Now with your Google Sky Map application, you can get back in time or and get ahead of time (as if you travel faster than light) as well, to look how the sky looked in the past or would look in the time to come.

In their own words

“The new version of Google Sky Map lets you time travel to see the sky at a specific date, past or future. After smooth travel to the desired year, you can fast forward or rewind in various speeds and watch how the sky changes “

Good thing is that you can search for the planets, galaxies etc even when you’re back in time. For educational reasons as well as self-exploration, this app is an excellent tool and loved by anyone who has used it yet.

Go try this wonderful app update and get a personalized time machine within your Android phone.

The idea of customizing proper web apps to Android and other mobile OS systems has always been loved by mobile users even if screen size of smartphones is far smaller than size of desktops or laptops. And Google has finally delivered the same for Mobile Google Docs.

Finally, you can now move around, create & edit your Google documents on the go, without having to buy some paid android or iPhone app for creating or editing documents or spreadsheets.

The video below tells enough about what you should expect from Mobile Google Docs. Here is the official post from Google about it.

Nexus S will be launching with the latest stock build of Android OS, Gingerbread, without any custom skin that you might see in several existing Android phones due to hardware manufacturers or mobile carriers. Samsung is the manufacturer behind production of Google branded Nexus S.

There is no tentative date of launch of Google Nexus S as yet but one can expect Christmas time as the most strategic timing for the launch of Nexus S phone. Just yesterday, Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google showed off a glimpse of Nexus S at Web 2.0 summit, teasing the media by not giving any detailed info on the specs or giving a chance to anyone for a hands-on experience.

Most chances are that Nexus-S will be launched not only in U.S. but many other countries simultaneously , probably by following a dual mode for sales, both online as well as retail selling.

Considering miserable run of ‘online only’ model while selling Nexus-One phone, Google may not like to repeat the same old mistake and rely wholly on Online-only model.

Being the first phone with latest and most advanced Android version, Gingerbread, this is the hottest phone to look forward to. Stay tuned for more updates on Nexus-S…

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Gartner has just released third quarter reports for worldwide Mobile phone sales and the biggest news coming out is that Android, the open-source smartphone OS from Google, which was nowhere in scene just one year back(less than 4% smartphone marketshare in Q3 2009) has now become world’s second most popular smartphone OS, with 25.5% share in Q3 smartphone sales across the globe.

Now, both RIM and iOS has been left behind by Android in the race of becoming leading smartphone OS platform at global scale. With the pace with which Android has been growing and leapfrogging its competition, we won’t be surprised if Android jumps past Symbian in global smartphone sales, becoming the Most Popular smartphone OS within the next two quarters itself.

During third quarter of 2010, smartphone sales represented 19.3% of overall mobile phone sales and smartphone share is also increasing sharply since last year. By next year, we may see smartphone share grow upto 35-40% of total mobile phone sales.

The next quarter will actually be interesting as Windows Phone 7 OS, Microsoft’s revamped Mobile OS has just been launched and Microsoft is spending big bucks on getting the word out. Will WP7 prove disruptive, only time will tell !

If you already have the game installed then you just need to update your game. In case you uninstalled Angry Birds game because you were done with all the levels or you were going out of memory or any other reason then you have some hard luck here.

For playing those new 45 levels(locked) added to Angry Birds game, you will have to unlock all the previous levels and then only, you will get to play those new levels on Angry Birds.

So why waste your time anymore when you have a better way of killing your time ! Go get the updated Angry Birds !

Apple iPad, currently the most dominant tablet(over 95%) in this newly emerged market, hasn’t really made a huge impact in Asian region, mainly due to lack of Apple’s ground presence and non-availability of iPads in major asian countries.

On the other side, Samsung is a well trusted brand in Asian regions and sells way more mobile handsets in Asian markets than Apple. Due to that, it took no long delays for Samsung to bring its flagship tablet device, Samsung Galaxy Tab, in fast growing Asian markets, even before Apple iPad.

After having our first hands-on experience with Samsung Galaxy Tab recently, we are certain that Samsung is surely going to compete hard with Apple in tablet space and will come as a refreshingly beautiful option to prospective tablet buyers.

