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Nov

19

2011

[DEAL] Amazon Offering DROID RAZR And HTC Rezound At $199 For New Customers, Deals For Upgrades Too

by Harold Williams
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If you’ve been holding out on grabbing a new phone, Amazon has a great deal on two of Verizon’s newest devices. The HTC Rezound and DROID RAZR are both available right now for $199.99 over at Amazon.com for new Verizon customers. I know most of us are trying to hold out as long as we can for [...]

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Nov

16

2011

Root the Kindle Fire with SuperOneClick [Courtesy of XDA]

by Jack Holt
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With the Kindle Fire’s release, developers at XDA are wasting no time in getting the device rooted. Given the ability to enable sideloading, rooting is inevitable. Over at XDA there is a quick walk-through in setting up ADB on the Fire. Of course this can only be done after one is done installing the Android SDK. [...]

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Nov

16

2011

How To Enable Sideloading On The Amazon Kindle Fire

by Roy Alugbue
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  Everyone who plans on buying an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and loves to tinker, listen up. You may have heard Amazon recently confirming the Kindle Fire will have access to Android apps, but not from the Android Market. However, we know that some you are wondering how the heck can we get apps on the tablet not [...]

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Nov

15

2011

Price Check by Amazon now available for Android

by Robert Nazarian
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Amazon just announced their Price Check app is now available for Android mobile phones. It was originally released for the iPhone last year, but today it finally makes it way to the Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. It’s a lot like ShopSavvy, but offers more search options and is only limited to comparing prices [...]

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Nov

15

2011

Quick Look At Amazon’s Free App Of The Day: Eve OF Genesis HD

by Spencer McClendon
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Oh Amazon, I love it when you give me games like Eve Of Genesis for free. I am an old “Final Fantasy Junkie.” It has been a while since I have seen or played a game that reminds me so well, of “Final Fantasy.” The game opens with you getting a back story about how [...]

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Nov

12

2011

Quick Look At Amazon’s Free App Of The Day: Hungry Shark Part 3

by Spencer McClendon
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Hungry Shark 3, there was two other versions of this game? Anyways, Amazon’s free app today is Hungry Shark 3, basically a “Jaws gets revenge” game. The game uses your devices accelerometer to control, that’s right, a hungry shark. You eat everything; people, fish, and even other sharks. You have to keep eating while looking for [...]

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Nov

10

2011

Quick Look at Amazon’s Free App Of The Day: Wooden Bridges

by Spencer McClendon
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First off, I love games like this. I have X Construct, which is a same style game and made nicely, but Wooden Bridges is by far the hands down winner for me. In Wooden Bridge you’re asked to build bridges to get the car or train across the gap. The game gives you a set [...]

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Nov

10

2011

Amazon Acquires Yap, Hopes To Compete With iPhone’s Siri

by Joe Sirianni
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After much investigation it appears as though Amazon is looking to go head to head with Apple’s new Siri technology found on the iPhone 4S.  How do we know this?  Elementary my dear Watson.  According to the folks over at All Things D, Amazon has yet to return calls for comment, but it looks as [...]

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