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Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available

David Wasserman — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:41:25 +0000

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available is a post from: Android Phone Geek

At the beginning of baseball season there were a few fantasy baseball apps for Android you could choose from. The Yahoo! app was noticeably missing from that list. Well, not any more! You can now grab the free Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball app in the Android Market!

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Features:

Real-time fantasy score updates: View team, league, and player stats for all league types.
Manage your lineup. View and set your lineup for today and upcoming days.
Track matchups: View your past, present, and future matchups
Improve your team: Search for free agents and read breaking player news.

You’ve been waiting a while but now Android users can finally manage their Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball teams on their device! Use the links below to get started! [Android Market]

Android Market Link

Yahoo Finance Now On Android Market

David Wasserman — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:21:11 +0000

Yahoo Finance Now On Android Market is a post from: Android Phone Geek

Today, Yahoo released Yahoo Finance to Android Market as an alternative to other financial apps such as Google Finance.

Features Include:

Real-time quotes1\
Customizable stock watch list
Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios
Company stats and news
Tech Ticker videos

Yahoo Finance has been one of the top sites for finance for many years and it remains a great service. Check it out and see how it compares with Google Finance. [Yahoo]

To download, scan the QR Code below, click this link from your Android device or search Android Market.

Yahoo Fantasy Football ’10 Now Available

David Wasserman — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:49:55 +0000

Yahoo Fantasy Football ’10 Now Available is a post from: Android Phone Geek

Yahoo has released its Fantasy Football app, Fantasy Football ’10 in Android Market. As I write this my son is making his picks for his fantasy football league and the season is knocking on the door so this couldn’t come at a better time. Alright, maybe a little sooner but work with me here.

With Yahoo’s app, users can check league and player stats, make roster changes and more. If you’re a fantasy football fan and use Yahoo, you should get this free app in the Market.

To download, scan the QR code below, click this link from your Android device or search Android Market.

Yahoo! Apps Now Available In Android Market

David Wasserman — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:34:19 +0000

Yahoo! Apps Now Available In Android Market is a post from: Android Phone Geek

Yahoo! Mail, Messenger and Search are now available in Android Market. They are each separate apps but have built-in functions to quickly switch between them.

Yahoo! Mail features push e-mail, contact book integration, and the ability to add photo attachments from your phone’s camera or gallery. Yahoo! Messenger also incorporates push notifications while the app is running in the background and allows for messages to be sent via SMS.

If you want a little less Google and some more Yahoo, give it a shot but remember you are still using a Google phone!

Yahoo! Mail Features:

Receive push notification of new email messages
Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as contacts in the native phone address book
Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords in the body of the email
Upload photos as attachments directly from camera or the photo gallery
View and download attachments
Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders and manage spam
Toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps with ease

Yahoo! Messenger Features:

Easily message friends, check friends’ status updates & availability as well as update their own status & availability
Send instant messages to friends via SMS text messages*
Stay connected with full support for multitasking allowing the app to work in the background; with push notifications consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
Full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
Send photos to friends directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery

To download search Android Market or scan QR Codes below. [Yahoo]

Motorola Details Android 2.1 Update For Droid

David Wasserman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:50:35 +0000

Motorola Details Android 2.1 Update For Droid is a post from: Android Phone Geek

So there is no more confusion as to what Motorola Droid owners can expect when their Android 2.1 update this week, below are the features you can expect and they come right from the horses mouth, Motorola:

Voice Recognition: You can now speak in plain English instead of typing, whenever a text-entry box appears on your Android device. Simply swipe your finger across the virtual keyboard and dictate your phrase.
Virtual Keyboard Enhancements: The fully integrated, enlarged virtual keyboard allows for easier and more accurate manual entries as well.Â Â Also included are auto-complete/correct.
3D Gallery offers a whole new way to enjoy your phoneâ€™s multimedia features.Â Â With 3D gallery, all of your photos, videos, album art and images from your Picasa Web albums account online are displayed in three-dimensional stacks that gently move as the phone is tilted.Â Â Scrolling through and choosing media has never been easier.Â Â With 3D gallery simply use your finger to scroll through thumbnail versions of all your photos, videos and albums – and when you find one you want – simply tap the image to select it for viewing or playback. You can share pics individually or in bulk (by long-pressing a photo) on Facebook, Email, or MMS.
Enjoy pinch-to-zoom functionality for web browsing, plus the Gallery and Maps applications
The News and Weather app pulls information from the web and brings it to your fingertips. Weekly and hourly weather forecast for your area based on your location and it pulls news headlines on the topics you care about most.
Sync with desktop: synchronizes starred items between Google Maps on your Android device and maps.google.com.
Personalized suggestions: Google Maps on your Android device suggests (autocompletes) locations based on your personal search history on maps.google.com.
Night mode: automatically changes your screen at night for easier viewing and driving
New tabs at the top of your music player for easier access and navigation to your favorite artist, songs, albums and playlists.
Google Goggles App allows you to snap a picture to start a Google search. It can also â€readâ€ photos of business cards and add them to your contacts.Â Â Even cooler is its built-in augmented reality feature that displays information about things, like stores and restaurants, around you.
Security: Prevents unauthorized pattern lock bypass
Yahoo email:Â Yahoo email new accounts setup optimizations
Battery life: ongoing battery life optimization

Now there should be no more speculation and confusion.Â Thanks Motorola and now we wait.

