Appolicious - Android games have made for great mobile entertainment, but don’t let the small screen limit your fun. A startup called BlueStacks is launching a virtualization tool that will run your Android apps, including games, on your Windows PC. The idea came to BlueStacks co-founder Suman Saraf when his young daughter wanted to continue playing Android games on the family computer. With a virtualization product already in the works, it was his daughter’s penchant for Android games that gave Saraf the idea.

PC Magazine - Sony Ericsson Canada's eShop, an online store for mobile phones and accessories, was breached, exposing the personal details of thousands of users.

Appolicious - Whether you’re more of a text or a video person, today’s fresh apps have something for you. News360 delivers a one-stop shop for news from the web, while Next Episode organizes and tracks your favorite TV shows.

PC Magazine - Just hours after Barnes & Noble unveiled a smaller, cheaper Nook e-reader for $139, Amazon attempted to one-up its rival by announcing a cheaper Kindle 3G e-reader with ads.

Digital Trends - With news being public for a while now that Barnes & Noble was going to be releasing a new e-reader, Amazon will have had ample time to prepare its response. And here it is: an ad-supported Kindle 3G.

AP - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is selling an ad-laden version of its Kindle 3G e-reader, which has wireless service for downloading books.

Reuters - Japan's Sony needs to assert control over Sony Ericsson if the handset joint venture is to recoup market share and relevance in the cut-throat world of mobile devices.

Appolicious - Quite well actually! The app is very well laid out, and it’s easy to find whatever you might be looking for. Things are divided up into categories, and there is a search function if you are looking for something specific. You can go into the featured section to find whatever is popular these days, or you can go by category. All the podcasts and video podcasts are here, and fully accessible, as are dozens and dozens of written articles. ...

Appolicious - While News360 is brand new to Android devices (arriving first on Honeycomb-based tablets), the company is a pioneer of sorts in terms of publishing news aggregating (or personalizing) apps on tablet devices.

Appolicious - Security is a matter of increasing importance for mobile devices. Apps have shown us the good and bad sides of new technology, and savvy consumers are becoming more aware of the implications. For Google (GOOG), security is an important factor on both sides of Android’s equation, as we saw with its recent patch for the data-leaking ClientLogin API, and even the DRM-related block put on rooted Android devices, protecting copyright holders through YouTube movie rentals.

Digital Trends - The AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile continues to move forward, but that’s not stopping the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the United States from beefing up its network while it can. The company’s 4G HSPA+ network has been beefed up, with a doubled peak download speed of up to 42 megabits per second, a press release reveals. The boosted performance is now up and running in 55 T-Mobile markets, including major cities like Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Appolicious - Not satisfied with Amazon’s Cloud Player for your Android music options? Check out the fresh Ghosttown, which streams music from the web. One day soon, one way or another, we’re gonna fill the Android music vacuum.

Reuters - The mayor of Mexico City, a quake-prone metropolis of 20 million people, said on Friday he is planning a warning system that will send alerts directly to mobile phones seconds before an earthquake strikes.

Digital Trends - Sorry, Samsung Infuse: Your title as the nation’s thinnest 4G smartphone was just considerably trumped. Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab and Arizona State University’s Motivational Environments Research Group have created a paper smartphone – called, ingeniously, PaperPhone – with all the functionality as the bulkier versions in our pockets. “This is the future, everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” creator and director of the lab Roel Vertegaal says. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.”

Digital Trends - Market analysis firm IDC pas published its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker data for the first quarter of 2011, and the results show consumers are jumping on the smartphone bandwagon like never before. According to IDC, worldwide sales of smartphones reached 99.6 million units during the first quarter of the year, a 79.7 percent increase over the 55.4 million units shipped in the same quarter a year ago. The reasons? Consumer demand, of course, fueled by both the availability of highly-anticipated new devices along with lower price points for older or basic smartphones that let users get their foot in the door.

Appolicious - Google (GOOG) has updated its Google Earth app this week, optimizing the 3D mapping software for Android tablets. This marks the first time 3D buildings from Google Earth have been made available for mobile devices. Until this update, 3D views were restricted to the desktop version. Google’s quite dedicated to Android Honeycomb 3.0, enhancing its capabilities with its own app updates. ...

Digital Trends - Few Google creations remain as captivating as Google Earth. Released in 2005, the app allows users to thoroughly explore the world, in a digital format, but with the feel of having actually visited the place. And now, finally, Google Earth has been fine-tuned for tablets powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system.