Verizon Galaxy Nexus' Android 4.0.4 update is now pushing

OK, boys and girls. It's here, live, pushing, ready, whatever. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus is in the midst of being upgraded to Android 4.0.4. You can now dive into your settings menu and pull down check for the update yourself. (Or update manually if you can't wait.) Better than Cornflakes, in our opinion. As a reminder, here's what's new in software version IMM76K:

Email, Messaging & Data

• Email messages will display properly when the text size is set to large.
• When sending a multimedia message to an Outlook email address, the file extension
• will send, allowing the recipient to successfully open an image.
• Successfully deleted emails on the device will be deleted from the desktop as well.
• Successfully send text messages without experiencing network connectivity issues.

Applications

• When viewing a Calendar reminder or appointment, you will now be able to view the full notes associated with the appointment.
• A down arrow has been added in the Calendar application that will expand the calendar message body, allowing you to view the entire message.

Device Features

• Successfully turn on Wi-Fi using the Power Control widget.
• Updates have been made to prevent the display from freezing or becoming unresponsive.
• Complete calls without experiencing choppy audio, clicking noises and one-way audio noises.
• Successfully access Voicemail and other automated systems without error.

If you're needing a little help or just wanna talk about what you're seeing in the update, be sure to swing by our Verizon Galaxy Nexus forums. They'll help cure what ails ya.

Twitter to start pushing "promoted tweets" into main timeline on official Android app

Twitter will be pushing mobile advertisments through their official Android and iOS applications, much like LinkedIn began doing just a month ago. You won't start seeing pop-up ads like we do in something like Angry Birds for example, but rather "promoted tweets" will begin to appear in your main timeline. 

At present, the promoted tweets and trends are only seen when you access the search pages within the app. Twitter have said though that initially only a small number of users will begin to see these tweets appear on their timeline from brands they follow. 

Twitter have tried to pretty it up and make the whole deal sound more user orientated -- but let's face it, it's straight up advertising. Mobile ads are here to stay though, and with 55% of Twitter traffic coming from mobile, it was only a matter of time before we saw something like this emerge.

Source: Twitter