Time Warner Cable announced yesterday a new app for Android tablet customers that gives them the ability to program their DVR, add favorite channels and use their tablet as a remote control.

The Time Warner Cable press release said the app is available to all customers with set-top boxes or DVRs running the Time Warner Cable “Navigator” interactive program guide.

The app is designed to run on any Honeycomb (Android 3.x) tablet and is certified to run on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or Motorola Xoom. Customers can get the TWC TV 1.0 from the Android Market and log in to their TWC account from there.

Time Warner Cable introduced an iPad app in March of 2011 that lets TWC customers stream TV shows over their iPad. 

Time Warner Cable has removed several streaming channels from their controversial (among media giants) iPad app.

The cable company is currently fighting with Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News Corporation over their right to stream content to users who are paying for those channels in their at-home cable television packages.

Time Warner believes it has the right to stream that content to customers, but issued this statement today: “For the time being, we have decided to focus our iPad efforts on those enlightened programmers who understand the benefit and importance of allowing our subscribers — and their viewers — to watch their programming on any screen in their homes. In the meantime, we will pursue all of our legal rights against the programmers who don’t share our vision.”

Time Warner says they will add additional channels to the app overnight to make up for the lost content.

More from The New York Times.

Time Warner Cable launched a pretty cool (and extremely popular) iPad app a couple weeks ago, one which allows TWC cable and internet customers to watch a selection of cable channels in any room in their house, via their iPad.

It took almost no time for television networks to cry foul. 

Almost immediately, media giants like Viacom (MTV, VH1, Comedy Central) and Scripps (Food Network, HGTV) claimed the channel streaming was a violation of their contracts with Time Warner, and began threatening legal action.

Guess what else you can watch on your iPhone or iPad? NCAA tournament basketball games.

The NCAA March Madness app is free to download from iTunes, and it lets you watch any game in progress on any of the networks -- CBS, TBS, TNT, or truTV. So take your iPad or iPhone with you and anywhere you can get a wifi signal, you can keep up with the games. The app also has all the scores, the full tournament schedule, and brackets.

There are some March Madness apps for Android phones, but as far as I can tell, you can't watch games on them.

If you're looking for a really great app to enhance your Oscar viewing experience this weekend, you better be an Apple user.

Sure, there are tons of movie apps out there -- most will have extra content for the Oscars, and many will be available for users on a variety of platforms.

But the best Oscar app we've seen is built exclusively for Apple users (iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch). That would be the Oscar Backstage Pass from ABC Digital. That one blows everything else out of the water.

Get it while you can because PhotoGoo has been discounted to free for an undisclosed limited time.  You use your fingers to distort images. Well I guess you could use other body parts, but I think your fingers would be easiest. It seems like the sort of app you'd get and use for a while and forget, but I've found apps like these are a lot of fun for kids when you a desperate for a 'kidstracting' device.