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The launch of "Chrome" from Google, tempted me to look at this new browser. I took no time to download and start using. The Google, which was known for its revolutionary search engine and other products expected to come out with something really different. The chrome offered me few very good features, but still lacked attraction. The browser look is good, tabbed browsing experience is good, the suggestions during browsing are all really nice experience. Also it gives preview of sites you frequently visit. The boom mark and customised tab based home page experience are also better. The speed also almost comparable to Firefox. However something was missing. The disaster is off course the toolbars. The chrome is not offering any toolbars or add ons. You can't even put Google's its own tool bar, leave alone yahoo or any other toolbar. This is an utter disappointment. The browser looks very simple and lacks the customisation facility of Firefox.This is only Beta version and  I am sure the Google team will come up to make up for all the deficiencies. But it would have been more comfortable, had Google introduced this feature with all the facilities. To learn more about chrome click here

Till then , I am more comfortable with Firefox, which offers me hoards of features. Let's watch , how chrome develops and compete with Internet explorer and Firefox. 

I sometime wonder how Internet explorer is able to sustain its 75 % market share. Probably its marketing works for it. Firefox is far more superior then Internet explorer and is not used by many. Probably since it is a open source browser, it marketing strategy is poor and hence it is unknown to many. But Google has strength to compete with Internet explorer and I am sure Google will address all the inherent issues and comes out with the excellent browser and may give run for money to Microsoft.

To download Google chrome click here. 

Critically yours

Critickiran

Według firmy Net Applications, Chrome już po 2 godzinach miał 0,5% udziału. Jedną z przyczyn takiego powodzenia nowej aplikacji Google może być fakt, że w ciągu 2 dni poprzedzających premierę Chrome w internecie ukazało się ponad 3000 informacji na jej temat. 1% może nie robi zbyt dużego wrażenia, ale założywszy, że na świecie jest około 1,46 mld internautów, oznacza to, że przeglądarka Google Chrome została pobrana przynajmniej 14 mln razy.

Źródło: 4press.pl

It stated that “by submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

It has been altered to read:

11. Content license from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

You can read more about it here.

Google Announcement

Gizmodo Story

1. No Title Bar Or Menu Bar

Your tabs are your titles. Simple, no?

2. The Omnibox

You can navigate, search google, or use other search engines that you frequent, all on one box!

3. Hidden Bookmarks

Bookmarks only appear when you open a new tab. Unless you want them there all the time ofcourse :)

4. No Home Button

New tabs show you your most visted sites and search engines. No need to wait, or look at the "about:blank" page.

5. No Status Bar

The status bar only apears when it is needed; while hovering on a link or loading a page. Otherwise, it's not there.

6. Download Now, Deal With It Later

No more, "save" or "run" dialogs; you don't worry about the file names, where it's being downloaded or its source. Downloads sit quietly at the bottom of the tab that is associated with it until you open it or drag it out to your favorite folder. There's also a download log page that lets you search through your download history.

7. One Window

Websites that try to open up links in new windows are forced to open in new tabs, unless you pull them to form a seperate window. There are almost no dialog boxes or popups; everything is confined within the tab.

Overall, Chrome feels as though it's running on "full screen" mode all the time. If you spend a lot of time online, sooner or later you'll probably forget what your desktop looked like. If you haven't given it a try yet, head over to their site and see for yourself.

Cosa? Google ha fatto un suo browser?
Ebbene si, è un passo che ci si aspettava prima o poi dalla multinazionale del web e a quanto pare, di quest'attesa ne è valsa (e ne varrà ancora finchè non lo finiscono) davvero la pena.

Dalle pagine informative e pubblicitarie, Google descrive il suo browser come "la nuova frontiera dei web browser" e ne annuncia caratteristiche a dir poco entusiasmanti.
Forse banali.... ma entusiasmanti.

