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Jul 10

Google Pushes Further into Yelp’s Territory with Maps



In an update coupled with Google Maps 4.4 for Android 1.6 and above, Google has improved the mobile offering of Places. Android owners can now add the Places icon to their home screens and use it to quickly locate nearby venues and their accompanying information-rich business listings.

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Jul 10

Android’s ascent in China might not elevate Google

Android’s growing popularity in China may not be a victory for Google, because Chinese mobile industry has created its own fork of the platform that cuts out Google as the middle man.

…Like most Linux-based mobile platforms, Android is not entirely open source. The core operating system consists of the GPL-licensed Linux kernel and an Apache-licensed middleware and userspace stack. Several key components at the higher levels of the platform particularly the Android market and several other pieces of Google-branded software are proprietary. Device makers that want to use include those components on their products have to commercially license the software from Google.

In our recent in-depth coverage of the Android fragmentation issue, we explained that Google uses its ownership of the Android Market as leverage to ensure interoperability between Android devices and to encourage a certain degree of consistency. In addition to paying licensing fees, Android Market licensees must also demonstrate that their products meet the strict requirements of Google’s compatibility specification.

As the sole arbiter of Android’s dominant application delivery channel, Google has enormous control over the…

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20
Jul 10

Google to abandon Nexus One web store soon

Final delivery of Google’s Nexus One Android handset means that the company’s web store will close shortly

…Writing
in May Mr Rubin said on the company’s Nexus One blog: While the global
adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web
store has not. It s remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it s
clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone,
and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from. Now the
company has revealed
that This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we
sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from
Google….

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19
Jul 10

Google Discontinues the Nexus One Android Phone

Google has pulled the plug on the Nexus One, its once highly anticipated smartphone. The last shipment has arrived at Google HQ, and once those are gone there will be no more Nexus Ones for U.S. consumers.

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15
Jul 10

Linux Phones To Dominate Mobile Market — Linux Phones

Google’s Android and Chrome OS, Intel-Nokia’s MeeGo and Palm’s webOS are among the Linux-based operating systems that will run 62% of non-smartphones by 2015, according to ABI Research.

…Their final consumer offerings, of course, are differentiated by the providers individual application and OS environments including Google’s Android platform and Chrome OS, Intel-Nokia’s MeeGo and Palm’s webOS.

Conspicuous by its absence is Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS which use their own proprietary operating systems.

The lineup of Linux-based phones includes several from the LiMo Foundation, which to date hasn’t made a major impact in the market. However, more LiMo handsets are likely to appear in accelerating numbers as more and more members introduce their phones. The LiMo foundation offers a modular platform that is plug-in-based and hardware-independent while built around Linux software. The food chain ranges all the way from chipsets to third-party software developers.

ABI Research noted that it has prepared a separate report on smartphones using Linux.

Virtualization and cloud computing have taken over the mantle of hottest technology that only a few years ago was held…

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14
Jul 10

Why Android’s Victory is Inevitable

Arguably the most important development in the world of open source in the last year or two has been the rise and rise of Google’s Linux-based Android operating system. It’s true that the mobiles out there employing it are not 100% free, but they are considerably more free than the main alternatives.

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WWW: World Wide Wikipedia
I love Wikipedia. I love using it, frequently spending many a spare minute (that I don’t actually have) simply wandering from one entry to another, learning things I never knew I never knew. I love it, too, as an amazing example of why sharing and openness work. For those who aren’t programmers, and who therefore don’t grok the evident rightness of the open source methodology, Wikipedia is a great way of explaining how it’s done and why it’s so good.
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Jul 10

Fresh And Free Google Android Apps

Android is Google�s Operating system for mobile devices, and you may have listen from various sources that Android is growing at a rapid pace.

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14
Jul 10

Google Open Spot

Open Spot, launched by Google, allows all Android (2.0 and up) users to search for unclaimed spaces marked by Open Spot users, as well as mark their own should they leave a spot

…Open Spot, launched by Google, allows all Android (2.0 and up) users to search for unclaimed spaces marked by Open Spot users, as well as mark their own should they leave a spot. While initiatives such as this have been tried before, this is the first one that is backed by such a large user base. Once spots are marked, they are color coded based on how long ago they were marked. While the app is free, it does not come with features such as notes, which would allow users to mark a spot as metered, free, or permit parking. The success of such an app depends entirely on user usage, so if you are a frequent city driver make it a habit to mark your parking spot when you leave. You never know, this app could save you an hour of driving in circles looking for a spot one day!
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13
Jul 10

Android 2.2 comes to the T-Mobile G1

Early adopters of the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream/Magic) can now have the first fully-functioning build of CyanogenMod 6, which is based on Google’s Froyo (Android 2.2).

…Early adopters of the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream/Magic) can now have the first fully-functioning build of CyanogenMod 6, which is based on Google’s Froyo (Android 2.2). Cyanogen’s rooted copy of Android 2.2 seems to have nearly all the bells and whistles of the actual version with the exception of Flash 10.1. While the majority of the software works without a hitch, converters are reporting errors when attempting to access the Android Marketplace from their phones. In addition, the rooting process can often lead to the bricking of your phone if you are not careful.
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Jul 10

Google demos codeless Android development tool for students

Google has created a browser-based visual development tool that allows users to build Android applications without having to write a single line of code.

…Google has announced a new browser-based visual development tool called App Inventor that allows users to create Android applications without having to write any code. It appears to be aimed primarily at students.

App Inventor enables user interface design with a simple drag-and-drop layout system. The behavior of the user interface elements can be programmed via a visual development system that the user manipulates by organizing blocks with specific programming characteristics into various structures. The blocks can be dragged around and snapped into each other to form relatively sophisticated programs. This aspect of App Inventor is based on Scratch, an MIT visual programming language.

The compiler that translates the blocks into Android bytecode is built on top of the GNU Kawa framework, which provides a Scheme-based intermediate language. It’s worth noting that Kawa can also be used standalone to build entire Android applications with Scheme.

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