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There’s no question that mobile apps are a booming business and a new website called Apptopia wants to help developers captilize on this by selling their apps. And we’re not talking about selling an app to users — we’re talking about selling complete ownership of an app, handing over the reigns to a big company [...]

Just like Google and Wikipedia, it seems the CyanogenMod team are taking the SOPA thing to heart by blacking out their own site in protest of SOPA. If you’ve been under a rock for the past few months (or unplugged from the internet) SOPA is a bill that — if passed — could essentially end [...]

The folks at Garmin have just announced a new service for Android devices that will allow them to bring Garmin’s live services to their 2012 Bluetooth-enabled Nuvi devices. Smartphone Link utilizes your Android device’s existing connection so you won’t have to purchase a separate wireless plan in order to enable the handful of services available [...]

Forget waiting until the showroom floors open, LG has already taken the wraps off of their upcoming Google TV powered “Smart TV” in a press release. LG’s “Smart TV with Google TV” will feature Cinema 3D functionality (for use with the same 3D glasses used in movie theaters) and a new UI on top of [...]

Someone at CNET will be in a wee bit of trouble soon, it seems. An ad popped up on their site showing off the Galaxy Nexus, “the first 4G LTE phone from Sprint.” And there goes the beans. Not only do we know they’re bound to get it, we know that it’ll be the first [...]

Max MP is celebrating the release of PowerAMP 2.0 by throwing a contest on their brand spankin’ new Twitter account. If you haven’t of PowerAMP — it’s arguably the most popular and full featured music player in the Android Market. Offering full control of EQ settings, crossfading, stereo “eXpansion,” lyrics support, scrobbling and a wide [...]

I don’t even know where to start with Carrier IQ gate. It has blown up into this huge mobile security issue, snowballing into probably the worse PR nightmare the company could have ever expected. Ever since it was first exposed in HTC devices, the software has been found in use on almost every device and [...]

In an effort to keep their G9 tablets fresh in everyone’s mind, Archos uploaded a video today showing off their dual-core tablet rockin’ the only Android firmware anyone really cares about — Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s no denying the G9′s aren’t very easy on the eyes in the looks department but the appeal [...]

“We’re on a fishing boat out at sea and we’re catching fish that are too small and they go back in. And they go back in for two reasons: One, the holes in the net don’t catch small fish, i.e. the filtering, and/or the fish is the wrong type and it gets thrown out of [...]

This could be it, folks. The end of an era. Adobe is going through some major changes. One of those changes involves the cutting of 750 jobs amid a broad restructuring. The other? According to ZDNet, Adobe will no longer support Flash on mobile devices — devices like the ones running Android. Now, we may [...]