Tra le mille novità che Chrome propone, la cosa che più ha colpito gli occhi di un tecnico come me (aimè) è la gestione delle schede (si può parlare proprio di multitasking anzi di multitabbing) separata e non più centralizzata come l'approccio classico di Firefox, Opera e attualmente Explorer 7 .
Quante volte, a causa dei capricci del plugin Flash o Acrobat Reader , siamo stati costretti a chiudere tutte le schede del nostro browser? Magari proprio quando tenevamo aperte pagine importanti o delicate come la gestione del proprio conto in banca o un gioco online ? Bhè vi assicuro che è una cosa fastidiosissima dover accettare quel "forza uscita" che propone Gnome o quel "termina processo" che propone Windows e a quanto viene detto da Google, Chrome non avrà più questo problema grazie a quello che vi ho accennato prima come multitabbing (nome dato da me - copyright).
Non si tratta infatti della semplice gestione di schede multiple in una finestra del browser ma, si tratta di un vero e proprio sotto-kernel in grado di trattare ogni pagina (ogni scheda) come processo a se stante e di isolarlo nel caso di crash o malfunzionamenti. Questo significa che se teniamo aperte 100 schede ed una di loro fa i capricci, non va in crash l'intero browser ma possiamo scegliere di chiudere solo ed esclusivamente la scheda bloccata. Come? Tramite un vero e proprio task-manager (anzi tab-manager) all'interno del browser!

Un altro buon approccio che gli sviluppatori hanno scelto, è quello di limitare l'interfaccia grafica all'essenziale cioè praticamente ci sono solo:
- il selettore di schede;
- i pulsanti di navigazione;
- la barra degli indirizzi.
Questo può sembrare banale (qualcuno di voi potrebbe aggiungere che basta fare un F11 e anche Firefox si comporta così) ma, come approccio standard e non forzato, è una vera e proria comodità (almeno per quelli a cui piacciono le interfacce minimali) .

E ancora, gli sviluppatori promettono un'esecuzione di codice JavaScript in maniera velocissima (tra l'altro grazie a WebKit) e cosa importantissima, tutto il browser viene reso a disposizione: Chrome è open source!

Io aspetto solo che sviluppino la versione per Linux e poi penso che mi divertirò un pò con questo browser cromato.....
... voi che ne pensate?

Ecco video esplicativo e home page del progetto.

Bekanntlich teilt Google jedem ausgelieferten Browser eine eindeutige Nummer zu, über welche der Nutzer identifiziert werden kann. In den Konfigurationsdateien kann dies ausgeschaltet werden. Allerdings macht es Google dem Anwender nicht gerade einfach, die Browseridentifikation loszuwerden.

Google Chrome: Eindeutige Nummer des Browsers abschalten - Golem.de.

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Nicht verhindern kann man damit, dass der Browser weiterhin aufgerufene URLs sowie Suchanfragen an Google übermittelt. Dies kann aber in den Browsereinstellungen deaktiviert werden. Dazu muss in den Suchmaschinenoptionen der Haken "Automatische Vorschläge zur Vervollständigung der in die Adressleiste eingegebenen Suchanfragen und URLs" deaktiviert werden.

Installing the Custom Theme

You'll first need to download the patched theme file from the link at the bottom. Next, open up an explorer window, and paste in the following to the address bar:

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application.2.149.27\Themes

You should see a file called default.dll, which you want to make a copy of before you do anything else.

Next you'll want to paste the default.dll contained in the theme's zip file into this directory. You should be prompted to overwrite the current file (which you should have backed up).

At this point, you can start up chrome and you'll see the new theme.

Removing the Theme

Simply delete the new default.dll file and rename the copy back to the original defualt.dll name. That's all there is to it. You should note that these themes will have to be re-patched every time a new version of Google Chrome is released, which could be quite often.

Download ZOMBRE Google Chrome theme from deviantart.com

Google akhirnya meluncurkan browser garapannya. Namanya Google Chrome. Beberapa saat setelah Chrome diluncurkan, aku langsung mengunduh browser yang fully open source ini.

Kesan pertama, tampilannya sangat sederhana. Ben Goodger, salah seorang software engineer yang menggarap Chrome, mengatakan browser ini memang mengusung user interface yang clean, simple, dan efficient.

Dari sisi tampilan, Chrome memang berbeda dengan browser lainnya. Tidak ada baris menu yang terpampang. Tab-tab halaman pun diletakkan di atas box pengetikan URL. Uniknya lagi, masing-masing tab itu 'bertanggung jawab' atas 'perbuatannya' sendiri. Artinya, jika terjadi trouble pada salah satu tab, maka tidak akan mengganggu kerja halaman di tab yang lainnya.

