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Weekly Review I

by Prradyut Vias

Categories: Weekly Review

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Published on: November 18, 2012

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Howdy Readers,

From now on, this column will be updated weekly, in a form of fast-rewind or weekly wrap-up for all the readers who cant manage to catch us everyday, can pick up theie choice of articles from here as we’ll weekly review a whole week of happenings in this column.

So without wasting further time of yours, lets start up with our first weekly review.

Monday, November 12, 2012

HTC and Apple clear their Patent Disputes

A two-and-haly year long dispute between two leading manufacturers Apple and HTC got cleared up and also the two firms signed a 10-year licence agreement to extend the current and future patents held by each other.

According to a news agency the two firms were fighting over 20 cases in various countries.

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Celebrate Diwali The Android Way

It was festival of lights this week and the Global Indians celebrated it with full joy and enthusiasm as Diwali, according to the Hindu Mythology is considered as the biggest festival. We the Droidneers presented a post in which you could have celebrated Diwali The Android Way.

In this post we covered some of the apps that may help you to celebrate your diwali in a much smarter way. Kudos to our Editor Pranay Jaiswal for such a wonderful post for the readers on the occasion of Diwali.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Apple ordered to pay legal cost to Samsung

Earlier in September, Samsung lost the patent case filed by samsung and had to pay Apple a total sum of over a Billion USD, to which Samsung challenged the verdict and finally woh that case in the court.

Besides the legal costs, the total ban on the sales of the Samsung products was too removed and Apple was ordered to write an appology to Samsung that it didnt copied there products on their UK website and keep it for 6 months.

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Android 4.2 out for Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 and other devices

A more polished version of Android Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) was released for several Nexus devices.

The update brings out some major changes to the users such as Multiple User Accounts for the tablets in which the individual user can set its own personalised setting. Along that the device screen can be mirrored to any HDMI-Enabled TV via a wireless Adapter and Automatically resizable widgets.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Verizon officially unveiled its new HTC Droid DNA

In a Press Confrence in New York, Verizon officially unveiled its new HTC Droid DNA, This 5-inched phablet, is powered by 1.5 GHz quad cored engine and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with 2-GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage, the device has been bought to give a tough fight to Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

It will b out in market for sale on November 21, but its Pre-Orders have already been started and will cost $199 USD in the United States of America.

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CyanogenMod member betrays CM Team and Demanded $10K for relinquishing control

The biggest news of the Android Universe for the week, came through a post of Official Facebook Fan Page of the finest android development team CyanogenMod in which it said that a member who actually donated and controlled the web-presence of CyanogenMod Team and its website, impersonated CyanogenMod itself and settled up deals under CM name, betrayed the team and threatened CyanogenMod by demanding $10K or change the DNS settings.

Kudos to Nitish Shah for covering it first on the web and offering Team CyanogenMod an unconditional support from Team AndroidNova via a mail.

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Aakash 2 Tablet launched with much better specs

Aakash 2 tablet was launched in India in the presence of Shree Pranab Mukerjee, The Present of India on the occasion of National Education Day, the speciality of this tablet is it is manufactured specially for the Students enrolled in various courses and would be provided to them by their respective universities at a much subsidized rates.

Aakash 2 this time is launched with a much higher specs when compared to its previous version, with 1 A8 GHz cortex CPU, 512 MB RAM and 4GB internal storage, the device runs on Android Ice Cream Sandwich(v4.0.3). and will be available in the market for a cost of Rs. 4499 INR but for University Students it will cost around Rs. 1130 INR.

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Angry Birds Star War Review

Angry Birds, a popular series of game by Rovio, seemed to lose its hold in the google play store after its previous launch Angry Birds Space. But this time Rovio joins hands with Lucas Arts and and bounces back with an intresting Game Play, a mindblowing Storyline and a whole new look and feel of the characters along with its special powers.

This time the birds visit a new galaxy and have a nasty fight with their old enemies in a new style and with new powers.

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NASA’s future Nano Satellites will be powered by an Android Device

The comming nanosatellites would be implemented by using common open source technologies that reaches almost every hand and its main thinking unit component would be an Android powered Smartphone.

Project Phonesat1 actually uses Google Nexus 1 and a high spec smartphone will be used in Phonesat2. NASA plans to launches two units of Phonesat1 and one unit of Phonesat2 by the end of the year.

