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because it's royalty-free for implementations of VP8 algorithms

It's free of royalties from Google, but third parties that Google doesn't yet know about may hold essential patents and join a patent pool that MPEG-LA is forming.

The same applies to h.264 incidentally - free from royalties from known patent holders that are members of the MPEG-LA, but third parties that they don't yet know about may hold essential patents. Same is true of almost anything in computing these days, sadly.

Slashdot wrote about this last year, after Playboy wrote about it. Playboy's story was pretty good.

The moral of the story is anyone who gives good Powerpoint is destined to grow rich

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because it's royalty-free for implementations of VP8 algorithms

It's free of royalties from Google, but third parties that Google doesn't yet know about may hold essential patents and join a patent pool that MPEG-LA is forming.

even the MPEG LA group has recognised the importance of automatic royalty-free patent grants, in their call for contributions to the upcoming MPEG-2 algorithm.

MPEG and MPEG-LA are separate organization, and MPEG-2 is the codec used for DVD and US digital TV, not the new royalty-free MPEG standard effort.

And all the cameras see is a raging alot staring back at them.

Or a giant niggerdick going down your throat while you hum to increase the stimulation. A lot of giant niggerdick.

And all the cameras see is a raging alot staring back at them.

I guess it's possible, but still, that's a million miles away from the plant based technologies "biofuels" of today and even theoretical algae biofuel technology is still likely to be less efficient land-wise than other solar powered derived electric vehicle techniques.

http://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2008/06/algae-biodiesel-vs-solar-panels.html

Provides a comparison of required land use of algae biodiesel production to a PV solar-energy powered electric car. The PV -> electric car method requires around 1/5 the land use. The real efficiency killer is simply the internal combustion engine. Also, that's based on theoretical algae biodiesel production, commercial-scale production would probably be less efficient. Meanwhile, both solar-power and electric car technologies are getting more efficient all the time.

Dear /. taggers: Google doesn't care about version number at all. It is just an arbitrary number signifying their major releases (which happens every six weeks or so). Want to know how little Google cares about version number? Go to google.com/chrome . Try to find a version number. Go to Google's Chrome blog ( http://chrome.blogspot.com/ ). Try to find a version number. Google's NEVER promoted a new release of Chrome with the version number. The only people to do so are other sites who are seemingly compelled to attach a number to the new release. The number is there but only for development purposes. Another fun fact about Chrome versioning: Versions between Developer, Beta, and Release never share the same version number. If it changes development channel, the number is increased. You'll never see a version 11.0.331.31 Beta turn into a 11.0.331.31 Release.

11.0.672.2 is a Dev channel release. Call it "alpha" if you like. http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/dev-channel-update_17.html

There are 3 release channels: Stable, Beta, and Dev.

Eben Moglen http://lastonk.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-box.html is trying to make a box that makes it damn hard to track people using this sort of stuff. I'm not tech savvy enough to know if these things would help in this situation, but I strongly suspect it would.

  If nothing else... you could use them to create ad hoc darknets capable of distributing p-p without ever going through an ISP at all... I'm thinking this is the right kind of forum to find people with the skills to help Eben out.

Purportedly from Netflix:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gC6nMAI6mu8/TUHG6jsQq-I/AAAAAAAAADE/Bwe1fkAUxzA/s1600/isp_usa.png

Wow, what a horrible site full of misinformation and straw man arguments.

This site was funded by the Bradley Foundation

I was not aware of the dubious groups funded by the Bradley foundation, although looking down the list they also fund anti child abuse groups and some of the most quoted and respected think tanks in the US. How and ever, this is an ad hominem reaction.

The only legitimate argument on the site is that the Earth can produce enough food, although the argument relies on petrochemical fertilizers, and does not acknowledge constraints on the petrochemicals.

You don't need oil to produce nitrogen fertilisers. Please read this:
http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html
We have no shortage of any of the ingredients needed for it.

The site does not even acknowledge concerns about the high risk of global diseases, the massive amounts of waste products and pollution from industry and agriculture, or constraints on energy and water supplies.

