The Sony acquisition of Sony Ericsson has moved one step closer thanks to the approval of the European Commission. In case you hadn’t heard, Sony is in plans to acquire Sony Ericsson in hopes of creating a better more connected ecosystem for their products. Three months ago Sony paid €1.05 billion for Ericsson’s share of the partnership and we’re just witnessing the steps that Sony must forego before the acquisition can be complete.

Android SHADOWGUN fans have been waiting for the once exclusive add-on pack “The Leftover” to hit the Market and today’s that day! The Leftover is a direct update and follows the events of the original SHADOWGUN. The update is free and features:

Vlingo has come under scrutiny lately for apparently sending more data than they explain in their privacy agreement. These discrepancies were first noticed by the guys over AndroidPit and then later investigated by Android Central. According to Android Central:

Our conclusion is that everything’s on the up-and-up, but there were some issues with the way their privacy agreement was written or presented to the user and a software bug or two at work.

As if ASUS didn’t have enough problems with the whole GPS debacle on the Transformer Prime, it turns out a number of users have been complaining of random “lockups” ever since upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich. While it doesn’t seem to be a wide spread issue, there have been enough complaints that ASUS has promised to address the issue next month.

Popular news reader Pulse News has been updated to version 2.7.4. While nothing major has been added in this update, it does fix a couple bugs. Apparently there were some issues with the Dark Mode which have been fixed, as well as a few tablet bugs. They don’t go into specifics about what these bugs were but if you’re a frequent user of Pulse News, you’ll probably notice the fixes. If you haven’t used Pulse News, it’s a reader that takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. It features: