So it’s Saturday night and you’re out with friend.

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The Phone Stacking Game: Let’s Make This A Thing

The New York Times released its latest earnings report earlier this week, spurring another round of discussion about the newspaper’s paywall, which was launched  near the beginning of last year . The consensus: Early signs are positive, but it’s not doing well enough to offset plummeting print ad revenue. What’s the solution?

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I’m A New York Times Subscriber, So Where’s My Tote Bag?

The amount of stuff we trust to fly in and out of our smartphones is astounding . Just look at what happened when a couple of reporters got access to an unwitting (and rather unlucky) Apple employee’s iMessages alone — within days, they learned more about him than most people know about their closest friends. Now, imagine all the stuff that could fly in and out of a government official’s phone, or that of a highly-ranked member of the military

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U.S. Government & Military To Get Secret-Worthy Android Phones

Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love

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Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store

Most popular mobile sports apps are trying to feed you scores and news, or show you fantasy numbers. OnSports , by HitPost, is in a smaller class of apps that’s focused on users running the discussion themselves. And now, ahead of the Super Bowl this Sunday, viral growth and featured spots on the Android Market and the iTunes App Store are helping it step up against larger competitors.

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OnSports Mobile App Battles Its Way Up A Tough League Ahead Of The Super Bowl

Ansca Mobile , the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popular Corona SDK , is accusing its partner PapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK  for use in PapayaMobile’s  Social Game Engine . According to Ansca Mobile COO David Rangel, his company recently discovered that Papaya’s engine is what he calls a “blatant copy” of some aspects of the Corona SDK. In addition, says Rangel, some of PapayaMobile’s syntax and sample code is identical to Ansca’s, and the company is using graphic assets it took from the code on the PapayaMobile website

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Ansca Mobile Accuses Partner PapayaMobile Of Copying Its Code

Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned a Motorola Xoom between March and October 2011, because your personal information may be in someone else’s hands

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Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands

You know what’s funny? If you Google “how do you get kids to learn” (sans quotes, even), the first result goes to this TechCrunch blog post about an app that lets kids draw butts on the iPad.

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Making Learning Fun For Kids, Everything Butt Art Launches Its First iPad App

Nokia’s UK YouTube account has posted a video (below) promoting the pink Lumia 800, and shockingly enough it seems pretty targeted toward women.

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Dear Nokia, This Pink Lumia 800 Commercial Discouraged Me. -Boys Everywhere

Dropbox has no shortage of fans or users these days — their stellar wins at the Crunchies are proof of that — and now the cloud storage service is leaning on them to test an experimental new build of the Dropbox Android app. While the thrill of being on the bleeding edge is probably enough for some people to take the plunge, the real meat of the experimental build comes in the form of the new auto upload feature for photos and videos. It’s pretty much exactly what the name implies: as soon as you snap a photo or take a video with your Android device, it automatically gets uploaded to your account

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Test Dropbox’s New Android App And Snag Some Extra Storage Space