iEmu target iOS Apps for Android, Windows and Linux

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Ready this week almost too ambitious Kickstarter project?

Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the early hackers of the iPhone. Goal? To get the iOS and works in an emulated State on Linux, Windows, Mac and Android.

In a building on top of QEMU is an open source project manager Chris Wade (who had a role in some of the early exploits of jailbreak iPhone) hopes to fully emulate the Samsung S5L8930 (A4) chipset used in iPhone 4 and first generation iPad.

This should be easy enough, right? I want to say that your computer can play SNES games and arcade games! This should be a breeze!

Yes No. Even after they figured out how to emulate a CPU (which, in accordance with this page, they've done), they still need to hack together an emulated GPU support, USB controller, Multitouch controller, memory, audio system and all secondary components (Bluetooth chip, GPS, compass, etc) and once they've got all the hardware stuff covers? Then they get to find out how to get all this stuff to download. I'd love to see all of this will happen to call it a massive project will be an understatement.

"But wait!"you're talking about. "Apple already provide their own iOS emulator?"

Like, but with some pretty big footnotes. First of all, Apple is Mac only solution. The second and not so easy to explain in a nutshell: Apple on iOS system test is a simulation, emulation. Although it looks like iOS and iOS acts like, Apple's Simulator isn't actually using a version of virtualized iOS. This is a trivial difference to 99.9% of the world (and even the very vast majority of developers iOS) — but for tiny piece people (safety engineers, digging for the deficiencies of the system, for example), a massive difference.

Now, for the ever important question: why? Because they (hopefully they) can. In addition, the objectives, get up "most of the iPad/iPhone apps" and works on iOS devices allows true iOS emulation on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS device (why device iOS? think virtual machines), and allows security engineers to give due consideration to iOS malware without potentially destroying their actual device. Plus reverse engineering, participation in theory leads to documentation on all aspects of the iPhone, that no one outside of Apple really understands.

Chris trying to raise $ 20 k for this project, which will cover his living expenses for 3 + months, he says, to cover the costs of hosting and production/delivery of the Kickstarter awards. If you're down throw a few greenbacks in the mission, you can find the project here, but it is known to Kickstarter: these guys have one hell of a mountain to climb. If they were able to get things up and load in a reasonable period of time, don't expect Android devices for chewin' through tons of iOS-native apps and games soon — there is still question as hardware emulation crazy computationally expensive to deal with.

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Seesmic is focused on social enterprise; Android, iPad Debuts Apps for Salesforce CRM

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Social application developer Seesmic makes a big step in social enterprise and debuting dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce CRM product (Windows phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. Android app will be published tomorrow morning at Salesforce at the annual Conference, Dreamforce and Seesmic launches iPad app within a few weeks.

For the background of Seesmic, which was founded by a French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, allows you to monitor and follow up the social web. Seesmic desktop, Internet and mobile clients integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Bonus using an application like Seesmic is the ability to combine your streams from a variety of social Web services such as YouTube, Foursquare, Techmeme, LinkedIn, and others.

But lately, Seesmic dabbling in the enterprise and launch more focused business functions. Last fall, Seesmic has deep integration with Salesforce enterprise social network chatter. And then earlier this year, Salesforce 4 million Australian dollars round in Seesmic.

Mostly Seesmic Android and iPad apps CRM lead all the functionality of Salesforce CRM for mobile phones. Users can search their Salesforce.com account from native applications; Search for leads, contacts, accounts, related activities and sets of chatter on the move; Creating and updating leads, contacts, tasks, and activities; Log calls and emails after meetings; and much more. And applications use mobile OS; to map users to their respective leads to their current location; upload photos and more. While prices had not been announced yet, Seesmic may charge a fee of $ 10 per month per user for the application.

Le Meur tells us that he does not compete with Salesforce CRM giant, because currently does not offer in-depth Android and iPad apps. In fact, Seesmic is working "hand in hand" with Salesforce mobile group to develop these native apps. And Salesforce particularly bullish on social enterprise at the end — "Welcome to the social enterprise» is the theme of the Dreamforce this year. As Le Meur said: "we are working with Salesforce, not compete with the company."

Of course it's interesting that Twitter's developer platform is shifting focus from building consumer and focusing on the enterprise. In March, Twitter basically told developers avoid compete with them on their own customers. It's not that Twitter doesn't want developers to build off their platform, they simply do not want developers to create clients that simulate Twitter's own services.

