¿Open Playbook Android apps?
¿Playbook with Android?
In the world of market applications and mobile devices could be said that no longer exist as itching to strategic moves. Everything is permitted provided that the actions are justified from the standpoint of the universal goal of maximizing the income of this month.
This has been expressed in the commercial arrangements that have been conducted recently Nokia and Microsoft. Much has been made anywhere on this agreement and also on the readings that have been made from the specialized journalism in relation to this. Well, today we discuss another story quite like the one mentioned in this paragraph. But now what we have to note is that Blackberry applications start running Android.
Such things are so much more confusing than they are. Well the truth is that only the new tablet Blackberry, the playbook, you have the option of providing their users to download applications originating operating system for smart phones from Google.
In principle fans Blackberry users may be offended, because somehow the terminals generate their fanaticism and enmity corporate business leads to generate also "hatred" between the followers of these companies.
However, if you think about it, it realizes that this could bring many benefits to the user.
For, as many already know, the difference of applications offered by Blackberry and Android is abysmal.
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Gingerbread Android Update 2.3.3 (Nexus One)
Gingerbread Android update to Nexus
We have already commented in this space some of the essential determinations Google operating system for smartphone terminals. It is then time to repeat. Perhaps it is already time to start presenting some interesting news from the operating system that has made the concept of open source its basic nature.
One of these stories that deserve to be exposed here, is the recent launch by Google from Android 2.3.3 update. Gingerbread for the Nexus One
It is important to know that not only is available for this device the update in question, but will also be beneficiaries of this Nexus S owners. In this case the update comes in handy because, as many know, the Nexus S had a fundamental flaw in its operating system that caused random reboots are generated in the mobile phone. Another element of this update as far as the Nexus S is concerned, is that it optimizes the chip support for Near Field Communications.
Now, one of the novelties of this update for owners of Nexus, is that it has removed the option of attaching the address book of Facebook with the phone contact list. This ends up making the equivalent of a step back, because now everyone have a Facebook account, this being an obstacle on the path to complete community 2.0. Read more
Android tablets
Android tablets
Within the market of electronic and informational engineering is known that the immediate future will witness a boom in so-called tablet in which both the companies responsible for developing operating systems such as those responsible in producing gadgets of all kinds will have to merge into one unit production in which everything is designed to enhance the usability of these products.
In this post we will make a brief and modest reference to the type of experience that enables Google's operating system designed for tablets in the present tense. This does not mean that there is no change in the future, on the contrary. But it is important to mark the peculiarities of using the Android trying to highlight the complications and difficulties involved.
Android in principle is not in a maturation point too high in relation to tablets. As if he still missing a lot to learn. This is evidenced by the first user contact with the OS. Today the Android version circulating on the tablets of the world is 2.2. As noted already in the specialized journalism this version is just a test a proto-version, which has been "groped" the market and the type of experience that raises the Android as part of a tablet. Read more
Chrome turns 2 years old
And it celebrates and stable version 6.0.472.63 , the share of users has increased, extensions have multiplied and BSD versions only be missing or Haiku in its efforts to win adherents.
Firefox 4 and IE9 intends to fight proposed does not disappear off the onslaught of all Internet show the code html5, javascript, flash, silverlight and xml.
Google is the new owner of the world if only for the virtual time interacting with the real world.
Chrome OS and tablet together for November
Chrome OS and tablet together for November
Google for quite some time that we are accustomed to not knowing much about what goes on inside your arteries autonomous world. It is this: Google has established its own logic, tight, that does not allow access to journalists and users to maintain a transparent relationship with them. So we could say that Google does not communicate anything about it.
However, this should not be evaluated as morally bad, to the extent that it is feasible to justify the type of communication strategy that Google has adopted. Well, is that it must be remembered that the company is engaged in the development of a complete operating system, Chrome OS, and as a source of Download Squad it would arrive on November 26. Moreover, come standard on a tablet computer that would be kind HTC manufactured.
