Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Our Picks: 10 Essential Apps for Android Smartphone Users

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April 27, 2011
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Our Picks: The 10 Most Essential Apps for Android Phone Users There's a lot of junk in the Android Market, but no Android user should do without these tried-and-true utilities and services.
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Phone Location Tracking: Google Defends, Apple Stays Mum Google comes clean on Android phone location tracking; Apple still hasn't commented on iPhone tracking.
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AT&T Racks Up iPhone Activations Despite Verizon Competition AT&T actually boosted its total iPhone activations, while maintaining the same churn rate for the device that it reported a year ago.
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iPhone 5: What We Think We Know Sifting through the conjecture, we can piece together a logical (if fuzzy) picture of the next generation of iPhone.
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Essential Android Tips and Tricks Do you own an Android smartphone? This collection of how-to projects will help you type faster, take better photos, manage your media, and more.
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On Your Side: Cancellation-Fee Quandary Also: Problem with older-than-promised OS on refurbished phones; remote control system recall.
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Secure Your Life in 12 Steps Lock down your computer, your home network, your identity--even your phone.
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iPhone App Collection: Favorite Physics Puzzlers The App Store is awash in games where you battle gravity and other physical properties to solve puzzles. Here are a few of our favorites.
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iPhone App Review: ABC Go Engaging pictures make for enjoyable alphabet app
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Android App Review: Splode Splode is addictive fun, but it can get repetitive after a while.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
10 Must-Have Free Firefox 4 Add-OnsThe recently released version 4 of Firefox is a big improvement over previous versions of the popular browser. But that doesn't make it perfect. We've rounded up ten great downloads to help you get more out of the Firefox 4. Not all older add-ons work with Firefox 4, but every one in this collection does. Whether you want to power up search, better manage information you find online, keep yourself safe, or perform a variety of miscellaneous tasks, we've got what you need. And every one of them is free.
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