Sony Ericsson releases LiveView
Sony Ericsson is now ready with a price tag on LiveView, which is coming as a bluetooth accessory for their Android devices. The price will be approx. $69.
LiveView is in fact in stock and ready for delivery, but there’s just one problem. LiveView supports only Android 2.0 and above, and since no Sony Ericssondevices currently run Android above Android 1.6, one is forced to wait to launch LiveView until Sony Ericsson release the long awaited Android 2.1 update. This should happen sometime next month (November).
Source: mobile crunch
PayPal payment is coming soon to the Android Market
According TheStreet there is soon a PayPal agreement in the house between the Google and eBay. Thus we may soon see PayPal as another payment option at the Android Market.
Google is seeking better payment options to their (present and future) services that can complement their own Google Checkout payment service. PayPal, according to rumor, will make it easier to complete a transaction and get the price in his own country’s currency. PayPal as a payment option is welcomed by developers, as some have experienced problems with Google Checkout .
An example is touch type, which has developed the SwiftKey application . The first 4 days of SwiftKey’s introduction to Android Market, 40,000 orders were delivered, of which 2,000 were rejected because of errors Google Checkout.
Adobe AIR lands at the Market
The program can be found on the Market of and shows up on a search for “Adobe AIR” to all of you who have Android 2.2/Froyo installed. AIR stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime and does mean that developers can package for Flash applications to standalone those which, in turn, can be run outside a browser. The newfound support for Android means that developers can launch Flash applications on the Android Market, which by and large works and looks like independent Android applications.
Angry Birds for Android is a hit
On Friday, Rovio released the highly anticipated, Android version of Angry Birds. Many had looked forward to this release and the launch was brought by many media. Now there are so come talk about how popular Angry Birds really are.
On launch day, Angry Birds was downloaded 1 million times and is thus one of the most popular games for Android. Angry Birds is free and can be downloaded from Android Market.
Sneak Peek at Samsung Galaxy Tab
In this preview, you will see a short demonstration, with many angles of the device as well as exploring the interface and test driven a handful of popular Android games. A more complete workout, and more useful information, will appear in a full review later – that is, as soon as we put our hands on a copy.
Samsung Galaxy Tab is Samsung’s first Android-touchpad and has a 7-inch large LCD screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. The hardware is beyond the screen and the camera is almost identical to the hardware of the Galaxy and S is thus based on decent components.
Fake Kingston USB drives loaded with malware
Unexpectedly cheap 256 GB USB sticks were a little too good to be true. The drives were counterfeit and contained malware.
Now I know not so much to the Windows world, but any decent company would have ecurity software to protect against malware, banks should at least have it. So it should be easy to catch. Or you could test it on a Mac or Linux machine, and then just reformat.
It is not described in the article, but I doubt very much that there is 256GB in their fraud-sticks. Probably rather some 64MB “waste products”. It may also be set up so that the actual size is reported incorrectly when you have it in your computer (ie it says 256GB free, but you actually have 64MB). You can be 100% sure that you do not get 256 GB of Flash. The controller is engineered so it probably shows 256 GB but actually might be 2 GB. It means that when you exceed the physical capacity, you begin to overwrite the data and end up with corrupt data.
New information on the Notion Inc. Adam
Notion Ink has today updated its product blog with a post about the company’s upcoming Android Tablet “Adam” and says that in November, hopes to begin production. Work is being carried out to test the Tablet. It is based on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform and features a dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1GB DDR 2 (667MHz) RAM, 3USB Ports , 3.2 MP camera, Bluetooth, 3G HSPA, 802.11 b / g / n, GPS, and will come with either an LCD / e-ink hybrid.
British 19-year-old jailed for refusing to disclose encryption key
In Britain, a 19-year-old man has been sentenced to four months in prison after refusing to reveal his encryption key for the police. A 19-year-old man in the small English town Freckleton has been sentenced to 16 weeks in jail. The man was suspected of crimes and in connection with the seizure of his computer the police failed to access the data, as it was encrypted with a 50 character long password. In the UK there is a law regarding disclosing information to the police to provide access to data, but the man refused. Therefore, he has now been sentenced to prison.
- It sends a clear message to those who try to mask their criminal activity online that they will be taken to court, with, as in this case, detention as a possible penalty, says local police Neil Fowler, according to a statement quoted by El Reg.
The Law on the encryption key must be disclosed on suspicion of criminal activity is part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, a collection of laws relating to monitoring and interception, which was effective on the first October 2007. The law was then criticized by human rights organizations, including the risk that you might forget your encryption key, and therefore be unable to help the police.
Open Office Challenger gets Flying Start
The OfficeLibre beta has already been downloaded over 80,000 times already weeks after the code was made available. Large parts of the open source community have ganged up against Oracle and started its own version of the open office suite Open Office with a competitor named LibreOffice.
On-board amenities include Ubuntu, Red Hat, Novell, Gnome and Google. The week after the release of the beta, the program has been downloaded over 80,000 times and the servers that mirrors the software has grown from 25 to of 45 in 25 countries.
The organization behind it, The Document Foundation, writes that the number of mirrors is close to half the number that reflects the Open Office which is ten years old. The developers have also begun working with the new codebase. One hundred developers are on the IRC channel # libreoffice, which is bubbling with activity.
The Document Foundation says that they do not believe that Oracle will support their foundation on which Oracle has issued the statement that they “invest substantial resources in OpenOffice.org ‘and that they urge the community to continue contributing to www.openoffice.org.
Google Chrome takes off
More than two years after the search giant Google launched its own browser, Google Chrome , initially for Windows, Mac, and then in Linux versions, it is now so popular that just over 10% of the traffic here uses Chrome. Something that is interesting is who rise at the expense of.
FIREFOX bleeding
It’s not only Microsoft Internet Explorer (which has had declining trend long) that bleeds users to Chrome. Also number two, Mozilla Firefox , which used to be the nerd’s favorite, is losing ground.
Firefox is – like Chrome – open source, and the success is probably due in part that Firefox supports the so-called add-ons , small additions to the browser that do everything from removing advertising to help programmers. There is a very wide range, and for people who use the browser to more than surf news and pay the bills, some of the add-ons’ene very useful. Chrome has its own well; extensions and there is eventually a part of them, but not nearly as many as for Firefox yet. So for some heavy duty users, it might still only Firefox has everything they need. Yet we have in the past we have seen several around us – including some advanced code heads – go over to Chrome.
When Chrome was released in early September 2008, the head of Mozilla Europe stated that he did not think Google was trying to kill Firefox, he said Microsoft should be more worried. Looking at the interest in Firefox and Chrome respectively, one sees that there’s stuff.
Functional Differences
The reasons why people choose one over the other are certainly different, but it seems that Firefox gets more and more features and takes longer and longer to start, but Chrome is quicker and has gone down from two menu buttons for one, a tiny wrench on the right. The rest of the space is left to the internet.
