Tag: ANDROIDOS

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/13/google-wants-everyone-even-you-to-write-android-apps-with-app/'; Normally, programming is considered the playground of the nerd elite. Coding applications, particularly complex ones, is so tough that even the pros screw it up pretty regularly. (That's why we have bug fixes.) The geeks at Google want to simplify the process of creating apps, ...

Tech companies have the unbecoming habit of giving their newest gizmos misleadingly awesome names. Perhaps the most guilty party is Google, with its mobile operating system Android. While Android is perhaps one of the few viable competitors to Apple's iOS, which powers the iPhone, having a G-juiced smartphone in your pocket is not nearly as cool as having R2-D2 by your side. That being the case, ...

Google and Intel are widely expected to announce a new "smart TV" initiative this week. The new platform will see the chip maker's Atom processor (normally found in netbooks) paired up with the Android OS (normally found in cell phones). The combined technology will be finding its way into set-top boxes and TVs, bringing Web connectivity and applications to the boob tube. To date, efforts to ...

Share There's nothing new about using cell phones as instruments. We've seen pop songs covered, entire orchestras of Apple handsets and even a ringtone mobile playing Christmas tunes. What we haven't seen though, is one person combine several handsets into a makeshift instrument, and become a one-man Franken-band. That is, until we saw this: the Phone Guitar, assembled from two Android phones, ...