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Micromax has launched its first Google Android running handset dubbed A60 Andro for Rs. 6,999.

The Micromax A60 runs Android 2.1 and comes with a full touch 2.8-inch resistive display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 65K color display. It is powered by a 600 MHz processor. It has a variety of applications including GPS for location tracking or turn-by-turn directions, compass, Proximity Sensor and so on. The A60 Andro comes with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and USB 2.0.

A60 Andro has accelerator sensor which allow users to show off your content in portrait or landscape orientation with every turn. It has a 150 MB internal memory and is 32GB External Micro SD card supported.

Spec-wise, it seems more or less similar to the Samsung Galaxy 5 i5503, which costs about Rs. 1,500 more, except for one major drawback – the resistive screen. The Galaxy 5 on the other hand has the finger-friendly and fairly responsive (we’ve tried it out) touch response due to its capacitive nature. While we haven’t tried out the Andro’s screen, having used resistive screens before, we can guesstimate the Samsung’s to be better.

Google helped make Adobe Systems’ PDF files a first-class citizen on the Web years ago by indexing their content with its search engine.

Now it’s gone another step by building the ability to read them into its latest browser, Chrome 8, released yesterday.

That means when people click a PDF link, the document will open directly in the browser.

Chrome’s built-in PDF reader is also walled up within a sandbox, lowering the risk that security issues will escape a confined region of memory to facilitate a broader attack on a computer. More »

European Union regulators will investigate to see whether Google Inc. has abused its dominant position in the online search market — the first major probe into the online giant’s business practices.

The move announced on Tuesday follows complaints from rival search engines that Google put them at a disadvantage in both its regular and sponsored search results, by listing links to their sites below references to its own services in an attempt to shut them out of the market.

The EU Commission will also see whether Google prevented advertising partners from placing ads from competitors on their sites. Competitors allegedly shut out include computer and software vendors, the commission said.

If the Commission finds that Google has abused its market position, the company could be fined up to 10 percent of its revenue — that would put it on the line for a $2.4 billion fine based on 2009 earnings figures.

The Commission has shown resolve in confronting U.S. corporations and only last year concluded a long-running antitrust case involving Microsoft Corp. that lead to over $1 billion of fines.

Three companies — U.K.—based price-comparison site Foundem, French legal search engine ejustice.fr and Microsoft-owned shopping site Ciao — lodged complaints against Google with the commission in February.

The investigation does not imply any wrongdoing by Google, which controls about 90 percent of the online search market in Europe, but shows that the antitrust watchdog is taking the complaints seriously enough to launch an in-depth examination of the company’s practices.

Google has maintained it is confident that it hasn’t done anything wrong.

“Since we started Google we have worked hard to do the right thing by our users and our industry — ensuring that ads are always clearly marked, making it easy for users and advertisers to take their data with them when they switch services, and investing heavily in open source projects,” Google said in an emailed statement.

“But there’s always going to be room for improvement, and so we’ll be working with the Commission to address any concerns,” the company said.

This video explains how to use PhoneGaps inside android so that one can create android application using HTML,CSS,JavaScript.
• Create an android project
a)go to file->new->android project
b)Give project name,application name,package name and
activity name
c)Note that while you select android target version you go for
latest version
d)click on finish ,and the project is created
• Inside Project folder open src and you can see a .java file before making changes
on it we have to include an extra file to the project.
• Right click on specified project -> build path ->add external archives->select the
.jar file ->click on open.The .jar file can be seen inside reference libraries inside
project.
• In .java file change the Activity as DroidGap and change the statement
setContentView(R.layout.main);
as
super.loadUrl(“file:///android_asset/www/index.html”);
• Import DroidGap and remove unused imports.
• Go to asset create new folder www
• Inside www create a file index.html.PhoneGaps identifies only index.html file so
the name should not be changed.
• Inside index.html write appropriate code for printing helloworld.
• save the project and run it
• you can see helloworld printed.

Preference values is done by first crearting an object of PreferenceManager. This is the default storage

SharedPreferences app_preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

We can retrieve the stored values using. Here str1 and str2 contains values that is stored.
if no values present then the valoe ’0′ is returned.

 String str1 = app_preferences.getString("DURATION","0");
 String str2 = app_preferences.getString("INTERVAL","0");

Inserting the values is done using the code given below.

SharedPreferences.Editor editor = app_preferences.edit();
					     editor.putString("DURATION",value));
					     editor.commit();

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

The deadline comes after the country’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping introduced regulations earlier this year that require all companies providing online mapping services to apply with the bureau for approval. Google has yet to do so, the bureau said in an e-mail, adding that after March 31 of next year, companies without the license will be exposed to the public.

If the companies still do not have the licenses by July 1, the bureau will punish them according to the law. The bureau, however, did not say what specific actions it would take against Google should it fail to acquire the license on time.

Google is China’s second largest search engine, with a 21.6 percent market share, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International. But the company has already seen some of its popular web services blocked in China, including YouTube and Blogger.

China introduced the new mapping regulations to prevent security leaks and to ensure all online maps would provide accurate data for its users. But in order to qualify for approval, companies must store all their mapping data in servers located in China.

If you would like to know more about how the Internet and browsers work but are in no mood to grapple with geeky jargon, consider heading to the website ’20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web’ (http://www.20thingsilearned.com), and flipping through a virtual online ‘book’ – with your mouse, of course.

It is the team behind the Google Chrome browser that has come up with this 20-chapter ‘book’ in collaboration with an illustrator, Christoph Niemann.

It is an easy-to-read guide to many of the things technological that we encounter when we use the web and browsers. In itself, it is also shows how far modern browser technology has advanced – its designers have created a book-like feel using HTML 5, the latest version of the mark-up language that is used to build web pages. (If you have an ‘old’ browser that does not support HTML 5, you will still be able to read the ‘book’ but maybe not ‘flip’ through the pages and experience the interactivity of the graphics – the latest versions of all major browsers support HTML 5 to some extent or the other).

The illustrations and the interactivity make the ‘book’ fun to read. The topics covered include the Internet, cloud computing, web apps and the nuts and bolts of the technology that makes browsing and browsers possible – like HTML and Javascript. Security and privacy are topic threads that runs through the latter part of the ‘book’ – things like browser cookies, malware, and phishing are also dealt with. And it presents us with glimpses of how browsers and the web will shape up in the times to come.

Today the world is moving from eBooks to interactive ebooks. But there are several users who aren’t fully aware of the technical terms and functions of the browsers and Web. To aide such users, Google has released an interactive online guide illustrated by Christoph Niemann and put it up for public access at http://www.20thingsilearned.com. So if don’t know what TCP/IP is or what a Cookie is, you now know where to go and look for an answer.

Web technologies used in everyday life while browsing the web are most of the time not visible directly to an average users. For them it’s just a computing marvel. Google’s Chrome Team has scripted to explain the complex concepts like Cloud Computing, IP Address and DNS, Web Apps, etc. in a simple manner.  Built on HTML5, this online interactive book will certainly make you aware about the current day web browsers and what’ s being used on the current generation of Web.

Even though you’ve been reading on and using the web quite profusely, there’s no harm in checking out this nicely illustrated interactive book.