Google Play Celebrates 1st Birthday with Specials
It was one year ago that Google rebranded its online retail presence for Apps, Games, Movies, Music(US Only) from the Android Market to the now well known Google Play branding that we know today. To celebrate they're doing some...
Google Glass for airlines: what you might see wearing ‘smart specs’
Our friends at Australian Business Traveller have posted up an interesting concept of how Google Glass could function in the airport environment, and we have to say it looks pretty awesome.
While we must point out that it's only...
Twitter proves – yet again – that it just doesn’t understand its users, or...
TweetDeck is rather an old Twitter app these days but it has survived the test of time because it's incredibly powerful, not just as a desktop application, but also because it set a good standard for mobile Twitter apps...
Koushik Dutta’s Superuser now available on the Play Store
Koushik Dutta, who you might remember from such popular root applications as ROM manager, Carbon Backup, as well as the ClockworkMod Recovery, has just today released his own, open-source superuser application to the Play Store. I can hear you...
Google Play Store gift cards spreading outside the US?
It feels like only yesterday that the Google Play Store finally made gift cards available, however -- like many things Google -- they were restricted to the US market. We've neither seen nor heard anything about the gift cards...
Real Racing 3 — Review
After it launched on iOS a few weeks ago, Electronic Arts yesterday announced that Real Racing 3 has crossed the platform divide and is now available on Google Play. Real Racing 3 was developed in Australia by FireMonkeys, a...
Machinarium updated with Nexus 7 support
Machinarium is one of my all time favourite games on Android and I loved playing it on my old Acer A200.
For those of you that haven't experienced Machinarium, you play as a cute little robot exploring the steam punk...
Super Sync Sports by Google
Google has released a new Chrome Experiment called Super Sync Sports that lets you use your phone to control the action in a game in Chrome on your desktop. It's an experience similar to some Flash-based proof-of-concepts seen a...
Google begins offering Chromebook Pixel in US and UK – Wi-Fi model now, 4G...
Google has announcedd overnight that they will be releasing the Chromebook Pixel. The Chromebook Pixel is a high end version of the Chrome OS series of laptops which is designed by Google themselves.
The Chromebook Pixel wich will be...
Opinion: Why is Google leaving Australia behind?
While casually running through and continually playing with my newly acquired Nexus devices, the more I use them, the more I realise that these devices aren't targeted at me. But why? How could this be?
I use as many Google...
Swiftkey 4 featuring SwiftKey Flow released to Google Play
First released as a Beta back in October last year, Swiftkey Flow has now gone live in Google Play updating the Phone and Tablet keyboard apps currently in the store. As a celebration of the launch Swiftkey has dropped...
Pocket Casts 4 to be released on February 27th
The news is out, Shifty Jelly has advised via Twitter that the new version of Pocket Casts will be released in a weeks time, launching at 11am Adelaide time on the 27th of February. If you need a constant...
Press: The latest app to add DashClock extension
On Friday James wrote an article about an update to Falcon Pro that added a DashClock extension and now Press - the Google Reader client - has begun offering this integration with DashClock as well.
As James previously mentioned, DashClock...
Gumtree – Android App now available
If you're into purchasing or selling second hand items online in Australia then of course you'll know about Gumtree. The Gumtree Australia Android App was released this week into the Google Play Store for download and from first looks...
Tweet Lanes goes Open Source, now a community driven project
Developer Chris Lacy was, up until a few months ago working on one of the most promising and popular Twitter clients around - Tweet Lanes - however, with Twitter about to implement a 100,000 user token limit on third...