Shelving Made Easy (or Easier) - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Shelving Made Easy (or Easier) - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

A new Android app helps librarians keep their shelves in order.

"Shelvar relies on special tags—kind of like QR codes—attached to the books’ spines. Each tag 'exactly represents the call number' of each book, Mr. Brinkman explains. A user with a current-generation smartphone or tablet computer scans the shelf using the app, and Shelvar indicates which books aren’t in the right places. Visual cues, including directional arrows, indicate where the misfiled book ought to go."

HTC Desire S Android smartphone • reghardware

HTC Desire S Android smartphone • reghardware:

. . . the Desire S runs on the latest version of Android for handsets, which offers future-ready enhancements like NFC (Near Field Communication) and SIP calling. Besides the video chat and keyboard improvements, Gingerbread has better cut and paste facilities and promises to speed up the phone’s operation through better memory management and performance enhancements. . .

The Android browser now supports Flash video – so you’ll be able to see more of those fancy animated sites than the iPhone can – and the intuitive text wrapping and pinch to zoom makes surfing the web always fun and never a chore.

Google drops Schmidt for Elop, Android for WinPho 7 • The Register

APRIL FOOL!?

Google drops Schmidt for Elop, Android for WinPho 7 • The Register:

Posted in Mobile, 1st April 2011 18:52 GMT

"Google . . . will abandon work on its Android mobile operating and join Nokia in backing Windows Phone 7. 'The superiority of the unified simplicity of Windows Phone 7 over the fragmented mess that Android has become is abundantly evident,' said the soon-to-be-ex-CEO Eric Schmidt . . ."

Note:"April Fool" is a UK folk custom, when lies can be told before 12 noon. Since this wasn't posted until nearly seven hours later, it might just be true!

Google 'clamps down' on world of Android partners • The Register

Google 'clamps down' on world of Android partners • The Register

RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps • The Register

RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps • The Register:

The PlayBook's app player won't run apps from Google's own Android Market. Instead, a RIM spokesperson told The Reg that Android apps will have to come through its own BlackBerry App World.

RIM's decision to only let Android apps download and run on the PlayBook from its own market will mean that while devs are coding for Android 2.3, they'll have to abide by RIM's rules to gain access to the market and devices.

Winamp for Android 1.0: Now Available - Winamp Blog

Winamp for Android 1.0: Now Available - Winamp Blog

With Winamp & Winamp for AndroidTM you can wirelessly sync your music over Wi-Fi, import your iTunes library, and stream thousands of Internet radio stations with SHOUTcast.

The latest release of Winamp for Android features a completely redesigned Home screen, Now Playing screen, and lock-screen player. You can also download free music, browse songs by genre, swipe album art to change tracks , and use Android's 'listen to' voice action to playback music in Winamp. We also added additional language support for Dutch, Italian, Spanish & Turkish.

A glimpse at Amazon's app store • The Register

A glimpse at Amazon's app store • The Register
Android News managed to grab screenshots of the store showing 48 applications, many priced to undercut Google's Android Marketplace, and two that appear to be exclusive to the Amazon store.