TORONTO, Aug. 19 /CNW/ - SIRIUS Canada, the country’s leading audio entertainment company, today announced the launch of its official satellite radio app for Android-powered smartphones in Canada.

The SIRIUS App, available for free at http://www.sirius.ca/android allows SIRIUS Canada subscribers with android-powered smartphones to stream more than 100 channels of SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s leading news, sports, entertainment and commercial-free music content over cellular and WiFi networks. Android users who are not yet SIRIUS subscribers will be able to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

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The recent debut of the following smartphones:EVO 4G,Droid Incredible and the other Android phones is compelling more people to be interested in learning exactly what an Android phone can do. The biggest problem is trying to figure out exactly which apps work on these new Android phones.

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In addition to being a delicious frozen treat,  Froyo is also the codename for the next major version of Google’s Android mobile operating system. We knew it was going to be fast and feature Flash support, but now, according to TechCrunch, Android users have something else to look forward to: USB tethering, which will let you share your phone’s internet connection with your laptop, and the ability to turn your phone into a wireless hotspot.

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Starting today, Google Maps for mobile has a few new ways to help you and your friends quickly get to where you’re going whether you’re on 4 wheels or 2 (or maybe even 3). With Google Maps 4.2 for Android you can now get biking directions on the go, start Navigation from your Home screen, share places with friends, and more.

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Nearly two years after launching an iPhone app, Mint.com has arrived in the Android Market.  The personal finance tool has seen a great deal of success since launching it’s Web-based tools, helping to re-define what it means to have a finance tool that can be self-managed and optimized.  The company, which has since been acquired by Intuit, has further expanded its mobile presence, taking advantage of a few Android-specific features.

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One of the most glaring omissions from the Android market has been a high quality, free Twitter client.  Not anymore.

Announced this weekend on Twitter’s Blog, the official Android Twitter App goes beyond the scope of traditional third-party apps with hooks into other programs and the AndroidOS.

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There’s some good news for our phans who can’t use Google Checkout in their countries (or aren’t particular fans of it): PayPal has found a way to incorporate its payments system with Android and will soon be offered as an option in the Android Market.

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Twitter announced on Wednesday that it would be launching its own official application for Google Android devices.

At the moment, there’s no telling whether the company will build its own Android app from scratch or purchase an already-established Twitter client like Twidroid or Seesmic. If it follows precedent established just recently, the company will opt for the latter.

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There are new crowdsourcing apps being launched for Blackberry and Android devices this week - and it promises to truth-squad those service coverage maps offered up by the wireless carriers.

Called Root Mobile, the free app is configured to run in the background on a smartphone device to record the locations - via GPS - where calls drop or data connections.

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Android OS continues to grow and prosper

Android users and prospective buyers received plenty of good news this week.  Both Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and the beta of Opera’s Mini 5 mobile browser will be making their way to at least some Android handsets.  Handset makers also continue to advance with plans to step up Chinese sales of Android handsets.

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System i shops that adopt QlikTech’s Windows-based business intelligence software now have a new way to consume information, dashboards, and reports from their i/OS ERP systems: via mobile phones running Google’s mobile phone operating system, Android.

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Opera Software today launched the latest beta version of its popular mobile web browser, Opera Mini 5, for the Android mobile operating system (OS).
The Google Android mobile OS was first launched in October 2008 with the HTC Dream handset. India got Android in July 2009 with the launch of HTC Magic.

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In December 2008,  Microsoft surprised a lot of people by releasing an iPhone app ? Seadragon Mobile. A month later, they ensured the move wasn’t taken as a joke or gimmick by launching another app, Tag, into Apple’s App Store. Now, they have a few, including an app for Bing. And starting today, they’re doing the same for Android.

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It is highly unlikely that the new Google Shopper app for Android (as it is now), will change the way in which mcommerce is conducted on smart phones. Some people are enjoying the new app, which seems to be a hybrid between Google Goggles and a Barcode Scanner.

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The Apple iPhone managed to get Google Earth quite a while back now. For some reason Google [GOOG] haven’t launched Google Earth on the Android until now.

If you are running Android 2.1 then you should see Google Earth available in the market ready to download and install as you so wish.

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The BlackBerry may be the most popular phone in businesses today, but the openness of the Google Android platform is attractive too. Most of the big-name apps from the iPhone world are now available for the Android. And because the Android’s Web browser is based on the same WebKit rendering engine the iPhone uses, Web apps built for the iPhone will likely require minimal changes to work on Android devices.

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Texts without pics is like eating a peanut butter sandwich without jelly. Enter FunMail, the mobile jelly for your soul. It’s a new way to express yourself, where images match your words automatically. Don’t believe us? Try it free for yourself at http://funmail.com. This visual messaging app, dubbed as “Google Image Search meets text-messaging,” forges ahead with mass market availability by arriving on Google’s Android platform. Today, FunMail invites Android users to join the conversation and improves upon several compatibility issues with its updated iPhone app.

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IBM Jan. 18 unveiled the first applications for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms at Lotusphere 2010. Lotus Notes Traveler Companion is a free plug-in that lets iPhone users read their encrypted Lotus Notes e-mail. IBM later this year will also begin offering a Lotus Notes Traveler client for Android, beginning with Google’s Nexus One device. Also, RIM said it would sell BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr and a new version of the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections. RIM also said it was licensing Connections for use among its thousands of employees.

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For those of you who like to watch Turner Classic Movies (TCM), you’ll be happy to learn that a new Android app will be arriving in the Android Market next month.  The app will provides fans with advanced schedules, historical information on hundreds of films, fan commentary, photo galleries, original posters, artwork, and whole host of other features.  The price for the TCM application is not yet known but an iPhone version was released today for $2.99 in iTunes.

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Fremont, CA, January 15, 2010—(PR.com)—Mobifusion, a leading mobile value-added services provider and partner for media and publishing companies, announced the release of Version 2.0 for its Android-based applications, less than six months after launching its first Android apps.

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