Although for us is a typical day in the United States on November 26 corresponds to the so-called Black Friday, traditionally a day in which all businesses lower their products at very attractive prices for people to go shopping. An ideal day to launch a major product. Read more
Facebook and Google, and the popular new stars
Google - Facebook, and new pop stars
In the global culture industry there is a strange role reversal. We could say that some years ago the popular emotions and affections were deposited in the figures of the pop stars. They may have been the "Spice Girls" a phenomenon evident in this regard. But without doubt so were the stars of Hollywood.
Relatively recent years this has changed. The passage of the musicians to sports has been evident with the cult of football players that are expressed in the mass media. Cristiano Ronaldo is a Spice Girl and Lionel Messi could be the next Leonardo DiCaprio.
But it happens that the world of technology being left behind. And the object libidinal investment that occurred in these cases of famous individuals of the culture industry seems to be now on the side of corporate giants such as Google or Facebook.
Usually a few signings in the world of technology reach the cover of many publications, but the addition of Matt Papakipos, an engineer at Google, Facebook team is still one of the day's news.
Matt Papakipos is the person who started the project at the time of Google Chrome OS and Chrome WebGL GPU. Projects that also led to a few days ago but apparently decided to leave to join the boat that leads Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
However, hoarding talent by Facebook is not here because they have also signed to Jocelyn Goldfein, who until now was vice president of VMWare and one of its leading engineers. Read more
Spyware and other malicious found in Mac OS X
Dangers of an operating system
Often small events, unconscious acts, slips, or seemingly insignificant, say many more truths than a statement or a voluminous treatise on a particular issue. Here is a small anecdote. Anecdote which extramos several consequences and helps us to reflect on the trigger, why not, a lesson that we should serve all in the use of operating systems.
Yesterday was published a story that had some significance in the journalistic world in which it was said that Google will stop using Windows computers using their employees. When it was published this news could not understand why he had acted in this way. However, the recognition of spyware and other malicious applications in Mac OS X by the people of Intego has been able to shed some light on this mystery.
It turns out that this is separated from spyware and other malicious viruses so far known for his dramatic timing and hazardous congenital your state of constant motion. Better known as OSX / OpinionSpy, this spyware and other malicious activated in the very action of downloading applications. Stonily is not given in the application before the arrival of the agent to download, but exists in the act of downloading. Read more
Notes on event Google I / 0 2010
Android Froyo makes everything simple
We all know that has made the second keynote of the event Google I / O. After its completion we can draw several implications and conclusions. Now the first we have to mention is the obvious and glaring Google intention to position itself as indisputable competition from Apple. Let's see this in a particular case.
Among the many novelties introduced in this fun event, highlighting the glorious Android 2.2 operating system, called by many "Froyo" (Frozen Yogurt). We realize how great this new operating system from Google that offers the possibility of create a WiFi access point from our 3G connection. The funny thing was that this was demonstrated in the middle of the event by connecting an iPhone to the Internet.
As you know, one of the most visible sides of criticism of Apple's device that was designed with the idea that you have no choice but to hire a data rate of its own (preventing use the SIM in your phone, you force to use a MicroSim). Read more
ARM optimized for Theora, funded by Google
Google has created a project to create chips ARM optimized to work with Theora , as already exist for H264. A movement is not very clear and has created several rumors about Youtube, Chome and On2 (codec it acquired in 2009).
The code is removed from the Android Linux
Eliminate the Android code of Linux.
Android, Google's mobile OS, is based on Linux. This OS has had a high acceptance by both users and by developers. But it seems that the Android, among whose achievements was the development of a free version of Java, will be removed from the official arm of the Linux kernel.
Why has this happened? Because it claims that Google has introduced some changes in the architecture of Android and why your code is no longer compatible with Linux, does not meet the standards required to ensure compatibility with the current kernel.
Google so far has given no indication that will change the code, and this uncertainty drags some manufacturers have developed drivers for Android and also denied the acceptance of Linux code. Read more
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