If you’ve been following the trends of what Google is doing you would know that Google is working on a way to optimize search so that it shows the results as you type, something that many modern Operating Systems have, and the more innovative small companies have already come up with.
Stricker told TechCrunch, noting;
“At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more on our blog,"
More after the break…
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If you’ve been following the trends of what Google is doing you would know that Google is working on a way to optimize search so that it shows the results as you type, something that many modern Operating Systems have, and the more innovative small companies have already come up with. Stricker told TechCrunch, noting; “At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more on our blog," More after the break… Google, in recent months has been known to copy Microsoft’s Bing, including the layout and how they display results, what they haven’t copied is this ‘live search’ feature, something most Operating System and Software makers have done in the past decade. Google did confirm to TechCrunch that the video [shown below] is in fact real, but whether it would come soon is yet to be seen. Google demos Live Search via TechCrunch
Here comes the latest round of patent and copyright trolling, according to Cnet, Oracle [not Sun] has sued Google over copyright and patent infringement, noting that Google used “key technologies” in their Android Smartphone Operating System.
Back, before Oracle acquired Sun, a lot of Java developers didn’t like the idea that Google pulled over key developers to work on their [then] new mobile OS. It didn’t sit well with a lot of people, and it wasn’t ‘like’ Sun to go through with all the trouble of a patent suit.
Is this a good or bad move for Oracle, and will it go anywhere, only time will tell. We’ll keep tabs on it.
via Cnet
Here comes the latest round of patent and copyright trolling, according to Cnet, Oracle [not Sun] has sued Google over copyright and patent infringement, noting that Google used “key technologies” in their Android Smartphone Operating System. Back, before Oracle acquired Sun, a lot of Java developers didn’t like the idea that Google pulled over key developers to work on their [then] new mobile OS. It didn’t sit well with a lot of people, and it wasn’t ‘like’ Sun to go through with all the trouble of a patent suit. Is this a good or bad move for Oracle, and will it go anywhere, only time will tell. We’ll keep tabs on it. via Cnet
Today, Google announced a way to give users a better way of working with applications within the Android Market, the idea of ‘signed’ applications is to apparently give protection to developers, in a nutshell, copyright protection or licensing mechanisms for developers to utilize to prevent APK distribution over the web.
While the move sounds good and all, to some this is a bad move, and could possibly lead to further issued down the road, not to mention the fact that the Android platform is [technically] open.
From the blog, Google notes,
“This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage access to all Android Market paid applications targeting Android 1.5 or higher. At run time, with the inclusion of a set of libraries provided by us, your application can query the Android Market licensing server to determine the license status of your users. It returns information on whether your users are authorized to use the app based on stored sales records.”
What are your thoughts? Is this the end of the “open” platform for Google, or is this a reasonable measure to help developers protect their intellectual property?
Share with us in the comments.
via Android Developers
Today, Google announced a way to give users a better way of working with applications within the Android Market, the idea of ‘signed’ applications is to apparently give protection to developers, in a nutshell, copyright protection or licensing mechanisms for developers to utilize to prevent APK distribution over the web. While the move sounds good and all, to some this is a bad move, and could possibly lead to further issued down the road, not to mention the fact that the Android platform is [technically] open. From the blog, Google notes, “This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage access to all Android Market paid applications targeting Android 1.5 or higher. At run time, with the inclusion of a set of libraries provided by us, your application can query the Android Market licensing server to determine the license status of your users. It returns information on whether your users are authorized to use the app based on stored sales records.” What are your thoughts? Is
Well, that’s it, I guess: the Nexus One is officially sold out – for good – from Google.
The regular Nexus One purchase page has been replaced with a message that says:
Sorry, folks…The Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google. For more information on how to purchase the Nexus One, check out our help center.
The only way you’ll be able to purchase the Nexus One now is through a subsidised model with Vodafone or KT. If you’re a developer, you’ll eventually get to buy the Nexus One unlocked through the Developer Program.
Goodbye, Nexus One. You will be missed: your unlocked state, your beautiful body, and how you were the best stock phone on the market.
