Personalized search on a local level: That’s what mobile is all about. GrubHub takes this to heart, updating its Android app for better results to feed your appetite. If you’re working on the go, VMware and HomePipe offer some great virtualization tools to access files and manage your desktop when you’re away from the office. Living life in the fast lane has never been easier, with Android at the helm. Learn more about these titles and others in this edition of Android Apps of the Week. As an early GrubHub user, I was happy when the take-out restaurant search tool went mobile. You can save credit cards and past orders to speed up the process for the next go-round, and GrubHub’s made search even easier with full integration on Google’s standard search bar. If you’re looking for local restaurants that deliver to your doorstep, start with GrubHub. It filters restaurants based Read More

Imagine my surprise when a drive that normally takes me 4 minutes took 20 thanks to the school buses suddenly on the road. It’s back to school time in my hometown, and millions of students across the country are gearing up, or already in gear, for it. Here are a few apps that Android-savvy students should download. They may not all be geared specifically for school, but they are apps that will help you on and off campus. Browse the apps and click the “Install” button to download them to your phone. Feel free to offer suggestions about other apps that students might enjoy. Thanks for the suggestion, Sean! Formerly known as SchoolDroid, A+ Homework is a way to track your course load. Users can create subjects/courses and then add new assignments with due dates. This is designed for the simplest needs for organizing assignments based on subject. If you want Read More

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has acquired Melodeo, a Seattle-based start-up that specializes in music applications and services for mobile devices, the companies confirmed on Wednesday. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but an anonymous source told TechCrunch that the price was around $30 million. The acquisition vaults HP into the battle for mobile music services. Shown here, Melodeo's Nutsie for Android lets users access iTunes playlists on their mobile phone. HP has acquired the company, and now could bring the service to its WebOS mobile platform. I've written about Melodeo's products a couple of times, most recently in January, when I got a demo of a forthcoming update to Melodeo's Nutsie app for Android phones. Nutsie (the name is an anagram of iTunes) runs on several mobile platforms, and gives users a way to get music from the iTunes library on their computer to a mobile device over the air. Unfortunately, the Read More

In the wake of Google's acquisition and temporary burial of Simplify, Seattle-based HomePipe has launched a similar free service that lets users stream their full iTunes library over the air to their iPhone or Android phone. Music playback in HomePipe's iPhone app. This is the album "You Are Free" by Cat Power, but it's hard to tell--there's no album art or information shown in the app. HomePipe launched in March with a new take on remote computer access. While consumer services such as LogMeIn or corporate technologies like Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services offer full keyboard-video-mouse, or KVM, access to your computer, HomePipe reasoned that mobile-phone users mainly want their data--for example, to show pictures or read documents locked away on a home PC. On Thursday, HomePipe updated its service and the associated iPhone and Android clients to support music streaming from a user's home computer. To get set up, you have Read More

HomePipe's a relatively new cloud-based storage app that's introduced a new twist: streaming your iTunes music from your Mac or PC to your Android phone. There are a couple of caveats, though. First, it's not as simple as downloading the app. You'll need a HomePipe account, which requires you to download some software onto your home computer. And we haven't had a chance to test it out for ourselves, so no guarantees on how smoothly the streaming happens. But it looks as though both the app and the service are free, so it might just be worth a shot—especially if your music collection is Frucci-sized. HomePipe is First to Stream Home iTunes Music to Google's Android HomePipe subscribers can now stream music or any audio file from their home music library, over 3G or WiFi to their browser, mobile device or phone anytime, anywhere SEATTLE, Wash, June 3, 2010 – HomePipe Read More

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