Thus Seesmic found new user base in the area of business. Le Meur explains that the use of mobile and social enterprise of the future for Seesmic. While the startup will not relinquish their Web and mobile applications (Android app company has more than one million users); all efforts of Seesmic now completely focused on attracting social for business users, "said Le million euros.

Seesmic BlackBerry app shuttered a few months ago. You can watch Le million euros in a recent conversation with TechCrunch TV Andrew Kina here.

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RIM's new BlackBerrys will be running QNX Android applications

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RIM announced prior to the PlayBook launch that it would be able to play nice with some Android applications, but in addition to the leaked beta, owners of the PlayBook yet nothing to show for it. RIM may not play out again with their upcoming line of QNX-powered BlackBerrys as Word from Waterloo is that they will be able to run Android applications right out of the gate.

Bloomberg's sources close to the project claimed that Android App player will be part of inventory software on QNX BlackBerrys when they start at the beginning of 2012. While adding potentially could add thousands of apps in the App world, RIM'S desolate, it may not be as easy as one might have hoped.

When RIM showed the concept App player, they noted the interested users just couldn't download Android applications on the market and launch them. More developers will have to unpack their code in order to make it a BlackBerry App world. RIM makes it sound like a trivial process (the developers can quickly and easily port their applications "), and they must, of course, hope this is the Turtle dev might not see the need to deal with the process if it turns out to be a headache.

While RIM's latest BlackBerry efforts were generally well received, its aging OPERATING SYSTEM can only do so much. QNX is perhaps the last chance to BlackBerry at holding onto mobile relevance and excellent Android app support could only help the cause. Launch App player PlayBook (allegedly scheduled for this autumn) will be the one to watch: it looks nice if RIM can only have a one-two punch, they must stay in the game. If not, well, I will Miss these keyboards dear.

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Android (finally) steps in the direction of WebKit and chrome

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Why not chrome is part of Android? This is a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, he never made much sense. Now they're finally taking steps to address this problem. A little. Can be.

As Google announced the team group WebKit-Dev today (to Google Peter Beverloo), now the Android team seeks to work more closely with the community of WebKit. Yes, it's a bit strange that so committed to "open" the product is not actually works with the open source community — but hey, better late than never.

Andrei Popescu Writes:

We wanted to give an update on the WebKit on Android. Some time ago, we started the higher Android port of WebKit. For a variety of reasons, this work took longer than expected and was never completed. We understand that the incomplete Android port that exists today in WebKit ToT caused quite a lot of confusion and inconvenience for the project as a whole, and we are very sorry for this.

The full story is a bit trickier than it seems on the surface. While Android has its own separate browser which are not branded as "Chrome", both share some code. But they are not the same thing, and two separate commands work on each. For whatever reason, Google decided not to brand the Android browser like chrome, and do it now may cause some confusion since no chrome OS is another operating system, built by Google, Android.

So here is what happens now: Google Android team going to start giving another, slightly modified build Android browser that is fully open source. Think of it as Google chrome chrome. Android code will be deleted, and probably everyone will be able to use this code to build a new mobile Web browser based on WebKit.

That's all in the tech talk:

We plan to start with a build script webkit.org which will be compiled of chrome in the DRT for Android using the Android NDK, SDK and tools. We look forward to a quite small set of changes to the port of chrome in order to achieve this goal. We are fully committed to support this new flavor of chromium WebKit port and build Bot up and running as soon as possible will do this simple task. At the same time, we will delete the existing incomplete Android port. This includes Android code into WebCore/platform/android, as any code protected macro PLATFORM (ANDROID).

That makes it particularly difficult to understand that it sure sounds like Google is planning to call this version of the Android open source browser chrome and this will just new taste. Perhaps it's not so bad, because there is already a Windows, OS X and Linux flavors (and Android, one will be very close to Linux, the OS core technology, they share), but the finished product to all of these operating systems is called chrome, Android, he still would not be (presumably, anyway).

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Android Devs can now begin to optimize their applications for Google TV

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In the autumn of last year, Google made a first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV is a platform that combines online using television content to create promising to usher in a new era of convenience and interactive experience.

Unfortunately to date, he was mainly a dud. The platform too complex user interface and content issues (some of the main channels specifically blocking access to their Web sites from Google TV devices) has resulted in low adoption. Google is reportedly giving platform for major revamp, and there is at least one more bright light in the future: coming soon, Google TV will support Android applications.