Surely global diseases would reduce the population? Waste products and pollution are being dealt with over the course of decades via various environmental initiatives such as carbon taxes. If you were to cover 2% of the uninhabited portions of the Sahara desert with photovoltaic cells, you would supply 100% of the world's power requirements. I'm not saying that's a good idea, I am saying that we are swimming in energy. Water resources follow on from this, in those areas where water is in short supply, which I doubt would be tha majority of settled areas.

Oh, and nobody has even mentioned that there might not be enough jobs for everyone in the world.

Mmm, funny thing, the more people there are, the larger the economy. People produce as well as consume. This was covered by one of the videos.

In one section, the authors "prove" the Earth's population will peak around 8 B in 30 years and begin to decline by linking to the UN Population DB and telling you to use the "low variant" model. They don't tell you that the other three models (constant fertility, medium, high) all show the population continuing to rise for the duration of the model (present - 2050).

Talk about selective information. What a crock of shit.

As lifestyles improve, population growth declines. This is readily observable. There is no shortage of energy and hence other materials available, so there is no reason why the people of China, India, and Africa shouldn't have a fully westernised lifestyle, whatever that may be. We aren't choking on our own wastes, we aren't running out of things we can't replace, we are in short doing alright.

Malthusians need to recognise the facts, including the fact that the priest who gave them their name advocated killing off the poor to sustain the lifestyles of the rich.

Is trying to make software preventing this kind of thing from happening again. http://lastonk.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-box.html by using wall wart servers and routers.

If there was a software app that allowed handheld devises with wifi to create ad hoc networks... the people in Egypt may not have even noticed when the ISP's were shut down... they would have been able to continue talking to each other via short link wireless networks.

No we could not. I'm getting tired of seeing this meme being repeated on /.

Several countries are investing in research, but no one has a mass-producible model yet. It will be much more than 1 year before Thorium reactors go mainstream, even without anti-nuclear activism.

If I am wrong please point me to the company that sells thorium reactors TODAY.

There's a little more practical application than "several countries".

http://yottawattsthorium.blogspot.com/2010/02/thorium-powered-ships-for-navy.html

I see no part of the paper that addresses the inherent problems with wind power. The wind doesn't always blow, and until we have grid storage capabilities wind power is essentially a gimmick, it has to be backed up with nuclear or fossil fuel generated power.

Take Texas for example, we have more wind generating capacity than any other state by a long shot. Only a few weeks ago we were forced into rolling blackouts. Because it got cold energy demand spiked, however we weren't able to use our 9,500MW of wind power because it just so happens that when it gets cold down here the wind doesn't blow as hard, at least in the regions that house our wind power production. So we had high demand and no help from the wind generation. A pipe froze and burst at a coal plant, which forced it off the grid and suddenly we don't have enough generating capacity to meet demand and ERCOT forces rolling blackouts on the state. See this for more details.

I'm all for renewable energy, but the way I see it an 100% renewable energy grid needs a few technologies we don't have yet.

Inexpensive, large capacity storage. This would make wind a much more attractive option, though I'd still rather build a Thorium reactor for the land area, but some places have more space than others.

A more efficient, smart gird. We need to be able to ship solar power from sunny California to cloudy NE Ohio without much, or any, loss. I used to live there, we got about 25% of the available sunlight year round.

Some sort of new energy storage technology. I'm thinking automotive use here. I don't see how large, heavy, rare-earth metal filled lithium ion battery packs are sustainable. As far as I am aware hydrogen fuel cells also have issues. Last I knew they'd have to be under extreme, and I'd say unsafe, pressure to pack in enough hydrogen to have a range of 400 miles. My info could be outdated so feel free to correct me.

So yeah, seems like a Puff paper to me. I'd like to see more work done on make those three things I listed above achievable and less on PR.

An Android device was tested at the upper limits of a balloon ascent and descent. http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-in-spaaaace.html
Not that the iPhone wouldn't perform similarly, but I would think the open-source nature would be a better fit for this project. I'd hate to have a launch being delayed because I was waiting for the app to be approved.

Here is a post on Waton's wagering by IBM Research.

The IBM Research blog has had a few good articles about Watson over the past few days, including one about wagering:

http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/watsons-wagering-strategies.html

I didn't think that Final Jeopardy would have been especially easy for Watson. The majority of the clue was indirectly related to the correct response, and the connection hinged on a single word (inspired). I suspect Jennings' behavior was based more on simple arithmetic than on any assumptions about Watson's response.

