Tag: ANDROIDMARKET

During the official announcement of Froyo, Google hinted that the Android Market would soon be available on the Web, allowing us to not only find apps on our PCs, but also send them straight to our phones. And guess what? It's finally here! If you've seen the Chrome Web App Store, Android Market on the Web should look quite familiar. You'll be able to search for apps and browse based on category, ...

Looking to conduct surveillance on that philandering boyfriend of yours? Well, for about 18 hours yesterday, you could've downloaded something called 'Secret SMS Replicator' -- a new app that, once planted on someone else's Android smartphone, will secretly forward their text messages to another phone. Created by DLP Mobile, 'Replicator' hit the Android market Wednesday, much to the horror of ...

Android owners, your patience has been rewarded. The popular iPhone game, and unbelievable time-vampire, 'Angry Birds' has finally left beta on your smartphone platform of choice. And best of all -- it's free! And this isn't some limited demo, either; it's the full game! So, go get it now from GetJar before they decide to start charging. ...

Researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel recently got together and did a little digging through the Android marketplace. They chose 30 of the most popular apps, installed them, and then monitored their every move. Half of the apps evaluated were found to be sending private and identifiable information, including GPS coordinates, phone numbers and IMEI numbers back to ...

There is more than one political junkie on the Switched staff, and the lot of us get pretty excited whenever we see a cool app that makes it easier to keep on top of the happenings in Washington. iPhone owners already have a host of options for tracking Congress, but, until now, Android users have been largely left in a lurch. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to ...

Last month, Twitter launched its BlackBerry app. Then, it bought Tweetie. Now, in a move that's guaranteed to stir up more conversation among third-party app developers, Twitter has expanded its mobile kingdom to the Android platform thanks to a brand new app. As Twitter explains on its blog, the new app allows Android users to easily access their timelines via a special homescreen widget, and ...

Now we'd like to see your iPhone (or for that matter, iPad) do this. The Weather Channel promoted its Android app by displaying a QR code (that strange-looking box on the bottom left corner) and a banner instructing owners of the Google-powered handsets to "scan here." Scanning the code would take you straight to the Android Market and the page for the Weather Channel app. Pretty slick, huh? ...