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Amazon Inc. released free shopping application for Android for snap a Photo or else scan a barcode for instantaneous product matches, company announced of its latest mobile shopping application offers users a fast and convenient way to shop on Amazon and thousands of other merchants wherever they leave.

The application includes the new Amazon Remembers feature that gives Android users two different ways to use their device camera to hit upon and keep in mind the items obtainable for sale on Amazon store, Android user can either to snap a photo of items take just a few minutes, Amazon Remembers capabilities of mobile shopping applications connects customers to their Amazon account.

“Customers have been requesting an Amazon shopping application on their Android devices and we are thrilled to bring them the Amazon App for Android,” said Sam Hall, director of Amazon Mobile. “In addition to their favorite Amazon shopping features, Amazon App for Android users can use Amazon Remembers to easily keep track of the items they see in their daily lives and even instantly match photos and barcodes to products available at Amazon.com.”

Amazon Remembers and Amazon App for Android available on Amazon store, of course including the Amazon App for iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry App. Checkout the link here: Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Developing Applications for Iphone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60.

In the previous Amazon news, company launch the Grade store, which features discounted school supplies sorted by grade for elementary, middle school, high school and college students, as well as the Dorm Deals store. It says “Go Back to School with Deals from Amazon,” college student can easy to find all the essentials for their classes, Amazon prepare glue to laptops to musical instruments etc.

As one of the leading brand of cell phones, Motorola keeps on developing their products. For some reasons, they have been developed the cheaper smart phones. The Motorola currently are developing the cheap android smart phones. According to the COE of the Motorola, Sanjay Jha, the Motorola would concentrate to run their productions on the smart phone fields. For some reasons, they would concentrate to expand the Android across a broader set of price points.

When the CEO talks about Androids, he really meant that. This isn’t a Window mobile, this is Android. In the year of 2009, the Motorola mobile devices’ primary strategy is Android. They (the Motorola Company) begin with the two android devices. Those two android devices would be in the stores in the holiday season. Motorola also has been developed the android to the lower end cell phone in addition to the comparatively expensive smart phones.

The Motorola Company is developing their android and called it as the Moto’s Droids. It will feature a more intuitive user interface that would simplify the mobile communications with integrated contact and message management, multimedia and social collaboration. Well, surely this is good news for the Motorola lovers. In the future, the Motorola lovers would be delighted with the Moto’s Droid.

Sony Ericsson will announce later this year about the company’s Google Android-based mobile phone code-named Rachael, which will be part of SE’s XPERIA series and so far includes the Windows Mobile-based X1 model.

In December 2008, Sony Ericsson joined the Open Handset Alliance and since then it has been somewhat clear that the Swedish company will join the Android-running smartphone army.

The Android-loving Sony Ericsson Rachel is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform (QSD8250), wich will give the phone processor speeds of up to 1GHz and 7.2Mbit per second HSPA downlink speeds.

Besides, Sony Ericsson’s upcoming Android phone features an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. At the top of the phone a 3.5mm headphone jack and a miniUSB port are also present. No specific details on the phone’s display size or resolution were released, but reportedly it has a pressure-sensitive touchscreen.

Some of the specifications of the Android phone are looking very good in comparison to other smartphones on the market today. An 8.1-megapixel camera will be most powerful on an Android handset yet, and remarkably better than the 3-megapixel camera on the latest iPhone 3GS. On the Android realm, the HTC Hero and the Samsung Galaxy have only a 5-megapixel camera.

It is very likely that Sony Ericsson’s Rachel will run on the upcoming 2.0 version of Google Android operating system, which is also expected to be released toward the end of this year. As for Adobe Flash, it is unclear yet whether this phone will feature this capability. For more touchscreen smartphone goodness, you might want to check our Smartphone Palooza: 10 Hot Touchscreens Compared.

Dell Inc reportedly has been developing small gadget like a pocket-sized gadget for tapping into the Internet, that will run on Google Inc’s Android software.

The early prototypes are described as slightly larger than Apple Inc’s iPod Touch, which is similar to the iPhone but without cellphone capabilities.

It was repoted also that ell may begin to sell the gadget by the end of this year, although the plan may be postponed or entirely revoked.

The development effort is one of the first experiments by a big-name PC maker in a nascent category of products known as mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, that are designed to fill a perceived gap between mobile phones and laptop computers.

Possibly Dell will use chips based on designed licensed from ARM Holdings PLC, but Dell spokesman said the company does not currently make any devices that use ARM-based chips.

Separately, people informed of the effort said Dell started developing the device last year, after the company aborted an attempt to compete with Apple in the music-player business. Some of the engineers working on the music player were then assigned to help develop the small mobile device.