Saat aku coba membuka Task Manager di Windows XP, memang terlihat memori dihitung untuk masing-masing tab, tidak menjadi satu kesatuan dengan kerja browser. Hal lain yang menarik adalah adanya modus penyamaran dalam surfing internet. Dengan modus ini, jejak-jejak berselancar tidak akan tercatat dalam cookies atau hisstory.

Setelah selesai mengunduh, aku langsung mencoba Chrome. Namun sayang, kinerjanya memang belum sesempurnya yang diharapkan. Saat aku mengunggah tulisan via CMS di kantor menggunakan Chrome pun ternyata halamannya malah jadi kacau. Maklum, masih versi beta. Oya, menurut berita yang dilansir, versi beta ini baru kompatibel untuk sistem operasi Windows dan telah diluncurkan di 100 negara.

It's the success story to beat all internet success stories.

Ten years ago, on 7 September 1998, two young graduate students at Stanford University incorporated a company with the (then) odd-sounding name "Google".

Today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are billionaires. Their company is hugely profitable; between April and June this year alone, it reported a turnover of $5.7bn (£3.2bn) and generated a net profit of $1.25bn (the first quarter was even more profitable).

Not bad for a company that makes its money being a broker for and publisher of online advertising.

The secret of Google's success, of course, is the algorithm driving its internet search engine. In fact, it is so good that it has entered our dictionaries.

People don't search the internet any more, they google it.

The secret sauce

Some critics accuse Google of being a one-trick pony and warn that competitors, newly emerging and potentially better search engines, are a mere mouse click away. 

But Google's secret sauce has more ingredients than its clever way of organising and ranking search results.

Equally important is the technology underlying the vast data centres that give Google the scale, speed and efficiency to serve its rapidly growing number of users.

And finally there are Google's two money spinners: AdWords - which puts relevant advertisements next to Google's own search results - and AdSense, the revenue-sharing deals that put Google's context-driven adverts on third-party websites.

The clever thing here is Google's restraint. It auctions advertising space not to the highest bidder but the most relevant advertiser, making Google users happy and generating more lucrative click-throughs to the websites of the advertisers.

Google's real ambition

Google may be a money spinner, but the company says it has much more high-minded aims than making a fast internet buck.

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," claims its corporate vision statement.

Note the word universal. Whether high-minded or not, it is this "Google everywhere" ambition that makes it such a successful company.

Over the years, Google has been releasing a steady stream of innovative tools and services - some of them developed in-house, many others bought in from start-ups: Gmail, Google Docs for word processing and spreadsheets, Picasa for picture editing, Google Earth and Maps for location-based search and display of information, Blogger, YouTube's video service ... the list is seemingly endless.

Not that long ago this looked like random growth. But as these services get a more coherent look and feel, the pieces of Google's puzzle are falling into place.

Every search we do, every tool we use helps Google to gather more information and organise the artefacts of our knowledge society.

The price to pay

Providing an entry point to Google's search engine at every level keeps feeding our Google habit, and creates a virtuous circle: the more information Google has, the better its search results, the happier its users, the higher the click-throughs on adverts, the bigger the profits, the more money for new "free" services that entice users to surrender yet more information.

It may leave us happy and Google profitable, but is it a corporate disaster waiting to happen?

Messrs Page and Brin may famously - or notoriously - promise that Google "can make money without doing evil".

But with Google hoarding all this personalised and traceable information in its vast data centres, issues of data safety, privacy, and corporate Big Brothership are looming large.

The chrome Android

Google is expanding because the internet is expanding. The definition of where the internet ends is getting hazy, with devices like fridges, digital picture frames and mobile phones becoming part of the internet-enabled world.

The company's next steps are already mapped. This week it launched its very own internet browser, called Chrome.

Today's browsers were built to show web pages, says Google, not to be platforms for complex applications.  Chrome promises to bring stability to our online experience - and the more computing happens on the internet, the more information Google can gather.

Coming shortly is an even more important piece of software called Android, Google's (Linux-based) operating system for internet-enabled telephones.

Google makes the same business case as for  Chrome: today's smart phones were not designed for the mobile internet, so Google steps into the breach.

Partner or rival?

The company started ten years ago by two students has the size to do it all.

At the end of 2007 it had 16,800 employees, and is reportedly hiring about 100 new people each week. 

