Motorola Mobility

Dear MOTODEV member,

Today, Google and Motorola Mobility have announced their intention to enter an agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility. This is a positive step in Motorola Mobility's evolution and exciting news for the Android ecosystem.

As you know, Motorola Mobility has played a leading role in the advancement of the Android platform globally. With Google, we plan to continue to build upon our 80-year history of technology innovation and take Motorola Mobility's cutting-edge products and solutions to the next level.

What can you expect to earn in the Valley??

Silicon Valley, the Mecca of technology companies, dream (often unattainable to many outside EUA) to any developer worth himself. Well, the infographic shows interesting facts about what's happening in this valley near San Francisco.

To begin to bring the piece highlighted on the title, the salaries of the superstars of the engineering of software in large enterprises: from Google's $180,000US to the modest Twitter's 125,000US pays... Whom was a brainiac!!

Android History Infographic

Although I love to Android, being a developer is very hard. Especially the issue of OS versions. Luckily a while now have settled down and only new versions of the systems will every 6 months minimum, respecting a development cycle much more mature.

The first version of Android (Android 1.0) was born in September 2008 and, like many analysts said, was still not cooked enough to be marketed. But we had to do it, Google wanted to show he had a mobile operating system that would reach a large number of users with integrated services.

C&P: Android Loves App Engine and the other way arround

This is a copy-paste (C&P) from a post called: Android Meet App Engine, App Engine Meet Android where new functionalities for the GPE (Google engine for Eclipse) comes within:

Imagine this: you’ve spent the past few months hammering away at the latest mobile game sensation, Mystified Birds, and you are one level away from complete mastery. And then it happens. In a fit of excitement you throw your hands up, and along with them your Nexus S, which settles nicely at the bottom of the pool you happen to be relaxing next to. The phone is rendered useless. Luckily, your insurance policy covers the replacing the device and the Android Market handles replacing your apps. Unluckily though, all of your Mystified Birds data went the way of your device, leaving you to start from scratch.

Havok goes for Android

Google and all the Open Headset Alliance are cooking everything they have on the frige to improve Android Experience. Now Videogames are going to expect a benefit with the use of this Physics engine. But, what's is the big deal with it??, a Physics Engine is:

Computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain simple physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film.

Mobile App Store data of 2010

As the end of the 2010, Distimo delivered to us a new report about the news and noteworthy of theirs findings about all mayor mobile app stores on the market.

If you are interested on looking for more information, here is the direct link of the pdf report. Ok let's continue with the contents of the document:

LG Optimus X2

Recently, Smart phones producers have been releasing devices with common characteristics (memory, processor, connectivity) with differencing from each other with design and software alterations. Everyone was expecting the Dual Core mobile chipsets as the news for the next year, however LG has given the first hit on the marker: LG Optimus X2.

Here are its technical specifications:

Google Instant

Now google is not just fast, it's instant!!

Yesterday, the Mountain View Giiiant decided to shake up the universe of users with a new feature on its search engine: Google Instant. This innovation has caught many by surprise, since this is a major change on what is probably the most efficient service and popular from Google. With Instant Google, searches are now dynamic, and the results are displayed as you enter text. Is it just a proof of concept, or are we really facing the future of Internet search?.

Since long ago I keep Google.com as home page in all my web browsers (Opera, Safari and lately Chrome). I haven't even tried Bing or Yahoo search, so Google has become a habit for me. In this way I have seen their changes over time, especially those related to drastic changes made to their interface. Instant Google's presentation drew the attention of nearly all digital media (also this blog), therefore, we expect a lot in the coming days.