Android Phones and Applications

Mark Zuckerburg and his team of lawyers have initiated the required legal actions to trademark the words “face” and “book” in URL titles.  If they are successful at getting the trademark ownership for these two terms, a large deal of Internet sites will be in danger of getting their domains seized and fined for the use of the trademarks.  The process is certainly one that is tangled and difficult to get across but it may just be possible for the multi-million dollar company to pull off the deal.

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The only indication Microsoft has given about the release of Windows Phone 7 is that it would be made available to the public by the holidays. That announcement came back in February, and since then, Microsoft hasn’t had much to say on the matter. Well, they still don’t have much news, but few facts  seem to indicate a late October launch for Windows Phone 7.

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Let’s start with the good news. Sony Ericsson UK announced on their official Twitter feed that Xperia 10 update to Android version 2.1 will be released earlier than expected, or rather before the end of September this year. Earlier update was expected in “late 2010″.
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US mobile operator Verizon has been distributing Android 2.2 upgrade to Motorola Droid owners over the past few weeks. Earlier this week, an additional update was made to Froyo to enable Flash support. If you follow Android news, this probably is not such a surprise to you. What you might find interesting is the fact that rooted devices have been getting notified about the update just like their non-rooted friends.

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I found this really cool video that shows a new technology called QuickBoot, which allows Android devices to be booted literally in a second. Have a look yourself, it it truly amazing.

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A few weeks ago Google announced a new licensing service for Android applications. The service, once added to software, would force an online ID check each time it was launched to ensure the person using the application did, in fact, pay for it. Piracy is a huge concern for Android developers, and it’s one of the reasons some larger software companies haven’t begun releasing their products on the Android Market. Google had hoped that their new licensing service would alleviate some of those concerns. It turns out the service might not be all it’s cracked up to be.

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Amazon’s Kindle is arguably the most successful e-reader on the market. That success comes courtesy of the team working in Lab 126 – Amazon’s hardware development lab. Lab 126 has recently begun hiring on some new talent. The new job openings could simply be a sign that Amazon is planning on releasing a new version of the Kindle soon, but the New Your Times has received some interesting information from an inside source that seems to contradict that.

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Smartphones have gotten incredibly complex over the years. Today’s mobile phones can easily outperform computers from just few years ago. Qualcomm has been leading the pack for some time now when it comes to mobile processors, and their latest Snapdragon chip is poised to blow the competition completely out of the water.

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Google has been having a tremendous amount of success with its Android mobile Operating System over the past year. Currently, over 200,000 Android devices are activated each day, and the Android OS has overtaken Apple’s iOS in terms of user base. What you may have forgotten is that Android is not Google’s only OS.

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Despite the good news that BlackBerry is having for its release of the new Torch slider smartphone few weeks ago, BlackBerry is having a rough time abroad with two foreign governments.

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