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There are new rumours surfacing spreading gossip about a SlingPlayer application for Android. A little digging reveals as though these rumours might actually have some substance to them. Great news. The SlingMedia website, who make the SlingBox and SlingPlayer, now has an optional contact form for those that would like to be kept in the [...]

Over at the official Google Mobile Blog, there is a news update on the forthcoming Google Buzz application for Android. It’s ready! This widget based application “lets you choose to tag your post with the location or place from which it was posted.” One great feature about this new widget is that when you make [...]

Google has just announced that it is making its new Gesture Search system available for some older versions of the Android smartphone OS and in any country with Android Market support.  Any users with an Android 1.6 or newer equipped phone can now download and install the gesture search application from the Android Market.
Gesture search [...]

The Dell Mini 5 seems to be picking up pace at the moment, and the latest development with this piece of kit includes a host of services from Amazon preinstalled to the hardware. The most interesting of which is a Kindle application. We’re reading inbetween the lines somewhat here as all the picture displays is [...]

Opera Mini is probably the most popular mobile web browser out there. It makes sense that Android has now received the anticipated upgrade to Opera Mini 5. To put things into perspective, Opera Mobile 4 was made available for Android just over a year ago and since then it has been widely used as an [...]

Originally designed for distribution by OEMs, Swype has reversed course and is opening up its software to the public as a limited beta. The public version of Swype supports HVGA and WVGA devices, English and Spanish languages, and is feature-limited, though Swype does not identify which features have been removed from the OEM version. Initially, [...]

Just like in the past, Microsoft have gone ahead and released an application for a competitor’s operating system. Microsoft are well known in the mobile industry for Windows Mobile, which despite what the naysayers chant, is a productive (and thanks to HTC), good-looking platform. However, in spite of developing their own operating system, Microsoft have [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know.  A lot of videos from me lately.  The latest is a 9 minute demo of the new Connected Media Player that Motorola is putting into the new CLIQ XT (QUENCH) smartphone. It fetches album art and lyrics from the internet, plays Shoutcast internet radio stations, and can search YouTube and other [...]

Google just announced that its Google Earth application is now available for the Nexus One.  Google makes mention of the need for a fast processor and 3D graphics, but does say that other Android 2.1 devices will be able to run it – and even specifically mentions the Motorola DROID for Verizon, which is waiting [...]

An exciting new Google feature has been shown off at this year’s Mobile World Congress recently pairing Google Goggles and Google Translate to work together in a harmonious union.  The specific example shown in the video after the jump, has the demonstrator taking a picture of a German dinner menu with Google Goggles, and having [...]