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Google TV gets Honeycomb UI

 

Remember Google announcing Android 3.1? And then saying it'd be coming to Google TV? Exciting stuff, eh? And now for some extra titillation, we've got some visuals. There it is above, showing some nice remote-control-style navigability. Although presumably we'll all be using our Xooms to channel hop in future, no?

 

Angry Birds arrives on the web

 

There’s a tribe in the Brazilian rainforest that’s still confused about the massive metal bird that hums over their airspace every lunchtime with a Lufthansa logo stamped on its tail. But even in this bastion of life without civilization Angry Birds is a well-known app. Even that bloke who got frozen into a glacier shortly before evolving into a bipedal human has completed most of the levels. Yet Rovio hasn’t finished yet – Angry Birds has arrived on the internet. Read more...

 

Apple iPod Nano 7G spy shots show off its secret cam

No doubt you read our story in April that showed a developmental photo of Apple's iPod Nano 7G that suggested a camera. It looks like this new photo from Apple.pro has all but confirmed it. Rumour has it the multi-touch device will be sporting a web-res 1.3MP snapper. Seems a bit redundant with HD-shooting 5MP+ camera phones being the norm, but whatever keeps Steve Jobs off the streets.

World domination by Androids almost a reality

If you just heard the laundry truck pulling up outside Apple HQ, here’s why – Google is about to start playing it at its own game. For those on the good ship iOS, that’d be your cue to soil yourself. The Big G’s just announced ongoing Android update support for multiple manufacturers and networks to stave off the biggest gripe its mobile OS users have – that their phones go out of date owing to lack of firmware updates. Google wants to give users an 18-month security period when their phone is guaranteed to get updates in good time. Read more...

 

Android 3.1 gets ready to roll

Google’s just dropped its first announcement of Google I/O, an update to Honeycomb, the “made for tablets” edition of Android. Version 3.1 brings stretchable homescreen widgets and direct USB linking so you can download pictures from a camera or connect game controllers. In case you wondered why we put “made for tablets” in inverted commas, here’s why: Android 3.1 will be hitting Google TV this summer, meaning Android devs will be all up in your screen via Android Market on your set-top box.

 

Adobe releases Photoshop apps for iPad

Over the years, the mighty Photoshop has given mere mortals the power to edit history, reduce years off aging singers’ lives and create psychedelic 3D abstract wallpaper. Now you can ramp up this all-important productivity even further with a trio of iPad apps from Adobe. Read more...

Bing for Windows Phone 7 adding new features

The latest Windows Phone Dev Podcast has some juicy morsels of information for all Windows Phone 7 users. A plethora of handy features will be incorporated in to Bing in the near future, including a Shazam-like music recognition ability with Zune store compatibility, Bing Vision for barcode scanning and optical character recognition, and support for augmented reality applications. Read more...