A little late to the party, U.S. Cellular will be offering the Android 4.1 Update (Jelly Bean) for the Samsung Galaxy S III starting Friday Dec 21.

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Photography app Flock uses your device’s GPS capabilities to link up with your friends and make shared albums for photos you take at the same event. An update to XFINITY TV Player is next, bringing better video streaming capabilities. Finally, we have OverLight - Alpha, a puzzle game that uses lasers and glass blocks to cause chain explosions.

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Verizon (VZ) on Friday approved the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD. The latest software version delivers a variety of new features to Motorola’s two flagship smartphones, including enhanced notifications, improved performance and functionality of the user interface, and access a service dubbed the “Innovation of the Year”, Google Now. In addition, Verizon and Motorola have improved voice and data connectivity and have removed the Color and Verizon Video applications while adding Amazon’s (AMZN) mobile app suite. Both the DROID RAZR HD and MAXX HD are equipped with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and feature 4G LTE connectivity, 1GB of RAM, NFC, a microSD slot, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 4.7-inch

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A 21-year-old Indian woman thought Mumbai shouldn't have been shutdown for the funeral of an Islamophobic leader. Broadcasting such opinions on Facebook was apparently grounds for arrest. 

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(Adds detail, quote) BERLIN, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A church in Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumour to erect a gravestone with a ball beside it after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,000 angry messages. The dispute between the boy's parents and a Catholic church in the western city of Dortmund made national headlines. Newspapers printed poignant pictures of the dying boy in hospital last Christmas with Juergen Klopp, coach of his favourite club Borussia Dortmund. ...

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(Adds detail, quote) BERLIN, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A church in Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumour to erect a gravestone with a ball beside it after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,000 angry messages. The dispute between the boy's parents and a Catholic church in the western city of Dortmund made national headlines. Newspapers printed poignant pictures of the dying boy in hospital last Christmas with Juergen Klopp, coach of his favourite club Borussia Dortmund. ...

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Google’s (GOOG) Android Open Source Project technical lead Jean-Baptiste Queru on Tuesday announced a minor update to the Android Jelly Bean operating system. The Android 4.1.2 update delivers various bug fixes and improved performance and stability to the operating system, while also bringing landscape support to the Nexus 7 tablet while on the home screen. The Android 4.1.2 update is said to be rolling out now to pure Google devices such as the Nexus 7 tablet and unlocked Galaxy Nexus smartphones. Read

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Google’s (GOOG) Android Open Source Project technical lead Jean-Baptiste Queru on Tuesday announced a minor update to the Android Jelly Bean operating system. The Android 4.1.2 update delivers various bug fixes and improved performance and stability to the operating system, while also bringing landscape support to the Nexus 7 tablet while on the home screen. The Android 4.1.2 update is said to be rolling out now to pure Google devices such as the Nexus 7 tablet and unlocked Galaxy Nexus smartphones. Read

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Update 3:00 p.m.: An official Color spokesperson has denied that the app is closing down. "Color is not shutting down," this person told TechCrunch's Colleen Taylor. So we guess the social media bubble is still intact—for now.

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Now BlackBerry users can experience checking in and earning badges on the latest version of Foursquare.

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Exploring an observation initially made by iOS hacker @planetbeing, Shoutpedia notes that Apple has mysteriously begun censoring the word "jailbreak" in the U.S. iTunes Store. While not all mentions of the word are affected, the vast majority of them across all content types are currently being censored to "j*******k".


Apple has long objected to the jailbreaking process, which opens up iOS devices for installation of apps from non-Apple approved sources and other system tweaks. But it is unclear what the company is trying to achieve with its iTunes Store censoring, which affects such content as Thin Lizzy's song and album of that name and an episode of the The Roy Rogers Show from the early 1950s.


The censoring appears to only affect the U.S. iTunes Store at the present time, but it has been in effect for over eight hours now.

Update: The censoring appears to be inadvertent. Searches for 'jailbreak' on the Apple Store now return results without any asterisks.

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