Now, Google has been promising platform will receive Android support since it was first announced that until now has not been strong indication as to when this will happen in reality (most specific got Google was "summer"). Today we are one big step closer to seeing that promise come off: Google just released a preview version of Google TV plugin for Android SDK.

This does not mean that you can install Android applications yet. Rather, it means that developers can begin to configure their existing Android applications for so-called "10-foot experience", in such a way that their application will be ready as soon as the update of the Google TV ship to users.

With the Android blog:

It is still early days, Google TV, and this release is another step in the developer tools for on the big screen. While initially a small number of applications available on TV, we expect that through the early release of the add-ins, which you will be able to bring optimized TV apps in ecosystems more quickly. To start doing this, load the add-in to Google TV today. In addition please continue to contact us in the Android developer community forum Google TV. We look forward to your input!

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CEO, HTC sticking with Android despite Google-Motorola

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"We welcome the news of today's acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to the protection of the Android, its partners and the entire ecosystem".

This was Peter Chou line right after the deal was announced by Google-Motorola and it appears that he took it. Today, HTC CEO announced his intention to stick to it with Google and Android in spite of the acquisition of several billion dollars.

According to the Wall Street Journal Chu seeks to reaffirm its support for the deal, saying it would benefit the entire ecosystem, because Google will have strong patent shield thanks for purchase. The end result: more Android for producers to work with.

Chu to dispel recent rumors that HTC considers the establishment of the OS on their own, stating that the company's goal is to differentiate their products during the mobilization of partnerships "with partners software Google and Microsoft. CHOW strategy, of course, it seems so far to work: HTC is the manufacturer of the Android phone # 1 in the country, with Motorola, per second.

Mr. Chu also noted that Google has been deeply committed to their relationship with HTC and with good reason: you don't need to remind you that the HTC Android partner number 1 and worked with the view of the mountains to bring the first Google phone to life in 2008. At the time believed that Google/Moto transactions can make for rough seas between Google and Android devices from other manufacturers, Chu and HTC, it seems to have faith that Google will live up to their famous "don't be evil" credo.

HTC, in a sense, it seems almost fearless these days: Chow turbulent support Google, HTC'S new patent suit against Apple and their acquisition of a controlling interest in the beats are sort of maverick, "we can handle anything" air about them. Even if the Motorola for receiving preferential treatment (and I have a hard time imagining that they will not be), HTC seems ready to accept what will happen next with a smile and a new phone in his hand.

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Android phone owners use their devices for an hour a day

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Nielsen found that Android users tend to spend more than an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven per cent of their time is spent working with apps, while the rest is spent on mobile Internet. Forty-three per cent of these applications are the top 10 apps market, while the top 50 applications used by 61 per cent of the time. Other applications – all 250 000 of them are used by the rest of the time.

The statistics come to Neilsen in a free webinar, which will be held on 15 September.

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Just give 'em. Buy a Samsung HDTV from Best Buy, get a plate of Samsung Android

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Best buy and Samsung are going to move some more Galaxy tabs on next week. Starting on Sunday, if you buy a top level Samsung 3D HDTV for $ 1500 and $ 2000, you'll also be able to return home with 10.1 Samsung Galaxy tab. So in other words, if you buy the over-hyped HDTV, Best Buy will unload the GalTab on you. Sounds perfect for the buyer, but one week promotion eloquently about the current state of the market, Android tablet.

This step is clever though. Consumers have not been explained on Android tablets, partly because they don't know about them. Beyond our silly little words tablet, the iPad is the single most consumers ever heard of this kit will at least get the Tablet into the hands of slightly different demographic.

Customers can choose either 46-inch and 55-inch Samsung 3D HDTV. Both feature LED backlight, 240 Hz motion and, of course, 3D technology. They are quite pricey options and a lot more than competing TV LG and Panasonic — but you get a free $ 500 tablet with Sammies.

This shows that the best buy and possible producers are beginning to understand that no iPad tablets not easy sale. This happens after best buy changed its computer Division to better feature display and Android tablets. Now they have the same location as the laptops, but it may not be enough to cycle through inventory, fast enough. Retailer reported a massive back-unsold HP touchscreen Tablet only selling 25.000 their 270 000.