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Official Jelly Bean leaked for Samsung Galaxy SII

IZAP a junior member at XDA-Developers, leaked out the official Jelly Bean(Android v4.1.2) firmware for Samsung Galaxy SII and the leaked rom was found very stable and consist no bugs after a thoro test by our team.

The coming update of the device will be the largest update till date as not just the Android Version and Touchwizz has been updraded but also the major features that diffrenciated Samsung Galaxy SIII and Samsung Galaxy SII were also included in the leaked version.

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That brings us to the end of our first fast-rewind, do leave your feedbacks and opinions below regarding our new innitiative, and for all the updates on Android Universe, stay tuned to AndroidNova.org.

[Future Next] NASA’s Future Nano-satellites will be powered by a Android Phone

by Nitish Shah

Categories: Future Next

Tags: Android, future, Galaxy.Space research, Google Nexus, Nano, nasa, Samsung Nexus, Satellite OS, Satellite platform, satellites

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Published on: November 16, 2012

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NASA’s Future Nano-satellites

After the successful programme of NASA’s multiple rover on Mars, space exploration is commonly thought in everyone’s minds. Such projects has held the american pride over space exploration and research.

One of these projects is the CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI), in which nanosatellites built by teams across the United States will be launched into orbit, on rockets planned for upcoming launches. The satellites are around 4 inches long, have a volume of one quart and weigh in the region of 3 pounds.

This is very interesting, but what does it have to do with Android? Well, with CubeSat, there’s a smaller project known as PhoneSat.

The idea behind PhoneSat is that engineers working on these satellites will use small electronics that are available to everyone and using open source software such Android OS, to achieve the implementation of using a smartphone as a thinking unit in a satellite As you may have guessed from the name, the team will be using smartphones as the main component in its nanosatellites.

So what is the smartphone of choice for engineers working on the PhoneSat project? T

The first model, PhoneSat 1.0, actually uses a Google Nexus One.

Now, before you compare the list of all the phones that are more powerful than the original Nexus, let’s just put this in thought by comparing its specs to that of the Curiosity rover.

The Nexus One is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU,while the Curiosity packs a PowerPC G3 processor that was used by Apple in the 90′s. The Nexus One has 512MB RAM, Curiosity has 256MB RAM. The Nexus One weighs 130g, Curiosity weighs… a lot more. now after above comparison we feel the Nexus One really isn’t a bad choice.

we also have to take into consideration the time it takes for engineers to test their software on smartphones. Once the nanosatellite is in orbit, NASA will have a tough time trying to remotely update the software on a phone that’s 150km away. Expect an OTA 150 Kms away from earth using satellite broadband .Due to this,utmost care is necessary so that the phone software is bug-free and works as the engineers intended.

Test have already been run to determine the physical durability of the Nexus One at high speeds and high altitudes. In 2010, two Nexus Ones were launched on rockets. Unfortunately, one of those rockets crashed and sent the Nexus to smartphone heaven, but the other one landed safely and the Nexus One was completely unscathed. Further tests have been run since, including one that sent the PhoneSat 1.0 into high altitude on a balloon last year.

The next step for engineers is to finally launch the PhoneSat into its space orbit, where it will report back to Earth with its current status and send some images back, too. Rather than provide the original model with lots of functionality, the team wants to use it in order to see how it copes in orbit. Further functionality will be included in future models.

Future Models

The team is already building the second model, PhoneSat 2.0, which will use a slightly more powerful Samsung Nexus S as opposed to the Nexus One used in the original. The satellite will comprise of the phone, as well as a two-way S-band radio, solar panels, and a GPS receiver. The solar panels are crucial, as they will provide the unit with power whilst in orbit, and the radio will relay instructions to the satellite from Earth.

NASA plans to launch two PhoneSat 1.0 units and one PhoneSat 2.0 with the maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket later this year.

With each PhoneSat prototype costing just $3500 to build, w. Using everyday consumer electronics available to everyone is a great way to reduce costs, and allow teams from universities across the countries to work on projects.

