XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)

I am studying android. The android framework provides lots of useful services for the applications. One of them is XMPP service. This is for a kind of open source IM. It can be summarized like this.

XMPP is for a technology for streaming XML over a network.

It is standardized by IETF. RFC 3920 for XMPP core and RFC3921 for XMPP IM.
XMPP was called jabber at the beginning because it had been developed in that name as a open source project. After standardized, the name changed to more formal XMPP. Still some people call it jabber.

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android on the HTC Touch

Somebody have worked to run android on the HTC Touch.

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Useful links for android

http://www.kandroid.org/ : Korean android community / 국내 안드로이드 커뮤니티
http://www.kelp.org/ : Embedded Linux community / 임베디드 리눅스 커뮤니티
http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html: Android document / Android 전체 문서
http://sites.google.com/site/io/an-introduction-to-android : Introduction to Android / Android 소개
http://sites.google.com/site/io/anatomy--physiology-of-an-android :
http://sites.google.com/site/io/inside-the-android-application-framework : Android Application Framework
http://sites.google.com/site/io/building-an-android-application : Buil an android application /Android Application 빌딩
http://sites.google.com/site/io/dalvik-vm-internals : Introduction to Dalvik VM / Dalvik VM 소개
http://source.android.com/using-eclipse : How to use Eclipse / eclipse 사용법
http://www.kandroid.org/board/board.php?board=androidsource&command=body&no=15 : eclipse 사용법
http://www.kandroid.org/board/board.php?board=AndroidLib&search=RIL&shwhere=subject&command=body&no=41 : Android RIL
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/opensource/download/using-repo : How to use repo & git / repo & git 사용법
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu%3AFeisty : About Ubuntu / Ubuntu 설명문서

New members in OHA

They added 14 new memebers.

AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc., Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International Inc., Huawei Technologies, Omron Software Co. Ltd, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.

SUN Microsystems is still missing here.

Please look at here for more detail and here for full memebers

Native Client

Google announced it's new project at the very early stage.
Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications. They feel that the current web-based applications have lots of limitation to be a replacement of the desktop versions.
Instead of creating a new OS, they seems to decide to use web browsers as an OS.
It is perfectly Googlistic.
I think it is noteworthy. I will see how it evolves.

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Nokia's new Touch UI?

It has been surfaced out of blue.
Some people (including me) may have been disappointed with Nokia S60 Touch UI shown with XpressMusic device.

Nokia is preparing something big behind scenes. Look at the screenshot above.
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FireFox 3.1 Beta 2 arrived

Mozilla release a second beta of FireFox 3.1 (my favorite browser).
My favorite update is TraceMonkey. It gives firefox a fast speed that is on a par with Google Chrome. Actually Chrome is very slow in my PC for some reason. I did not figure it out. So I set back to FireFox 3.1 Beta 1. But I always have missed the speed of Chrome.
Now, it is FireFox's turn to speed up with the same technology that is behind the speed of Chrome.

I love Firefox.

Here is some updates list.

• Added a new Private Browsing Mode.
• Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
• New support for web worker threads.
• The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from user
• support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

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Unlocked Android Dev phone

Google provides unlocked G1 (android phone) for its android developers.
You have to register as an developer at Android Market site.

It is just $399. Sounds good.

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World's 2nd Android phone (Agora, Agora Pro)

I've never heard about Kogan, Austrailian company.

They created 2nd android phone in the world after G1 launch.

2.5-inch touchscreen (320 x 240), 3G networking, a backlit QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0 and a microSD card slot; the Pro adds in GPS, 2-megapixel camera and WiFi

Please look at here for more details.