Sales of smartphones will overtake sales of PCs
Google launched Android, for approx. 2 years ago and since then, sales and dissemination of “smartphones” soared.
Traffic on Android network is doubled within the last year and searches from Android devices has tripled the first half of 2010. Alone “YouTube Mobile” has 160 million. mobile links a day
Right now there are 60 different Android “smartphone” by 20 different manufacturers and there are constantly new ones.
If these numbers continue to rise, then the global sales of “smartphones” overtake sales of PCs, said Google director, Eric Scmidt, Disrupt TechCrunch conference in San Francisco .
Google Chrome gets GPU Acceleration
In a document that was posted on the developer pages for Chrome, Google reveals that the version seven of their browser supports GPU acceleration. Thus enters the ranks Chrome with Firefox Internet Explorer 4 and 9, which has implemented the solution in their latest versions.
Since Chrome uses a slightly different form of processing and rendering web pages than its competitors, is the hardware acceleration a bit more complicated. That’s because Chrome uses the sandbox principle, where the application does not allow direct access to the operating system, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer. Google says this will not be a problem and assured: “There have been a lot of work to overhaul Chromium graphic engine”.
Google throws up with this on a rising trend in alleviating the burden on the CPU onto the GPU. In addition to IE and Firefox, Adobe has also implemented the solution in version 10.1 of its Flash platform and the latest release of Creative Suite CS5.
Another new feature in Chrome 7 is that the Mac version comes with Tab Overview, or Tabpose. This is a function similar to Exposé that is built into Mac OS X; tabs can be pulled apart visually and view thumbnails of all open tabs.
Sony Ericsson Symbian is shelved in favor of Android
This gives Sony Ericsson retort to Nokia’s upper (and outgoing) chief Anssi Vanjoki. He said the other day that the producers that use Android, behave like Finns who pisses in his pants to keep warm in winter.
Who is right, time will tell. The fact is that Symbian which mobile OS, is in freefall in terms of market share.
doing right now rumored to Sony Ericsson working on a PlayStation mobile phone which is equipped with Android 3.0, and 3.7-inch screen and 1 GHz processor.
Get notifications from your Android device to your PC, via Google Talk
TalkMyPhone is an application for Android that makes it possible to send notifications from your phone to your PC. This is the Google Talk and you have installed Google Talk client on your PC , then you’re already well on road.
To get your Android device to communicate with Google Talk, you must have installed the TalkMyPhone application. Once installed and you’ve entered your login information into Google Talk so begins the fun.
You can get notifications about:
- Incoming calls
- Incoming SMS
- SMS sent
- SMS delivered
- Battery Status
And it works the other way around.
From your Google Talk client, you can use the following features on your Android device.
- item back on a text
- Sending SMS to a contact
- Receive location where your Android device is
- Get your phone to ring
- Copy text to clipboard, paste links, etc.
And something extra clever, you can also use the full glory of your gra GMail account , via the chat function.
Official Video Demonstration of Samsung Galaxy
Samsung has made the following video demonstration of new Galaxy:
Microsoft’s new offer: Free antivirus for small business
Microsoft’s free security suite Security Essentials is now available for businesses with up to 10 users. So far the package has been designed for consumers. Microsoft will make it permitted for companies with up to 10 users to run Security Essentials. If you have or get more users than 10, then you have either to another supplier or switch to Microsoft Forefront.
Mobile Phones Charged with Speech
Korean researchers from Samsung has developed a piezoelectric miniature device that can convert speech, music or sound into electrical energy. Soon it may be possible to charge the phone whith speech power. Michael McAlpine from Princeton University considers the Korean research very interesting, but has also a small reservation to Discovery News:
“The question is whether there is enough noise in the environment to recharge a cell phone. A user would hardly having to go to a rock concert or put themselves up near a fast-moving trains to recharge his phone. “
Gmail Video Chat Now on Linux
One recurring issue that some have with Linux is the lack of video chat over different instant messaging protocols. Now it has at least been fixed in the Google service Google Talk, and you can video chat directly from Google Mail.
All you need to get started is to download and install the plugin necessary for Ubuntu and all other Debian-based Linux distributions. Support for the RPM package format used by Fedora among others will be available soon.
The code is however not free software. Google also writes that the software contains a patent-pending technology from Global IP Solutions and Vidyo, Inc. After the software is installed, you should be able to video chat via GMail, by starting a chat and call via the Video & More. Support is available for all major browsers. Firefox, Internet exporters, Safari and Google Chrome. More info/download here.
New HTC Sense may soon ported to older HTC Android devices
After HTC launched ‘s latest version of HTC Sense , there have been serious doubts about whether older HTC Android devices will benefit from the new HTC Sense.
But with xda-developers has been chosen to skip the doubt over and instead announced that they will soon be ready with a ported version of the HTC Sense 2.0 , which can be installed on older devices.
With the new version of HTC Sense you can enjoy the following new features and improvements:
- HTC Sense can run in landscape now
- The recent applications box is now part of the notification drop-down menu
- More camera options that make image manipulation easier
- Improved Youtube player
Read more at xda- developers.com
Sony Ericsson’s roadmap Xperia X10 family updates
A leaked page, with Sony Ericsson’s roadmap for future updates to Xperia X10 family , has been leaked.
Xperia X10
Xperia X10 will get:
- 720 video recording with the option of auto focus
- 5 home screens
- A new directory, with the ability to link to Twitter and Facebook.
- HTML5 support
Xperia X10 mini and mini pro ( and Xperia X8 ) comes the following new features:
- Ability to add multiple email accounts
- Amendment of navigation, the four corner buttons
- Bluetooth 2.1
- A new directory, with the ability to link to Twitter and Facebook.
Android 2.1, plan Sony Ericsson an Android 2.1x update that will improve the user interface in Xperia X10 family.
Xperia X10 means it:
- Improved Timescape interface
- Improved Media Landscape interface
- More languages
And Xperia X10 mini and mini pro ( and Xperia X8 ):
- Improved user interface of the four corner buttons
- More languages
The document is nothing mentioned about an Android 2.2 (Froyo) update.
