A social network cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
Belgian music royalty collecting firm SABAM wanted the social network Netlog to stop users infringing copyright.
But the court said the filtering required would contravene rights to freedom of business, personal data and freedom of information. (more…)

Opera is a popular browser replacement for Android-smartphone users. According to a recent press release, Opera is preparing to show off new versions of its browser (Opera Mini and Opera Mobile) at the Mobile World Congress at the end of the month. Opera says the new browsers will have features that “focus a lot on the social aspect of browsing.” (more…)

It’s not often that I’m more than pleased with a purchase of a tablet cover. But here we have a great cover. It is a PU leather not genuine leather, but it is well made, and looks hard wearing with hard edges to stop it bending. (more…)

Donations required to help keep CyanogenMod team going in their nightly builds. They are seeking donations from the community to help buy the hardware to keep things going. There are some 56 devices supported on CM’s official listing. This requires quite a lot of hardware to allow then to push out nightly builds and official releases. And that costs money, lots of money. (more…)

CarphoneWarehouse have a big sale going on device’s including phones and tablets.
They have knocked £400 off the LG Optimus Pad stand alone price which was a whopping £749.99, out of the reach of most consumers.
But now the price is £349.99 is still high although, the specs are pretty decent given the other tablets in sale. (more…)

CarphoneWarehouse have the HTC Wildfire S on sale. From £10.50 per month .
Or save £200 on handset price! (more…)

Three new Samsung models SGH-T999, SCH-I535 or SPH-L710, appeared at the Wi-Fi Alliance and that’s not surprising, but if you regularly buy the latest and greatest smartphones, one of them may soon be part of your life. All three codenames recently, androinica spotted all three and grabbed them off the web – good on ya, guys. Link below.   (more…)

USA users may not know of the Arnova line of tablets, but, for  a cousin of Archos tablets that’s even cheaper than Archos main line of Android tablets. The newest member is the Arnova 8b G2. While it still runs Gingerbread on an 8-inch screen, but no physical buttons – which means that it could be in-line for an upgrade sooner rather than later. In the meantime, Android’s navigation buttons are moved to the status bar, a design decision seen on many cheap Gingerbread tablets. (more…)

We received email from S4BB informing us of the latest upgrade to Battery Watch and the improvements are good. Making the app a little faster to load, although it was fast before.
Being able to see information on either a daily, weekly or monthly of the battery status is good. (more…)

SwiftKey in it’s various forms has passed 5 million downloads and to celebrate the developers have announced a weekend 25% off sale. And to supplement that they have done an upgrade as well.
For accuracy, ease of use, and one of the fastest typing experiences on Android you will use. (more…)

Yesterday we gave you the news of the Swype upgrade for Android 4.0
Today we bring you the video of the very same upgrade. Now you can see just what the changes are and if you’ll like them (more…)

The infamous de facto Android benchmark, Quadrant, has finally received that long awaited update to v2.0.  Once the standard of how good your new device really is and how well it performs, Quadrant fell to the wayside about a year ago when dual-core devices came out simply because it wasn’t built to support such things.  There of course was the little problem of it not being built for anything beyond Gingerbread (Android 2.3), and since we’re at 4.0 now there wasn’t much of a point in using it to measure the performance of newer devices.

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HTC announces more phones in US/Canada will get Android 4.0

After revealing ICS upgradable devices few days ago, HTC has now announced more smartphones in North American will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich update. (more…)

Google Maps was Updated today to version 6.3.0 that brings Improved battery performance for Latitude and Location History users. Now, you can use Google maps without worrying about your battery life. (more…)

Elonex who a few years ago made PC’s which then went into administration in June 2006 then sold to Afic, a re-manufacturer of ink cartridge’s. Now it has been taken over by Nick Smith who has raised it up from the ashes to open a factory in Coventry, UK to build Android tables and LCD screens. This will generate up to 400 jobs. (more…)

If you have the Archos 80G9 or any G9 device then you will be pleased to know that Archos will be releasing the Android 4.0 upgrade within the next seven days or so. I only know that this will be in the UK as the email came from Archos UK office. Other countries contact your local Archos office. (more…)

The Atrix was the first dual-core phone to hit the US, and even though it received a less-than-stellar followup at the end of the year last year, Motorola looks to be fixing that mistake with the Atrix 3.  Now this is entirely an unsubstantiated rumor, however it is rather exciting and not outside the realm of possibilities given Moto’s track record of hardware releases.  As you can see from the picture, the Atrix 3 will likely be loaded with a quad-core Tegra 3 SoC, 10MP camera with dual LED flash, a 3300mAh battery, 720p screen and even an insane 2GB of RAM. (more…)

While I don’t understand why LG wouldn’t call this phone the X4 given that it’s a quad-core phone, the LG X3 probably derives it’s name from the chipset that it uses; Nvidia’s Tegra 3.  Last year the Tegra 2 made it’s rounds as the first dual-core chipset, setting new performance benchmarks and having some seriously incredible support from the gaming development community.  This year Nvidia continues to amaze with the first quad-core chipset to hit that market, and LG brings it to us in the form of this ultra-sleek and ultra-sexy device.  Forgoing the standard Ice Cream Sandwich theme of virtual buttons, LG looks to have added capacitive buttons on the face of the phone below the screen, which actually brings the screen to a full 1280×720 resolution.  Even more impressive is just how these specs stack up against the competition.  Check out the scores using the new and improved Quadrant 2.0: (more…)

So, as we all know, Apple’s second business of patent filing is big business. Using legal ammo as of late,  to block the competition. I can not understand why Google have waited so long to incorporate this patent into the Android OS . Now Google’s filing back in Q3 2003 has been  published by the USPTO this month. Read...

Jorte is a Calendar application designed to be practical.
Jorte is a Calendar application.
Our objective was to create an app with the look and feel of real paper personal organizer with an appealing appearance and easy practical use.
Jorte has a scheduler function and you can customize its style as you choose. Read more after the break. (more…)