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• Google acquires music sync company PushLife

  Google has acquired Canadian mobile application developer PushLife, the companies said Monday.

• LinkedIn app arrives on Android Market

  The professional networking site LinkedIn has finally announced the availability of an application for Android-based smartphones.

• iPhone and iPad crapware: 5 apps to avoid

  With more than 350,000 apps on Apple's App Store, you're sure to find some real stinkers. How can you avoid these crappy apps, or CRAPPS?

• Nokia offering new SDK for Qt

  Developers who want to take advantage of Nokia's cross-platform application and user interface framework can now access the latest release candidate.

• iPhone-iPad app spotlight: The Masters golf tournament

  Billed as the sporting event unlike any other, the hallowed Masters golf tournament at Augusta, Georgia, is probably more important to middle-aged executives than March Madness is to 20-somethings.

• Nokia Drop sends links, images from PCs to smartphones

  Nokia Beta Labs has released Drop, an application that allows users to send images and links from a browser to a Symbian smartphone, according to a Tuesday blog post.

• US operators prepare to launch Isis digital wallet pilot

  Isis will pilot its mobile commerce program based on Near-Field Communications technology in Salt Lake City in early- to mid-2012, the joint venture said on Monday.

• UberSocial fixes direct-message privacy bug

  UberSocial has fixed a bug in its Twitter software for mobile phones that put some users' privacy at risk.

• HP gives developers access to SDK for WebOS TouchPad

  Hewlett-Packard is giving developers early access to the webOS 3.0 SDK (Software Development Kit), hoping that they will start working on applications for the company's upcoming TouchPad tablet, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.

• Google adds in-app billing to Android Market

  Google has added the ability for developers to sell digital content from inside applications on Android Market, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

• Amazon launches Cloud-based smartphone music streaming

  Amazon's new Cloud Drive online storage service allows customers to store music in the cloud and, in the U.S., stream it to an Android app or through a Web browser.

• Amazon Appstore for Android: Reasons to love it and hate it

  Amazon.com took a significant step into the word of mobile applications this week with the launch of its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/apps">Amazon Appstore for Android</a>, now available for free to select users of Google Android devices.

• Emerging iPhone, iPad 2 app enables remote surveillance

  An iPad app that may soon play a pivotal role connecting soldiers on the street with airplanes hovering high above will be shown for the first time next month at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

• Femto Forum specifies APIs for femtocell apps

  The Femto Forum has published a set of API (Application Programming Interface) specifications, which will allow for the creation of applications that can be integrated with femtocells, the industry organization said on Tuesday.

• Opera releases browsers for smartphones, tablets

  Opera Software has released updated versions of its Mini and Mobile smartphone browsers, and adapted the browsers' interface for tablets, the Norwegian company said on Tuesday.