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Android 2.1 spied on HTC Hero
We first spotted Android 2.1 about a month ago and now the first screens have appeared. Surprisingly, the screens come from a HTC Hero and not the Motorola Droid. This is an overwhelmingly good sign for anyone with a first generation Android phone. The...

Swype keyboard coming to Android in 2010
TechCrunch is reporting that Swype will be coming to Android in 2010. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most feature phones today (but sorely missing from the default Android soft keyboard).This is not the...

Back to the Future - India Currents
Story of Alam, who returned to BITS after 30 yrs to complete his education!!

PROCESS OF DRILL BIT MANUFACTURE - Patent application - method for making drill bits includes sequentially moving a plurality of drill bits through a belt furnace
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DirectTV NFL SuperFan now available for Android
Im so jealous of Direct TV customers right now because they just got access to NFL SuperFan for Android. The new application from DirectTV allows customers (with NFL Sunday Ticket and the NFL SuperFan addon) to watch live games on their phone. So far,...

See which Gmail friends have Android with Green Robot
Plugin author Chad Y. has created a cool little tool for Gmail. It allows you to see which of your friends are currently using their Android device. This is helpful to know when someone might be chatting from their phone instead of a keyboard. Just login...

Fring brings free voice calls to Android
Why ring when you can Fring for free? After months of testing, Fring for Android has finally been released to the public. The application allows you to make free VoIP calls over Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. Fring on...

Fring brings free voice calls to Android
Why ring when you can Fring for free? After months of testing, Fring for Android has finally been released to the public. The application allows you to make free VoIP calls over Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. Fring on...

Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile: Why did they bother?
Photoshop is a very powerful graphic editing tool. So powerful and universally used in fact that we now have the verb “photoshopped”. This app, though, is not Photoshop as many in the press have called it. It is Photoshop.com Mobile and that...

ZiiLABS ready to unveil 1 GHz Android powered phone?
ZiiLabs is a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology that has been trying to push their ZiiEGG device to OEMs. The first device had some impressive specs, but it never really caught on. Creative was hoping some company would pick up the device and...

Adobe Flash 10.1 to require Android 2.0
We already know that Adobe Flash will not be making an appearance on the Android platform this year as we originally expected. At the time Flash 10.1 was delayed, Adobe said, “Android is taking longer because Adobe needs some programming interfaces...

DROID already making an impact on web traffic
The web analytics company, Clicky, is reporting that the Motorola DROID is already accounting for 23% of all Android web traffic. The numbers are based on the 150,000 sites running Clicky analytics, which is a pretty solid sample size. Check out the...

Google pisses off every GPS company
Wow, we didn’t see this one coming. Today Google announced Google Maps Navigation (Beta) which features turn-by-turn GPS navigation with voice guidance. The new navigation system is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with...

Acer Liquid is a 1 GHz Android phone
Could it be? The first Snapdragon powered Android handset? It looks like Acer has officially announced the Liquid A1 which will reportedly sport a 1GHz Snapdragon Processor and run Android 1.6. Also, it appears that this phone will be targeting...