Friday, November 16, 2007

Google Phone and Android by Sergey Brin

What’s Google Phone or Gphone? Google Phone speculations are running at full sway all over the internet. Google is on its way to enter the mobile device market. Some assume that Google is offering a phone running on a custom-built Operating System (OS), with software like Google Calendars, Google Maps, Google Earth and Gmail integrated within the Google Phone along with the standard phone functions. Others feel that Google is competing against the Apple’s iPhone. On the other hand there are some negative rumours coming like, Google won’t enter the mobile handset market because of low profit margin, Google has less experience in hardware.

Now let’s leave apart all the gossip and come to the genuine fact.
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz from the Google Headquarters, California confirm that there is no such thing as Google Phone but instead introduce us to the Android Platform. They endeavour to illustrate the demo applications on the Android platform through their video clip in the You Tube site.

What is Android?
Android is a fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications.

This new Open Source (OS) Operating System is the Software Platform over which you can build your own powerful applications for Mobile Phones. SDK has been released and is available for Free Download.

The Home Screen displays all the favourite applications where in you can access The Browser, Maps, Contacts, Text messaging (chat), Global Time and 3D Games. One of the amazing things build in the SDK is the ability to interact and integrate applications with one another. For example, while you are looking at the Maps to find the exact location of where your friend stays, you can get text messages from others and reply them.

Web Browser is based on the Open Source (OS) web kit that allows you to see WebPages just as it appears on your desktop. In fact web pages get loaded over the 3G Data Network and this means accessing the net at 3G Speeds, that’s really fast downloading.

Maps Applications enable us to scan around the city we like by using touch screen capabilities. One of the benefits of using the Android Platform is that there are some basic functions built in, like the Map Views. In order to build something on top of Map views we don’t have to reinvent all the functionality in Maps.

Google is waiting anxiously to reward $10 million for the developers who come up with the best applications using Android Platform. They are looking forward for innovative applications that make use of great functionality available on Android. So, developers out there, get ready to join the race that’s surely going to have a giant effect in the cell phone market.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Truth and Hype about Gphone from Google

Is there anything that Google could never do? The answer will obviously be “no”, because Google is one of the most powerful search engines that has created momentum among the internet browsers. Now the search engine has done something great introducing the Gphone technology! This Gphone has thoroughly changed the facade of the wireless industry.

This Gphone has made thunders and wonders baffling all the whole outs which were in iPhone. The brand new operating system captioned Gphone, was explicated with a crank up titled Android in the year 2005. The major objective of this cutting edge technology is to endow a low-cost “smartphones” sporting robust action and carry out. Google subscribed and took over the mobile software company Android, protruded by Danger cofounder and former president Andy Rubin.

Android is an open source mobile phone platform that purely features the Linux operating system. This powerful open source software platform allows several different software developers to use it as a simple and uncomplicated programming interface to the fundamental mobile phone hardware and its features.

Moreover, android is a sort of an anti-iPhone that has the ability to run on any number of phone models. The Google Android team allegedly formulated a Linux-based mobile Operating System with intent to fulfill the user’s expectations.

Just check with the flow-up and get to know the excellent and prominent features of Gphone from Google.

  • Gphone is designed with a large color screen with a projecting “Qwerty” keypad and features the users an easy surfing
  • A transcribe 3G-capable mock-up will make use of a Qualcomm chipset
  • Web search is merely very simple on Gphone and no matters from where you do your search
  • It is a very cool and powerful technology where you can bring the world into your pocket

Monday, November 12, 2007

Anti Spam Appliances

Spam is becoming a big problem for internet users and not only is it annoying, but it can also create problems such as slow downs, using up free space and important mails can get lost between all the junk ones. Of course there are ways to defend your mailbox from tons of unwanted emails and for this purpose there are anti spam appliances. These hardware devices were designed and created to keep spam mails from ever even reaching the inbox of your email account.

Anti spam appliances are hardware equipment which has been specially created to block spam emails and instant messages. The appliances are connected at the gateway of the system or the email server and have to be used in connection with installed software. The anti spam appliances come pre-configured and are mostly used for large networks that have many computers connected, such as those found in big companies or universities. Although there is also anti spam software, there are still many who prefer to just purchase something that comes ready to use and this means for them easy to use and time saving. There are also some companies that produce special anti spam filters for smaller or private networks.

An anti spam appliance has another advantage over software. Many software programs only work with the Windows operating system, whereas the hardware will also work with others such as Linux. Some companies may require that Linux be used in their computer systems and a ready to use hardware device solves the problem of not finding suitable anti spam software for this operating system. Some also just prefer an independent working appliance over more software that has to be manually configured before it will even do what it is expected to. This configuring is for some, especially beginners, quite confusing and if not done correctly will not prevent any spam messages or mails from flooding your inbox and will not provide any protection.

A good anti spam appliance should have certain features. An appliance firewall must have the capacity to handle large amounts of emails, and for companies this should be by more than ten million mails each day. Anti spam hardware should also not slow down the email servers or computers and very important is that it filters out viruses sent through emails also. Since spam mails and viruses are getting better and more effective by the day, it is also necessary that the appliance receives regular updates in order to be able to do its job. A high quality appliance will actually recognize on its own when updates are available and it will download the information and update itself automatically. This makes using such an anti spam hardware piece even easier and it requires no maintenance.

There are many good reasons why anti spam appliances are useful and for some preferred over anti spam softwares. These appliances are extremely easy to use and do not even have to be configurated, although an advanced user may do so if they like. Unlike software, and anti spam appliance does not need a lot of hard drive space, updates itself and generally does not slow down the computer or email server.