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Skype has been going from strength to strength recently having recently filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. Although the Android version of this popular VoIP application is only available to Verizon customers in the USA, updates to the software are looking promising. It is now possible [...]

In an email sent out to its existing users, SocialScope, a social networking aggregation system, hints that the company will soon offer its app to both Android and iPhone users.  Currently SocialScope is available in beta form for RIM BlackBerry users. SocialScope currently integrates Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and FourSquare into its BlackBerry client.

Mozilla is now offering a new alpha release of its Firefox Mobile browser, code named Fennec.  Fennec for Android users requires devices to be running Android 2.0 or newer and have at least 30MB of internal storage. For interested parties, download Mozilla’s Fennec alpha mobile browser at Firefox.com/m/alpha on your Android device. Users beware, as [...]

If you are familiar with blogs, user generated content and different Internet communities, you probably already know everything there is to know about StumbleUpon. ‘Stumble On the Go’ is now available for Android and it will allow its users to discover and rate random Web pages, photos, and videos. StumbleUpon is a personalized recommendation engine [...]

Trillian is a proprietary multiprotocol IM application available for Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone OS, BlackBerry and now (after a long wait), Android. The term multiprotocol means that, in the case of the desktop application, Trillian can interface with a number of other popular instant messaging clients such as AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! [...]

Google just announced some cool new functionality for smartphones running Android 2.2 Froyo, like the new Motorola DROID 2 that I received this morning. Voice Search lets you use your voice to dictate messages, look up maps, play music, and even send yourself a note – all from one voice command. Chrome to Phone is [...]

TweetDeck, a popular social networking client, is expected to be available today, in beta form, for Android users. Currently TweetDeck has been only available to Apple iPhone and iPad mobile users.  The beta version for Android was announced via Twitter from TweetDeck’s developer and should be available shortly. The universal app melds Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, [...]

Google added a new feature to its Gesture Search app, a double flip feature.  The Gesture Search app lets users search by writing specific gestures on-screen and with the newly updated app, users can flip their phones sideways and back-up to automatically engage the Gesture Search function. The new application is available on Google’s Gesture [...]

Kaspersky Lab, a firm specializing in security development, confirmed that it detected the first Trojan SMS app for Android smartphones.  The app, called Trojan-SMS.ANdroidOS.FakePlayer.a, is disguised as a media player and prompts users to install its 13KB .APK application file.  The Trojan is SMS-based and sends text messages to premium messaging service phone numbers that [...]

We are hoping this rumor pans out to be true.  Netflix is actively hiring Android developers and an employee from the company was quoted as saying, “good things come to those who wait” when asked about an app for Android smartphones.  Will we see Netflix hitting the Android Market this fall?  We sure hope so. [...]