Let’s be honest: family and friends are swell, but food is really the star of the show whenever the November holiday rolls around, right? That means that whether you’re celebrating at home or heading out to a potluck, the heat is on to make something oh-so-delicious for the festivities. To help you in your endeavor, …

While Google’s big press event scheduled for today in New York may have been canceled, the company still decided to move forward with a slew of announcements via blog post. Among them was the release of Android 4.2, an updated version of Jelly Bean to come preinstalled on the new line of Nexus devices. Swype fans will be pleased to …

SwiftKey Looks like Android’s top-selling keyboard app, SwiftKey, has a sibling in the works, in the form of a new program called SwiftKey Flow. Officially announced today, SwiftKey Flow takes a page out of competitor Swype‘s book, by letting its users input text via continuous gliding gestures. What differentiates SwiftKey Flow, however, is the underlying natural-language technology that’s been migrated …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple surprises with fourth-gen, full-size iPad 3:14 At today’s Apple event, Apple exec Phil Schiller unveiled the brand-new fourth-generation iPad, and revealed that along with a faster, more powerful A6X processor the updated “iPad 4” will have a new LTE chipset that will work on new networks, including KDDI in Japan and Sprint. The iPad Mini …

Google Finally, starting today, the greater Android community can download the official Google Calendar app straight from Google Play. Previously available only on select devices like the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus, the official calendar app provides a robust hub for managing all of your calendars, including those associated with different Google accounts. With today’s release the app also gets …

Ever heard of Google’s GPS-tracking app called My Tracks? What about its bucket-list-like service called Schemer? In fact, you may be surprised to know that Google has actually developed several dozen Android apps, many of which you’ve never heard of. Here, we take a look at four such titles that are all incredibly interesting and can be surprisingly useful. Screenshot …

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With Microsoft SkyDrive recently touching down on Google Drive’s territory, it’s only fitting we take a look at how the two cloud storage and file-syncing Android apps fare against one another. On the one hand, we have Google Drive: the incumbent and the darling of the Android platform. And on the other hand, we have SkyDrive: Microsoft’s offering and somewhat …

By now, you know that today’s Apple event gave us the iPhone 5, iOS 6, iTunes 11, and a couple of new iPods. But what you may have missed were the revamped apps that also made appearances at the show. Here’s an overview of the impressive third-party titles that got some screen time at today’s big Apple event. Clumsy Ninja …

RadiumOne Previously available only on the iPhone, Via.Me today makes its way onto the Android platform. While it may seem like just another silly social network joining an already jostling crowd, Via.Me’s strongest selling point is the ease with which you can use it to post pictures, videos, and even audio clips to Facebook and Twitter, all from a single …