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09May

Flipboard For Android Unofficially Here, Download It Anyway

I know I don’t usually cover Android apps, but Flipboard is one of my favorite apps on iOS and one of the few apps that I longed to see on Android. That it happens during my Android 30 day challenge is just awesome, that or someone really loves me. The app made its own limited debut last week at Samsung’s Galaxy S III unveiling in London and was billed as exclusive … [read full article] View full post on TmoNews

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01May

Angry Birds In Space Reaches Stratospheric 50 Million Download Mark

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By David Ponce

If you thought Rovio was doing pretty well for itself, you’d be right. Angry Birds is already a household name, and its latest iteration and simultaneous reinvention has been quite the hit among its avid users. Rovio recently announced that the game had reached 50 million downloads, which it accomplished in 35 days, setting some kind of record. Sure, that number includes free downloads, and is across all platforms, but it’s pretty impressive all the same, especially for a game that has been around in some form or other for quite a lot of time. To thank its users, Rovio recently released 10 new levels, so in the unlikely event that you haven’t touched the game in a while, you might want to check that out.

[ Rovio's Announcement ] VIA [ Engadget ]

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27Apr

Crackdown On Download Bots Meant Installs For Top iOS Apps Took A Dive In March

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Downloads for the top 200 free apps in the U.S. iTunes app store took a 30 percent dive in March, according to Fiksu, a Charles River Ventures-backed company that helps mobile developers find users cheaply.

The culprit? Two things. One is that we’re just coming out of the very lucrative holiday season, when downloads spike and people get new phones that they’re eager to experiment with through trying tons of apps. The other may be Apple’s crackdown on download bots, or automated programs that downloads apps tens of thousands of times to help them break into the top of the charts.

Fiksu says that the top 200 free U.S. iPhone apps saw 4.45 million downloads per day in March, down from 6.35 million per day in February. Apple issued a warning to developers during the first week of February, telling them not to use services that explicitly manipulate the charts.

“An unexpected contributing factor could be the decline in the use of robotic install tactics by app marketers responding to Apple’s new policy,” said Fiksu’s chief executive Micah Adler in a statement.

The crackdown has had huge implications for the types of apps that make it to the top of the charts. If you watched the charts like I did for well over a year, it was pretty common to see really strange, esoteric (and frankly, not very well-made) apps pop on the charts every single week. At the same time, very social, more utility-like apps like Instagram or Facebook would hover in the teens or twenties — or between #50 and 100.

The decline of download bots has made room for apps like Viddy, Socialcam, Instagram and Draw Something to move higher on the charts. Plus, because of the way the Apple app store is designed, once an app breaks above #25 or #10, it gets a huge increase in downloads per day.

Even despite the decline, the amount developers have to pay to get a good mobile app user was relatively unchanged at $1.30 from $1.31 in February. By good user, we mean one that opens an app at least three times after they downloaded it.

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15Mar

Hey HTC Vivid Owners, Go Download Your Ice Cream Sandwich Update

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Despite launching last October, the Ice Cream Sandwich club is still a pretty exclusive one, and even moreso in the United States. Let’s see, there’s the Galaxy Nexus… and, yeah, that’s really it.

Surprisingly though, while HTC mentioned earlier this week that the Vivid would be among the devices to get the Ice Cream Sandwich update, the new software is already available to anyone who knows how to push the right buttons. Literally.

AT&T has said they haven’t officially begun to push it out to the masses, but Vivid owners who dial *#*#682#*#* can force their device to download the update. Once the file has been downloaded and installed (a process which The Verge reports took a little longer than usual), users are left with a Roboto-sporting, Sense 3.6-toting build of Android 4.0 for them to fiddle with.

While it’s not quite as impressive as the Sense 4.0 UI the Taiwanese company showed off at this year’s Mobile World Congress, Sense 3.6 certainly doesn’t seem to be a slouch. Engadget has an in-depth look at what Sense 3.6 brings to the table, if you’re interested in the nitty gritty, and The Verge’s Chris Ziegler has a quick hands-on video to show you how the whole package works on the Vivid itself.

As a brief aside, I’m really enjoying the fact that the HTC phone that people piled on for being as ho-hum as they come (LTE radio notwithstanding) is the first in the country to receive an official Ice Cream Sandwich update. Let’s also not forget that this is the phone that nearly had to be renamed thanks to the litigious inclinations of a porn company, so I like to think of the update as a little gift to the Vivid for being such a little trooper.

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18Feb

OS X Mountain Lion to be download only

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When Apple released OS X Lion, they were kind enough to realize that not everyone has broadband or fast enough internet to download a 4GB OS in a reasonable amount of time. I know what this is like because my internet is terribly slow. Anyways, they offered a USB stick packed with Lion as a (very pricey $69) alternative. However, the Cupertino…