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Android Market gets a smart new look

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 11:39pm CEST par Joe Wilcox

Google redesigned the store client to make finding and buying apps easier and for developers to better present their apps and cross-sell when something is purchased.

EA acquires Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled maker PopCap

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 11:37pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced it will acquire PopCap Games for $650 million in cash and $100 million in EA stock.

AT&T's new LTE devices support T-Mobile's spectrum

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 10:52pm CEST par Ed Oswald

By Ed Oswald, Betanews

AT&T introduced two LTE devices on Tuesday that also support T-Mobile's AWS frequency bands, showing increasing confidence in the merger's eventual success.

Prep photos for the web fast with FreeSizer

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 10:44pm CEST

By Joe Cassels

The free tool enables you to quickly and easily resize a batch of images without affecting the original files.

ActiveImage Protector 3.0 Personal Edition: Free backup without nag screens

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 10:33pm CEST par Mike Williams

By Mike Williams, Betanews

But you will have to provide your name and email address to activate.

How much more are you willing to pay Netflix?

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 9:49pm CEST par Joe Wilcox

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Netflix is separating its streaming and DVD rental plans, which means most subscribers wanting both will pay more. Will you go with both options, or choose one over the other? Please tell us.

Traveling Europe this summer? Telestial says its data roaming is 20x cheaper

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 8:00pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

California-based MVNO Telestial dropped its international 2G/3G data rates to as low as $1 per megabyte.

Android 3.2 GPL content is out, but don't get excited for open source Honeycomb yet

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 7:29pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Android Open Source Project engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru on Tuesday announced the portions of Android 3.2 covered under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) have been released to the Android Open Source Project.

Google extends Offers to New York and San Francisco

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 6:53pm CEST par Joe Wilcox

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Google Offers is available in three US cities with five more coming soon. The service is now part of Google Shopper 2.0 for Android, too. Groupon shouldn't worry, yet. But perhaps soon.

Anonymous reveals 90k military email and password combos in the name of #Antisec

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 6:23pm CEST par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Black hat security group Anonymous has exposed 90,000 military email addresses stored on servers from consulting firm and U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

Cyberduck 4.1: Tweaked for Windows, ready for Lion

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 5:50pm CEST par Nick Peers

By Nick Peers, Betanews

The new version promises a raft of under-the-hood improvements, new WebDAV implementation and a tweaked user interface in Windows.

Could Google+ reach 10M users today, 20M by the weekend?

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 4:59pm CEST par Joe Wilcox

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Now Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg should worry. Google+ is scarcely two weeks old and invite-only but growing like a weed. Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen predicts the numbers using a cunning surname analysis.

Airfoil: When Apple AirTunes or AirPlay isn't enough

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 4:45pm CEST par Nick Peers

By Nick Peers, Betanews

Airfoil allows users on Windows and Macs to wirelessly stream music to compatible devices on an Airport Express network, including AirTunes-connected speakers and hi-fi systems.

'Mobile malware is the new frontier of cybercrime'

Publié: juillet 12, 2011, 3:17am CEST par Joe Wilcox

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

This news story started out as a look at a security consultant's blog for McAfee. But Joe Wilcox found that huge portions of post were lifted from an earlier McAfee press release. The real malware is something else -- a public relations Trojan.