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eucalyptus announces new version 2.0 of their open source cloud platform

olil — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:32:56 +0000

The major update should bring improvements in scalability, performance tuning, support for iSCSI for EBS volumes, S3 Versioning and new administrative tools. The download is available on the website. To read more visit: http://www.eucalyptus.com/news/08-25-2010

Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world

olil — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:22:06 +0000

” … The last decade was the decade of social networks – the next decade will be the decade of games …” An interesting video about how the internet might change within the next few years. Games are powerful, they are fun, they are motivating, they drive business – sometimes more than anything else could do. Watch this video for some inspiration about how making everything a game could change our all lifes …

Got my froyo from vodafone on nexus one …

olil — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:00:18 +0000

Finally – after waiting a few weeks – I got my froyo update for my nexus one which I bought in a vodafone shop (and use it with a FONIC data flat). The installation was working without any problems and I still have all settings and applications. It is definitly faster and the wifi hotspot works fine … bye bye surfstick … bye bye umts contract … hello android!

Froyo – Android 2.2 is released

olil — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:25:52 +0000

Google finally released the sources of froyo – the new android version which comes with some nice new features … read more on http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html … I hope I will get my OTA update for Nexus One sooooon …

Google wave now open for everybody

olil — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:51:40 +0000

Google just opened wave for everybody. Google wave is googles idea of how they would invent a new email technology today … https://wave.google.com/

Ted Talk with Steven Wolfram

goedi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:08:24 +0000

In this Ted Talk by Steven Wolfram is in part to “Wolfram Alpha”, Mathematica, and other …
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Full bio and more links

Bluetooth-SIK released new specifications for Bluetooth 4.0

goedi — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:36:23 +0000

Yesterday announced the Bluetooth SIK that the development of Bluetooth 4.0 are almost completed. The specifications will be announced before 30 June 2010.

What began years ago with a joint venture of a few companies such as Toshiba, has now grown into a great community. The Bluetooth-SIK has today about 9000 members.

The basic advantage of Bluetooth 4.0 is to:
* Higher reach
* Energy-savings

The use in for example Vienna mobile devices e.g. Smartphones, laptops, headsets, but will take a little longer. It is estimated that will not come before the end of 2010 more likely to move to 2011, the first devices on the market

Here you can read the press release.

iPad makes 0.03% of worldwide Internet traffic!

goedi — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:20:39 +0000

NetApplications announced today that the iPad 0.03% of total web traffic makes. To date, sold approximately 500,000 iPad’s.

For comparison:

* 0.51% traffic from the iPhone

* 0.04% from the BlackBerry

* 0.07% of Android and Windows Mobile

You can find here the full article.

60,000 Android phones, like Nexus One, are sold daily and activated.

goedi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:16:34 +0000

This is a number times 60,000 phones a day. Who would have expected to have been published as yet last year, on average “only” about 2000 Apps in the market in the month. They are about 22 million a year. Now we are at about 9000 (March) and in April alone already 4955.
Reads more here.

9000 new apps in the Android Market

goedi — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:33:03 +0000

In March 9000 new apps in the Android market have been published. The market success of the Android phone can not stay longer!

Here you will find some statistics for Android

http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx