Techmeme: Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools (Android Developers Blog)

12:40 PM ET, December 6, 2010

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Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread — The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android's vision of openness has spurred the development of more than 100 different Android devices. Today, more than 200,000 Android devices are activated daily worldwide.

Android Developers Blog:

Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools — Today we're announcing a new version of the Android platform — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It includes many new platform technologies and APIs to help developers create great apps. Some of the highlights include:

Discussion: The Toybox Blog, BGR, JR Raphael's blog, Android News, Rumours …, mobiputing, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Erictric, Shoutpedia, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, Eurodroid, Android Community, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile and Liliputing

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

TechCrunch Review: Google Nexus S — For the last few days we've been using the Google Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, with the new Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system. This is a phone that was designed with direct input from the Google Android team.

Discussion: Engadget, PC World, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, BGR, Android Phone Fans, GottaBeMobile, Techie Buzz, Electronista, Edible Apple, Android Community and Geek.com, Thanks:alexia

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google finally spills the beans on Nexus S, coming Dec. 16 on T-Mobile

Discussion: The Toybox Blog, Fudzilla and Eurodroid

Abraham Murray / The Official Google Blog:

Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices — Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Google's New Bookstore Cracks Open the E-book Market — Google today launched its long-awaited electronic book store, called simply Google eBooks, with more than 3 million titles and 4,000 publishers participating as partners, including most of the major industry names.

Discussion: BetaNews, PC World, TechEye, SFGate, Search Engine Land, mocoNews, eWeek, USA Today, ITworld.com, O'Reilly Radar, The Next Web and Electronista

Josh Wiseman / Facebook Blog:

Introducing the New Profile — Today I'm excited to introduce you to some improvements we've made to the Facebook profile, so now it's even easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends. — A New Introduction — The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information …

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook launches new profiles: Possible threat to LinkedIn?

Discussion: Notebooks.com

Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
With New Profile Design, Facebook Launches List Sharing (Like Twitter's, but Better)

Discussion: BoomTown and The Next Web, Thanks:jesse

Nadia Damouni / Reuters:

AOL plots breakup, then merger with Yahoo: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.

Discussion: VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Hillicon Valley, CNET News, DailyTech, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, Techland, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, The Next Web and SAI, more at Mediagazer »

Kirk Hiner / Appletell:

Appletell exclusive: Mac App Store to open December 13th? — An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month …

Discussion: CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, The Toybox Blog, App Advice, Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, BlogsDNA, MacStories, Notebooks.com, TUAW, Ubergizmo, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, AppleBitch, Gearlog, Geek.com, SlashGear, ITProPortal, Forbes, O'Grady's PowerPage and Pocket-lint, Thanks:aczafra

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Rocked On 60 Minutes (And The Winklevosses Looked, Well, Pathetic) — Mark Zuckerberg just appeared on 60 Minutes. He talks about Facebook's redesign, watching himself in the Social Network, and the Winklevoss twins. We've embedded the video below.

Discussion: All Facebook, paidContent, VentureBeat, BoomTown, Guardian, Mashable!, mediabistro.com, Black Web 2.0, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Next Web and The Social, more at Mediagazer »

Mike Isaac / Social Medium:
Mark Zuckerberg's 60 Minutes Interview: Best Piece of Facebook PR Yet

Discussion: Computerworld, Thanks:mj_isaac

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal — Groupon Inc., which rejected a Google Inc. takeover last week, is betting it can keep increasing its valuation after walking away from a deep-pocketed suitor, something Facebook Inc. pulled off and Yahoo! Inc. failed to do.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Register, Sydney Morning Herald, The Next Web, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechEye and Fortune, Thanks:chadcat

Micah Baldwin / Learn to Duck: It All Changes When the Founder Drives a Porsche

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

Norman Foster to design Apple's new campus called ‘Apple City’ — El Economista reports (English)that renowned British architect Norman Foster is hard at work designing Apple's new campus in Cupertino. The 100 acre campus was picked up from HP last month for a measly $300M.

Discussion: AppleInsider, SlashGear, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Fortune and Softpedia News

Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Leaked U.S. embassy cables suggest China uses access to Microsoft source code for cyber attacks — Leaked U.S. embassy cables suggest that China is using access to Microsoft source code for cyber warfare. — Revealed by The Guardian, the latest cable leak from WikiLeaks provides evidence …

Discussion: Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:tomwarren

Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 — I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high …

Discussion: Amazon Web Services Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Softpedia News, CloudAve, CNET News and InfoQ

Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:

Consumer Reports: AT&T is the worst carrier — Consumer Reports is out with its latest survey of cell phone service by its members, and AT&T is now ranked as the worst in the country, as well as the worst in Houston. — In the 2009 survey, AT&T was at the bottom of the list locally, but came in next-to-last nationally.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, IntoMobile, Mobilized, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, DSLreports, iPhone Buzz and Phones Review, Thanks:dsilverman

Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:

Rare Transparent Mac SE Can't Sell for $25,000 — Originally meant for internal company use only and made with a transparent shell so Apple designers could see component placement inside a finished product, this super rare Mac SE could have been yours for a startling $25,000.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and MacStories

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Verizon may pay Apple to keep iPhone away from T-Mobile, Sprint — With the launch of the Verizon iPhone widely expected in early 2011, the wireless carrier may pay Apple to keep its smartphone off of rival networks Sprint and T-Mobile. — Analyst Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. said in a note …

Discussion: GigaOM, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, Fortune, Digital Daily, Electronista, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, MacStories, Edible Apple, SlashGear and Phones Review

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website — Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it's a challenge, even for the search engines. — Where's Wikileaks? — Yesterday, I wrote about how Google …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Next Web and ResourceShelf

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Wikileaks Now Running on Over 300 Domains

Discussion: ZDNet, Network World and Examiner

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