Hours after Joseph Pickrell put his genome on the internet, an anonymous blogger took the data and concluded that he came from Ashkenazi Jewish stock. Pickrell, a genetics graduate student at the University of Chicago, Illinois, was sceptical about the claim. But after talking to relatives, he discovered that he had a Jewish great-grandfather who had moved to the United States from Poland at the turn of the nineteenth century. "It was a part of my ancestry I was totally unaware of," he says. The blogger, who writes under the pseudonym Dienekes Pontikos at http://dodecad.blogspot.com/ had commandeered Pickrell's DNA as part of the Dodecad Ancestry Project, an ambitious project in which cutting-edge genomic analysis meets Web 2.0. Pontikos analyses genetic data submitted by followers of his blog to reconstruct personal ancestry and human population history — and reports his findings online. He is part of a small but growing group of 'genome bloggers', a mix of professional scientists and hobbyists proving that widely available tools for computational biology could enable recreational bioinformaticians to make new discoveries. "They are not amateurs. They are far from being amateurs," says Doron Behar, a population geneticist at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, who studies human history. "I cannot stress enough the level of appreciation I have for their efforts." Pontikos has so far analysed several hundred thousand single-letter DNA variations from more than 2,200 individuals. That includes more than 200 submitted to him by readers of his blog, who had had their genomes analysed by genetics testing firms such as 23AndMe, based in Mountain View, California, with the remainder coming from publicly available datasets. The readers volunteering their genomes (identities stay private) are mostly keen to delve into their own ancestry. But Pontikos, who is from Greece and describes himself as an "anthropology dilettante", is more interested in unfurling the history of populations that tend to be overlooked by human-population geneticists. For instance, his analysis of genomes from people living in northern Eurasia reveals a genetic connection between populations in northern Finland and central Siberia (see 'Meet the ancestors'). David Wesolowski, a 31-year-old Australian who runs the Eurogenes ancestry project (http://bga101.blogspot.com), also focuses on understudied populations. "It's a response, in a way, to the lack of formal work that's been done in certain areas, so we're doing it ourselves," he says. Wesolowski and a colleague have drilled into the population history of people living in Iran and eastern Turkey who identify as descendants of ancient Assyrians, and who sent their DNA for analysis. Preliminary findings suggest their ancestors may have once mixed with local Jewish populations, and Wesolowski plans to submit these results to a peer-reviewed journal. But Pontikos sees little point in formally publishing his findings. "I can bypass them entirely, and have the entire world review what I write," he wrote in an e-mail. Indeed, comments on his blog — "could you please provide the eigenvalues for the principal component analysis", for instance — read like the niggling recommendations of a manuscript reviewer. ...

Maybe he is opening his genome to anybody who wants to study it. Since it is the only Open Source genome, I'm sure there will be plenty of research, and he could benefit from it (not financially, but it's a nice relief to be assured that you can not have alzehimer, diabetes or whatever.)

Please a company can use the word lifetime to mean anything it likes... there is no firm definition its the same as full-flavor or low-fat, it just means TiVo goes from being a good-guy company to another corporate-drone-type company in the view of its users http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2011/02/virgin-tivos-causing-ruckus.html

What are you talking about? Gingerbread has been released for a while: SDK, in the wild

http://operationengage.blogspot.com/

Just read the whole thing (and watch the video); it's worth it. This happened less than a month ago, between a couple of friends of mine.

From the fact that leaving certain bodily parts uncovered at all times is unhygenic (e.g. "No shirt, no shoes, no service"... and they don't mention shorts/underwear only because someone walking around with that part uncovered would violate indecent exposure law anyways).

From the fact that we'd prefer that most of the population not to expose certain things at certain times (let's face it, some of the people who walk around in spandex... ewww).

And then of course, it's not just "Christian" religions that do this kind of thing. Take a look over at Japan if you will.

Of course, the Japanese didn't have a hang-up about boobs the way the Xtians do. Then again, when you get to anthropological study, you can determine that a society covers up what it considers "indecent." You were busy attacking christians, when female genital mutilation is amazingly common in Muslim society. And there can be NO purpose for the Burkha other than to dehumanize women by making them "unseen" in society.

