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I came across these absolutely stunning live wallpapers fresh off the Android Market and felt the need to share them with you here. Brought to you by a couple of self-proclaimed indie game developers, Central Core Studios has taken time away from coding games, instead to work on a few more artistic projects. Like these [...]

Rejoice! No more having to download each track one by one if you want to download your entire music collection from Google Music. Google has heard the cries of those who want a quick and easy way to download their collection to their computer and they have come through with an update that will allow [...]

Grab your wallets, folks. Because one of the biggest and baddest Verizon has to offer is finally available for purchase. The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is now officially available, online, from Verizon Wireless and can handle all the multimedia, streaming and gaming you can throw at it. This is all thanks to its 3,300mAh battery [...]

For 48 hours beginning on December 19th, Markus Persson set about to create a new game based on his popular world-building game Minecraft. With a hefty helping of 8-bit simplicity, the result was Minicraft, a completely new title that tasks users with exploring a realm controlled by the Air Wizard, collecting items, building objects, and fighting zombies [...]

It’s been a while since Carrier IQ’s name was in the news. If you don’t remember, their software delivers certain information back to carriers for the supposed sole purpose of helping improve their service. Developer Trevor Eckhart exposed that their application may be doing more than just sending cellular data to carriers. Read more about [...]

Motorola was showing off much more than smartphones and tablets at their CES booth. Their theme for this year was “do more,” and one way in which they want to help consumers achieve this goal is through their new Televation product. The hardware will come built into Motorola’s line of cable set-top boxes or as [...]

UK retailer Clove has posted a few more “official” press shots of the white version of the Galaxy Nexus hitting overseas in February. You’ll notice unlike the white G-Nex which was previously posted, showing an all white face plate (similar to the white Epic 4G Touch hitting Sprint in a few days), the updated images [...]

As the final days of 2011 came and went Google managed to add even more to their patent portfolio with the acquisition of 217 patents previously owned by IBM. The move follows Google’s purchase of over 2,000 patents from IBM earlier in the year as well as the absorption of Motorola’s catalog of intellectual property [...]

Looking back at 2011, there were some ups (Nvidia) there were some downs (LG) but when it  comes to the Android Market — business is booming. 2011 was perhaps the best year yet in Android gaming (thanks mostly in part to iOS ports) and I just wanted to take a brief moment and go over [...]

Digitimes is reporting that Chinese OEM’s could be quietly banding together to fight off the ever looming threat of patent lawsuits from Android arch nemeses like Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. The Chinese coalition would be formed by ZTE, Lenovo, TCL, Coolpad and Konka who, it’s assumed, would pool their patent resources and share information on how [...]