[via Google]
Well, that’s it, I guess: the Nexus One is officially sold out – for good – from Google. The regular Nexus One purchase page has been replaced with a message that says: Sorry, folks…The Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google. For more information on how to purchase the Nexus One, check out our help center. The only way you’ll be able to purchase the Nexus One now is through a subsidised model with Vodafone or KT. If you’re a developer, you’ll eventually get to buy the Nexus One unlocked through the Developer Program. Goodbye, Nexus One. You will be missed: your unlocked state, your beautiful body, and how you were the best stock phone on the market. [via Google]
Google has just launched the App Inventor to the masses. Now, even the most inexperienced Web junkie can create their own Android app.
App Inventor works on a different principle to coding. Instead of writing tedious and sometimes intimidating lines of code, apps can now be made using drag-and-drop blocks of code. So say you need an app that displays a picture and plays a sound. You simply drag and drop the picture and sound blocks where you want them, and then you click a button and send it straight to your Droid, Nexus One, or whatever Android phone you use.
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Google has just launched the App Inventor to the masses. Now, even the most inexperienced Web junkie can create their own Android app.
App Inventor works on a different principle to coding. Instead of writing tedious and sometimes intimidating lines of code, apps can now be made using drag-and-drop blocks of code. So say you need an app that displays a picture and plays a sound. You simply drag and drop the picture and sound blocks where you want them, and then you click a button and send it straight to your Droid, Nexus One, or whatever Android phone you use.
We have video after the break.
In a somewhat paranoid move, Apple has bought Google AdSense ads for the iPad to display to searchers of the HP Slate and the Dell Streak.
The HP Slate was announced in January by Steve Ballmer himself, but HP hasn’t spoke of the device for months. The Dell Streak is an Android “micro-tablet”, as it’s called. Apple is apparently a bit paranoid about its own tablet sales, so they responded by buying Google ads to display on the page top of searches of these devices. They used the slogan “A revolutionary Multi-Touch device with nearly 200,000 apps.”, and the ad directs to the iPad page on their site.
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In a somewhat paranoid move, Apple has bought Google AdSense ads for the iPad to display to searchers of the HP Slate and the Dell Streak.
The HP Slate was announced in January by Steve Ballmer himself, but HP hasn't spoke of the device for months. The Dell Streak is an Android "micro-tablet", as it's called. Apple is apparently a bit paranoid about its own tablet sales, so they responded by buying Google ads to display on the page top of searches of these devices. They used the slogan “A revolutionary Multi-Touch device with nearly 200,000 apps.”, and the ad directs to the iPad page on their site.
Images after the break.
[via TechCrunch]
NTP Incorporated, famous for their lawsuit against Research In Motion, is now suing 5 more corporations: Apple, Google, HTC, Motorola, and Microsoft.
The company is suing for the mobile email apps these companies include on handhelds: Apple’s Mail.app, Google’s Mail for Android, HTC’s custom mail app for Sense UI (and possibly other clients), Motorola’s custom mail app, and Microsoft’s mail app included with Windows Phone 7.
NTP previously sued Research In Motion (RIM) for infringement on the same patent, and won $612 million in a settlement with the smartphone giant.
Read the entire press release after the break.
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NTP Incorporated, famous for their lawsuit against Research In Motion, is now suing 5 more corporations: Apple, Google, HTC, Motorola, and Microsoft.
The company is suing for the mobile email apps these companies include on handhelds: Apple's Mail.app, Google's Mail for Android, HTC's custom mail app for Sense UI (and possibly other clients), Motorola's custom mail app, and Microsoft's mail app included with Windows Phone 7.
NTP previously sued Research In Motion (RIM) for infringement on the same patent, and won $612 million in a settlement with the smartphone giant.
Read the entire press release after the break.
NTP Sues Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola for Infringement of Wireless Email Patents
RICHMOND, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- NTP Incorporated, the company founded by Tom Campana, the inventor of wireless email, yesterday filed lawsuits against Apple, Inc., Google Inc., HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Motorola, Inc. in the United States Distric
In an interview with the Telegraph, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has just shed some light on Chrome OS and the future of the Nexus line of phones.
When asked if he had considered a partnership with another company (like with HTC to build the Nexus One), Schmidt said, “We’ve talked about it. We have a reference spec for Chrome OS, we have a couple of hardware partners all lined up and the open source is all out there. It’s on schedule and it will happen later this year. Let’s see how well those partners do first. My guess is we won’t need to. The PC industry is different from the phone industry. The PC industry is used to working with Microsoft, whereas the mobile industry was not used to working with software.”
