AndroidMarket rise above the 100’000 applications
The figure is more symbolic than historical. But it still reflects, among other signs, the success of Google's mobile OS, especially among the developer community.
According AndroLib, a company that has made a specialty of analyzing the Android Market, the gallery of the OS just to rise above the 100,000 applications.
The second is that the company includes in its assessment of applications (about 18,000) who have subsequently been withdrawn (including malicious applications that used the Android flaws revealed at Black Hat Conference for the last?).
The number of downloadable applications has substantially exceeded one billion.
An impressive figure which does not suffer him, no comment.
Source : AndroLib Report
Google Chrome 6 beta overview
Google has decided to accelerate the release versions of Google Chrome to reach the pace of a version every 6 weeks.
This strategy of "get out more and faster" allow users to regularly add new features, but not necessarily immediately those they expect.
Some important features and could be delayed to meet deadlines and out of stable releases.
Version 6 of the browser is already available for download on the "dev channel (channel developer) but it is still very unstable for general public use.
Let's see what the project team decided to include in the milestone 6 browser:
- Preview before printing, a major weakness of previous versions. But users of MacOS or Linux version 7 should wait to receive
- Synchronization of extensions, a user could find the same extensions on multiple machines.
- Synchronization of historical
- A fix for the display of some SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- Merge buttons: Options page and browser configuration in a single-button menu
- Improved handling of images to exploit multi-core processors.
Among the features that must wait for another note the arrangement of the tabs on the sidebar (rather than at the top of the window), viewing full-screen videos to HTML5, and the Native Client (which would allow applications downloaded via Chrome run safely in a sandbox (sand tray to)).
Google announced the integration of Gmail in HTML5
During the 2010 Usenix WebApps Boston, Adam Boor, an engineer at Google, has announced that Gmail would incorporate new functionalities for HTML 5.The goal of development teams is to reduce the loading time of pages of online messaging. With HTML 5, it should drop below the second.
The use of CSS3 instead of Document Object Model (FOD) should lead to such a gain of 12% in rendering service pages.
Listed functionalities, the gradual adoption of future standard by the major browsers should also allow the generalization of drag and drop attachments from the desktop to the window messaging. Adam Boor unveiled the feature contrast, drag and drop from the browser to the desktop, is also being investigated but that it would not be achieved through HTML 5 but with a new data transfer protocol internally dubbed "DownloadURL".
Early confirmation Google thinks very hard about HTML 5 (and its application cache) to replace Gears. The Cache application can use the browser's cache to work offline with an application such as Cloud originally hosted. There is such need to be logged in (e) to write text in Google Docs (see also "Google Docs: more features").
Until Gmail operated the proprietary technology of Google Gears. The mail then migrate progressively towards the use of these "super cookies" HTML 5. For the record, Adam de Boor has also revealed that the Gmail program consisted of 443,000 lines of JavaScript. A figure rises to almost 980,000 lines if it adds the comments.
For those who wonder whether the use of Java to build such a service could not have been more appropriate, Adam de Boor said that yes, this technology might have been more optimized but that language was ultimately more "wordy" than JavaScript.
For him, most criticisms to JavaScript does not come from other language itself, but how it is implemented in browsers.
He concluded that the most important issue was ultimately not much choice of Java or JavaScript but how to produce the best possible code based on the language used.
No timetable or roadmap, however, have been given concerning the integration of HTML 5 in Gmail.
Source : developpez.com
Twitter for Android
Twitter officially announces Android application, what rekindling fears of independent developers?
Twitter has just made available its formal application for devices running Android. As promised by the leaders of social network, it's free.
Her widget appears on the home screen and the user allows direct visualization of his tweets on a map or in its address book, view its flow, etc..
The application also syncs contacts.
It only works with Android 2.1 (and versions later).
She was co-developed with the team and Android integrates the various functions of the phone as well as third party applications.
The developpers have serious internal plate on Twitter integration at different levels of the OS in order to access.
Google Summer of Code : the list
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010 has revealed the list of participants. Over 1,000 projects have been selected.
The list of candidates was published on the official website of GSOC with their mentor. The selected projects include:
- PHP and technology powered by Hip-Hop Facebook
- PHP / RFI Sandbox
- Charts in phpMyAdmin
- The Drupal
- Etc.
The results will be announced next Aug. the 23
Google Street View Adds Local Business Listings
Last week, the newly renamed Google Places added a ton of features to help local businesses create a directory page right on Google. Today, Google’s Street View is joining the party by showing links to local business listings right in Street View.
As you turn around in Street View, names of local businesses and other “Google Places” will show up overlayed on top of buildings. As you hover over those names, a small pop-up window shows some of the listing details such as business name, phone number, and ratings.
There have been links from business listings on Google Maps directly to Street View for almost a year, but now those business listings appear right within Street View itself. Google clearly wants to own local and is sprinkling these listings everywhere it can.
The Google’s passwords management system could be compromised, following the Chinese attacks of 2009
The attacks last December for Google from China, the management system passwords have been compromised the firm (the level of intrusiveness of the system had not known).
At Google, it's a program called Gaia which manages passwords of users for access to all web services of the firm, including those dedicated professionals (Google Apps). This application is highly confidential and rarely mentioned.
Asian Hackers have managed to get into googlienne infrastructure, but they have not managed to steal passwords of Gmail. Good news for the millions of users mail client.
However, vigilance is warranted because cybercriminals may be able, during their private tour of the bowels of the giant benefit to identify vulnerabilities unknown to date.
There is therefore a risk that hackers operate a return to the date of their choice, and despite the security enhancements introduced by Google.
These threats could explain the arrival of a geolocation tool in Gmail (to check if the connection is from a usual place).
For, according to an anonymous source close to the investigation, the intruders have targeted especially the jobs of developers in the Gaia ... And tried to access the source files of the application. How it had it been planned?
Using the information in "moma", an internal file that lists all employees and their activities.
Source:
The New York Times
Developpez.com
C programming language becomes the most used
TIOBE Software publishes its monthly ranking (TIOBE Programming Community Index) programming languages.
According to this index, for the first time in 4 years, Java is losing its place as the most popular language for the benefit of C then found the top ranks.
The C is fairly constant over the years, it varies between 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for this position as number 1 is not an increase in C, but declining rival Java, "explains the analysis that accompanies this ranking. "Java is on a sustainable downward trend.
C + +, PHP and Visual Basic (although in sharp decline) complete the quintet head.
The highest increase was achieved by the Objective-C (2.15%). Go, the new language of Google, is already coming in 15th place.
In addition to Visual Basic (-2.7%), the largest drop is recorded by Python (-1.88%), JavaScript (-1.21 %)... Java and (-1.29%).
Google Summer of Code 2010
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010 is open from the beginning month. Currently 150 projects have been identified some around PHP as Drupal.
The result at the end of time, does not benefit directly with Google. Google holds open projects source and sponsors by assigning a number of "slots" . Of course, each slot corresponds to a student, selected directly by the organization.
Official GSOC 2010 website
The GSOC's 150 projects list
GSOC's blog