Though we’ve heard rumblings of a revised Android Market for a few weeks, it wasn’t until this weekend that we got to see exactly what the changes entailed. A posting from the official Android developers blog provides details and a pair of images that show a completely overhauled market application. Upon opening the application, users …

In a dramatic and potentially frustrating change to the Android Market, the time period in which you can get a refund on purchased apps has shrunk from 24 hours to a mere 15 minutes. Google will roll out an update to the Market to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher over the next two weeks. The update will focus …

Google’s next-gen smart phone, the Nexus S, is now available to pre-order from the Carphone Warehouse, with the mobile retailer promising you can have it delivered by the end of December if you order now. We wouldn’t bet our houses on getting the hotly anticipated Google phone delivered before Christmas, however — the phone is released on 20 December, and …

Angry Birds for Android will soon let you pay to get rid of ads, with the currently undisclosed fee charged directly to your phone bill rather than via Google Checkout. The hugely popular game’s Finnish developer, Rovio, wants other Android app makers to use its new system too. Bad Piggy Bank will also let players download the Mighty Eagle cheat. …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Jorge Bauermeister’s bio below. For those heavily engaged in the Internet regulation battle that has been raging over the past year, the next two weeks will be a nail-biting period. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski recently announced what seems to be a sensible compromise on the issue of Net neutrality, which …

After six weeks of techno-trash talking and silicon-based slander, one gadget has climbed to victory atop a mountain of dead, to crown itself the winner of our Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century tournament. And that singular piece of gorgeous, gallant gadgetry is the iPhone. We knew from the start Apple’s smart phone was a formidable contender, and over the …

Not to be outdone by Rovio’s Halloween- and Christmas-themed Angry Birds Seasons, Chillingo just took the wraps off Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift. That’s right: Om Nom is back, still hungry for candy, and still adorable as can be. The game serves up 75 25 new levels and immediately lives up to its name. Holiday Gift is absolutely free. You …

The LG Optimus Star has been pictured again, this time switched on and running a version of Android, but it isn’t Gingerbread. First pictured by Engadget, more images of the device were then revealed by a member of Androidforums.com and published on Phandroid. It is running an LG skin with Android 2.2 Froyo, which means it might not hit with …

Apple After introducing an API that allowed developers to check on an iOS device to see if its operating system had been compromised (read: jailbroken) less than six months ago, Apple has now unexpectedly dropped the functionality from iOS 4.2.1. The jailbreak detection API was part of the mobile device management (MDM) API which was introduced with iOS 4 in …

This year’s roster of game releases should put paid to any doubts about the capability of Apple’s iOS operating system as a gaming platform. There’s no doubt about it — the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are now proper portable consoles. Apple’s iDevices have played host to a string of triple-A titles from triple-A developers this year, including Grand Theft …