Too many Android App Stores – Bad news for Android Smartbooks

Google Android OS was tailor made for mobile phones only, but lately it is being used in much bigger devices. The Android market, unfortunately can only be used for mobile phones only.

To counter this problem, Archos has launched its own App Store called AppsLib. HP, Dell and Lenovo together joined hands and launched and Android store, insydemarket.

Even Handango and GetJar are offering Android apps.

It is high time that Google takes some crucial steps in creating a single, unified Android store to cater to the devices beyond cell phones. Otherwise, there would be too much of confusion for the users, not to mention less number of apps to choose from

Clarksfield 45nm quad-core and Arrandale 32nm dual-core now 45nm graphics Core i7 says Intel

Now its just 45nm graphics Core i7. Yes, the Clarksfield 45nm quad-core and Arrandale 32nm dual-core is called with 45nm graphics Core i7, says the Intel. It will surely create a loads of mess and confusion in the mobile market, as some of the Core i7 parts will have four cores and some only two. [...]

Bad SONY! – BLOCKS Virtual XP mode in Windows 7

It may shock you but, its true! The Sony Vaio laptops are not designed to run Window’s 7′s much boasted Windows XP virtual mode. Also the laptops are shipping with BIOS with which Virtualization cannot be done. Sony hasn’t made any clarification regarding whether, they will enable this feature in coming future or not.

According to Sony Insider, the company commented on this by saying that “Its engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very in the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable it”, a official of the company.

Many misconceptions and confusion are crawling within the people that Sony’s advertising is not at all clear about the whether the Vaio machines are unable to work with a core feature of the Core 2 Duo chips they ship with. As a result of which, many people have now asked for a refund.

I am personally looking forward to do this feature as it would let me to run some of the apps that run only in Windows XP. If SONY does not come with a solution, then they are bound to loose certain number of consumers (including me)