The official Flickr page of The White House has uploaded photos from last night’s big tech dinner which shows CEOs from major technology companies in the Silicon Valley having a toast with US President Barack Obama.
CEOs of Apple, Google and Facebook are reportedly going to meet with President of the United States, Barack Obama, on Thursday in San Francisco, reports ABC News.
Already a key part of any Android user's arsenal, DoubleTwist's AirSync has provided wireless media syncing for Google's mobile platform for a good while now, plugging a gap created by not anchoring the platform to a desktop client as Apple did with iOS and iTunes. Now, according to TNW, DoubleTwist has upped the ante by adding AirTwist, ala iOS’ AirPlay, making Android devices act as a standalone media server.
Only 2 weeks after Apple introduced subscription based service with the launch of "The Daily", Google has also launched it's subscription service which allows the publishers to charge for content as they like. The service is named "One Pass". Google announced the service today which according to them will provide publishers flexibility over payment models and control over the digital content for which they charge.
Mobile World Congress kicked off in Barcelona today, and after Samsung's little get-together we're already swimming in exciting mobile phone and tablet announcements. First up, we have the Galaxy S ll, or 2 depending on your preference.
We already know about the Dual-Core Galaxy S successor that will be announced this weekend on Sunday at 6PM Central European Time in Samsung's presentation at Mobile World Congress, abbreviated MWC, and we also know that there has to be at least one tablet on the show as Samsung promised it for MWC 2011.
With the likes of INQ all set to release their own Android phone that ties straight into Facebook, today we learn that HTC is getting in on the action too.
The rumors of some sort of Facebook phone arriving sometime in the future have been circulating for a while now, with HTC being touted as a hardware partner. Now though it seems minnows INQ are hard at work getting ready to bring a handset to market.
During Google's big Honeycomb announcement today, the company also debuted its online App Store called, unimaginatively, the Android Market Web Store. Yes it's the Android Market in handy dandy web form, but there's more magic involved under the hood.
With Mobile World Congress taking place in a couple of weeks, it is expected we'll be treated to a raft of new phone announcements, and Samsung are getting ready to announce the new Galaxy S 2.
