[Old 2008] Hello Android !

Android, for those who don't know , is an open-source software stack for mobile devices developed by Google.
Read more about it here http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html.

I am not going to write about Android, but I'll give you a live sample.
I downloaded the Android SDK and Eclipse plug-in ( Google makes life easy :D ).
Here's the Hello World program i wrote.



By the way, T-Mobile USA will announce a mobile phone based on Google's Android OS at a New York press conference Sept. 23 (source here).

I feel it's going to be a great mobile platform , can't wait till Samsung announce their Android mobile phone :)

[Old 2008] Seinfeld and Bill gates Ad 2 : New Family

Here's the second ad .. it's funny too .. i liked when Gates reads for the kid about inheritance and polymorphism .. hilarious

enjoy it :D

[Old 2008] Google Chrome is fixed now

Google updated its browser Chrome with a patch that fixes all the problems that appeared in the beta version released last week.
Chrome version 0.2.149.27 had some bugs like ":%" and javascript on Facebook, and also a bug related to security that can be used by Hackers , as Google reported.
In the new version 0.2.149.29 all these problems were fixed , and the good thing you don't need to update it yourself . Chrome has an automatic update system that works even if the browser is closed.

That's why i love Google :D

[Old 2008] Seinfeld and Bill gates new Ad

Jerry Seinfeld the famous comedian and Bill Gates appeared together in a commercial for Microsoft.
I was first amazed when i read about this :) . I searched on youtube for it and watched it .. it's funny somehow.
Microsoft starts a new commercial campaign with Seinfeld to gain trust of customers again.
The Ad is just a start , stay tuned for more :D.

[Old 2008] Google Chrome : When the war really began

Tuesday 2nd September 2008 , Google announced the release of its new web browser Chrome beta version for XP/Vista.

It all started on last Monday when i read about google "Chrome". I was fascinated by the idea of web browser from google as i am good user of google products: gmail , calender,docs,reader ...
On tuesday chrome was launched. i downloaded it from http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en , installed it.

WWWWOOOOOOOWWWWWW , what a design , that's some great GUI . I opened a site ,, ohhhhh!! it's very fast. How did that happen ??

Google is really a great company, just see how they explained Chrome through this comic book. It's interesting to read it, you'll admire the great technology they're working over.

mmm... so now we have Chrome , how will that affect on IE and FireFox ?? That's a good question.

Chrome started already to take a great attention. Through the last few days i read lots of articles about chrome: its features, concerns , similarities with IE .... Everyone is talking about chrome now.

Here's my conclusion from what i read:

Google is very concerned about Web. That's google purpose. They want to increase the role and importance of web applications, so they made chrome , a web browser created specially to support Web 2.0 and its applications.

Maybe they wanna kill Windows . you have all you need in web applications now , so why don't you use the web as your operating system. Who knows? maybe :) .

Google is the perfect candidate as Web 2.0 browser. The architecture they made is awsome. Still there are some points we may complain about. But remember it's still a Beta version.

The most interesting thing , Chrome grabbed 1% of the browser market in the first day. Considering this chart of the browser market last month (chart from http://marketshare.hitslink.com/) , google has a long battle in the way to dominate over IE.

As expected , Sergey Brin ( Google Co-founder ) said :"probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack."

Chrome on Android. What a mobile platform will it be :).

Google Chrome is a good experiance worth trying , even if it lacks some features. I'm sure Google guys will add more power to Chrome.

Will Chrome pass over IE and FF ? It's hard to say , but surely the 2nd browsers war has begun now.