Google’s Patent Screed Emerges As PR Blunder. When patents attack Android. I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades.
Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other’s throats, so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what's going on. Arduino - HomePage. How To Turn Your Netbook Into a Chromebook with Chromium OS. Android Security Alert: New Malware Apps Found in the Android Market Over the Weekend. So, it looks like the Android Market was infected with some new malware apps over the weekend and if I said I was surprised, I’d be lying.
This seems to be a regular occurrence and as bad as it sounds, I’m already getting used to it. Lookout Mobile Security (who is not “funding” this post, by the way) found some new apps on the Android Market by the developer Mobnet that were infected with a new variant of the DroidDream Lite malware. This time these weren’t the obvious “XXX Nude Japanese Squid Girls” but were more legitimate looking apps. The apps in question were Quick FallDown, Scientific Calculator, Bubble Buster and Best Compass & Leveler (a legitimate app of the same name exists). The part I found most alarming was the fact that some of these infected apps were downloaded 1,000- 5,000 times before Google could pull them from the Market. It's Official: There Are More iPhones Than BlackBerrys (But Android Still Dominates) Adventures in Android ADK Development: Getting Started.
Due to my excitement about using the Arduino hardware Accessory Development Kit (ADK) that Google gave me, I’m diving into Android development for the first time.
Mind you, I’m not a programmer. Live Blogging The Google Wallet Launch Press Conference. Google’s Commerce VP Stephanie Tilenius took the stage this morning in New York to announce what everyone was expecting: Google Wallet.
She said that Google wants to create “tomorrow’s best shopping experience” and “bring online and offline together” through an open payments platform. Google aspires to bring offers, payments and loyalty together at the point of sale to create a next-generation shopping experience. The capabilities are impressive; how quickly the public will adopt them is the question. Tilenius cautioned that this was the beginning of a long journey. She began by reviewing the history and development of e-commerce, saying that consumers have become increasingly comfortable with shopping online. MasterCard then spoke and discussed the evolution of payments and NFC payments in particular.
Stephanie Tilenius returned and rattled off a list of initial partners: Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint. Why Isn’t Google Chrome A Part Of Android? Over the past couple of years covering Google, there’s one seemingly simple question that comes up again and again, that Google just can’t seem to answer.
Why isn’t Chrome a part of Android? Read the wrong way, that could seem like a deep question. But it almost never means “why isn’t Chrome OS simply merged with Android?” Or the like. AT&T Embraces the Sideloading of Android Apps - Gizmodo. Android Vs. iPhone - Android vs. iPhone, Warts and All. The media spend an inordinate amount of time amping the pros of smartphones such as Apple's can-do-no-wrong iPhone and Google's latest high-end handsets.
Some folks, perhaps sick of the accolades heaped on the iPhone 4 coming to Verizon Wireless and Google's Samsung Nexus S, offered some contrarian views. Let's start with Joe Nocera of The New York Times. Nocera, noting that Apple COO Tim Cook said at the Verizon iPhone 4 launch Jan. 11 that Apple wasn't providing an iPhone on the carrier's 4G LTE network because Apple wouldn't make "design compromises" wrote: They never make design compromises at Apple.
They make consumer compromises. Nocera argues that for all of its elegant design, beauty and that impossible-to-beat cachet of being an APPLE IPHONE! My wife has an iPhone 4. Neither she nor I have noticed a propensity for dropped calls on her iPhone here in Fairfield County, Conn. While iPhone has the advantage of being one universal brand from Apple, Android handsets are legion. Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)? This week is the yearly Google I/O at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
It’s a meet and greet for lots of people and companies, a big dot-com over-the-top party, and most of all it’s geared towards “web, mobile, and enterprise developers building applications in the cloud with Google and open web technologies… Products and technologies to be featured at I/O include App Engine, Android, Google Web Toolkit, Google Chrome, HTML5, AJAX and Data APIs, Google TV, and more.”
Maybe not so much Google TV or Google Wave this year :) but for open hardware and mobile folks, this was one of the most important weeks in history. Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn't Have. The first spot on this list should be the notification bar!
Notifications really set Android and iOS apart. 1. True App Integration: agree! 2. Flash: it might work on smartphones, but for some reason (Tegra 2?) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. These Are the Android @ Home Light Bulbs You'll Be Able to Switch On With Your Android Device. Open Accessory Development Kit. The Accessory Development Kit (ADK) is a reference implementation for hardware manufacturers and hobbyists to use as a starting point for building accessories for Android.
Each ADK release is provided with source code and hardware specifications to make the process of developing your own accessories easier. Creating new and alternative hardware based on the ADK is encouraged! Android accessories can be audio docking stations, exercise machines, personal medical testing devices, weather stations, or any other external hardware device that adds to the functionality of Android. Accessories use the Android Open Accessory (AOA) protocol to communicate with Android devices, over a USB cable or through a Bluetooth connection.