Or maybe we should be a little clearer: A Burqa is a tool for dehumanizing the wearer. For making it difficult for them to have any individual interaction outside the home. This is not a bug, this is a feature. It depersonalizes women who wear it. It makes it difficult for them to work outside the home, to have a conversation with a stranger or to even be seen as an individual. And again, that is the entire point. Burqas are the product of a culture and religion in which women are not supposed to have any function outside the home. In which they are supposed to remain in Purdah, walled off inside the home.

Central, 2 factor authentication. Keyword OpenID

Google has it.
    OpenID endpoint : https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
    2 factor : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html

myOpenID has it : https://www.myopenid.com/about_callverifid/

Verisign has it : http://systembash.com/content/using-the-paypal-verisign-security-key-with-openid-for-two-factor-authentication/

WiKID provides software to set up your own 2 factor OpenID : http://wikid.com/

It's also not that hard to make your own OpenID server (LOTS of good libs around for most languages), and there are already various open apps for 2 factor auth for f.ex phones (like http://motp.sourceforge.net/ )

And, even without 2 factor auth, OpenID is still generally more secure than passwords. Stealing the DB on a random website that use openid for auth, or even having root, won't give the attacker much to work with. No passwords. No info that allow him to use the openid account on other web sites.

So, start looking closer at OpenID today :)

Its difficult to get good advice for android - because the rumours get out there too quick and its very much like the PC world - too much misinformation getting around.

Firstly, I'm interested to know what you mean by "battery problems".
I have a galaxy S, so its pretty similar hardware to the Nexus S, and I'd buy a nexus S if I was looking for a new phone right now (i'm not).

Depending on how heavily you use your phone, you should expect between 1.5 and 3 days of battery life.

The best advice I can give you about android is to disable any task killers. Well, if you must have one, I like System Panel (free)...but I use it only to terminate an app that I suspect has not closed correctly or is chewing up resources such as wifi etc.

The reason for not using task killers is best explained by google themselves: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html

In essence, it messes with the way android was designed to work, and in actual fact, only the current "app" gets cpu time anyway, besides active services that run in the background. Its actually much the same as iOS4 for multitasking...but just without limitations on which apps can have services running in the background and what those services are allowed to do.

If you need more than 2-3 days of use on a single charge, then the nexus s might not be for you. I'm not sure if the iPhone4 fares any better though...
It all depends what your phone is doing.

Personally, as long as my phone lasts the day I'm fine with it....but if it matters to you, then do all the obvious stuff:
* turn off wifi, bluetooth, nfc? when not in use
* dont use live wallpapers
* only use reputable apps
* never use antivirus - these are bogus until we hear of an actual virus for android.
* set your screen to turn off after a minute - or even 30s (the screen is by far the heaviest user of battery)

Other than that, if your phone doesn't last a day, then you may have a faulty battery.

Exactly so.

In spite of their denials of persuing a link-spam scheme their first action upon getting their Google Spanking was:

PENNEY reacted to this instant reversal of fortune by, among other things, firing its search engine consulting firm, SearchDex. Executives there did not return e-mail or phone calls.

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So they essentially said "We didn't do it" and promptly fired the bunch that they hired to do it for them. Plausible Deny-ability lives.

But Google already had started repairing page rank well before this story broke. It appeared in the Official Google Blog and was discussed here just last month.

I, (and I suspect Google) would sure like to hear your suggestions on how this sort of thing can be prevented. The best minds in the industry from at least two companies have been struggling with this for over a decade, and you could pretty much name your salary if you have a solution.

The simple fact is it is almost impossible to reliably detect cut and paste web sites who's only purpose for existing is to host google ads or which embed links directly in their text to game page rank. If you've figured this out, Google is hiring.

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/02/sizing-up-field.html

The Times did a good job on this, but there are some questions.

They did mention that Penney is (or was) a big Google advertiser, but you've got to wonder who else has succeeded in doing this.

I read a blogger Whither the NY Times who's doing a pretty funny review of the Times day by day, with the looming paywall in the background.

He asks who else, and wonders how did the Times scope this out?

