MOZILLA TO DEVELOP OS BASED ON ANDROID!

Mozilla, who are renowned for their successful internet browser, are entering the mobile race, developing a new web-centric OS that will directly compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft.

If the name Mozilla rings any bells it's because they're the tech boffins who put together Internet Explorer, the browser that Windows defaults to. Mozilla took the leviathan computing company on with its Firefox browser, and today it stands as the second most popular browser worldwide.

Now the company who was underdog to Microsoft looks to be playing the same role, but this time against internet mogul Google.

Announced on the Mozilla discussion forum, Mozilla have begun coding for phones and tablets. The BBC revealed the mobile operating system will draw on Android code, with Mozilla writing as much fresh code as possible. The hybrid-like operating system will be named Boot To Gecko. 

It is an unusual name for an OS, until you remember Gecko is the rendering engine employed by the Firefox browser that interprets web page coding and displays it in a screen-friendly format, a homage to its origins.

Even though Android coding will form the operating system's foundations, Mozilla hope to add a much more open wrapper around it than Google currently do, making it more versatile as an operating system.

Its shared foundations will also make Boot To Gecko compatible with the same phones as Android, competing as a direct alternative to Google.

Often, when you select a link from an application native to the Android or iOS market, the operating system will have to open a new webpage in the browser. Boot To Gecko aims to limit this by making applications much more web-centric.

If the venture proves successful, Mozilla will be waging war against industry giants, with Google, Apple and Microsoft dominating many facets of the technological world. 

Mozilla have acknowledged the project is in infancy and have chosen to make the development public in hope it will attract talented enthusiast coders who will contribute to the Boot To Gecko's cause.

According to their project team, all of the code development will be completed and shared with the public as soon as it is written.

Researcher Andreas Gal, who announced the development, admits the company has set a high target, but wants to do it "the way we think open source should be done.

Gal says his ultimate goal is to break "the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile device world," implicitly referring to the practices of Apple, Windows Phone and Google.

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,Cisco Cius Android tablet launches in India

Cisco has launched its Android tablet Cius in India. Cisco Cius is targeted towards enterprise. Cisco Cius runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS, and comes with 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor.

Cisco Cius comes equipped with 7 inch display, 5 MP rear camera, front camera, 1GB RAM, 32GB expandable memory, 3G/4G and WiFi support.

Cisco Cius comes integrated with applications like web conferencing, Cisco Jabber Instant Messaging, telepresence, email and calendar and access to Cisco AppHQ and Android Marketplace.

The Cisco Cius is available in India for Rs. 34,365 and Rs. 49,100 approx with the Cisco VoIP dock.

Skype For Android Has Updated

For Android device Skype has been updated. The Google Nexus S, HTC Want S, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo as well as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro all obtained assistance for two way video calling, Skype has also added in support for SMS.

Skype has also given the person interface a new design for Android products. We wonder why Skype has only provided assistance to the two way video calling on four Android gadgets, you will find a lot of far more gadgets capable of employing the feature and wonder how long it’s going to just take Skype to make the software compatible with these devices.

Best Android Tablet – Nook Color Device

If you ask me for the best gadget tablets, absolutely I will answer Apple iPad because personally I love almost product from Apple Company. But, this is something new about tablet PC technology called Nook Color. This tablet device is using android operating system but the Nook Color tablets or I called “E-reader” have never been starters in this niche. Nevertheless, the reality which Google rivals Apple for such a long time provides us a strong subject to debate. Furthermore, it looks that it is equipped to strengthen its position onto the mobile device market with the latest “tablet” which adopted Android, the Nook Color.

May be you are not familiar with Nook Color device. This new tablet PC is an e-reader which can be simply “upgraded” to a full Android tablet. As yet, ‘upgrading’ this mobile device essentially means to hack it purpose to transform it into a tablet that might not even work. Additionally, those who are doing this thing lose the warranty of the gadget product. But if the users of Nook Color are enthusiastic to wait for a while, they are able to enjoy the innovative official updates which transform this e-reader into a full Android tablet. This item is likely as the great huge Barnes and Noble, truthfully considers developing this tablet product into a better mobile device.

Nowadays, the Nook Color developer does not provide some details information concerning the new updates but it has previously mentioned which the users are going to enjoy some awesome Nook Color android OS applications which take them to a totally new level. Certainly, as most of us suspect, this really means that theNook Color tablet mobile device is going to be upgraded to Android 2.2 operating system and will take along its own Google Android Apps Market.

A lot of networks and apps stores give the forthcoming upgrade of Nook Color e-book reader. Certainly, this is not astonishing particularly that Google, similar to other tablet PC developers, Nook Color is trying to keep its position onto the gadget market. As it cannot fight against the illicit modalities of transforming the Nook Color e-book reader become a full Android tablet, Google considers which the best thing to do is to upgrade the tablet device into a new product.

Certainly, this is a really wonderful, as the users of Nook Color will take pleasure in operating a full Android OS tablet. And even though the upgraded Nook Color cannot fight with a real Apple iPad, it absolutely gives its users the possibility to explore the upgraded capabilities at about half of the price of an Apple iPad gadget.

VLC for Android Devices

Bangalore: VLC is most widely utilized media player for Linux, Windows and Mac computer across the globe and now it's time for android mobile operating system to make full use of it.

The player was supposed to launch in early 2011 but due to some technical difficulties, the app got delayed.

The developer of VLC said, there are two builds available of VLC for Android, known as NEON and NONEON. The difference is in the processor type. Because VLC for Android makes use of the NDK (Native Development Kit), it is compiling native-level binaries that will only work on the processor class for which they were designed. This means that the same build will not work across all devices.