Posts by Buster Hein

freeappsandorid

While Google Play has been pretty stingy with its free app gifts, Amazon has been holding down the Free App Giveway Fort on Android with weekly promos similar to Apple’s App of the Week freebies. This week, rather than giving away just one app, Amazon is giving away 10 of its greatest hits, including Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, SwiftKey, Paper Camera, World of Goo, and more.

To get the freebies all you need to do is hit up this Amazon Appstore promo page on your Android device. Or you can use the individual links posted below:

Aiowireless

AT&T has received a lot of gruff over the past few months from T-Mobile and its prepaid wireless service plans, so to strike back, AT&T is launching its Aio Wireless prepaid brand nationwide next month.

The new service offers AT&T customers the option to sign up for prepaid data plans starting as cheap as $40 a month for 250MB, to $70 a month for 7GB with a bunch of other options in between. After being tested in markets in Flordia, Texas, and Atlanta, Aio wireless will be available online to all U.S. customers starting mid-September.

diggforGooglePlay

After months of only being available on iOS and the web, Digg announced this afternoon that its popular new Digg Reader app is finally available on Google Play.

Digg Reader for Android features the same clean and simple design found on the iOS and web apps. You can organize RSS feeds into folders. Follow your favorite publishers, writers, and bloggers, and share stories to Twitter, Facebook, or save stories to be read later.

Here are the full release notes:

Digg delivers the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Internet. Powered by social signals and old-fashioned human judgment, our editors turn the Internet’s vast and cacophonous flood of articles, blog posts, magazine pieces, status updates, photos and videos into the elegant and endlessly engrossing mix known as Digg. And now the new Digg Reader is a simple, powerful and speedy way to follow your favorite sources and publishers.

◆ Introducing Digg Reader for Android! A fast, clean, and simple real-time reading app.
◆ Find and follow your favorite online publishers, writers, and bloggers.
◆ Organize RSS feeds and other sources via folders. Quickly sort to see the most popular items across the social Internet.
◆ Digg your favorite stories and share them via Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr, LinkedIn, email, and text.
◆ Save stories to read later on Digg, Instapaper, and Pocket

youtubelogo

As the undisputed King of Internet Video, it’s kind of hard for YouTube to make any big changes without the public noticing, but over the last 10 days, YouTube has slowly rolled out a redesigned logo, first on its iOS and Android apps, and now to Twitter and Facebook as well.

The new logo ditches the old, thick, bubbly font that’s been in use since the company first started out in 2005, for a flatter, more simplified look that prominently features the YouTube Play button. Curiously, YouTube hasn’t rolled out the new logo to its website yet, nor announced any official changes, but now that it’s in the official YouTube apps, it looks like it’s safe to say this change will be permanent.

Here’s a higher-res version of the new logo:

nflsundayticket

As one of the biggest media companies in the world, Google has been dying to break into TV and while its latest offerings have been tempting, a new report suggests Google is considering buying access to the most popular sport in America.

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