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 The excitement is palpable as the number of apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace edge towards 5 figures.

Acer CloudMobile, directo al Mobile World Congress 2012 de Barcelona

Acer CloudMobile, este es el nombre elegido por la compañía taiwanesa para presentar el primer teléfono que hará uso de su servicio en la nube AcerCloud. Destaca por su diseño premiado con un iF Design 2012, y por atreverse, que ya es hora, con Ice Cream Sandwich como sistema operativo.

Sobre especificaciones sabemos muy poco, sólo que la pantalla es de 4.3 pulgadas, con resolución HD y un marco bastante pequeño en los laterales, y que cuenta con el logo de la prestigiosa Dolby en sus espaldas.

Aunque será una de las piezas claves, si no el teléfono más importante, de Acer en el Mobile World Congress 2012 de Barcelona, el dispositivo parece que no estará en el mercado hasta al menos el mes de julio, pero es una información que tendrán que confirmarnos en el propio evento.

DIY Mobile Networks

Ever dreamed of having your own mobile phone network? If so, Sonopia offers customizable, 'virtual' mobile networks for small businesses and nonprofit groups. Partnering with Verizon, Sonopia has offered networks to churches, rock bands, sports teams, and the National Wildlife Fund. Nonprofits can offers as an incentive to prospective customers a donation of profits to charitable causes.

Sonopia charges no setup fees, so even the smallest groups -- and even individuals -- can establish their own mobile networks.

Source: Springwise

Bowling 3D

Bowling 3D para Android es un sencillo y divertido juego de bolos para tu móvil, con unos buenos gráficos en 3D.

Se pueden elegir diferentes pistas para jugar así como el color de las bolas. La mecánica del juego es muy sencilla, colocar la posición de la bola y arrastrar el dedo por la pantalla para impulsarla.



Un entretenido y adictivo juego de bolos para tu dispositivo con sistemas operativos android.


Para descargar el juego GobbleGators basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con  Barcode Scanner o Bidi

Movaya Launches My Pet's Weekly Horoscope iPhone App

With Pet Zodiac and One Of America's Leading Pet Astrologers.

Every Week You'll Get A New Horoscope For Your Pet!

Oprah will do anything for her pets. President Barack Obama enjoys playing
with his puppy on the White House lawn. People find their perfect mate through
web site dating where they meet other people who love pets. Some people travel with pets. Others even drink beer with their pets. But now, there's something new you can do with your pet. We know you're worried about swine flue, terrorist attacks, pirates boarding ships, losing your home to mortgage foreclosure, the recession, no healthcare, losing your job, vampire video, who's on twitter and why the latest diet pill doesn't work, so get ready for some good news.

Pet-ertainment LLC and Movaya Wireless, Inc. are pleased to announce the first ever Horoscope app for your pet.

"My Pet's Weekly Horoscope" isn't like those that just show you cute pets, funny pets, the world's smartest dogs, crazy cats or adorable puppies. "My Pet's Weekly Horoscope" brings you closer to your dog or cat because you will now have insights into your pet's behavior. If you want to understand your dog or cat better, know what makes your pet tick and be able to change bad pet behavior, you want to get "My Pet's Weekly Horoscope" every week.

Can't wait to see your own horoscope? Now you can find out what the stars have in store for your furry best friend. Animalinks' pet astrologer Carol Jepson helps you and your pet get closer by forecasting how your pet may feel and act every week. Check out your dog's or cat's horoscope and your friend's pet's horoscope with our Pet Zodiac featuring twelve of the world's most loveable pets. Don't know your dog's or cat's birth month? Use our Key Word Match-Ups to find your pet's sign. Buy this app once and My Pet's Weekly Horoscope delivers a new 7-day fun forecast every Monday for your pet on your iPhone or iPod touch!

Get it now!

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Making the Android Developer Console work for your whole team

[This post is by Ellie Powers, a product manager on the Google Play team. — Tim Bray]

As your apps have gotten more successful, more people have joined your team. Today, we're making it easier to work together on analyzing and managing your published Android apps. Sharing passwords is generally a bad idea; so as of now, there's no need to do that for the Android Developer Console — everyone can use his or her own Google account.

