At the Google Event for Android 3.0, an online version of the
Android Market was announced and is available for use immediately.
Essentially, your Android smartphone is connected to your Google Account
and if you sign into the online Android Market website using your
Google Account, it will automatically sync with your phone.
A press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of Internet Protocol, Version 4 addresses by the central authority that assigns them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Number Resources Organization, the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Society all are scheduled to participate.
Read MoreApple has just released iOS 4.3 Beta 3 to developers. This is the third Beta of the upcoming version of iOS in as many weeks, and it's called 8F5166b. It's available, as you can see from the picture above, for iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th generation. A separate package is also available for the 2nd generation Apple TV.
Read MoreThe company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store.
Read MoreGoogle is offering a new service to help Egyptians transmit Twitter messages by using a phone. The offering rests in part on engineering talent Google acquired when it bought a company called SayNow just a week ago. When a message is left on the service, called Speak To Tweet,, it will instantly tweet the message using the #egypt hashtag.
Read MoreIn the competition between native applications for mobile phones versus Web applications, hardware support often makes native apps an obvious choice for programmers. But the World Wide Web Consortium is tackling one area, touch-screen support, in an effort that could help Web apps catch up.
Read MoreGoogle has finally brought their helpful Instant Previews feature from the desktop browser, down to the mobile experience. Tapping on a magnifying glass that appears next to each search result will give you a quick pop-up preview of said search result.
Read MoreGoogle has announced the date for their latest Android event, which according to the images and wording on the invitation—is expected to be covering Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
Read MoreGoogle has scooped up SayNow, a company with a platform that enables social voice applications. SayNow announced that they would combine forces with the Google Voice team. SayNow's platform supports applications used by celebrities and sports figures to communicate with groups.
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