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Mobiado Grand Touch phones: Android for stupidly rich

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Canadian luxury buffs on the Mobiado churning obscenely expensive (not to mention improperly designed) phones since 2004, and if you were to look at them, one thing becomes immediately clear: none of them worth the price. Dumbphones are swathed in gold and Pearl inlay dumbphones yet, after all.

However, the Mobiado tries something new with their series Grand Touch: bedazzled smartphones! Grand Touch and Grand Touch GCB are gingerbread powered handsets with 4-inch super AMOLED display. Not too shabby compared to everything else in their inventory. Both devices have buttons and backplates Sapphire Crystal Sapphire, but while Grand Touch casing is made from precision machined from solid aircraft aluminum, CNC, "Grand Touch GCB plated in gold 24 k.

Mobiado refuses to communicate their demanding clients, however, is that you can buy exactly the same device (I'd imagine) much less without all gilded attributes. This is because that's what Mobiado, did it seem to buy up a boatload of Samsung Nexus MOP and gave them a makeover. Slightly curved screen is a bit of a giveaway, but things like port placement and the number of fixed internal memory (16 GB) to close the deal.

Nevertheless, they've got quite a racket going on. Such devices are always intended for people who have more money than taste and who should say, that do not fall in love the uber rich? Mobiado has refused to list the price for the series Grand Touch, but there is a useful rule of thumb when it comes to this kind of thing: If you have to ask how much it is, you probably can't afford it.

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Peak soil: why Google will not bless Motorola as his favorite Android

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The basics: Google is buying Motorola, pending government approval. Everyone and their editor-at-large has written about it. Now I’ll take my shot at the soapbox.

I don’t know why Google acquired Motorola as opposed to simply licensing its trove of patents. My hunch is that it had more to do with fending off a threat from Microsoft than it had to do with Google’s hitherto unforeseen hardware ambitions.

But while I don’t know the why, I have some guesses as to what’s next. And I think that one of the prevailing theories — that Google is going to turn Motorola into its chosen House of Android, blessed with the latest and greatest releases before its competitors as it attempts to mirror Apple — is completely wrong.

Google CEO Larry Page, they say, has been inspired by Steve Jobs. He wants to completely own the Android experience, controlling both the hardware and the software from the ground up. Apple has reaped huge benefits with this strategy, and Google wants in on the action.

From where I’m sitting, the aforementioned scenario doesn’t make a lick of sense.

The way I see it, Android — and the smartphone industry in general — is still very much in a land grab mode. There are billions of people who are going to buy smartphones in the next five to ten years. Billions. Take every Android phone sold thus far, then multiply it by a factor of 10. Or 30. These phones will combine computing power and affordability in a way that has never been seen before. An $80 handset is selling like hotcakes in Kenya with no contract. Give it a few years and they’ll be selling for a fraction of that.

And that’s just the phones. Google allotted plenty of time at its recent I/O conference to discuss the future of Android — a future that includes Android-powered speakers, hardware accessories, and home appliances. There’ll be Android-powered car consoles, refrigerators, dishwashers, and clock radios. If it has an LCD screen, there isn’t much reason why it can’t be powered by Android.

But if Google wants to see this Android-powered future come to fruition, time is of the essence.

The Clock Is Ticking

All of the smartphone platforms have a strong lock-in effect. Those movies and app you’ve purchased on your iPhone? They’re not going to work on Android or Windows Phone any time soon, and vice versa. Switching between one of these platforms is painful for your wallet, and it’s only going to get worse as your growing library of DRMed content weighs you down.

And then there are the hardware ecosystems. Apple TV already runs on iOS; Google TV runs on Android. Xbox has Windows Phone integration. Each of these operating systems is going to get more promiscuous and spread to more devices. The mobile phones of today are hooks, luring you into the comfort of iOS or Android or Windows — and each of these devices is only friendly with other devices in the same ecosystem.

The point being, all of the of the customers who get snatched up by iOS, Web OS, or Windows today are going to be much harder for Google to convert down the line. Which is why it needs to get as many of them as it can, right now.

Which brings us back to the Motorola deal.

The Nexus Advantage?

HTC, Samsung, and the other OEMs have done an excellent job thus far at creating a diverse ecosystem of Android devices that have given Google’s OS a huge market share remarkably quickly. Yes, a few of the devices stink. But you know what? Most people don’t really care. Or, rather, they don’t know they should care, which is all the same to Google. And even the mediocre Android phones are still a huge leap over the ‘feature phones’ many people are transitioning away from.