The account that you use today to sign into the Android Developer Console will become the account owner; only the account owner can manage access to the Console. The account owner can email an invitation to anyone; when they accept it, they'll need to use a Google account to sign in.

Different people in your team do different jobs, so when you invite someone to your Android Developer Console, you'll be able to specify what access they need. Today, you can limit access per-user to financial reports. In the future, we'll give you more fine-grained control over access to the Console. For details, see Account owner and user access.

We hope this helps your team collaborate more easily. If you have any issues, feel free to get in touch via the Developer Help Center.

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Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more

[This post is by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager on the Android team]

At Google I/O today we announced the latest version of the Android platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). With Jelly Bean, we've made the great things about Android even better with improved system performance and enhanced user features.

Improvements include a smoother and more responsive UI across the system, a home screen that automatically adapts to fit your content, a powerful predictive keyboard, richer and more interactive notifications, larger payload sizes for Android Beam sharing and much more. For a lowdown on what's new, head over to the Jelly Bean platform highlights.

Of course, Jelly Bean wouldn't be complete without a healthy serving of new APIs for app developers. Here are some of the new APIs that Jelly Bean introduces:

Expandable notifications: Android 4.1 brings a major update to the Android notifications framework. Apps can now display larger, richer notifications to users that can be expanded and collapsed with a pinch. Users can now take actions directly from the notification shade, and notifications support new types of content, including photos.

Android Beam: In Android 4.1, Android Beam makes it easier to share images, videos, or other payloads by leveraging Bluetooth for the data transfer.

Bi-directional text support: Android 4.1 helps you to reach more users through support for for bi-directional text in TextView and EditText elements.

Gesture mode: New APIs for accessibility services let you handle gestures and manage accessibility focus. Now you can traverse any element on the screen using gestures, accessories, you name it.

Media codec access: Provides low-level access to platform hardware and software codecs.

Wi-Fi Direct service discoverability: New API provides pre-associated service discovery letting apps get more information from nearby devices about the services they support, before they attempt to connect.

Network bandwidth management: New API provides ability to detect metered networks, including tethering to a mobile hotspot.

For a complete overview of new APIs in Jelly Bean, please read the API highlights document. Note that this is a preview of the Jelly Bean platform. While we're still finalizing the API implementations we wanted to give developers a look at the new API to begin planning app updates. We'll be releasing a final platform in a few weeks that you should use to build and publish applications for Android 4.1.

For Android devices with the Google Play, we launched the following at Google I/O today:

Smart app updates: For Android 2.3, Gingerbread devices and up, when there is a new version of an app in Google Play, only the parts of the app that changed are downloaded to users' devices. On average, a smart app update is a third the size of a full apk update. This means your users save bandwidth and battery and the best part? You don't have to do a thing. This is automatically enabled for all apps downloaded from Google Play.

App encryption: From Jelly Bean and forward, paid apps in Google Play are encrypted with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on the device. We know you work hard building your apps. We work hard to protect your investment.

Google Cloud Messaging for Android: This is the next version of C2DM and goes back to Froyo. Getting started is easy and has a whole bunch of new APIs than C2DM has to offer. If you sign-up for GCM, you will be able to see C2DM and GCM stats in the Android developer console. Most importantly, the service is free and there are no quotas. [Learn more.]

Starting from today, over 20 Android sessions at Google I/O will deep-dive in many of these areas. Join us in-person or follow us live.

El PC y Procesamiento en la Nube

Hemos leído numerosos artículos relacionados con el crecimiento abrumador de los servicios en 'La Nube', más conocido por su término en inglés 'Cloud Computing', en particular queremos referirnos a lo que se considera una tendencia que posibilitará la sustitución definitiva del PC como centro de procesamiento del usuario por este otro, el procesamiento en la nube.