Earlier this year, Dell appointed an executive, Ain McKendrick, to be in charge of mobile Internet devices at the company. The Dell spokesman said that as the general manager of mobile Internet devices at Dell, Mr. McKendrick’s role involves looking at future products in play for future consideration.

But another source said Dell has considered selling the product through cellular carriers — much as Dell, Hewlett-Packard Co. and other computer makers have begun marketing low-end portables called netbooks through cellular providers.

Dell has also been developing several Android-based smart phones that it plans to start selling later this year, the source said further.

Dutch company SPRXmobile has launched the world’s first Augmented Reality browser. Layar, as it’s called, runs on Android and aggregates the data from the cellphone’s compass and GPS coordinates to understand where you’re standing and what you’re looking at. A “radar view” then applies a visual information layer on top of the camera display as you pan around your environment.

NTT DoCoMo announced the “HT-03A,” the first mobile phone that employed the “Android“. Android, developed by Google, is a platform intended for mobile phone handsets. The HT-03A mobile phone was developed by High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) in Taiwan.

HTC is a Taiwanese manufacturer, but they hope that Japanese makers will develop Android-based mobile phones said Ryuji Yamada, president of NTT DoCoMo. The HT03A comes with “iWinn IME” as Japanese input software, has 113 x 56 x 14mm in size and weighs about 123g, a 3.2-inch display and a 3.2-Mpixel camera. This mobile phone supports 7.2-Mbps data communication, wireless LAN (IEEE802.11b/g), GPS and the Bluetooth.

Information technology (IT) companies are making  efforts to improve “Android,” Google Inc’s software for its open source project for mobile phones and other home information appliances, and the efforts were shown at the 12th Embedded Systems Expo, from which was held in Tokyo from May 13 to 15, 2009.

During the exhibition, ISB Corp showed video file playback and Website browsing on a reference board equipped with Texas Instruments Inc’s (TI) “OMAP3530″ at its booth. The video on the display looked as if it was being played frame by frame due to the small number of frames. But this was because all of the display processing was being carried out by software alone said.

ISB said the company expects to enable smooth playback of HDTV video in the future by enhancing the software so that the hardware can handle the display processing. The company also demonstrated wireless keyboard operation and music playback using its Android-based system that supports Bluetooth.

On that occasion, Fujitsu Software Technologies Ltd showed an Android-based digital photo frame, navigation system and digital signage device at its booth. The digital photo frame can switch images on the display via a network using the existing DLNA middleware ported to Android.

The navigation system was realized by using a network cloud service for map data and route computation, making the most of Android’s high affinity with networks. The company could prepared the demonstrated device in about two weeks. It is because the terminal side needed only an application to transmit data on starting points and destinations and to display the route guidance received from the server.

At the same time, Ubiquitous Corp demonstrated a recorded terrestrial digital broadcast program received from a DLNA server, incorporating DTCP-IP on Android. With a reference board equipped with TI’s “OMAP3,” only encrypted DTCP-IP data was decoded on Android, and video was decoded on different hardware. The playback of the data transmitted from a DLNA server was smooth.

Google has revealed new products that will push search in a new direction using the so-called semantic web technology to pull the underlying data on websites in a bid to improve results.

Google said it could not afford to rest on its success in its effort to build the perfect search engine. It said that search is still young and the company’s engineers are worried about the next big thing in search and how they will find it.

Last year Google launched more than 360 products and in the first quarter of this year it had issued 120. Google said earlier that despite its lead in the marketplace, users were not easy to switch to other alternatives. Google’s ability to continuously innovate has brought the company to a leading edge. The company has more than 63% of the US market versus the company’s rival Yahoo which has 20%.

Recently the company introduced four new products that will give users a different way to look at the web. The first is Rich Snippets, search results that return more information in every listing. For example, users looking for reviews of a new restaurant might get a “rich snippet” of average review scores, number of reviews and the restaurant’s price range.

The second is called Google Squared, which will go public in the next month or so. It takes information from the web and displays it in a spreadsheet in “split seconds” and will normally take someone half a day to do.

During the demonstration, a query for “small dog” was typed into the search box. Seconds later a table popped up showing photographs of various dogs, their origin, weight and height in a clear and simple layout.

The third is Google Search Options which is a tool that is aimed at letting users “slice and dice” results so they can manipulate the information and get what they want faster.

They come into play after a normal web search and allow users to drill down into the results by offering an option for different genres like product reviews, forum posts or videos. Other choices include recently added blogs, images, timelines and so on.

The final product is Skymap which displays the constellations. By using the smart phone’s GPS capability, it offers the user a dynamic star map that knows where they are standing and which way they are pointing.

The feature came about as a result of Google’s 20% time, which allows engineers to spend one-fifth of their time working on pet projects. The app is now available on the Android app market.