Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
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Why Isn’t Google Chrome A Part Of Android??? »
An excellent article by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch…
Unsurprisingly, the question came up once again at Google I/O last week. During a panel with a bunch of engineers on the Chrome team, it was one of the first questions asked. The response? “It’s not something we’re talking about right now.” Ouch.
“I don’t know how to answer that,” the engineered continued. Okay…
Another team member, probably realizing those answers sounded both cryptic and harsh, chimed in. “The important thing at the end of the day is to make browsers better. While it’s not strictly Chrome, we share a lot of code with the Android team. We’ll share more over time.” Okay, that’s better. Still, a bit odd.
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The Battle of Mobile OS…
I don’t really know why news agencies and users keep pushing either to Android or iPhone side, why there is no acceptance of healthy competition??? As a user, I don’t care which mobile platform is the world’s no.1 or no.999, because I get what I want from the platform I use, then there is no problem …
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Review : Sony Ericsson Xperia X10…
I recently bought a Sony Xperia X10 for my brother… So had a chance to use it for a couple of days… Many of my friends have been curious about what I think of it and Andriod, so I’ve decided to write a review for it… My primary cellphone right now is the iPhone 4 …
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Features Needed on Android…
Andriod is a great smartphone operating system no doubt… I’m sure that it is the only competitor to the iPhone and in couple of years time would definitely overtake the IPhone OS… Google hasn’t yet announced anything about Andriod 3.0 aka Gingerbread and I don’t think they are going to say anything about it as …
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Android App : Google Translate for Animals!!!
Looks like what Darwin wasn’t able to do, Google has done it with an Android App… Google today released Translate for Animals on the Android Market, marking the groundbreaking app that finally lets us humans communicate with our two-, three- and four-legged brethren… The revolutionary applications — which is free, despite the centuries of development …
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Coming Soon: Adobe Flash and AIR on Android!!!
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe has unveiled AIR and Flash 10.1 for Android, both of which should arrive in the first half of 2010… Have a look at its press release and blog article…. Looks like its Adobe’s reply to Steve Job’s comment that “They are lazy”… This move is like a knockout …
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Symbian goes FOSS!!!
Symbian 3 (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others), the new version of Symbian OS, will mark the change of Symbian from being a closed OS platform to become an Open Source platform where anyone can download and modify it for free… The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License …
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Leaked Nexus One Documents!!!
Gizmodo got hold of these Nexus One screenshots..
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Coming Soon : The Google Phone!!!
The Google Phone or Gphone has been rumoured for a long time, and while many of us have doubted its existence until now, the evidence is mounting up. Numerous Google staff are actually using an unbranded Gphone, and pictures of it have been posted via Twitter. It’s called the Nexus One, it runs Google Android …
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Google’s Got Goggles For Andriod!!!
Google has introduced a new visual-search technology for Android phones, giving it a hilarious name Google Goggles….