Published by Head Robot on 28th November 2007
This could come in handy for Android Developer’s. Found at The Wall Street Journal On-Line
According to the Wall Street Journal this morning Google’s preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives - such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images. Or, as CBS News says it, “Google Wants To Be Your Hard Drive.”
Here is how the Journal summarizes the imminent development:
“Google is hoping to distinguish itself from existing online storage services partly by simplifying the process for transferring and opening files. Along with a Web-based interface, Google is trying to let users upload and access files directly from their PC desktops and have the file storage behave for consumers more like another hard drive that is handy at all times, say the people familiar with the matter.”
Read the rest of the Wall Street Journal’s article, Google Plans Service to Store User’s Data.
Technorati Tags: Google, Storage, Servers, Internet, Applications
Published by Head Robot on 23rd November 2007
ZaTelnet makes a professional and light version of telnet/ssh clients for mobile devices.
A light protocol client, designed for network system administrators, end users and web designers, working with Unix/Linux/BSD systems. This new, operating system independent version comes with extended functionalities, including smart phone support, ability to save, restore and edit sessions, floating keyboard, different font sizes, support of all possible display sizes and orientation, any many more.
ZaTelnet Light is a Telnet client for Google Phone. It also emulates terminal VT100 (basically enough for working with Midnight Commander and others console programs).
ZaTelnet Light offers extended opportunities for interface customization, such as full screen mode, different display sizes, 240×240, 240×480, 480×480 and 480×640 screen resolutions, portrait and landscape orientation modes, screen with adjustable size and different font sizes.
ZaTelnet Light boasts a handful of improvements that make remote administration of Unix and other servers via Telnet protocol using mobile devices simpler and more efficient.
Visit ZaTelnet for more information and the source code.
Technorati Tags: Android, Applications, Telnet, SSH, Open-Source, Commercial
Published by Head Robot on 13th November 2007
Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements. He also operates DealProfiles.com.
While Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is the undisputed leader in Internet search, the company hasn’t done much on the wireless front. Then again, it’s a tough market to crack (and, by the way, many companies have failed in the effort).
As a result, Google has had to take an innovative strategy – that is, building an open software platform known as Android. In fact, today the company released the software development kit (SDK). There is even a promotion for $10 million in prizes for developers.
To get some perspective on things, I had a chance to interview Frank Dickson, who is a principal at MultiMedia
Intelligence.
As expected, the Google plan has received a lot of attention. But how important is this?
Although Apple, Inc.’s iPhone has been in vogue, the Google announcement is the most significant announcement in the wireless industry of the year. It is bringing an open platform to the handset to allow for a global ecosystem of development of applications for handsets. These applications are not only client centric applications, but also network centric applications, allowing the handset to essentially become a thin client for some applications.
Let’s also not underestimate the advertising possibilities to allow for the replication of many viable Internet business models on the handset.
Read the rest of the interview at, Google jolts mobile industry with Android
