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The “official”  Twiitter app for Android has been updated again. Hopefully fixing all the little issues and bugs of version 2.0 that was released a few weeks ago.   What’s in this version: Timeline now maintains its position when you exit/enter the app. Tapping on a map...

I know what you’re thinking, they can already afford Xooms, they don’t need a free one. However, the Xooms are being presented to those actors/actresses that have been nominated for an award that celebrates the pinnacle of their industry. So… maybe they deserve it? If nothing else...

Sprint tweets, “What do you think the new Sprint phone will be?”, and after the huge event Sprint put on for the Kyocera Echo debut, Im sure expectations are low for whatever it is they’re planning. However, taking that into consideration as well what other carriers that are about...

Twitter released it’s 2.0 update today providing users a plethora of new enhancements to both the UI and overall performance. The new changes implemented are as follows: Easier navigation and layout Scanning your contacts to help locate your friends on Twitter Universal search Autocomplete @usernames...

Thanks to our friends at @droidlanding, there is another free phone offer available using Twitter. If you forgot who @droidlanding was, they were arguably the biggest part of Verizon’s search for DROID X tickets left across the nation. It was quite the undertaking really. The contest put out...

Last week, TweetDeck announced version 1.0.3 but due to a few bugs, they attached the “beta” label and made it only available online versus dropping a potentially buggy release into the Android Market. For those of you who opted out of the beta release, you can now grab version 1.0.3 bug-...

Core-apps has put together an application called 2011 Consumer Electronic Show. It is also known as Follow Me and is the official application for the 2011 International CES, which will be held from January 6th – 9th, 2011. As an average consumer this application is not directed to you. Although...

Location-based check-ins are becoming the new “it” thing for a small subset of the population.  The two biggest names (for now) Foursquare and Gowalla have seen some impressive growth over the last year.  Foursquare has 4 million users up from merely 170,000 at the end of 2009 (source),...

Directly from the pink hatted Android genius, the T-Mobile myTouch 4G has now met the custom recovery ClockworkMod and the talented members of the Android community have been in full force since it was first established that the T-Mobile G2 gained permanent root access. As you can see in @kmobs tweet...

Myspace, in my opinion, was the true start of “Social Networking” but no one made a movie about it. It must not have been a very interesting story. Needless to say that a huge amount of people started their social networking empires with MySpace. News Corps, which is the parent company...

Another weekend gone, but the gossip never ends. Speaking of never-ending, I doubt the Android/iPhone comparisons will ever go away. Disappointment is another fact of life, be it the apps we want but can’t get, or not being able to be happy with what we have.  Life is full of surprises though,...

You guys may have noticed the small banner in our side bar for the MobileAppShowdown to be held at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.  What you may not know yet is that yours truly (yes, that’s me) will be one of the honored judges of this event along with a number of other respected members of the technology...

It looks like Facebook isn’t the only social app getting an update today. The Twitter for Android app has also just got an update to version 1.0.5. No major UI changes in this update. Features in this update include: A faster and cleaner timeline More Tweet Details Pull to Referesh timeline   Visit...

Boo! Happy Halloween everyone! Hopefully, you’re getting ready to collect some candy or have a scream at some costume party. For the rest of you, kick back and join in the hair-raising gossip.   Alright, enough with the Halloween puns. How is this for a truly scary thought; what if there was...

It seems everyone is getting into social media these days with Facebook accounts and Twitter, including the carriers and with all the information that gets posted prior to a device launch, it’s no surprise carriers sometimes want a way to control that. I woke up this morning and started reading...