In short, the system is doing exactly what Google needs it to. Android is spreading like wildfire. If the premature launch of the Xoom proved nothing else, it’s that Google cares far more about getting a solid foothold in the market than it does about the user experience.

Which is why it won’t be using Motorola to one-up the existing fleet of Android partners. There’s just no reason to release a suite of superior devices, because Android isn’t struggling. And besides, Google couldn’t pull it off even if they wanted to: being Apple is harder than it looks.

But what, you say? Hasn’t Google already proven that it can produce superior phones when it designs both the hardware and the software, as it has with its Nexus line?

Except, err, the Nexus phones aren’t that much better than their ‘normal’ counterparts. I’ve used both the Nexus One and the Nexus S extensively. From a hardware perspective, they’re good, but hardly revolutionary. The real reason people think these phones are superior has everything to do with their software. They have ‘vanilla’ Android installed and they receive system updates relatively quickly. Most people couldn’t care less about either of these things. And eventually the other OEMs may be able to make skins that are actually improvements over vanilla Android.

Of course, Google could still get ambitious and try to make a completely integrated fleet of Motorola Android devices that blow everything else (including the iPhone) out of the water. But it would only get one shot at it — such a move would infuriate its partners to the point that they would abandon the platform, or at the very least, begin to seek alternatives. I don’t think Google is going to take that chance.

Which is why, for the foreseeable future, Google is going to do everything it can to make Samsung, HTC, and other major OEMs happy. They will receive previews of upcoming releases of Android at the same time as Motorola. They will be chosen for Nexus releases when Motorola won’t be. And they will help ensure that Android permeates into every market and cranny it can.

So what changes will Google make to Motorola, if any? My guess is that we’ll see it start pushing the boundaries on what can be done with Android. Motorola will start aggressively testing the waters with new form factors and entirely new devices. The hits will be quickly copied by the other OEMs, who will enjoy the benefits of expanding into new markets. And Android will spread even further.

Of course, this land rush wouldn’t be possible if OEMs were concerned about Android’s future because of patent issues, and it could take years for them to be resolved. Which is why Google was willing to throw down $12.5 billion to make sure they were no longer a problem.

You Know What’s Cool?

Finally, I want to address the argument — if you can even call it that — that’s irked me most about recent analysis in Android-land. Namely, the notion that Android needs to start making more money immediately in order to justify this huge investment on Google’s part.

Any attempts by Google now to seriously monetize Android would be akin to Facebook doing a major ad push circa 2005. As I said earlier, this is still very much the land grab stage. Once it has billions of users on Android, Google will have plenty of opportunities to monetize them. It’ll know where its users are, who they’re friends with, where they’re going — and plenty of other information that is both a little creepy and very valuable.

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Millennial: Android captures 53 percent of impressions in Q2; iOS is 27% of the shares

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The largest remaining independent mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its 50th report today and to celebrate this, a number of statistical data, comparison of the growth of manufacturers and operating system over the past few years.

For example, in March 2010 iOS was 70 per cent of the impression share in the mobile ad network Millennial compared with Android in 6 per cent. Fast forward more than a year, and in June 2011, Android over take iOS, with 54 percent share of impressions of ads with iOS, taking 26 per cent. RIM pretty much had the same resource (14 per cent in 2010, compared to 15 per cent in 2011) for the period of time.

As Smartphone share rose from 45 per cent in March 2010, up to 65 per cent in June 2011. Feature phones, on the other hand, decreased from 34 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2011.

Another STAT to note in the report — 60 per cent of the device in the Millennial network use the touch screen as an input device, while only 27% of touch screen devices in 2009.

While Android is growing like gangbusters, Apple saw the biggest growth in terms of producers at the millennial network. In 2009, Apple has increased their market share as the producer of the best almost 20 percentage points (from 11% to 30%). Samsung was previously a top producer.

Millennial also took a look at the growth in network in the second quarter of 2011. In the second quarter of 2011 smartphones grew 8 percent quarter over quarter and led a Smartphone feature phone & device is connected with 67 percent of impressions. Connected devices increase 13 percent quarter over quarter and amounted to 17 per cent of the Smartphone to feature phone & device is connected to the mix in Q2.

Android to retain its position as the leading Smartphone OS mix impression at the millennial network in Q2, with 53% of impressions. iOS has actually increased by 4% quarter over quarter and represented 27% of the Smartphone OS mix impression in Q2. This can significantly jump 5, if the iPhone will be released next year.

