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Let’s take a look at Google’s note worthy moves in 2008: Google Chrome launched 09/02/2008 in over 100 countries Open Handset Alliance announces Android (Google is the strongest participant) G1 launched in Oct. “Begun” Ad Agency acquisition Purchase of Omnisio video mash up service TNC – a Korean blog platform All of these properties could potentially contribute to the spread of Android [...]

If you don’t have a mobile app store online this year, you’re nobody, or at least it looks that way, as three new companies (that we currently know of) plan to join Apple, RIM and Google and introduce or display their own at this year’s Mobile World Congress.

We talked about it late last week and now Samsung has taken its Samsung Mobile Applications store front online, where UK owners can take a look at a variety of programs for phone including the Omnia, i780 and INNOV8.  Despite this early glimpse, full details and the official launch is expected to (more…)

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The only thing more advanced than human technology is human stupidity, and mobile phones can combine both!  Brave researchers into retardation have created amazing isotopes of idiocy resulting in criminal charges, heartbreak, and the sure knowledge that they have more ringtones than brain cells.

1.  “Hello, I’d like to be arrested for worse crimes please?”

Massachusetts man Thomas Mines’s criminal career was already off to a flying start, with an arrest for burglary and registration as a sex offender by the tender age of 23.  We must assume that he’s competing in some kind of Criminal Olympics, because he called in a bomb threat to the courthouse on the day he was scheduled to appear.  And we must assume somebody helped him work the phone, because he called from his family home.  The time from crime to arrest was (more…)

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Helionauts rejoice! At long last it's the Ocean 2. Launching on Feb 12 for $149, the Virgin Mobile Ocean 2 brings back the dual-sliding Ocean with a few twists. Noah has a hands-on preview for you, starting with the unboxing.

No social networking apparatus is complete without a few tweets. While there is a long list of apps in the Android Market that feature Twitter integration as a bonus, and a good handful of programs that are dedicated specifically to Twitter, one stands above the rest - Twidroid. It's got 4 stars in the Market, which isn't common. And considering that this one falls in the 10,000 to 50,000 downloads category, I'd say the star ratings are a good indicator of what to expect. That's not always the case.

With Twidroid, you can view the tweets of those you follow, post your own tweets, direct message, and reply. One of the coolest features is the ability to post photos. Well, kinda. Images are sent to phodroid.com and then linked in your tweet. Hint: attach the photo first, or the URL will over-write anything you've typed - same goes for the following paragraph.

There is some GPS functionality, but go to portrait mode too see all of your options on the non-scrolling menu (little bug there). They are: Insert Maplink, Insert Location Name, Insert Latitude/Longitude (seriously?), and Update Profile - for those who are just to lazy to type the full name of their city. Google Maps URLs are abbreviated via short.to, so none of the data should cramp your 140-character-limited micro-blogging style.


Twidroid's creators are called Zimmermann and Marban, which makes me think of an old-timey magic show. So I give it 5 stars.

Two apps allow video recording with a G1... kind of.