The Galaxy Nexus was just released on Verizon as the first device in the United States to ship with Android 4.0. However at this point, Android 4.0 is getting somewhat dated. Google announced Android 4.0.3 on Friday as an “incremental” software update. The core look and features of Ice Cream Sandwich will remain, but Android 4.0.3 contains some bug fixes and more APIs for developers. Google considers this version of Android to be the one it wants developers to focus on. Google wants developers to make sure their apps are compatible with Android 4.0.3 since this version will be present on devices not yet released.

Of the many iOS5 announcements Apple made yesterday was this: significant Twitter integration. From almost all of the stock Apple apps to, what we’re hearing, is two lines of code inserted into an app will Twitter-fy just about any 3rd party app. Twitter just made a huge deal with Apple. We’ve seen Facebook use similar more »

Ford has teamed up with Google and is now using the Google Prediction API to optimize cars output. Ford believes that using the cloud can make their cars better by aggregating data, perform scaled computations and ultimately result in greater efficiency. “The Google Prediction API allows us to utilize information that an individual driver creates more »

Facebook’s new like feature has already been taken advantage of by scammers who are using it to pump out like spam. Users who click like on their fake groups or sites such as “I am sad, please LIKE me to cheer me up” found themselves sent to portals with names like FBlike, Img-Mee, and LikePortal. more »

Twitter suffered an outage early yesterday that knocked both the main site and APIs offline for an hour. It’s not known what caused the outage but according to their blog, the site is nearly back to normal: We had a system-side issue this morning starting around 0800 Pacific that resulted in twitter.com experiencing two 30 more »

According to a tip, Facebook will unveil new location services in late April at f8, the companies developer conference. Based on other tips, there is expected to be two branches of location: one Facebook will use to allow users to share location with friends and the other branch would be an API for developers to more »

Twitter has been brewing up a new feature for their API. This time, it is a feature the Twitter employees call ‘Contributers.’ The basic idea behind the new feature is to allow businesses to have multiple people behind their Twitter account. This way, anytime a business tweets out some information, you know the individual behind more »

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.6 will not be released this week as originally anticipated. Instead, the new version of the web browser will be available on October 21. This falls on the day before the release of the new Windows 7. The update will include added support for the features integrated into the new more »

Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown. They simply called it “unexpected downtime.” In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process. This frustrated many developers and users of third party services, many of which had more »

Two days ago Twitter was knocked off line by a large scale DDoS attack and although back online, the site is still under attack and fighting to keep from being knocked offline again. Some of the steps they’ve taken have affected third party apps that use Twitter’s API. As a result users using those apps more »