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The mystery of the Android vulnerability detailed reasonably hackers

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Shane Macaulay and Riley Hassell were all set to go on stage at Black Hat and describe several methods of hacking Android devices. But they never appeared: in the last minute they decided not to disclose the vulnerabilities they discovered. Why? "To avoid an unacceptable risk to consumers window throughout the world and to guarantee the loans, where he was."

As a very white hat! Yes indeed, Hassel and Macaulay were worried that going public with these vulnerabilities can lead to scientific discussion and plugging security hole, but holiday Haq as millions of mobile phones succumbed to an unpatched exploits. They also learned just before going onstage, opening them can replicate some of the earlier findings, and they wanted to make sure they have proper confirmation. So they no-showed.

What is vulnerability? They are not telling just yet. And according to Google, "identified no errors appear in Android." is very Illuminating! About this, we'll see, I am sure.

In the news these days, that I felt just right to draw attention to a couple of guys to do things right so much a relic of hackers and hacks. That happiness will fix this security hole (which does not exist), and we will all be a little more next week.

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Google gives Android App inventor of a new home at the MIT Media Lab

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In July 2010, Google announced a great educational project called App inventor. Goal? Give programmers a pretty easy way to create their own applications on the Android platform, using the drag-and-drop to add pre-written "pieces" of the code. He has was inspired to study the language scratch, but with an Android.

I ran the platform through its paces soon after its launch, attempting to build some basic applications of my own. It was rough. He was not even close to an easy to use. But it was fun and he's obviously had a lot of potential in a learning environment. A year later, approximately 100 000 persons are using the platform, many of them in the field of education.

Unfortunately last week hack education broke the news that Google is going to shutting down the App inventor, despite the fact that it has received significant traction with the teachers. Apparently this was part of the Google CEO Larry page disk make Google more focused company, which includes assassinations from Google Labs.

Today, Google has some better news: he announced that the inventor of the App is live in the framework of the new MIT mobile learning centre that will be placed in the famous MIT Media Lab and the App inventor creator Hal Abelson and other MIT Professor Eric Klopfer, Mitchel Resnick (both of which were also an important role in the creation of the project).

I really like the inventor of the App is a good introduction to programming, and he also gets students used to programming with mobile devices in mind, which is clearly going to be a big deal, go ahead. And I am glad that MIT agreed to take the torch from Google and save it.

However, I think it's quite funny that Google announced App inventor and then killed him (at least as an internal project) only a year after its launch. There is no way this was a serious burden for the company in terms of resources. And if Google intends to work with one of the universities in the framework of the project, why not do this from the very beginning?

Android is still very early in his life, and some children who cut their teeth on the App inventor want to dive even deeper into the platform. Anyway, I think Google should consider putting more resources into making the App inventor more intuitive, expanding its functionality and then run additional learning tools to help students make the transition by using the drag-and-drop interface to Java and/or HTML5.  I hope that is exactly what will happen at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. But I wonder why Google does not find it necessary to see it through.

Here's an excerpt from Google's post, which was written by Hal Abelson, Professor of computer science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of technology:

App inventor for Android is a programming system that makes it easy for students to create mobile applications for Android smartphones — currently supports a community of about 100 000 teachers, students and hobbyists. Through these new initiatives at the MIT Center for mobile learning inventor App will connect to the Prime research at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in educational technologies and MIT'S long record of creation and support of open source software.

Google first launched the App inventor internally in order to move forward with speed and focus and transformed it to the point where he began to gain critical mass. Now, his influence can be compounded by cooperation with top academic institution. MIT Inventor of the App will adopt enriched studies with greater opportunities to influence the educational community. In a sense, the inventor of the App is now full circle, as I actually initiated the inventor of the App by Google, offering it as a project during my sabbatical with the company in 2008. The main code for the application of inventor Eric Klopfer laboratory and inspiration from Mitch Resnick zero project. The new Center is an excellent example of how industry and academia can effectively work together to create change, thanks to technology, and we look forward to what we can do next, however.

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Google brings video Movie Rentals for Android phones

Google video app, official video player for Android market rolling film was updated to run on smartphones running Android. Earlier application is only supported on Android 3.0 (hundred), operating system, Android tablet.

Last update is not compatible with all Android phones, however, only those who use the two latest versions of Android for Smartphones: Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Android 2.3 (biscuit).

