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Android 2.2

Android is Google’s operating system for mobile devices based on ARM architecture. It is a competitor to the Symbian platform, Apple’s iOS for the iPhone and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone for mobile devices all based on ARM architecture.
The Android operating system software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java based object oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring JIT compilation. Libraries written in C include the surface manager, OpenCore media framework, SQLite relational database management system, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API, WebKit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, and 2.1 million lines of Java

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Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. Chromium OS is so simple. The OS adds features such as a battery life indicator and window management. A big advantage to Chrome is that the cloud-based model has the potential for extremely fast computing, including a boot time as short as three seconds.

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After a long fair period with the beta version, yahoo released the final version of Yahoo! messenger 10 today. The final release of Yahoo! messenger 10 is compatible with Windows 7 and it also fixed several bugs found in Yahoo! messenger 10-beta.

Yahoo!Messenger 10 Features:

Here are the key features of Yahoo Messenger 10:

  • High-quality video calls – You can make high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Video Calling now includes the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. You can even go full-screen with your video call
  • Y! Updates” view of contact list – If the friends in your contact list had opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.

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