Electronics to make collections of Android 4.0 tablets – Tablets have arrived when discount electronics maker Coby is making them.
- HP open sources webOS, what this means for Android…probably nothing.
- Google integrates movie search on Android, makes it easy to find movies and their theaters…if anyone still goes out to the movies.
- Pope to use Android Tablet to Command Opulant Christmas Display
- Family shared data plans could be offered by Verizon in 2012.
- Motorola updates on Ice Cream Sandwich, and the steps needed to distribute it.Web version of Android Market updated to show/filter by type of device reviewer was using and the version of the app as well as permalinks.
- Google adds Arabic and Hebrew to Voice Search
- CM7 now available for Kindle Fire.
- App News
- Androidify updated with new winter gear. (Market Link)
- Twitter for Android updated as part of a overall Twitter redesign (Market Link)
- Instagram is finally developing an Android app.
- Kodak launches Document Printing App for Android, which allows you to print wirelessly to a Kodak Printer using Google Cloud Print (Market Link)
- Redesigned Facebook update released, redesigns interface. Still not a tablet version.
- Google updates Google+, Goggles, and Maps.
- Kindle for Android now supports PDF.
- Aldiko Book Reader for Tablet is Here. Adds in support for importing files and documents from browsers, email, and Dropbox. (Market Link)
- Financial Times comes to Android. (Market Link)
- ADWLauncher Ex to receive update, will include revamped dock, ice cream sandwich features, and more.
- BaconReader for Reddit released. (Market Link)
- Uno is now free in the market (Market Link)
- Fedex Releases Mobile App (Market Link)
- Google Maps for Android adds indoor maps.
- Guru tries a new camera app to replace stock – Camera Zoom FX (Market Link) – Offers digital zooming, a shutter timer, geo-tagging, and image stabilization, as well as filters, if you wish. Billed as the fastest camera on Android at 10 shots per second.
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