When the application is installed on the phone with Android, you'll have access to both its own products from Android market, as well as any personal videos stored on your phone. In my case as I don't currently have any rentals on my device, in the section "My Rent" includes a list of "Top Rentals" instead.

It seems that this application is designed to work with the updated version of the Android market. When you are in Google video, click on the icon a small market on the top right on the main screen automatically opens the movies section within a complete application, Android market, provided that you have installed the latest version. This version has not made it for all Android phones yet, we hear. (For what it's worth, I got the update via a separate APCS across some time ago Forum XDA developers. yet another reason why I love Android!).

If you don't already have an updated app market, and you don't want to dig around for the file, Chipmunk AIC, you just can rent videos from the online version of the Android market instead.

As he did on the tablets, the updated app allows Smartphone stream movies via Wi-Fi or "pin", which allows you to download the movie to your phone for offline viewing. Rent a movie is good for 30 days, but once you start playing, you only have 24 hours to finish it.

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This is what Android 4: ice cream sandwich looks like?

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Google has been awful for the latest version of Android, but thanks to the folks over at RootzWiki and Android police, we may have our first ever peek at an ice cream sandwich. As always, keep those grains of salt handy — they claim that their source is solid, but there is no guarantee it's not just elegant skinned Nexus S.

We reported a few months ago that ice cream sandwich will have an updated user interface, and these images seem to confirm this statement. One thing to note right out of the gate that she seemed far more spacing: distance between app icons and their names slightly increased, while the change is small, it makes the whole design more open. This may be an allusion to the hybrid phone/tablet that spot for ice cream sandwich.

The notification bar, probably the biggest change with room for the large icon and updates. Box app also seems to have undergone a facelift, with different headers for applications and widgets and integrated relationship with the market for easy access. And you've probably noticed the neon blue points; Apparently Google is sticking with the throne as their design inspiration.

Both sites sporting various changes, but in short, IRK36b build packages as follows:

New missiles and app box interfaceWill start with Google shopper and support NFC devicesGmail has been completely re-themed to match the ICS (not shown) S Nexus would receive ICS through upgrade, but "Prime Nexus" will receive its UI changes firstMostly – many older devices must be able to run apps on itThe homescreen can be "stacked" the Google search bar built into the top of the homescreenLa hundred

If this is actually a fake, it's a pretty convincing one. This is certainly beginning to build and pixels will certainly moved between now and release date, but it seems quite possible that ice cream sandwich will ultimately look like.

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"Android for girls?" HTC bliss coming to Verizon

Verizon is preparing to launch Android phone, targeted at women, HTC bliss. The device comes in a "pretty" seafoam as green and will include dangling Charm that lights up when you have a missed call or a new message.

Oh and here's the best part-the phone is also rumored to come with a special gender-sensitive apps such as calorie counter and application for shopping.

Moan.

In case you can't tell, I'm not a fan of phones targeted at women.

But first, news:

The fact that the phone is not new information. Projects for the device were leaked in may, when is my next… the sources, who claimed the phone will be MID device, something of a cross between the HTC desire and aspiration of S Z.

Today we have more detailed information on possible specs that really confirms that this phone does not power. Sources for these claims are anonymous leaks, however, reported through YouHTC and HTC inside. So keep this in mind.

Bliss communications processor Qualcomm MSM7x30 will probably MSM7630 (due to Verizon's CDMA network), works at a frequency of 800 MHz. This puts it in line with other phones HTC desire z, and T-Mobile G2. Bliss GPU will Adreno 205 and it will run Android 2.3.4 (biscuit).

Only standout feature if you can even call it that, is the HTC sense of 3.5, the latest version. HTC is the overlay, attempts to provide more attractive and user-friendly interface for Android and HTC is one of the key points of sale or major weakness, depending on your personal opinion. I found the sense to go slowly and usually change it alternatively as LauncherPro, or GO launcher instead. You may not agree.

According to a leaked Verizon roadmap here posted by IGN Bliss is due to arrive next month.

Turning to the ladies?

What bothers me about the idea of Android phone "girl" that somehow my gender has different needs and expectations than their male counterparts when it comes to Smartphones. Color and flavors of a mobile phone is not necessarily "womanly" things – they can appeal to a younger demographic, or those who engage with interventions possible. But this does not mean only women.

What I take issue with is the marketing tactics of gender biases, Favorites Verizon deal from the very first day, starting with his Droid campaign featuring robots and comments about the racehorses, duct tape for Scud. "so strictly masculine.

