Realiseringen nogle nye Android version navne

Cute graphic of android version evolution
Fra Cupcake til Jelly Bean, Androids fået mere nuttet hver udgave.

Android, open source styresystem til telefoner / tabletter, er blevet virkelig kendt for deres utroligt søde udgave kælenavne – hver version er opkaldt efter en dessert, og de går alfabetisk. Hidtil har de haft Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Honningkage, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, og KitKat (den nyeste udgave.)

Google skal ansætte et team af genier til at gøre disse udgave navne. Så jeg har tænkt mig at prøve min hånd på at gøre nogle potentielle navne. Her er et par jeg har tænkt på, for:

  • Lemon Drop
  • Milkshake / Muffin

BREAKING: Tech giganter afsløre intelligent brødrister

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Apple, Microsoft, og Google har afsløret planer for smarte brødristere. Gør dig klar – Dette er enorme.

Somewhere in CALIFORNIA — I en fantastisk serie af åbenbaringer, som vendte tech verden på hovedet, en trio af tech giganter annonceret planer for en smart brødrister. Apple, Microsoft, og Google holdt lancering parter denne weekend for en række nye enheder. Denne tapre reporter deltog alle tre.

Lad os tage et kig.

Fremtiden for smartphones

Google Android and Apple iOS fighting
Flyt over, Android og iOS. Du har selskab.

Lige nu, hvis du ønsker at købe en smartphone har du to hovedmuligheder: iPhone og Android. Hvis du føler dig modig, Der er Windows Phone. Ikke meget sort.

Alt dette er ved at ændre sig.

Dette kommende år kommer til at se udgivelsen af ny, gratis smartphone operativsystemer der synes klar til at ændre verden af ​​smartphones – til det bedre. Lad os tage et kig.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, den vildt populære open source-styresystem til computere har været at sprede rygter om, at de kommer til at frigive en version af operativsystemet for smartphones. Telefonerne er ikke ude endnu, men folk rundt på internettet siger, at de er afgjort på værket.

Så meget for børsintroduktioner

As you probably remember, the professional networking (no other way to describe it) site LinkedIn went public in May under the symbol LNKD. Its IPO (initial public offering, or first release of shares in the stock market) was valued $45 per share. Later that day, LinkedIn shares were trading at $122.

LinkedIn's logo
LinkedIn's IPO was hyped, but did it work?

LinkedIn closed at $94 per share, with a volume of 30 million shares. Not bad for a day’s work. (News article.)

 

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (godt, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (official site)

More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. Det er rigtigt, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (more on that later)
  2. Adobe Flash (sorry, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found:

Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (godt, not just the product, the whole company) for $8.5 billion, making it Microsoft’s largest purchase ever. I find that a little funny since Skype actually made a loss of $7 million last year.

Men, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (selvfølgelig, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying usersobviously not very many, but it’s still some.