While a Chrome OS computer was neither confirmed nor denied, there have been little rumours about a Chrome OS line of computers. Schmidt had said that they had considered a Chrome OS device of their own, and this may come to fruition when the OS is released later this year.
In the interview, Schmidt had also said that there will be no Nexus Two. His reasoning was that “the idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticized us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale.” A possible reason that Google chose not to do a Nexus Two phone is that the original Nexus One didn’t do so well sales-wise.
We’ll have more information on Chrome OS and Android as we get it.
[via Telegraph.co.uk]
In an interview with the Telegraph, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has just shed some light on Chrome OS and the future of the Nexus line of phones.
When asked if he had considered a partnership with another company (like with HTC to build the Nexus One), Schmidt said, “We've talked about it. We have a reference spec for Chrome OS, we have a couple of hardware partners all lined up and the open source is all out there. It's on schedule and it will happen later this year. Let's see how well those partners do first. My guess is we won't need to. The PC industry is different from the phone industry. The PC industry is used to working with Microsoft, whereas the mobile industry was not used to working with software.”
While a Chrome OS computer was neither confirmed nor denied, there have been little rumours about a Chrome OS line of computers. Schmidt had said that they had considered a Chrome OS device of their own, and this may come to fruition when the OS is released later this year.
In the interview,
Google Chrome has come with Flash in the past few versions of the test releases – enabled by default. But now, Google has released an update to Chrome (official build) that enables Flash by default.
When you choose to install Chrome, you’re required to install Flash, it’s not an option anymore. However, Firefox and other browser users shouldn’t be worried about crashes or bad performance due to Chrome’s sandboxing feature that allows plugins to run in each tab (individual process).
Among the integrated Flash update are several exploit fixes, some video and memory fixes, and performance fixes. Have a problem with the new release? Let us know in the comments or in the forums!
Current Chrome users can update using the browser’s built-in update feature, and new users can download Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux here.
[via Google Chrome Releases Blog]
Google Chrome has come with Flash in the past few versions of the test releases - enabled by default. But now, Google has released an update to Chrome (official build) that enables Flash by default.
When you choose to install Chrome, you're required to install Flash, it's not an option anymore. However, Firefox and other browser users shouldn't be worried about crashes or bad performance due to Chrome's sandboxing feature that allows plugins to run in each tab (individual process).
Among the integrated Flash update are several exploit fixes, some video and memory fixes, and performance fixes. Have a problem with the new release? Let us know in the comments or in the forums!
Current Chrome users can update using the browser's built-in update feature, and new users can download Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux here.
[via Google Chrome Releases Blog]
Apple has just updated its developer terms of service, and screwed three key people/companies: Google, AdMob, and users and developers. How? Developers can no longer use Google and AdMob in their iOS apps.
This works in a chain reaction: developers now have to use iAds and can’t use AdMob as a secondary revenue source. Google and AdMob are now limited to only advertising on real mobile websites and the Android Market, meaning that they also get less revenue. Everyone loses but Apple. Omar Hamoui, who started AdMob, posted a blog post regarding the situation. Read it after the break.
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Apple has just updated its developer terms of service, and screwed three key people/companies: Google, AdMob, and users and developers. How? Developers can no longer use Google and AdMob in their iOS apps.
This works in a chain reaction: developers now have to use iAds and can't use AdMob as a secondary revenue source. Google and AdMob are now limited to only advertising on real mobile websites and the Android Market, meaning that they also get less revenue. Everyone loses but Apple. Omar Hamoui, who started AdMob, posted a blog post regarding the situation. Read it after the break.
Mobile advertising and the iPhone
Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google’s advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies (such as Google), as well as any company whose primary business is not serving mobile ads. This change threatens to decre
If you’ve been following the trends of what Google is doing you would know that Google is working on a way to optimize search so that it shows the results as you type, something that many modern Operating Systems have, and the more innovative small companies have already come up with. 
Here comes the latest round of patent and copyright trolling, according to Cnet, Oracle [not Sun] has sued Google over copyright and patent infringement, noting that Google used “key technologies” in their Android Smartphone Operating System. 
Today, Google announced a way to give users a better way of working with applications within the Android Market, the idea of ‘signed’ applications is to apparently give protection to developers, in a nutshell, copyright protection or licensing mechanisms for developers to utilize to prevent APK distribution over the web.
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