Why Android should be set up differently for men and women? Last time I checked, women want men to do the same stuff in their devices: power, performance, hardware, software, plus lots and lots of applications.

And not only those diets.

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I have Android watches are now available for pre-order

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Although I found that I am a funny look and feel that wearable tech isn't nearly as close to a viable as we had expected, the clock actually comes and will cost $ 350, when blue sky begins to sell their pre-orders.

The clock works Freescale IMX233 and connects to the cellular phone via Bluetooth. This allows you to check the message and wee bits of information and little else.

You can check out the exciting video visualization on the Web site of the blue sky below and place your order now so that you can finally forget about clocks after he runs out of power and you have decided that this is too much trouble for replenishment.

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HTC Android explains the process, cancel the loader unlock tool guarantees coming later this month

Several months have passed since the HTC CEO Peter Chou announced that the company no longer block the bootloaders on their devices, and enthusiasts have nothing to show for it. Many of the latest HTC device remains locked tight, prompting many to wonder when they will deliver on their promises. Thanks to the updated post Facebook and timely tweet, however, now we have the answers to the questions we have been waiting for.

This process will begin with a Web tool (due out later this month), through which to register your account and refuse any and all liability in case everything goes horribly wrong. That's right folks, after removal of loader lock gives you much greater control over how the device works, you can kiss parts (or all) of your warranty goodbye. Once this is done by connecting an Android device to the computer with the installed SDK, and you'll get "device ID marker" which gets connected to the Web tool to generate unique unlock code.

Sounds simple enough, right? The first device to use unlocking treatment are the generic version of HTC sense and then buy the T-Mobile version of the device and Sprint Evo 3D. So how to unlock bootloader is one of the first steps to run the custom ROM, and indeed having some fun with Android, it is gratifying to see them focus on getting new hardware opened. Hopefully soon opened the floodgates, and we can start messing with our HTC toys with reckless abandon.

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Google rips Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, for "Bogus patents and heavy" Suffocate "Android

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In the past I have been critical of Google is trying to dance around directly calling out their competitors who are trying to actively screw them. Today, they no longer dance.

In the post, just put on the main Google blog Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond takes shot after shot at Google's competitors. The name he calls Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. What is it all about? What else? Patents.

"I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades. Microsoft and Apple were always at each other's throats, so that when they get in bed together, you have to start wondering what's going on, "is the way Drummond kicks off my post. He goes on to lay out what he believes is "hostile, an organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, through fictitious patents."

He talks about not only the latest Nortel patent auction (which Google was lost during the Group's competitors, including Apple and Microsoft won) but Novell patent sale (which was also bought by the group, including Microsoft and Apple), Microsoft's insistance that Android OEM pay them $ 15 licenses for each device and Sue Barnes Noble &, HTCMotorola and Samsung. Patents were designed to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as weapons, to stop it, "Drummond wrote.

While Drummond, said that their rival "anti-competitive strategy is driving up the price of patents on the market to insane levels, he believes the law will eventually prevail and this patent bubble will pop.

In this case, we thought it was important to speak out and make it clear that we are all determined to keep Android as competitive consumer choice, stopping anyone who tries to strangle him, "he notes, said that the Ministry of Justice is currently examining if Apple and Microsoft's acquisition of Nortel patents anti-competitive means.

"We also look at other ways to reduce anti-competitive threats against Android by strengthening our own patent portfolio. If we act, consumers may encounter cost increases for Android devices – and less options for their next phone, "is how to end this post.

Features. Their fighting words.

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iSpeech launches free Mobile SDK to bring speech recognition for iOS, Android applications

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iSpeech, developers for speech to text messages DriveSafe .LY brings its text-to-speech technology for iOS, Android and BlackBerry applications with the launch of the new SDK.

The new self-service platform enables developers to incorporate speech recognition and text to speech in their own applications. And the service is free for all mobile developers with support for iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices.

ISpeech SDK and APIs provide more than 40 votes, the text of the speech with the support of more than 25 languages. Additional services are also available, including celebrities and custom text to speech voices, as well as opportunities for developers to improve speech recognition performance for their specific use case.

Already iSpeech opening APIs for some partners, including TeleNav, car and driver, DailyHoroscope and much more. iSpeech said that 1 billion text-to-speech conversion date and speech recognition.

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