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Jun

29

2011

Pattern Lock by location for the Samsung Galaxy S II

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by Jesse Bauer
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Many people are awaiting the full scale Android assault that is the Samsung Galaxy S II launch in North America, and with that comes lots of new developments as well. XDA member terranim has done some research ( a lot of research) on the Pattern lock for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and found it [...]

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Feb

23

2011

MenuPages comes to Android Market – view full restaurant menus

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by Jesse Bauer
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New York Media LLC has finally launched the popular iOS app MenuPages for Android where you’ll be able to look at the menus in full of many restaurants in the area. Just a note though, this app only has information for the following cities thus far; New York City (Manhattan & Brooklyn), LA, San Francisco, [...]

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Dec

9

2010

Marissa Mayer says Google’s next big thing is “Contextual Discovery” — Google results without search

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Speaking at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, Google’s Marissa Mayer discussed a new project she is spearheading which she feels is Google’s next big thing. They’re calling it “contextual discovery”, which in a nutshell means that Google is trying to figure out ways to serve up data to you based on your search history or location. [...]

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Oct

28

2010

Aro for Android Simplifies Your Mobile Life

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by Jesse Bauer
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A new app aimed at business professionals has made its way to Android, it’s called Aro and it’s meant to make organizing contacts, emails, groups and meetings easier, with rich data available to the user. If you’ve used Outlook to manage contacts, and have them synced to your Android, things work pretty good. Meetings pop-up, [...]

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Oct

18

2010

Allstate introduces Tag In mobile app to easily connect you with family and friends

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by Tyler Cunningham
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Allstate has introduced a new mobile app called Tag In, which allows you to send a quick message, along with your GPS location, to your friends and family, even if they don’t have a smartphone or the Tag In app. The application includes the following features: Quick Messages — Save time with messages that can [...]

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Oct

18

2010

If LinkedIn and Four Square made babies, they’d have Unsocial

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by Chris Moor
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What do you get when you cross professional resources like LinkedIn with purely social apps like FourSqure? Unsocial is the answer. Unsocial is a location-based, business networking app.  They call it Unsocial because it’s not focused on your current social network, but rather on the people you don’t know yet (but probably should.)

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Jul

29

2010

Google rolls out display-based mobile display ads

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by Dustin Karnes
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You want to know about the local sub shop down the street? Well, Google does, and they’re using their advertising platform to get you to wolf down that hoagie. Google has now released mobile ads that will utilize your location to display relevant results. The ads will show as a small ad on the top [...]

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