[Via Motorola]

Dazzboard 2.0 Launches First Android App Manager

David Wasserman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:18:30 +0000

Dazzboard 2.0 Launches First Android App Manager is a post from: Android Phone Geek

There really hasn’t been a decent synchronization desktop application to manage photos, videos, music and apps for Android.Â Well now Dazzboard 2.0â€™s software, which was announced late last week, looks to be exactly that.

The Beta iteration is already available if you want to give it a try but for now it will work only with Microsoft Windows with Internet Explorer and/or Firefox but a MAC OS X version is in the works. If your computer doesnâ€™t have the requirements, you will be able to use a demo of the interface.

All-new features include:

Android application manager: Install applications, Browse applications, Uninstall applications. Note: It is not clear at this stage if this is linked to the official Android Market or another Market.
iTunes content connectivity:Â Access iTunes music with non-Mac portable devices and access iTunes content from multiple devices. Note: It doesnâ€™t have to work with only Android devices, you can also attached your MP3 players, other phones,â€¦
OpenID compatibility: Access Dazzboard with a Google, AOL, Yahoo! or MySpace account.
Enhanced media management for PC and Internet services, including cloud storage and social media networks.
Easier to Manage Social Services: Browse your media on the social web as if it was on your PC, Faster photos and video transfers across the social web. Note: The demo features FaceBook, Flickr ad YouTube.
Dazz me!: Create media links while browsing,Â Dazz me! clicks become your Internet media bookmarks, Easily browse media bookmarks in Dazzboard, Get media from any site, including apps, images, music and video.
â€œDazzboard 2.0 ushers in a new era for portable device universal media management,â€ commented CEO Tero Salonen. â€œBy opening up our social media webtop to more users and a broader reach for content through OpenID and Dazz Me!, Dazzboard is better than ever at simplifying content management and further utilizing usersâ€™ data throughout the social web.â€

This looks like a promising app for many Android users, so give the beta a go and let them know what works and what doesn’t.

Full Press Release:

New Platform Offers Full Android Management, Dazz Me! Media Bookmarks and iTunes Access With Drag and Drop To/From YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and More

LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – January 8, 2010) – CES — Dazzboard, the ultimate social media webtop, today introduced Dazzboard 2.0, a new cutting-edge online universal media management platform. Dazzboard 2.0 features expanded device compatibility, simplified media management, Dazz Me! Media bookmarks and iTunes access for all portable devices.

Dazzboard 2.0 provides the first full Android application support and advanced features that will help users manage all of their music, images and videos in one cloud webtop from any computer.

Rather than depending on the limited functionality of proprietary software — a different application for each device — Dazzboard provides users with connections to all of their media on a wide variety of platforms: portable devices, PCs, cloud storage and social media networks. And unlike proprietary device management programs, Dazzboard accomplishes this with no downloads and no applications. The user experience is akin to that offered by iTunes, but for all portable devices and with none of the proprietary restrictions that hinder iPhone and iPod users — it’s an Open iTunes.

All-new features include:

– Android application manager

     Install applications
     Browse applications
     Uninstall applications
  -- iTunes content connectivity
     Access iTunes music with non-Mac portable devices and access iTunes
     content from multiple devices
  -- OpenID compatibility
     Access Dazzboard with a Google, AOL, Yahoo! or MySpace account
  -- Enhanced media management
     for PC and Internet services, including cloud storage and social media
     networks
  -- Easier to Manage Social Services
     Browse your media on the social web as if it was on your PC
     Faster photos and video transfers across the social web
  -- Dazz me!
     Create media links while browsing
     Dazz me! clicks become your Internet media bookmarks
     Easily browse media bookmarks in Dazzboard
     Get media from any site, including apps, images, music and video

“Dazzboard 2.0 ushers in a new era for portable device universal media management,” commented CEO Tero Salonen. “By opening up our social media webtop to more users and a broader reach for content through OpenID and Dazz Me!, Dazzboard is better than ever at simplifying content management and further utilizing users’ data throughout the social web.”

Dazzboard currently supports Windows XP, Vista and 7, Internet Explorer version 6 (XP only), 7 and 8, as well as Firefox 3.X. The company will also release APIs for developers to integrate Dazzboard technology for external websites and develop add-ons to utilize the device connection.

About Dazzboard

Dazzboard is the ultimate social media webtop, providing users with seamless drag-and-drop connectivity to photos, music, videos and the Internet. Requiring no desktop application and eliminating the need for installing proprietary software for every portable device, dazzboard provides an elegant web 2.0 solution to universal media management. Dazzboard is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. For more information, visit www.dazzboard.com.

[Via Marketwire]

Nimbuzz Now Supports Skype

David Wasserman — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:02:53 +0000

Nimbuzz Now Supports Skype is a post from: Android Phone Geek

Nimbuzz Mobile for Android now supports Skype.Â The app has been around for a while but now it’s a complete package.

Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your buddies from Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and more. One login, one contact list, all accounts. See whoÂ´s online and where, call/group-call, chat/chatrooms, offline messaging, send photos/music/video, voice messaging.

Nimbuzz is available in the Android Market, at Nimbuzz.com.

[Via Nimbuzz]