Published on Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Back at Google IO in May, our benevolent overlords detailed their intentions to make mobile advertising more immersive, akin to Apple's iAds. Today, we're starting to see some of the fruits of that labor with AdWords location extensions. Businesses can show their location (via an embedded Google Map, natch) and clickable phone number all in an expanding and contr...

Published on Monday, July 26, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Twitter for Android -- the "official" Android Twitter client -- just got another update (we're at version 1.0.2 for those playing at home), and changes include the following: Is faster than the previous version Auto refresh is now added People search is fixed It's good, it's simple, but it's still not as good as other Twitter clients out ...

Published on Monday, July 26, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Google Maps just served notice to every other location-based business app out there with the introduction of "Places." A tie-in with Google Maps, it makes it super easy to find any kind of, well, place. It's location-based, so it knows where you are, it's fast, and pretty soon it's going to know what you want before you do. Here's Places in Google's own word...

Published on Sunday, July 25, 2010 by Kyle Gibb Being a former N64 fanboy, this may not excite me as much as some PS1 die-hards out there, but the PlayStation has just been added to Android's already-impressive list of game console emulators. The app that makes this all possible is called "psx4droid" and will run you $5.99.  Here is a quick rundown of the app's features: WiiMote support Mul...

Published on Saturday, July 24, 2010 by Phil Nickinson No, you're not seeing things. Sprint phones will now see a "Sprint" tab in the Android Market instead of the (preferred by many) "Downloads" tab. It's the same on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile Android phones (at least the ones I have). To get to your downloads, just tap the menu button on your phone. Thanks to everyone who sent this in!...

Published on Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Jared DiPane Apps, apps, apps! We get it, you guys love yourselves some applications. And because we love you, we are here with our weekly helpful hints at some great applications! With more than 70,000 applications in the market it can be a little difficult to decide, so we bring you some of our favorites each week! Check out this week's choices after the jump. Posted originally ...

Published on Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Kyle Gibb  Barnes & Noble has released the Android version of its Nook e-book reader (an Android-based device, natch) onto the Market. The app is similar to functionality to Amazon's Kindle, and comes with a number of free "sample" segments of books. There are more than 500,000 free eBooks, and every paid eBook has a free preview. Perhaps the most intere...

Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Phil Nickinson When it comes to installing Android applications, there are two ways of going about it. The most popular, of course, is directly through the Android Market. And that's how most of us do it. But from time to time we need to be able to sideload apps. Maybe you purchased it directly from a developer or some other perfectly legitimate method. Or maybe *ahem* your phone d...

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...