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Jeremy Zawodny : Tim Bray works for Google now - Tim Bray works for Google now: interesting times... good news
nelson : Tim Bray to Google - Focussing on Android!
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nelson : Vodafone Malware - New cell phone infects your PC when you plug it in
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26 days ago
Andy Baio : Google prototypes real-time OCR and translation in Google Goggles - incredible demo, simply tying together existing pieces of Google tech together
Rod Begbie : Integrating translation into Google Goggles - This is a cool prototype -- Take a photo of some forrin text, and Google's servers can OCR and translate it to English. Potentially wicked handy tool for travelling. #
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nelson : PhoneGap - build apps for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry in HTML and Javascript
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deusx : AndroidSPIN • View topic - [ROM] Drizzy's DROID 2.1 for G1 - "Our good friend Drizzy has been hard at work converting the DROID Android 2.1 ROM over to the HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 and his dedication has paid off. YES, You did read that right. Drizzy has also made this DROID rom from Android 2.1."
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Rod Begbie : Android Starter Kit - According to CNet, three of the top four must-have Android apps are: A file manager, a process killer, and an app uninstaller. Because, as everyone knows, the kids LOVE to kill them processes. [via] #
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joshua : How To: Back Up Any Smartphone - How to back up your smartphone - Gizmodo
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wearehugh : What does Android fragmentation look like? – Android and Me
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wearehugh : Android 2.0 Platform Highlights | Android Developers - "Support for HTML5" -- web database, application cache, geolocation, video
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deusx : Droid Battery Life Requires New Charging Habits - Business Center - PC World - So... The Palm Pre gets totally slammed on battery life, but the Droid gets a pass saying we just need to change our habits? Sheesh. "Until battery technology changes to double or triple capacity, you will have to change your charging habits to fit
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nelson : DROID review - Sounds like there's finally decent Android hardware
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Linkorama : The App Store Effect: - Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion? - The app store effect - Gizmodo
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joshua : Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies
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nelson : Skia graphics - Google Chrome has its own vector graphics library
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nelson : Virtual keyboards - Detailed analysis of iPhone vs. Android's virtual keyboards
Cameron Moll : A comparison of virtual keyboards: iPhone vs. Android - A comparison of virtual keyboards: iPhone vs. Android. A very thorough comparison, I might add, and great documentation of user experience as it relates to keyboard use. "A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It’s not that there’s a single
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wearehugh : Android is now available as open source (Android Open Source Project) - finally
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Android in Harvard Square - If you're interested in developing for Google's new cellphone platform, there's a developer day in Cambridge in a couple of weeks. Wonder if the iPhone SDK will be out by then too? Would be interesting to compare-and-contrast. #
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28 month ago
jonhicks : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile
deusx : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile - "Droid was designed by Ascender’s Steve Matteson to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text."
factoryjoe : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile - “Ascender is proud to be providing the font solution to the Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. We believe that handset manufacturers, wireless carriers and application developers will be very happy with the fonts prov
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
Rod Begbie : Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME - Sadly, this is the most interesting and innovative thing I've read about "Android" so far -- that they're getting around Sun's "J2ME" trademark/patent/licensing beartrap by implementing their own VM. [via] #
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Android uses WebKit - ..and pushes all of its improvements upstream. nice.
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