Slingplayer for Android devices has been around for a while now. Sadly for Kindle Fire owners and their lack of the Android Market, they haven’t been able to indulge upto now. Jan. 31 is the day though, as Slingplayer for Kindle Fire will be arriving in the Amazon Appstore for $30.

We see Google working hard to provide better support for Android developers, and that’s a great thing.  We want developers for our platform of choice to be well taken care of so it’s worth learning to code for Android and releasing great applications.  Google’s not perfect in this regard, but they keep improving, and that’s the only way to make it better.  But el Goog needs to start focusing a little more on user support.

CyanogenMod 9 Music is now available for download, and you don’t even have to be running CM to install or use it.  It offers a level of customization you won’t find in other music apps, from things like searching the Android Market music store for the currently playing song, gestures for audio controls, sharing the current track with any of your social media outlets, and even setting your favorite song as a ringtone with one button.  To top it all off, the app has a theme engine that changes just about every aspect of the look.  A “Google Music” style theme is available, as is a theme template for you artistic types to have at it.

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Get the latest of one of the most popular sports video game franchise ever, Madden NFL ’12, for your Android device for just 99 cents from EA Sports.  The game was built for Android 2.1 or higher, and has optimized versions for both Tablets and the Xperia Play with it’s built-in control pad.  You can choose to play as any of the 32 NFL teams, and different game-play modes allow for complete micro-management of every bit of action on the field.

Fans of the hit E! show The Soup will definitely want to check out the free Android app of the same name. If you’re not familiar with it, the show features Joel McHale (who many know from Community), as he observes the best in pop culture.

If you’re making use of Kindle for Android on an ICS equipped device then you may have noticed it has some slight issues with freezing when you launch it. If you never noticed it — awesome but if you have, there is now an updated version available the addresses the issue. It’s labeled as v3.3.2 and you’ll find it readily available in the Android Market right now, download is past the break for you all.

Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition applications have been around for a while but they’ve been working on a new project for Android recently and with CES 2012 in full effect, they’ve gone ahead and taken the wraps off Dragon Go for Android.

You see stories everywhere saying how insecure and malware ridden Android is, most of which are just sensationalism and FUD.  The fact is that Android is very much like Windows, where developers (and unsavory types) can write software that you install without it being poured over and approved.  This means some of it will be malware — them’s the breaks and there’s not much that can be done about it.  Paranoid users will just not install any third party applications, savvy users will research every piece of code they install, and normal users can use a mobile security app like Kaspersky Lab’s latest offering, Mobile Security Lite.

There’s a fallacy about Android users: We’re cheapskates. We refuse to purchase applications. Or, at least, we don’t purchase apps as frequently as users of other platforms. On one hand, so what? There are countless bad-ass Android apps that don’t cost a dime. What’s wrong with that?