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Sidecar App Lets You Share Photos, Location and Live Video During Calls

Sidecar supplements traditional phone calls with photos, video and other info, which users can share back and forth as they talk.

BlueStacks Beta Brings Android Apps to Your PC

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If you’ve ever wished that your Android apps could follow you from phone to PC, BlueStacks has a way.

SXSW: Instagram Teases Android App

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Good news for Android users who love faux-vintage photos: Instagram’s Android app is nearing completion.

The 12 Best Android Widgets for 2012

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With all due respect to smartphone apps, sometimes you don’t want to open a new program just to get some quick info or perform a minor task. That’s where Android widgets come in handy, bringing the functionality of those apps right to the phone’s home screen. But not all widgets are wonderful. Some are glorified app launchers, while others are downright ugly. Here are the 12 best widgets that no discerning Android user should be without.

Banned Android Apps May Soon Have a Place to Go

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Despite the Android Market being more “open” than the iPhone App Store – there’s no approval process to get in — Google still bans Android apps on occasion, including emulators, legally-questionable music services, tethering apps and one-click root apps. Soon, these banned apps may have an app store to call their own.

Fight the Cold with These 5 Winter Weather Apps

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Winter weather is easy enough to ignore during the holidays, when you’re warmed up on alcoholic eggnog. But now it’s January, and all you’ve got to look forward to are three solid months of snow on the roads, ice on your car and a serious lack of vitamin D. But cheer up! Wield your smartphone, and use these winter weather apps for iPhone and Android to fight through the cold.

Battle of the Reading Apps: Google Currents vs. the Rest

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Google Currents, a news reading app from the behemoth of search, has joined the likes of Flipboard, Pulse, Zite and Livestand in the battle to be the champion of text delivery. Unexciting as that sounds, these apps are actually pretty stylish, with slick interfaces and cool ways of delivering stuff to read.

Minecraft and Other Android Apps on Sale for 10 Cents

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A bunch of Android apps, including hits like Minecraft, Swiftkey and SoundCloud, are for the moment priced at 10 cents each.

Android Apps to Overtake Apple in June 2012?

Apple may still be the undisputed king of the app stores, but new research suggests that its reign may have less than a year left, barring any surprising developments (and, no, the iPhone 4S doesn’t count as a surprising development).

How to Share a Family Shopping List by Keeping It in the Cloud

If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you’re out of milk, but you’ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of [...]

Google Drops ‘Is My Son Gay?’ App from Android Market

Responding to a Twitter campaign led by LGBT activist website AllOut.org, Google this week pulled a controversial app called “Is My Son Gay?” from its Android Market.