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Features Needed on Android… July 15th, 2010
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 Froyo is still too fresh to be updated… Still here are some of my views that should be added to Android 3.0 for sure…
- 1. Android Marketplace: Google must add a couple of sections like Top Apps, Staff Picked Apps, What’s New and also enhance the update processes to make it compete with the App Store…
- 2. Touch: There is noway that you can compare an Android phone touchscreen to that of an iPhone… Touch must be improved for sure or at least Google must address the issue if it’s a software or hardware problem…
- 3. Multitasking: Android multitasking is confusing, that’s because Android keep processes running in the background giving them a short time before killing them based on “You may need this” idea… I think that every Android app must add “Exit” button to the app menu to let users decide either to kill or to keep a particular process running in the background…
- 4. Networks: One of the annoying issues I was facing with Android is the need to setup the GPRS connection manually because Android do not get the network info automatically… what makes the problem even harder is when I visited the company and they told me that they do not know or support Android yet… The story becomes even worst when you travel, you don’t know how to configure a connection or even the number to call customer support… iPhone handles all GPRS, 3G and cellular data networks automatically…
Android is great, promising and absolutely powerful if and only if they keep enhancing and updating it. Android is good but still need a lot of work and enhancements to go through the same track of iPhone, not to copy it but to provide us better features than the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone
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NoSQL Movement!!! April 13th, 2010
There is a community thats been buzzing for quite a while now… Its called NoSQL…
As well all know Relational databases are a pain (you know where)… They force us to twist are object data to fit a particular RDMS (Relational Database Management System)…
Well then why use it??? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Facebook, Google, NoSQL, Yahoo
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Android App : Google Translate for Animals!!! April 1st, 2010
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 time — translates the speech of cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, Guinea pigs, hamsters, tortoises, horses, chickens, sheep, donkeys and pigs. Support for snakes, goats, bison and wildebeests is expected in a future update, slated for sometime in the the second half of 2010…
If you visit Google, they have a video explaining just how the Translate for Animals Android App works…
Tags: Android, App, Google, Insane
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Store Absolutely in Google Docs!!! April 1st, 2010
Do you use Google Docs to store your files???
Google announced in January that Google Docs is able to store any file, whether or not its a document… In addition, the maximum file size was increased to 1 GB… Could it actually get any more amazing than that???
Well now it just did…. 
Google has just announced that users can store absolutely anything using Google Docs… That’s right, including your car keys, remotes, concert tickets, and anything that you might possibly lose without Google’s help…
Are you moving far away? No problem! Upload your items to Google… Then download them at your new house!!!
What’s really amazing is the price at only 10 cents (USD) per kilogram, which includes free pickup and delivery to and from anywhere on our planet…
Tags: Google, Insane
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Youtube turns Five!!! February 15th, 2010
5 years ago Chad Hurley registered a URL that has revolutionized the way we see online videos… More than 20 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube… Personally i think that if it wasn’t for YouTube, we might not be as far down the road as we are with online video…
From the YouTube Blog:
When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the world. Five years into it, we’re as committed as ever to the core beliefs and principles that guided YouTube’s creation…
Our goal? To set the standard in online video delivery. Fast loading, high quality videos need to be able to play on any device, anywhere, anytime. And whether we’re supporting 1080p, 3D, or deploying auto-speech recognition technology, we innovate with an eye toward providing the best possible experience for all of you.
Tags: Google, Youtube
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Google Takes on Social Networking with Buzz!!!
February 10th, 2010
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on hand for the launch of Google Buzz Photo: REUTERS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on hand for the launch of Google Buzz Photo: REUTERS
Google has announced a new social networking service called “Buzz” that looks like Facebook but feels like Twitter… Buzz basically integrates your Gmail account and based on your location lets you share links, photos and videos, status updates with your contacts from your mobile device (supports iPhone, Android and Google has released a new version of Google Maps for Mobile for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices)… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Buzz, Facebook, Gmail, Google, twitter
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Google Drops Support for IE 6!!! February 9th, 2010
In my mailbox is a nasty looking mail for Microsoft by Google today…
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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Looks like the Browser war is never gonna stop… 
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google, Microsoft
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Google’s Super Bowl Ad!!! February 8th, 2010
As hinted by Eric Schmidt, Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday… The ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man whose simple plan to study abroad in Paris ends with his need to know how to assemble a crib…
Schmidt said in a post on the Google blog that the ad, “Parisian Love,” has been on YouTube for over three months and that the company decided “to share it with a wider audience.”
Tags: Google, Super Bowl, Youtube
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Symbian goes FOSS!!! February 4th, 2010
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 (EPL)…
We’re a community, not a company, owned by members not any one entity. — Symbian
I think the move comes seeing the increase in the popularity of likes of Android OS from Google and the iPhone OS from Apple who had slowly started stealing the limelight from Symbian…
But I seriously think Symbian is way late to gain back its popularity here… Should have released its code long time ago..
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, nokia, Symbian
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Steve Jobs on Google and Adobe!!! February 1st, 2010
Steve Jobs daring comments on Google and Adobe during Apple’s company wide “Town Hall” meeting at corporate headquarters, is surely gonna be criticized over this week…
Taken from WIRED :
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars.
About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
Looks like Jobs not happy with businesses not being Apple-friendly now days….
Tags: Adobe, Apple, Google, Steve Jobs
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