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GO: a systems programming language expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected

Google released a new, experimental systems programming language today, GO. It is open source. For more information, check out the Google Open Source blog.



A short promotional video about the Go Programming Language presented by Russ Cox.

For a more detailed video about Go, please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT...

The Go home page:
http://golang.org

ASE (Android Scripting Environment) r14 is now available

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device.

ASE r14 is released.

Google News

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.

Traditionally, news readers first pick a publication and then look for headlines that interest them. Google do things a little differently, with the goal of offering readers more personalized options and a wider variety of perspectives from which to choose. Google News offer links to several articles on every story, so readers can first decide what subject interests them and then select which publishers’ accounts of each story like to read. Click on the headline that interests them and they'll go directly to the site which published that story.

The articles are selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online. Google also rank based on certain characteristics of news content such as freshness, location, relevance and diversity. As a result, stories are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology and readers can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on any given story. Google will continue to improve Google News by adding sources, fine-tuning technology and providing Google News to readers in even more regions.

Android 2.0 support in the SDK!

Google announced that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair).

Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources. You can also give users a faster way to communicate with others by embedding Quick Contact within your application. With the new Bluetooth API, you can now easily add peer-to-peer connectivity or gaming to your applications. To get a more complete list of the new capabilities you can add to your applications, please go to the Android 2.0 highlights page.

Current developers can use the SDK Manager to add Android 2.0 support to their SDK as well as update their SDK Tools to revision 3. New developers can download the Android SDK from the download site. After the download, Android platforms must be added using the SDK Manager

Google Maps Navigation (Beta)

Google Maps Navigation (Beta)

Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with Android 2.0.

Google Maps Navigation uses your phone's internet connection to give you the latest maps and business data. But that's not all that's different about Google's approach to GPS navigation. Watch the below video to learn more.

a demonstration of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 phones.

Google Maps: Favorite Places

Explore the favorite places of local experts from cities around the world. Find out where they like to go, and why, from their own perspectives.

Favorite Places: Introducing a collection of favorite places around the world