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Reports: Google Pulling Tethering Apps From Android Marketplace

9:50PM John Herrman | Developers are reporting a mass delisting of Android tethering apps from the App Marketplace, after being informed that such apps breach the Developer Distribution Agreement. That’s your cue for righteous indignation, internet! More »
Software

ShopSavvy Android App Now Displays Local Store Inventory in Real Time

12:40AM John Mahoney | Beyond scanning a barcode and finding you the best deal either online or in nearby brick-and-mortar stores, ShopSavvy can now tie into major retailers’ inventory systems to see if things are actually in stock. More »
Software

‘My Account’ Android App Manages Your T-Mobile Affairs, Stimulates Your Miserliness

9:03PM John Herrman | Remaining minutes and texts, a bill summary, online payment capabilities, and support information are a few of the features in T-Mobile’s first official Android app, released today to thrifty G1ers everywhere. More »
Phones

Unlocked Developer G1 Banned From Accessing Paid Apps

7:42PM John Herrman | Anyone who bought the $US400 unlocked developer G1 is in for a nasty surprise: Google, citing piracy concerns, won’t allow those handsets to access paid Marketplace apps. More »
Software

Paid Apps Appearing In Android Market

8:05PM John Herrman | BGR reports that the first few paid apps have infiltrated the bohemian mobile development commune known as the Android Market, just one week after the submission gates were opened. More »
Software

Android Market Policy Details: You Can Return Apps

3:58AM Sean Fallon | Policy details regarding paid apps on the Android Market have come to light—the most notable of which being the fact that you have 24-hours to return an app if you are not satisfied. More »
Software

No Paid Apps For Aussie Android Users For A Few Months

10:30AM Nick Broughall | Considering that the HTC Dream, Australia’s first Android-powered handset, hit shelves the same time Google announced that paid apps were coming to the Android Market, you’d be forgiven for hoping that the two events would blend together into one homogeneous announcement of tasty app goodness. Sadly, this is not the case. More »
Software

My Tracks For Android Logs Your Day via GPS, Uploads To Google Maps

10:40AM John Mahoney | In the second big GPS-on-Android related tidbit today, Google released My Tracks, a cool app for logging a route of any kind via GPS and saving it to Google Maps. More »
GPS

Telenav Brings Turn-By-Turn GPS to Android and the G1

12:20AM John Mahoney | Chalk up another mark in the things-Android-can-do-on-the-G1-that-certain-other-phones-can’t list: GPS maker Telenav is bringing a slick-looking turn-by-turn navigation app to the G1 this month. More »