Tag: NEXUS

With the Gingerbread barely cooled on the Android 2.3 SDK, Google has now pushed another iteration to developers. In Android 2.3.3, it's all about expanding support for near-field communications -- that non-Packers NFC business we've been hearing so much about. In Android 2.3.3, Google has added a full-featured NFC read and write API, which will work with "almost any standard NFC tag in use ...

Google, just moments ago, launched the next iteration of the Android and Nexus product lines: Gingerbread and the Nexus S. The Nexus S, with a 4" Contour Display, two cameras, 16GB of memory and Near Field Communication, is jaw-dropping. But let's not get distracted by shiny things; as software nerds, it is Android 2.3, Gingerbread, that really interests us. If you're feeling brave, dive right ...

Love Firefox on your desktop? Wishing your Android handset could run a Mozilla browser, too? Well, now it can -- probably, anyway! Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukićević has shared the news on his personal blog: a Fennec pre-alpha for Android has arrived. Vlad states that the build has only been tested (internally, anyway) on the Nexus One and Moto Droid. But hey, this is a pre-alpha ...

Nexus is a free application launcher for Windows that works a lot like the OS X dock. It's hardly the only dock-style program launcher for Windows, but Nexus is one of the most attractive and flexible options I've seen. The free utility comes with a handful of themes and offers live previews of your CPU and RAM usage and your local weather forecast. There are a ton of advanced settings, many of ...