Businesses seem to rise and fall in their Google rankings in weird ways. Maybe the search engine optimizers have figured something out. Or maybe Google just looks the other way once in awhile

Getting access to the filesystem (in user space) in Android doesn't require root access, and being able to install any application is just a matter of ticking a checkbox.
Besides that you should read this: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html

Sounds to me like the law is only treating symptoms. How about a law that makes it illegal to sell customer info without their express written consent?

The FTC is actually asking for public comments on something along those lines. Submit comments by Feb. 18. (It would help if your comments address the specific questions they ask; see some of the already-submitted comments to get an idea as to how off-target some can be.)

At the risk of seeming as if I'm merely self-promoting, for those who don't have time to read the entire ~100 page report but would be interested in commenting, I tried to summarize the report, as well as suggest some targeted consumer-privacy friendly comments.

The answer is yes, I did find at least one instance, and according to the article it is possible to win such a suit. This charming lawsuit
 
 

Chamilia’s slander of title claims also failed. Allegations of patent infringement can be slander of title if they are false, reasonably calculated to cause harm, and result in special damages.

That's an excerpt from the article relevant to the topic.

The problem is TechWorld having no idea what this tool is for. The announcement by Google http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/contracts-for-java.html never mentions the word "buffer" and accurately describes this as a tool for pre/post validation of method arguments and return values. Some how TechWorld decided to tie in JVM level buffer overflow issues with a pure Java DbC tool, anyone actually familiar with Java knows at a glance that the two are unrelated.

I wrote my opinion about this in my blog -> http://kurt555gs.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-looks-like-my-n8-will-be-my-last.html -

This saddens me as a long time Nokia customer.

The whole thing smells.

I believe this makes a patent settlement between Apple and Nokia in the form of a cross-license easier and more likely to happen in the near term. That's the biggest IT patent war I've ever seen. Apple asserted a variety of smartphone-related patents such as touchscreen user interface patents against Nokia in response to Nokia enforcing some standards-related (GSM, UMTS etc.) patents. Now that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone for the high end, I can't imagine that Apple would enforce patents against a Microsoft operating system. Those two companies haven't had a patent fight in a long time. It would make strategic sense for Apple and Nokia to settle and to focus on competitors building Android-based devices. I commented on this in more detail on my blog.

Note the added support for "application specific passwords" on the blog post:
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html
Now you can make a single-use revocable password for your phone, and it no longer needs to know your actual gmail password.

So if you were to steal my phone, you'd only have access until I noticed I lost the phone and revoked those keys from home. I'd still be able to get to gmail from a home computer using the 30-day per-computer 2-factor allowance, or by using one of the one-time-use keys printed out at setup.

It looks like someone has through this through a bit :)

You can also set up one-time application-specific passwords to sign in to your account from non-browser based applications that are designed to only ask for a password, and cannot prompt for the code.
(from actual google post http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html)

This might be what you are looking for.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html

That is hit and miss, the 5th amendment is not respected for this by some people in the judicial branch (as has been noted on /. several times before)... first google result for 5th amendment password

Salute Sir, I am releasing a new game next week. In your honor I will price it at .99 cents, enjoy.

.99 cents? So I can get 100 games for a dollar?

I said BigDecimal is appropriate for most business use cases, especially when dealing with money, as you can control the precision and rounding behavior. The problem with floating point formulas is that they don't always round in the way you want or need them to. If you've ever applied percentage discounts and then added up the results you will see that iusing float or double often causes you to be off by one or two cents. Here is a good post on the problem with relevant examples.

Stated another way, if you are collecting a floating point value as input, chances are it has to deal with GIS coordinates, monetary values, grade point average, or perhaps some scientific value with known precision, in which case BigDecimal would be more appropriate and therefore immune to this particular problem.

Sony is trying to fight a losing battle with this one and of course obligatory mirrors http://sites.google.com/site/eclement/ps3jailbreak or http://qoaa.blogspot.com/2011/02/ps3-jailbreak.html

In the case of the U.S. that means voting for people who want to cut the budget because the less money the government has, they less power they wield.

Yeah. Less power to maintain the roads, fight fires, teach kids, rebuild flooded cities, feed the hungry, find and lock up murderers, care for the sick and injured...and, most importantly to the investment-class parasites who most strongly promote this "cut the budget!" meme, less power to put any regulation on big business.

