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BeyondPod Takes the Tedium Out of Podcast Playlist Creation February 15, 2013 
I was horrified by the prospect of Google's Listen podcast manager app for Android being discontinued when I first heard the news some months ago. The idea of having to find again, pay for and then configure an alternative podcast app was annoying. I could really think of better things to do with a few bucks and my time -- like buy a coffee.
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Windows 3.1: Geeks' New Choice for Graphics? February 07, 2013 
They say everything old is new again, and it would be difficult to find a better example than a post on Slashdot last week. "Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1" is the title of said post, which refers to a recent NetworkWorld story by the same name. "About two weeks back, I was using my Android tablet and looking for a good graphics editor," author and said Linux user Bryan Lunduke began.
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Linux Netbooks: Hiding in Plain Sight February 05, 2013 
You just think that's a Chromebook beckoning you with an open source OS, easier upgradeability and fast connections to the cloud. All those qualities could make it a Linux netbook in disguise -- or at least what the netbooks of a few years ago promised before they all started selling preloaded with Windows. The key? More manufacturers buying into the flexibility of the Linux kernel in the Chrome OS.
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Google Adds Cross-Platform Notifications Brick to Chromium Build February 01, 2013 
Google appears to have taken a step toward integrating Android's Google Now notification feature into Chrome. French programmer Francis Beaufort revealed Thursday that he spotted a new notification center in the latest Windows Chromium build that includes rich templated notifications.
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FlightPredictor: Don't Leave Home Without It February 01, 2013 
Gregstoll's FlightPredictor app takes FlightCaster.com's powerful flight prediction data and wraps it into a mobile app, in this case, for Android -- and what a great job Gregstoll, FlightCaster and its data supplier FlightStats have done. FlightPredictor for Android uses historical flight data going back 10 years, along with real-time conditions.
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NY Subway App's on the Right Track January 25, 2013 
Some of my earliest memories are of high school commuting days standing on railway
platforms in biting cold weather, day after day, leather-soled shoes absorbing any body heat like an air-chilling coil in an air conditioner. I commuted to high school -- some years ago now -- back in the old country using a rickety, drafty, nationalized rail network. That was when the trains ran.
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Mozilla Lures Devs to Firefox OS With Shiny New Toys January 23, 2013 
The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday announced that smartphones running its Firefox OS will be available to developers in February. The preview phones are being produced in collaboration with Geeksphone and Telefonica. The idea is to entice devs to create apps for the Firefox OS. "These devices have not been designed for consumers," said Mozilla spokesperson Diane Zuniga.
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FlightTrack Soars, FlightBoard Bores January 22, 2013 
Keeping track of airport information can be a challenge even for a nonstop, there-and-back trip. Multiple legs increase the number of things that can go wrong geometrically, but I recently took the risk, in a week-long loop from Los Angeles to Los Cabos, Mexico, then to New York City (Newark, to be precise) and back to LA. In other words, I had an ideal test environment for Mobiata's FlightTrack app.
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OkCupid Snafu Raises Online Dating Privacy Alarm January 18, 2013 
OkCupid this week debuted a new mobile app that sets up blind dates by supplying likely matches for users who plug in a time and venue. As it turned out, though, the app was doing more than just sending hopeful singles to a meet-up. Shortly after its launch, The Wall Street Journal identified a security flaw that made users' email addresses and birth dates accessible.
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MobileDevHQ's Ian Sefferman: So You Built an App - Now What? January 18, 2013 
You could call Ian Sefferman's initial rise to CEO of MobileDevHQ a bootstrap career move. Seeing the rapid growth of consumer interest in mobile apps, he jumped into an infant industry to learn what would push it forward. His interests fell on a gaping opportunity: how to help app developers become more successful.
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Appboy Helps Devs Re-engage Lapsed Users January 18, 2013 
What's the biggest customer-related problem for mobile app developers? A good guess is that it has something to do with one-time downloads by users who lose interest almost immediately. Enter Appboy, which just launched a customer segmentation platform aimed at building engagement.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Communication Apps January 09, 2013 
Some of the best apps available take existing mobile phone functionality to
the next level, and all of our Top 5 featured here are outstanding examples. Our No. 1 choice is WhatsApp Messenger. The attaching of multimedia to messaging alone is a good enough reason to get this app. However, you can also chat and group chat as much as you want globally without paying SMS fees.
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The FOSS Effect on the Mobile OS Landscape in 2013 January 08, 2013 
The year is starting out with what may turn out to be significant changes in the mobile operating system market, with open source software playing a significant role just as it has in enterprise software, virtualization and cloud computing. With fading heavyweights and interesting new challengers, there are changes afoot in the mobile OS market.
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Ubuntu's Merry Mobile Machinations January 07, 2013 
The Linux community may not exactly be known for its glitzy launch events, but last week saw one the likes of which has rarely -- if ever -- been seen in these parts before. Splashier even than the blogosphere's New Year's Eve festivities, most agreed, the Ubuntu for phones announcement on Wednesday might well have been a Cupertino production, so loud were the trumpets and fanfare.
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Who Wants a uPhone? January 04, 2013 
Canonical this week announced Ubuntu for smartphones, a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system aimed mainly at high-end superphones and entry-level basic smartphones. Ubuntu is compatible with a typical Android Board Support Package, said Canonical, which provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu customers.
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Falcon Pro (for Twitter) Is a Newshound's Best Friend December 28, 2012 
Falcon Pro (for Twitter) pitches itself as "the ultimate Twitter experience on Android," and while one can usually take these app-store hyperbole laden statements with an idiom-laden statement -- in this case a grain of salt -- there is one thing that I'm looking for in a Twitter client that Falcon Pro promises.
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Flipboard on a Tablet Is a Sight for Sore Eyes December 21, 2012 
With its brand-new, tablet-friendly version, Flipboard takes online news reading to a sybaritic new level -- the bigger screen, along with Flipboard's elegance, surpasses poky smartphone screen real estate, and anything that has come before.
Flipboard pulls together social media, news, and website feeds into one aggregation.
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Samsung Galaxy Flaw Lets Hackers Tunnel Into RAM December 17, 2012 
A new security flaw has been discovered in Samsung's vulnerability-plagued Galaxy S III. This time, the problem lies in the company's Exynos 4 series of chips. The flaw was discovered by a hacker with the handle "Alephzain," who posted the information on the XDA Developers Forum. Three hackers have posted solutions for the vulnerability so far.
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Sun Surveyor: A Cool Way to Look on the Bright Side, Day or Night December 14, 2012 
There's a tool out there that you may not have known you needed. Writing a statement like that make me think I should have gone into the marketing
business -- but wait. Gardeners, photographers, outdoors enthusiasts, outdoor events organizers, architects -- you name it -- will all benefit from this miracle tool made possible by the magic that is the magnetic-compass enabled smartphone.
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Burst of Loyalty Could Sew Up US Market for Samsung December 12, 2012 
Apple may get more mindshare from consumers, but Samsung currently holds the lead when it comes to market share. The connected device market, which includes PCs, tablets and smartphones, grew 27.1 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2012. In that time Samsung maintained the top position with 21.8 percent market share based on shipments.
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