But with Google spreading its wings and complementing more and more parts of our lives, a rapidly growing number of companies in ever more industries have to ponder whether this "search engine" is a partner, a competitor or a destroyer of business models.

Google's company motto could quite as well be: "Anything you can do I can do better - and for free."

It leaves even Google's largest rivals constantly stressed out - whether it is Microsoft (who saw the beta launch of its new browser Internet Explorer 8 overshadowed by Chrome), or ailing web portal Yahoo, which was forced to agree a revenue-sharing deal by outsourcing some of its advertising to Google.

Even the people who happily pay Google top advertising dollar are getting worried. They complain that Google's dominance could result in a lack of choice, not least since the company bought its way into the world of traditional display advertising on the web, through the acquisition of Doubleclick.

Triumvirate

This is especially true during the current economic downturn. Google expects that its revenue is going to hold up, because its advertising service is highly targeted and its success measurable. It's the old media with their mass medium approach that have to worry.

And to reassure investors, Google executives are pledging that they won't fall into the Yahoo trap of trying to turn Google into a media company.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told Conde Nast Portfolio that "one of the general rules we've had is 'don't own the content; partner with your content company'".

But even here the lines are blurring. Is there a lot of difference between "old media" publishing the pictures and videos supplied by news agencies, freelance photographers and their own audiences, and Google News or YouTube?

For now, the Google juggernaut rolls on.

The two founders keep driving the company's technical excellence, and Mr Schmidt - a veteran of the technology industry - ensures that the money keeps coming.

This triumvirate has made an informal deal to stick together for at least 20 years, says Mr Schmidt.Plenty of time for Google to secure its position as the lynchpin of our internet economy.

Google Lively
http://tarunreflex.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/exploring-lively-googles-virtual-world/

Google Chrome
http://tarunreflex.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/downlaod-google-chrome-google-incs-new-browser-review-download/

Interent Knows what you Will do next?
http://tarunreflex.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-internet-knows-what-youll-do-next/

Strangest Sites in Google Earth
http://tarunreflex.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/the-strangest-sights-in-google-earth

More about Google:

]]> http://merodeador.wordpress.com/?p=343 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:25:08 +0000 elmerodeador http://merodeador.wordpress.com/?p=343 Mucho se ha hablado del nuevo navegador de Google. Luego de un par de días de uso, creo que puedo hacer una lista de sus pros y contras, básicamente en contraste a su principal competidor: Mozilla Firefox 3.

Velocidad: Ninguno de los otros dos navegadores lo supera en esto.

Predictibilidad: Quizás Firefox se le asemeje, pero eso de empezar a teclear una URL y que te la complete sola es un placer.

Diseño: Me parece mucho más lindo estéticamente que los otros dos. Pero creo que su minimalismo llega a convertirse en un fastidio, puesto que carece de una title bar. No es que quiera ver el logo de Chrome, pero es un poo molesto para quien está acostumbrado, activar la ventana (que es lo que yo clickeo, para evitar tocar un boton o un enlace).

Integración con Google: Que la pagina de inicio sea un compilado de páginas frecuentes es una muy buena idea. Estaría bueno que los errores 404 fueran relacionados a Google, por ejemplo, si la pagina no existe, que te enliste un listado de sitios similares, al menos en URL (muchas veces por pifiarle a una letra...). De todos modos aún no veo lo que fue la excusa inicial para el programa: “Todas las puertas a nuestros servicios estaban en manos de terceros y necesitábamos darles a nuestros usuarios una alternativa más segura y rápida. Fue desarrollado pensando para una segunda generación de usuarios y nace mirando hacia adelante." Fuente

Buscadores: Aún no le tomo la mano al tema de los buscadores. Sólo a buscar en Google en la barra de direcciones, pero la función del Firefox para añadir motores a la barra de buscadores lo supera.

Favoritos: Tampoco entiendo muy bien esto. ¿Dónde están?

Funcionabilidad: Simple. Pero semejante simpleza también puede convertirse en un estorbo. Las opciones de personalización son mínimas.

Me parece que Chrome se asemeja más al Firefox que al Explorer. Lo cual me dispara una duda que muchos ya se preguntaron... ¿Qué va a pasar ahora con el apoyo de Google a Mozilla?

