But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

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When EchoStar XV begins operations later this summer, it will allow DISH Network to continue expanding the largest high definition offering in the U.S. The company currently delivers more than 200 national HD channels as well as HD locals in 156 markets.

Built by Space Systems/Loral, EchoStar XV launched on an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:40 p.m. EDT onSaturday, July 10. After a nine-hour, 13-minute mission, EchoStar XV was successfully released into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The satellite will ultimately reside at 61.5 degrees West Longitude at an altitude of approximately 22,000 miles.

“The launch of EchoStar XV demonstrates DISH Network’s continuing commitment to delivering the most high-quality HD programming at the best value,” said Tom Cullen, executive vice president. “DISH Network is the only pay-TV provider that offers ‘HD Free For Life’ to every customer, and we’re proud that EchoStar XV will soon allow us to provide even more high definition channels for free.”

For more information about DISH Network, including its HD Free For Life promotion, visit www.onestop.biz.

Source: DISH Network Press Release

The Incredible runs Android 2.1 with HTC Sense UI overlay. Additionally, the phone features a 3.7-inch touch screen, 8-megapixel camera, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and support for Microsoft Exchange Sync.

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 7, 2010 –– DIRECTV, the world’s most popular video service, is giving customers a virtual HD DVR in any room of the home with the launch of its new DIRECTV® Whole-Home DVR service, which is currently available to DIRECTV customers nationwide. In addition, beginning today, DIRECTV is launching a national print, broadcast and online advertising campaign to coincide with the launch of the 
new service.

With the new multi-room service customers have even more control over their television viewing experience by being able to share recorded programs on any TV in the home, begin a program in one room and finish it in another, and access DIRECTV’s DVR technology on non-DVR HD receivers.

The DIRECTV® Whole-Home DVR service eliminates the need for multiple HD DVRs by allowing customers to record and watch their favorite shows in up to 15 rooms in their home with a single HD DVR.

“We’ve created a connected whole-home service that is perfectly attuned to our customers viewing habits and lifestyles, delivering a DVR experience with maximum convenience and control,” said Romulo Pontual, CTO of DIRECTV. “The DIRECTV®Whole-Home DVR service truly enables customers to watch what they want, where they want and when they want it, by simply using a single HD DVR.”

The DIRECTV® Whole-Home DVR Service is available for $3 per month and provides customers with features such as:

• Access to a single, combined playlist of all of their recorded programs on any connected television in the home
• DVR controls in every room, including record, delete, pause and rewind functionality
• Stop a recorded show in one room and continue watching in a different room
• Manage DVR playlist from any connected room
• Set separate parental controls for each TV
• Watch recorded shows in HD in any connected room

For more information on the DIRECTV® Whole-Home DVR Service please visitwww.directv.com/wholehome.

Source: DIRECTV Press Release