Published on Friday, July 16, 2010 by Kyle Gibb If you have been keeping up with news in the tech world lately, you might have noticed something of a debate concerning signal strength. Antennas looks to do away with the simplistic "bars" measure of signal strength by letting Android users know what towers they are connected to, and roughly where they are. The app uses your phone's GPS along...

Published on Friday, July 16, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Once again, the folks at Snaptic are reaching out to Android developers, this time to help their participation in the 2010 Health2.0 Challenge.  As Snaptic tell us, "It’s for a great cause and it’s an opportunity for developers from all types of backgrounds and expertise to contribute to innovation in health."The first leg of ...

Published on Friday, July 16, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Just like the title says, you can now purchase apps from the Android Market if you're in South Korea. (There's a larger issue of being able to purchase paid apps in every international market, but that's for another time.) Google's Tim Bray explains: As of today, Android Market is open for business to application buyers in the Republic of Korea. We hope that thi...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The Android Market now has more than 70,000 applications, Google Senior VP of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg said during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call. That's up from the 68,000 count Andy Rubin announced in June at the Motorola Droid X event, and it's a good bit lower than the 100,000 number Androlib has been throwing around. As to which is...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Vlingo has updated its popular Android application, and a new feature called SuperDialer makes a great app even better.  What SuperDialer does is allow you to make calls, or searches, or get directions based on what you are looking for, not what's in your address book.  Growing up, I had dreams about how mobile computing would be in the 21st century.  W...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Phil Nickinson We took the Log Me In Ignition VNC app for a spin a couple of months ago, and now it's available in the Android Market. For those of you not familiar with VNC, it's a standard way of controlling one computer from another -- in this case, your Android phone. Check out the video again after the break, where you'll also find download links. [Log Me In] Po...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand The folks over at Qik have announced that they will continue to allow the free use of premium services through the month of September.  They acknowledge their "rocky start" and in return are throwing all of us using the HTC Evo 4G a bone: Heya Android Qikkers – with the launch of the new Android client and video chat capability on HTC EVO 4G,...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Once again the developers at AndroidGamer have an awesome new Live Wallpaper to share with us.  You might remember their last jewel, Advanced Map Live Wallpaper, from when we had a look at it last month.  Well, Album Art live wallpaper is just as original!  The application scans your music, and pulls out the album art to create a collage of sorts as you...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Jared DiPane For those not familiar with ADW.Launcher, it is one of the most feature enriched launcher replacements available for Android at the current time. Lately it seems as though developers have really been pushing themselves to the next level and attempting to add things we never would have expected, and AnderWeb doesn't appear to be any different. In the latest release the...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The Seesmic Twitter client got an update today, and it's now known as Seemic for Android. Oh, and it also adds support for Google Buzz, in-line picture previews, an updated settings UI, support for OAuth, and some other UI tweaks. Wanna see it in action? Check out our video after the break, where you also can get download links. [Seesmic] Posted originally at An...