“If you’re looking to price compare a product that’s right in front of you, why type out its name and dig through irrelevant results when you can just scan the barcode?” via Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted .
The Android Developers forum has a full list of Android 1.5 features. There are some UI element updates that may break the layout of some existing Android apps: You can see in this example that the buttons and checkboxes have a new appearance. Even though these changes do not affect binary nor source compatibility, they [...]
From Engadget, news of an “epic” bug in Android: It turns out that G1 firmware revisions RC29 and earlier literally interpret everything you type as command-line operations, so if you happen across a legit command, it’s going to get executed — with superuser permissions, no less. No, seriously. Just go to the messaging app, the [...]
But really, it’s gotta be K-Tel doesn’t it? Kogan Android phone by Christmas
First, this agreement is likely to change forever the way that we find and browse for books, particularly out-of-print books. Google has already scanned more than 7 million books, and plans to scan millions more. This agreement will allow Google to get close to its original goal of including all of those books into Google’s [...]
A 2.0 release that includes offline support for J2ME and Blackberry. Includes email account switching between Gmail and Google Apps accounts. Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0
ReadWriteWeb says: An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web – a.k.a. the ‘dark web’. Most web apps are password-protected and so there’s no way for a normal search engine to index the data – even data that’s generalized and doesn’t identify individual users. But [...]
Google’s New Patent. Its called Flexible Communication Systems And Methods and would ultimately create an auction type marketplace for all of your wireless services. The concept is that consumers should have a right to easily choose who their provider is in different locations. One at home, one at work, one in your car, one here, [...]
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