Integración con Gmail sería sin duda una idea revolucionaria viendola no del lado de solo poner un link a nuestro correo, sino que recibiendo notificaciones de cierta manera cuando alguien envie un correo o cuando algún RSS en el que estemos inscritos sea actualizado. Sin duda los programadores tienen que hacer que esta aplicación en Chrome se vea de una manera que no lo hayamos visto antes.

Wikipedia, aunque Google haya lanzado Knol, esta aplicación es sin duda fundamental.

Un clon de FireNes. un emulador directamente en Chrome, tal como lo es en Firefox. Sin duda a más de uno les será placentero que se realize esta aplicación para sus ratos de ocio.

Twitter. ¿Qué estas haciendo?, de una manera sumamente fácil.

Articulo en ingles aquí.

Experienţa mea de 2 zile cu acest browser:

E drăguţ, simplist si opensource, cu toate ca nu e chiar aşa de rapid precum se zvonea. Ce e de lăudat: interfaţa minimalistă, deloc stufoasa, poate ca nu chiar aşa de intuitiva, dar trebuie sa acceptam ca este o prima versiune, ce cu siguranţă se va îmbunătăţii. Nu mi-a placut senzatia de gol, austeriate, lipsit parca de cele necesare ca sa te simti comod folosindu-l. Ii voi mai da o sansa, ca e doar la versiunea beta...

Majoritatea spun ca e un rival al Internet Explorerului de la Microsoft, eu cred ca e un rival al Firefox, deoarece dupa ultimele date, Firefox are o crestere spectaculoasa ca numar de utilizatori, comparandu-l cu Internet Explorer (vedeti aici). Nu-i rau, acest Google Crome, dar raman la Firefox deocamdata, intruneste mult mai bine toate cerintele mele pentru a naviga pe apele infinite ale internetului si in plus, nu ajut la formarea monopolului gigantului Google ;) (imi place goole, dar monopolul nu)

Numai bine !

Ionel Scrofan

about:version
about:stats
about:memory
about:plugins
about:histograms
about:cache
about:dns
about:crash
about:hang
about:internets
about:network

Pretty much self explanatory, apart from about:internets which is a 3D Pipes demonstration and about:hang that hangs the process for that window

Google Chrome finally launches at google.com/chrome

A year or so ago, Yahoo! launched a nifty upgrade to their mapping service.  The application and maps were aesthetically better and built using Flash.  However, the first time I used it has been my last so far.  Basically, it couldn’t locate my home address – a very simple request.  Nothing earth shattering but it just goes to show that you should not launch your service when it’s not ready!  Small mistakes will lead potential visitors to your competition.

Lately, I’ve been migrating to Microsoft Virtual Earth.  The URL (http://maps.live.ca) is somewhat hard to get use to but it definitely offers some benefits.  I enjoy using the Collections Stratchpad when planning my home showing route.  Also, a major one for me is updated map imagery.  It seems Google has relaxed on its throne for too long.  Users have sent requests stating that location ABC has the wrong image or location DEF images are outdated, but Google is slow to respond.

Below is an example of how outdated some of Google's imagery is:

Do you recognize this area?  It's York & Bremner.   Amenities include ACC, Union Station, Rogers Centre, CN Tower, and the lake to name a few.  Considering there are cranes up, I guestimate this image was taken in mid-2005.

Now here is Microsoft's image:

Both towers are complete!  Of course, two issues with this image.  There should be a parking lot to the immediate right of the building and, to the east of York Street, the Residences of Maple Leaf Square tower should be under construction.  Those sections of the image need some updating but definitely a big improvement over Google's one.  Obviously this is a terrible sample size but I conducted several comparisons and overall Microsoft had newer imagery.  On top of that, Virtual Earth has a Bird's Eye view feature with provides very good street-level detail of Toronto.  The Bird's Eye view is taken at a 45 degree angle from four directions north, east, south and west.  The images are high-quality making it an excellent vehicle for potential home buyers to browse the neighbourhood.

Here's a Bird's eye view of The Residences of Maple Leaf Square (mentioned above):

If you have been in the area recently, you can tell that this image is very new.  Microsoft mapping division has done a good job so far and I'm happy to see that.  It's made my real estate life easier!

Not to be outdone though, Google does have a "Street View" feature that has launched in selected cities.  Toronto is not one of them yet but there have been sightings of a Google Van with their large panoramic camera driving around the city.  Once Street View is available in Toronto, Google can rest on their throne again.

