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Google I/O: How do I code thee? Let me count the ways

Dan Morrill presented a great talk this morning on the 3 different ways to code for Android: Managed Code Dalvik, Ajax, and Native Code. To demonstrate the different ways Dan decided to write the same app , a k-means clustering application, 3 different ways. The first way...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Dalvik, Native Code, Dalvik App, Web apps/Ajax App, Android 1.5, Android Browser, NDK App, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

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Dual boot Android/XP Acer netbook available for pre-order

I just can't envision Android being a winner on netbooksUnless a great deal of additional development went into it to deal with peripherals and to deal with non-Dalvik/Java programs, I don't see Android as being useful on a netbook. Unless it has phone call capabilities which I doubt, and even...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, dual boot, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Microsoft announces OneApp for emerging markets, includes Nokia smartphones

Web apps for feature phonesWouldn't web apps be a better solution for feature phones, with limited memory/processing power?Then, you just need one app...an HTML browser...with perhaps the ability to create "web app" shortcuts on the home screen.Server-side processing could be used, for any/all heavy lifting.If the browser supports HTML5, the...

Tags: cloud computing, Web browsers, emerging market, Microsoft Corp., smart phone, Web application, feature phone, Web browser, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Will Chrome endanger Android?

Will Chrome endanger Android?Are you serious?You really think that chrome os will be up to Windows 7 at the fancier, bells-and-whistles end of the OS market? Chrome OS is intended for low cost netbooks. Only way to develop applications for this OS is to develop a web app i.e no...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Chrome, operating system, Chrome OS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Program for Android in C/C++ with the Native Development Kit (if you dare)

Not a big fan of Java? Well, get over it, because that's the primary and recommended way to write applications for Android devices. It's portable and... what's that? Android's Dalvik Java VM not fast enough for you? Granted, it's an interpreted engine and as of version 1.5 there's no Just-In-Time...

Tags: C, Library, Native Development Kit, C/C++, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Mobile megahertz madness heats up

Mobile megahertz madness heats upHopefully the race will result in some interesting Netbooks running ARM.Would love to see a quad core ARM with 4 gig of RAM.Where the heck is IntelWhat I'd love to see is Intel jump in this race, maybe with some Atom derivative. Android can support multiple...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks

Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooksMy GuessApplications trump look and feel.Please explain....I'm confused as to how netbooks with Linux have gone no where. It seems like normal American consumer amnesia to me. Well lets retrace exactly how we got to the point of Windows 7 being released this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, ARM, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stay

Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stayDalvik & JVM UnificationGood questions & answers in the video.It will be interesting to see if the changes Google implemented in the Dalvik VM, for performance, security, etc. reasons will ultimately get incorporated in the standard Java VM (e.g. a JVM that can be...

Tags: Programming languages, Java

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper?

Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper?These are very interesting times. There have been a lot of false startswith desktop Linux. Just when we finally think that Linux has broken into the desktop market as with Netbooks, MS figures out a way to snuff out...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Linux, operating system, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

RIM and Google: The Perfect Storm?

A "Perfect Storm": The Linux-based Android OS, and tight integration with Google's web services, running on  BlackBerry hardware and connected to RIM's corporate messaging/calendar syncing infrastructure would be an unstoppable mobile enterprise device platform that not even Apple's iPhone, Windows Mobile or Palm webOS could dare...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Moblin on the Classmate

Moblin on the ClassmateNo surprises. It's the standard Linux boilerplateI couldn't get insert various items of important hardware to work with insert linux distro, but aside from that insert downplaying phrase, insert linux distro is great.And No Maximum SpecsLooking forward to having a play with MoblinMarrying Android & MoblinThe Moblin...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Desktops, Moblin, Linux, KDE

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2

Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Slicing up Sun

Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business

This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Worst. Bug. Ever.

Worst. Bug. Ever.sounds like....Way back when... Bill was demo'ing a voice interface to windows when someone in the audience shouted out Format C colon....Confirmed.I've just confirmed this bug on my test model of the G1 (pressed [enter] R-E-B-O-O-T [enter] and it rebooted on the spot).Android is a java framework it...

Tags: Speech recognition, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Java, java framework

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Jason Chen answers questions about Android

At the recent Google I/O 2008 conference, Jason Chen from the Android team presented a 90 minute introduction to Google's new software platform for mobile devices. Since I've written about Android basics before I'll just cover some of the points that were new or previously unclear. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Jason Chen, Android, Q., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-09