November, 2010

Advent Vega hacked to get Android Market, Google apps

UPDATE: And the instructions are live! You’ll need a PC and a bit of know how, but tell us how you get on if you’re feeling Advent-urous.

As Android tablets go, the Advent Vega requires something of a Faustian pact. Sure, you get high specs on the cheap, but you also don’t get Google’s core Android apps, including the Android Market so you can download many, many more. Except if you’re one enterprising hacker, you do! And he’s about to share the instructions.

User Paul over at the MoDaCo forums has managed to root his Advent Vega, and load it up with the Andorid Market, and all the core apps you’d hope for, like Gmail, Google Maps (and Navigation, though good luck without GPS) and the excellent Voice Actions. Paul says’s hes putting the instructions up today for others to try out, and you can bet we’ll be doing that with our own Advent Vega. Anything you want to know about it? Click here to see the unboxing and tell us!

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Grab the best Android GPS apps on the Market and no longer will you have to ask yourself, where are you going? What will you find there? Instead, your beloved Google phone will do all the work for you – see how with our Best Android GPS Top 5 list to the right of the full post.

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Hooray. Call of Duty online is one of those things that perennially attract rumours that Activision will slap a charge on it. Industry analysts have long bandied around theories that Activision will go to a subscription-based model for Call of Duty multiplayer. Now Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has gunned those rumours down like a battalion of AI enemies.
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An ingenious Apple TV hack allows the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to fling audio AND video from third party apps to the new Apple TV. The trouble is you’ll need to jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to make it work and have some coding chops to get it sorted. That puts this Apple TV hack beyond most people but the good news is the change required to give third party apps audio and video access to AirPlay is tiny. Apple only needs to marginally tweak the API to get hundreds the ability to fling video to your Apple TV too. Come on Apple, free up AirPlay for all! Hit the via link below for the full Apple TV hack code.

Out now | £99 | Apple (via TUAW)

Best iPad apps of the week

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Want the best iPad apps for your newly minted multitasking tablet? We’re happy to help. Join us as we take a look at some of the best, newest apps to arrive on Apple’s virtual app vendor. From the very finest games, including a contender to Angry Birds’ throne, to apps to making music and helping you get out of a tight spot abroad, this week’s picks are guaranteed to keep you glued to your tablet. Read on to see our favourite five this week in our best iPad apps roundup.

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Apple has been quietly snaffling up RIM employees which is bad news for the Blackberry barons. Apple has taken five members of the RIM enterprise team over the past few months which might not sound interesting but is actually quite strategically interesting. Apple claims 80% of Fortune 500 companies are trialling the iPhone and iOS 4.2 is clearly pushing the iPad into business tech territory…
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Like Google News? Hah! Pitiful. Now a news service with 175m reporters – that’d be something. And Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wants to make one. He’s talking up the idea of a Twitter news service. Is that an intriguing idea or the recipe for a soup of supposition and downright lies?
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