Su Google Earth molti siti (basi militari, centrali nucleari, centri di ricerca, etc.) per ragioni differenti, sono stati completamente o parzialmenti oscurati. Per i più curiosi di voi, ecco una lista di 51 cose che non potrete mai vedere su Google Earth!

Fonte: [Favoritos]

Web-pages, nowadays is decorated with various kind of data including images, videos, flash presentations etc. As a result loading the page quickly has become a challenging issue for all the present browsers. In this competition , Firefox and Opera were a bit ahead of rest browsers for last few years. However, accomplishing with the lightweight features Google Chrome is lighting fast to load any kind of page and its open-source characteristics always keep open the door for improving its skill even more.

From our experience of browsing internet, we know that the browser pages get hung in many of the cases and the browser needs to be closed creating a lot of problems for the users. But Google Chrome could avoid this problem efficiently using separate sandbox discrete form each other, so that if a page get hung , others are not affected. Another interesting feature of Google Chrome is the Incognito Window.  Its like a way to browse without

leaving any footprint. Its can be considered as a read-only mode of browsing. You can use the history and bookmarks in this mode but it will not keep the history of your browsing in the browser's cache. Moreover it will delete all the cookies for Incognito Browsing.

Its very common in browsers that a JavaScipt hang the whole browser and you have to shut the browser down for that single tab. But it isnt the case for Google Chrome. Here, If you close a Tab , you are closing the whole process. This simple idea makes this browser extremely fast and an ideal platform to think for a future super-browser.

Besides all of its good features, I personally have got some troubles using Google Chrome. It shows me the message that it has to be shut down very often. Another problem is with its download manager. I dont get much flexibility there to resume, restart and re-order downloads. But I think this problems will be overcome by time. We all are hoping to get the more improved version of Google Chrome very soon.

Download Link: http://www.google.com/chrome

Wiki Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Some comics and cartoons on Google chrome : http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome

HAVE A NICE TIME WITH GOOGLE CHROME !

Symbian OS

Symbian es la evolución de EPOC, un antiguo sistema operativo de las primeras agendas electrónicas. Es el sistema operativo más usado con una gran cantidad de móviles que lo incorporan. Actualmente el sistema está en su versión 9.5 (aunque no hay telefonos que incorporen esta versión aún).

Nokia, que ya contaba con un 48% de las acciones de Symbian, anunció recientemente la compra de la compañía. También hicieron pública su intención de que Symbian pase a ser software libre en un futuro próximo, para lo cual ya ha creado una fundación sin ánimo de lucro que se encargue de la estandarización de Symbian, la Fundación Symbian.

Entre otras cosas, el sistema operativo de Symbian posee: base de datos SQL, defragmentación RAM, carga de página por demanda, multiproceso simétrico, protocolo Media transfer, servicios de localización (LBS), ScreenPlay de alta definición foto-video, TV digital. Además soporta Java ( PersonalJava y J2ME Java), Flash (imágenes vector y raster, lenguaje Script, audio y video streaming), Python (motor encriptador open source) y .NET framework entre otros.

Windows Mobile

La apuesta de Microsoft para el desarrollo de telefonía celular. La últma versión del sistema (v5.0) aplica las mismas características del las PDA de microsoft a los teléfonos móviles, teniendo mucha compatibilidad con el entorno de Windows y todos sus formatos. Windows Mobile tiene dos grandes plataformas de hardware: Pocket PC y Smartphone.

Una de las ventajas de Windows Mobile sobre sus competidores es que los programadores pueden desarrollar aplicaciones para móviles utilizando los mismos lenguajes y entornos que emplean con Windows para PC. En comparación, las aplicaciones para Symbian necesitan más esfuerzo de desarrollo, aunque también están más optimizadas para cada modelo de teléfono.

Windows Mobile soporta las resoluciones 800x480 y 320x320, opción de 1:1 en la páginas web, soporte VoIP con los codec del audio AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancelling) y MSRT, cifrado de la tarjeta de almacenamiento, soporte para teclados QWERTY incluido por defecto, mejora de Internet Sharing para una fácil configuración de tu dispositivo como módem de computadora portátil, soporte AJAX, JavaScript y XMLDOM en Internet Explorer Mobile, soporte Generic Access Network (UMA) para los operadores seleccionados, SQL Server Compact Edition y .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 en la ROM entre otras cosas.

