Google unveils Android Market Place" for content distribution

It has been quite sometime since developer community heard from google on its much anticipated android phone and market place. Finally Big G has decided to share early details of how the application distribution will look like. Android Market will be an open content distribution system, which aims to help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices.




Though a date has not been set, Google might roll out a final release of Android Market shortly after the HTC Dream has hit store shelves.

More details can be found at
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/

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Its facebook now!

Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.

The study also found that Facebook's visitor growth far outpaced that of MySpace, with Facebook visits up 153 percent on an annual basis, compared to just three per cent growth for MySpace.

Other social networks showing strong global growth include Hi5 (100 per cent) Friendster (50 per cent), Orkut (41 per cent) and Bebo (32 per cent).

India's tele-density surpassing the 25 percent mark.

Mobile telephony has grown rapidly in India, especially during the last three years, with India becoming the second-largest wireless market in the world, says a World bank study.

The number of wireless subscribers in the country has reached 250 million, making India the second-largest wireless market in the world, says the study, The Role of Mobile Phones in Sustainable Rural Poverty Reduction.

Currently, China is adding about 6-7 million new subscribers per month, India about 8-9 million and the US about 2-3 million, it notes.

It argues that mobile telephony has a positive impact on economic welfare by generating GDP; job generation (both in the mobile industry and the wider economy); productivity increases; and taxation revenue with mobile operators usually being a sizeable contributor.