Actual totalitarianism can be run on the cheap, clubs and jackboots are not very expensive. The size of the budget has little to do with how much freedom people have -- low government spending doesn't correlate with increased freedom. (Read the whole linked page, not just the table, especially the note about the U.S.'s rank -- the U.S. already spends less (by GDP) on government than any other large, prosperous country.)

Now, as a Zenarchist, I'd love -- and look forward to -- a society where we don't need government to maintain the roads, fight fires, teach kids, etcetera. But before we get government out of those things, we need to get it out of creating and enforcing the capitalist "property rights" that create economic injustice, that have us living in the L-curve. First tear up all those government-issued land deeds held by landlords, the government-issued corporate charters that make stock in companies meaningful, all those government-issued copyrights and patents. Then we can talk.

What about Nouriel Roubini? He's an economist, which is even less sexy than a computer geek these days. Yet he's a renowned playboy.

Assange is a rebel, and women love a rebel, especially in bed. Anyone with an inkling of computer savvy knows the dangerous line he walks, and chicks dig it.

I don't know where the "2 millions" came from regarding iPads, but yeah looks like it's not 7 million iPads. It's 7 million iPads IN Q4 2010 ALONE. I could find sources, about how many iPads have been sold, but you'll just ignore them because they don't fit with your vision.

I think that Apple will compete just fine, Flash is one thing, but as far as "controlling their own devices", a lot of people (the majority?) DO NOT CARE.

Please show me sources where Android is selling far better in tablets (remember the actual article is about tablets). When you can't, you'll just accuse me of being an Apple fanboy. If I were, it's pretty strange that I own an Android phone, and would sooner get an Android tablet than an iPad.

Isn't that the truth. (images safe for work)

Here: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/01/guys-create-wikipedia-for-free-thats.html

Harvard study: Hey, maybe we’re placing too much emphasis on a college education
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/harvard-study-hey-maybe-were-placing-too-much-emphasis-on-a-college-education/

http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2011/02/we-place-far-too-much-emphasis-on.html

when IP4 was created in 1980 people thought it will never end :) now just after 30 years IP6 lol Javin fix protocol tags and specification

Shouldn't we start to replace the word 'blog' with the word 'rant'? Blogs used to be a snapshot of daily affairs, but now some people are using them to push uninformed agendas and promote their 'A-List' websites. Ever notice how when you attach the term 'pro' to something to do with computers, it becomes anything but..

But why restrict these to Chrome?

So that the Chrome OS (browser?) can use the Nacl to extend the functionality of web apps, an interface not (and never likely to be) supported by other browsers. Providing a secure yet open platform for both developers and computer users that might have a fighting chance to beat malware and viruses.

Is Google paying these companies to promote these sites as “Chrome apps”, perhaps?

Why would Google pay somebody to promote their website / app? It's far more likely that the companies are paying Google to promote their "Chrome apps" or still more likely that the apps will be charged for, and both parties take a small cut from the profits.

Yes, Google does offer the opportunity to create “packaged apps”, with content that can be run when the browser’s offline, but trying to pass off bookmarks as “apps” is a little too close to snake oil for my liking.

So an Apple app .. because it has to be written in Objective C and lives in a walled garden is the proper definition of an App? There are lots and lots of software applications which run through browsers. With the new advent of 3D graphics interfaces to the browser, pretty soon we're gonna see lots and lots more applications (games for all platforms anyone?) running from browsers. And if the Google app store matures and Chrome's browser share continues to rise.. probably a lot of 'App's making use of Nacl to provide better end user facility.

The article reads like someone saying "I don't get it" very loud and clear. The only question it leaves me asking is, who's smarter.. Google or the guy who wrote this blog entry?

I don't know if they think about it, but it's actually been in the news recently. Apparently some hotel is built so perfectly for, ah hem, tanning their customers who happen to be in the pool area.

The Director Engineering said as much to TechRadar two weeks ago, so I'm surprised this is news. http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/honeycomb-may-never-come-to-mobiles-922897 So Phones = 2.X, Tablets = 3.X, until Google reunite the number systems. According to the Dev blog post today, they're creating a Fragments API static library for use with phones going down to 1.6. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fragments-api.html so universal apps for tablets and phones can be coded.