BlackBerry OS

BlackBerry OS se trata de un sistema operativo multitarea desarrollado por la compañía Research In Motion (RIM), creadores de los BlackBerry. Es un sistema orientado principalmente al entorno empresarial que soporta el perfil MIDP 1.0 para desarrollo de aplicaciones Java para dispositivos móviles, además de parte de MIDP 2.0 desde la versión 4.

Blackberry quiere acabar de un plumazo con la imagen de dispositivo aburrido y para ejecutivos, apostando fuerte para ello en la nueva actualización de su sistema operativo de la que PCWorld ha filtrado nuevos detalles y en esta ocasión, por equipos.Entre las mejoras -aplicables según equipos- caben destacar la grabación de vídeo, la grabación de notas de voz, soporte HTML en el correo electrónico, actualizaciones OTA (Over The Air), soporte para streaming de Youtube, entre otros.

En la línea de móviles lanzado por esta empresa, la Blackberry Bold (serie 9000) soporta video: DivX 4, DivX 5/6 (parcialmente), XviD parcialmente, H.263, H.264, WMV3. En audio soporta: .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+. Además el display mostrado por la Blackberry Bold es: pantalla VGA 480 x 320 pixeles, transmissive TFT LCD, 65,000 de colores, tamaño de fuente selectiva por el usuario.

iPhone OS X

Es el sistema operativo del famoso (por estos días) iPhone. Es una optimización comprimida de Mac OS X y corre solamente en los móviles de Apple.

En concreto se trata de una versión reducida de Mac OS X optimizada para procesadores ARM que actualmente se encuentra en su versión 2.0 (liberada el 11 de Julio de 2008). Oficialmente no se pueden instalar programas que no hayan sido firmados por Apple, para lo cuál hace falta pagar para entrar a formar parte del iPhone Developer Program. Es posible, no obstante, desarrollar aplicaciones web para Safari o instalar aplicaciones de terceros mediante jailbreaking a través de los programas PwnageTool y WinPwn.

El iPhone tiene como formatos de vídeo compatibles: H.264 a un máximo de 1,5 Mb/s, 640 por 480 píxeles, 30 fotogramas por segundo y versión de baja complejidad del perfil básico de H.264, con sonido AAC-LC de hasta 160 Kb/s a 48 kHz y estéreo en los formatos de archivo .m4v, .mp4 y .mov; H.264 a un máximo de 2,5 Mb/s, 640 por 480 píxeles, 30 fotogramas por segundo y perfil básico hasta nivel 3.0 con sonido AAC-LC de hasta 160 Kb/s a 48 kHz y estéreo en los formatos de archivo .m4v, .mp4 y .mov; MPEG-4 a un máximo de 2,5 Mbps, 640 por 480 píxeles, 30 fotogramas por segundo y perfil simple con sonido AAC-LC de hasta 160 Kb/s a 48 kHz y estéreo en los formatos de archivo .m4v, .mp4 y .mov.

Goole Android

Conforme pasa el tiempo se hace más inminente el dominio de Google en el mercado de la tecnología. Buscador nº1, mail, mapas, lector de feeds, nuevo navegador, ¿y ahora teléfonos de Google? Pues sí, Google entra en el mercado de la telefonía móvil y lo hace con Android, el sistema operativo opensource de telefonía celular basado en Linux.

La plataforma de Google para móviles. Es libre (licencia Apache versión 2) y está basado en Linux y Java. Por ahora no es más que una promesa, puesto que no se ha presentado ningún movil que lo utilice. Se especula que HTC podría ser el primer fabricante en utilizar este sistema operativo, a finales de año, e incluso se rumorea un nombre para este modelo: el HTC Dream.

Como aún no sale al mercado ningún teléfono con Android se hace confuso hablar de requerimieneto y soportes de los hardwares con este sistema, sin embargo Google ya lanzó un sitio para desarrolladores en donde exponen un Beta de su API además de entregar un SDK para comenzar a crear las aplicaciones, puesto que el gran negocio de Android (a diferencia de iPhone y los problemas que ha presentado el iTunes store) es la libertad que se le entrega a los desarrolladores para expandir las aplicaciones dentro de esta plataforma.