Two things make this app stand out: firstly, it brings the Face Unlock capabilities of Ice Cream Sandwich to Gingerbread devices too. That’s impressive, because that means nearly 200 million more phones capable of being protected using the method. The second, which as the name suggests, is the ability to protect individual apps. These are [...]

Comcast subscribers will be glad to learn that the cable company has just released a new app – Xfinity TV Player. This applications allows subscribers to watch on-demand content like HBO and Showtime shows. One can also use Comcast’s video streaming service Streampix, if subscribed. It is nice to see this coming to Android after [...]

Time to get your gaming on! If you thought Because We May was already awesome, finding out that they have added over 30 more games to the list will make you start clicking and tapping. If you haven’t heard of Because We May, it is movement created by a group of independent developers, offering some [...]

BlackBerry Messenger was one of the coolest messenger services just a few years ago. It is secure, convenient, instant and even lets you know if someone has read your message. BBM was so great that many Android users have been praying and waiting for it to come to our devices. It looked like the app [...]

Bump have announced a new update for their sharing service that allows two mobile users to share files and media by simply “bumping” phones. Today, it extends beyond mobile. You can now share your stuff to your desktop. Simply tapping your keyboard’s space bar with your phone does the trick. The catch is that it’s [...]

iHeartRadio has finally made its way to the Google Play Store for Google TV. Up to now, users have had to deal with trying to use the internet radio service through the browser, but as you can imagine it didn’t come without a degree of cumbersome. The app gives you access to all iHeartRadio has [...]

ZeptoLab, the developers responsible for the great Cut the Rope series, have released a big update for Cut the Rope: Experiments in the Google Play Store. This new update brings us 25 brand new levels, a new robotic arm as an added gameplay element, new achievements to collect, new leaderboards, and a new photo of [...]

Are you ready for the best looking Google+ experience to grace an Android device? Good, because the official app was just updated in the Google Play Store and it looks great. The stream view has been revamped as well the navigation ribbon, leaving us with an interface that is sort-of reminiscent of recent updates to [...]

Not content with simply offering up console titles for rent via their online webstore, GameFly — the Netflix of video games — is diving headfirst into the mobile world this fall. GF announced today an all new publishing arm similar to Gameloft that will not only publish Android apps, but will also help aid struggling [...]

The official Men In Black 3 game has made its way into the Google Play Store today, courtesy of Gameloft. The game puts you in shoes of an sharply dressed Agent, and it’s up to you to manage the entire agency, while stopping the greatest outer-worldly danger the world has ever seen… again. The game [...]

The Android Malware Genome Project’s goal is pretty straight forward: create a detailed database of Android malware and study the underlying code the better understand current security threats and better detect future trojans. Led by Xuxian Jiang, a group of researchers at North Carolina State University have identified and cataloged over 1,200 instances of malware, [...]

BGR has an interesting little scoop for us this morning. Microsoft Office, which has been rumored for sometime now to be headed to Apple’s iOS (or at least the iPad), should also be making a debut on Android later this year. The full suite of Office apps is said to look pretty similar to an [...]

A few days ago, the forums were abuzz about Samsung’s leaked S Voice app pulled from a Galaxy S3 ROM. The app, which was essentially a retooled version of Vlingo, was installable on the Galaxy Nexus, allowing users to take it for a test drive. Samsung quickly got word and pulled the plug on the [...]

The boys from Rovio are revving up their engines, firing up yet another Angry Birds sequel due on June 18th. This time, the Finnish developers are taking their feathered friends to the race track in Angry Birds Heikki. For those of you unawares, Heikki Kovalainen is a Formula 1 race car driver from Rovio’s homeland [...]

Over the weekend the Samsung Galaxy S III’s official firmware was ripped from the device and made available to all, bringing along goodies such as an installable APK for the handset’s S Voice features. S Voice is Samsung’s take on voice interactions in the style of the iPhone’s Siri, so many users were excited to [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is about the most anticipated device of 2012, and it was only a matter of time before someone got a hold of all the new features it comes with. The guys at XDA Developers have managed to get the device’s full stock firmware, and it is now up for grabs. Simply [...]

Well Facebook just seems to be on a roll lately. The Social Network is purchasing companies left and right, with the most recent including Instagram and Lightbox. But now they have decided to acquire Karma, a social gifting app. Simply put, Karma allows users to connect to Facebook via their app and send people gifts. [...]

Something odd is going on with the Google Wallet app. After a recent update the app appears to be requesting root access, though the initial report is that nothing has changed within Google Wallet that would need root access. Some suggest Google is doing this to check if a phone is rooted or not so [...]

Those of you a part of the elite 4.9% of Android users currently running Ice Cream Sandwich have a little something to enjoy today. Looks like developer Imangi Studios has updated Temple Run for Android, finally fixing compatibility issues the game was having on some Android 4.0 devices. A few other bugs were fixed as [...]

Are you guys ready for the second week’s TegraZone anniversary and Player’s Choice Awards contest courtesy of NVIDIA? We know we are. If you aren’t in the know, NVIDIA’s just hit their one-year anniversary with TegraZone and they’re holding a Player’s Choice Awards! Hit that link to vote, and you can also snap a photo [...]