Friday, November 27, 2009

The Chromium Projects

The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively. The site, http://www.chromium.org/, houses the documentation and code related to the Chromium projects and is intended for developers interested in learning about and contributing to the open-source projects.

Chromium
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.

Chromium OS
Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to provide a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Learn more about the project goals, obtain the latest build, and learn how you can get involved, submit code, and file bugs.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Google released Chromium OS open source project

In July Google announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. In 11/19/2009, Google Google released Chromium OS open source project.

This release of Chromium OS includes:

* Source code
* Design docs
* User interface experiments
* How to build and contribute
* Short overview video

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html

What is Google Chrome OS?

Telling the story of Google Chrome and how it inspired an operating system. Produced by Epipheo Studios.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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

Friday, November 6, 2009

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.



Thursday, October 29, 2009

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.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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