As well as using PhoneSat for low-cost Earth observations, the team at NASA also plans to use similar units to assist with moon exploration and testing new components for space flight.

via AndroidPolice

Secret goes along with Neil Armstrong

by Darshak Shah

Categories: Latest News

Tags: america, Android, lunar mission, man on the moon, nasa, neil armstrong, russia, space travel

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Published on: September 23, 2012

Neil Armstrong, an American hero who died few ago took dark secrets with himself, we would never know. The cold war between America and Russia to be superpower led President Kennedy to initiate a man on the moon mission. There has been always controversy over lunar mission. Many say they never went to the moon, the movie was filmed in the desert. Others controversy is over a two minute period of radio silence that surprised viewers and fueled many theories over what really happened.

“The Doomsday Conspiracy”, a science fiction by Shidney Sheldon states that whenever scientist or physicist had a contact with extra-terrestrials, in few days by some or other reason they had accident and died. Is that coincidence? Or government deliberately wants to hide it? Same is case with Lunar Mission. According to alleged leaked government documents and photographs, Armstrong did not just see the barren landscape televised to millions, but two huge extraterrestrial spacecraft watched the Apollo 11 landing, and observed the Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon walks.

NASA’s cover up about the two minute period of radio silence was that the problem arose from one of two television cameras overheating, thus disrupting the reception. Do you believe it!!! What really happened!!! Armstrong and Aldrin saw something else watching them! Timothy Good, author of Above Top Secret(1988) HAM radio operators receiving the VHF signals transmitted from Apollo 11 to NASA’s Houston headquarters, intercepted the following message which NASA screened from the public in the missing two minutes:

“Mission Control:

What’s there ? Mission Control calling Apollo 11.

Apollo 11:

These babies are huge, sir … enormous….Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other space craft out there… lined up on the far side of the crater edge… they’re on the moon watching us. (Above Top Secret, p. 384.)”

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Modern People magazine published what they claim to be Buzz Aldrin’s photographs of two UFOs watching Apollo 11 on the moon in their June 1975 issue. Credit: Modern People Magazine. 1975.

Maurice Chatelain, is a retired NASA communications engineer who helped develop the communications system used in the Apollo moon missions. In his 1975 book, Our Cosmic Ancestors, he wrote:-

“[O]nly moments before Armstrong stepped down the ladder to set foot on the Moon, two UFOs hovered overhead. Edwin Aldrin took several pictures of them. Some of these photographs have been published in the June 1975 issue of Modern People magazine.” (p. 25)

He also said, “…all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin – flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.”

So NASA is aware about extra-terrestrial life? Do aliens exist? Were UFO sightings a common occurrence during Apollo missions?

Modern People magazine published what they claim to be Buzz Aldrin’s photographs of two UFOs watching Apollo 11 on the moon in their June 1975 issue. Credit: Modern People Magazine. 1975.

Buzz Aldrin described how the Apollo 11 astronauts avoiding mentioning the word UFO in reporting what they were witnessing, and instead asked Houston about the location of the Saturn V launch rocket.

According to Timothy Good, Dr Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University at the time:

“Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them afte3r having landed near the moon module. But his message was never head by the public – because NASA censored it. (Above Top Secret, p. 384)”

So why did NASA eventually terminate the Apollo missions if extraterrestrial visitors were there and watching the Earth? The answer according to Armstrong, as relayed by an unnamed Professor at a NASA symposium is as follows:

“Professor: What really happened out there with Apollo 11?

Armstrong: It was incredible … of course, we had always known there was a possibility … the fact is, we were warned off. There was never any questions then of a space station or a moon city.

Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?

Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, where they big! … and menacing …. No, there is no question of a space station.

Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?

Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk a panic on earth…. But it really was a quick scoop and back again. (Above Top Secret, p. 186)”

No one knows what exactly happened? Perhaps NASA will one day release an official version of what really happened, or have they already done so through a fictional movie admission by Buzz Aldrin? In the movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Buzz Aldrin comes forward to reveal a version of the truth about what he and Armstrong saw on the moon. In the movie he says on a secret black operations radio line to NASA, during public radio silence, while on the moon:

“Buzz Aldrin: You cannot believe what we’re seeing…

Black Ops NASA Technician: We are not alone after all, are we?

Buzz Aldrin: No, sir. We’re not alone.”

If the above events are true, it must have been very difficult for Armstrong to keep official silence about what he really saw on the moon for over four decades. Perhaps that explains his reclusive nature after the lunar missions, and public reticence in describing his personal experiences on the moon. If so, he remained true to his word and kept silence despite any personal reservations to the contrary. Neil Armstrong was an American Patriot to the end.

Source:- Examiner

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