Sin lugar a dudas las nuevas tendencias y evolución del mercado, algo que no podemos quitarle el ojo, indican la contracción de los niveles de ventas de los equipos conocidos como PC, Personal computer, computador personal en buen castellano. En un ya bastante propagado  informe relacionado con un estudio de la empresa Gatner mencionado en un reciente artículo de http://mundopc.net, se han revelado datos relacionados con la reducción de las ventas de los conocidos PC y además se ha estimado la sustitución definitiva del nemotécnico PC del conocido Personal Computer por el de Personal Cloud para el año 2014.
Según un especialista de Gartner existen cuatro grandes tendencias para que esto sea una consecuencia, estas son:
1. Uso de tecnologías cada vez más privadas en el trabajo: 
Se refiere a que el uso de las nuevas tecnologías por los usuarios en el entorno laboral significa nuevas exigencias para los proveedores de servicios, la universalización del entorno social propicia la participación cada vez más directa de los usuarios en la innovación tecnológica.
2. Virtualización:
Ciertamente con un crecimiento asombroso y con una abrupta tendencia a la ubicación de todos los servicios orientados a la Nube, además de las posibilidades económicas en factor de costo asociado posibilitan no sólo a las pequeñas empresas sino a las grandes a mirar con ambición este inmenso mundo donde los grandes recursos pueden concentrarse en aquellos lugares claves.
3. Autoservicio de aplicaciones y servicios: 
Los usuarios finales tienen en sus manos el poder de elegir entre los diversos y enormes tipos servicios como van publicar y que les interesa publicar, por supuesto todo esto se almacenará en el internet.
4. Necesidad de movilidad:
La inmensa cantidad y diversidad de dispositivos, propiciados por las nuevas tecnologías y desarrollo del hardware está creando un marco propicio para que en cualquier dispositivo se pueda procesar información, y ya no solo hablamos de redes sociales, también de procesamiento de datos accesibles desde cualquier lugar de planeta.

Si para Gartner ya es una realidad que la Era del Cloud Computing está a las puertas de los próximos años, para las empresas será un reto que tendrán que ir asimilando paulatinamente, como ocurrió con la evolución de la tecnología celular, Apple, las redes sociales, habrá que insertarse en esta nueva batalla de la tecnología todo esto en un marco donde el usuario final tiene un roll decisivo pues es en última instancia quien decide en determinados marcos que no podemos ignorar, que servicios son los que les vienen mejor a sus intereses.

Y consideramos plenamente con ellos, el Cloud Computing está teniendo un protagonismo decisivo en el desempeños de las nuevas tendencias, les invitamos a que adentren en el fascinante mundo de la virtualización y en el cloud computing, desde nuestros artículos en CubaColombia Blog hemos propuesto cortos post pero con muy interesante software de virtualización, sin embargo ni hablemos de la desaparición del PC, cuantos dispositivos por disímiles que sean podrán sustituirlo, un poderoso ordenador con capacidad para hacerlo todo, desde el video juego hasta la TV, pasando por nuestra música favorita, desde la comodidad de la casa con los pies enfundados en pantuflas, ¿quien afirmará que esto podrá desaparecer? Bueno de esto no trata el articulo, pero me quedo con mi ordenador de escritorio y mi conexión a internet desde casa, y tu... ¿ que piensas?

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iPhone Game Review - Parachute Panic

I was poking around the iTunes AppStore this week and took a $.99 chance on a recently launched game from FDG Entertainment called Parachute Panic.

This fun casual game requires you to successfully land a host of parachutists into passing boats while trying to avoid obstacles such as helicopters, U.F.O´s, sharks and thunder clouds.

The game play is reminiscent of the vintage Nintendo Game & Watch handheld parachute game that I used to love to play back in the early 80's.

The game has very cool hand drawn graphics, smooth animations, catchy music and awesome sound effects. The game has been getting good reviews in the App Store and I have to agree - it is very well done and lots of fun.

Check out a video of the game here.

The only slightly negative comment I will make is that this game is not easy. It takes a little while to get used to the controls and even after mastering the techniques, the action picks up fast and furious. My 7 year old lost interest pretty quickly as it was too hard, but personally, I love the game, and for a buck it's well worth it. Click here to get it now.

Calc-ConveR es mi primer proyecto para Tablets de 10' pulgadas, la idea parte de otro anterior proyecto para dispositivos móviles la Calculadora V.4.0 y de ahí parte la idea de llevar a las tabletas de 10' pulgadas y así tener mi primera experiencia con pantallas de mayor tamaño con Calc-ConveR.  Básicamente su funcionamiento es muy sencillo , tiene la parte gráfica de las banderas  que

Android Security Update

Recently, there's been a lot of news coverage of malware in the mobile space. Over on our Mobile blog, Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Android engineering, has posted Android and Security. We think most Android developers will find it interesting reading.