A developer company named Razix, tired of the lack of support for Palm Treo in Google Maps MyLocation, decided to build its own application based on Google Maps. MyLocation does exactly the same tower triangulation that most others GPS and platforms do and without the long waiting for Palm decide to give it a shot.

Read “Palm’s Treo get Google My Location”

Is it possible Google kills the GPS industry with Android devices?

Let me talk about Google Maps for a while. Google brought the Maps system for the web which is basically running over your browser allowing you to watch the World map and the major cities you that can see in 5 views;

1. Transport Map –Which includes all the roads, avenues, parks, Tube stations, and important places.
2. Satellite –It’s the satellite photo map which can become really close from the ground.
3. Hybrid Map -Basically it’s the mix between then, where you can see the satellite pictures with all the labels, street names, etc.
4. Traffic Map -Real time traffic condition

Read “Could Android gives a hard time for GPS Companies?”

After Apple releasing the Iphone loads of developers went crazy to create new applications for the new handset, but now if you are a rock fan like me and its tired of playing Air guitar, a new application came to help you. It is called PocketGuitar and specially developed for geeks with a rock delusion, it allows you to "play" the phone like an actual instrument, as well as strum along to your stored music.

Read “Iphone now has new (crazy) gadgets”

After some delay because of lawyers still finalizing the documentation for the competition, and Google’s engineers fixing bugs with the submission system, the Android Developer Challenge has finally opened for entries. The challenge will have a total prize of $10 million and already brought some new cool applications like the WiFi war. The first challenge will be accepting entries until March 3rd, will be giving 50% of the total jackpot with fifty winning entries getting a guaranteed $25,000 each and the possibility of supplementary awards- ten of $100,000 and ten of $275,000 - for lets say really good applications.

Read “Android’s challenge finally opened”

The open source community called Vafeo, once more surprises bringing now not only a full Operational System but one Linux Distro (Vd_android), with Android SDK built in. In many cases people get bother to mess with the OS hardDrive in this case, don’t. Because you’re completely able to run it from your CD, not requiring installation.

Read “Android SDK on the fly”