This solid 7″ tablet, comparatively smaller than iPad, comes as a more handy option for carrying it along and brings all the goodness of Android ecosystem with it. The only problem with Samsung’s tablet, especially in Asian markets appears to be the ‘price tag’.

In Asian markets, Samsung has priced its tablet device at Rs.37k($800), even costlier than an imported iPad(16GB) from U.S. That makes it a tough choice for Asian masses who’re far more price conscious than western counterparts.

But Samsung Galaxy Tab, due to its sheer presence in India and other neighboring Asian countries, is more likely to dominate Asian markets and stay ahead in the quest of gaining a decent market share in tablet space.

Anyways, the tablet game has just begun and many other Android tablets will likely be announced by other major hardware vendors. Heck, even Chrome OS launch is around the corner and there’s a good possibility that Chrome OS may also come to tablets pretty soon.

To be more specific, Adobe AIR 2.5 will now support

• Smartphones and tablets based on BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android and iOS
• Desktops running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems
• Televisions with Samsung as the first television manufacturer to ship Adobe AIR in its line of Samsung SmartTV devices

Adobe has a list of hardware manufacturers which will start selling hardware devices with pre-installed AIR runtime environment so that’s a big push for AIR developers to get more serious about the platform that promises them ‘build once, deploy everywhere’(except Apple) ideology without bothering about how the app would behave on different resolutions, device types etc.

It’s certainly a great news to those developers who’re intellectually equipped with Flash or AIR development tools and simply need to use their existing skillset for making killer AIR apps for all the platforms, barring Apple’s iOS platform due to obvious issues from Apple.

Although Apple is simply disassociating with anything that’s Adobe, the latter is still preferring to build things for Apple platform such as iOS and Mac. However, Adobe is now betting big on Android and upcoming Windows Phone 7 as Apple is showing least hopes of any patchup.

Adobe has also launched InMarket, a one-stop-destination for AIR developers to distribute their apps to various App stores across a wide range of devices. InMarket will take care of everything, from listing, destributing to billing of the apps and will take a 30% cut of developer earnings from the app.

With the release of Adobe AIR 2.5, Adobe’s strategy is clear but it’s still to be seen whether things that Adobe is claiming to achieve will actually deliver or collapse. Apple sidelined Adobe mainly due to unstable/poor Flash performance and battery consumption issues. With a tough target of establishing universal runtime environment for possibly every type of hardware is a big challenge to achieve.

As more hardware devices debut with pre-installed AIR runtime environment, this will become very clear if Adobe AIR will actually become the ‘Must-have’ runtime environment for smartphones, TVs and tablets, just like it is for desktops.

With Google TV, Google’s main interest is to capture the time, people spend in their living room, not just on PC and laptops. The more people buy Google TV, the more likely they will use Google search, view web videos(Youtube) and other integrated services that Google provides. Just like mobile landscape, Google charges nothing for licensing Google TV software to hardware manufacturers, so its a win-win situation for hardware vendors as well as Google.

But this whole concept of ‘Web meets TV’ is bugging TV network broadcasters, who are already facing a decline in advertising revenues as more brands are shifting their large chunk of spending on Internet rather than television. The general notion among TV network broadcasters is that Google singlehandedly controls the Internet and the advertising revenues goes straight into Google’s pocket. If, by any chance, Google takes over the TV viewers courtesy Google TV, just like it took over the Internet viewers, then TV Network broadcasters will be doomed, with zero hopes of fat money that they currently flows into their bank accounts.

On the other side, HBO and MTV Networks have collaborated with Google in making their site experience, specifically customized for Google TV. So overall, the opinion is not unanimous among all the network broadcasters but one thing is pretty clear. Network broadcasters don’t want to get screwed up by Google.

With this move by NBC, ABC and CBS, their ultimate aim is not to have a permanent block but make Google agree to broadcaster’s several demands. This move appears to be strategic enough, to be able to arm-twist Google and make it agree to what broadcasters really want.

Google is already in talks with all the three notorious broadcasters over the block and may probably reach some consensus with them over the lifting of the block.

Stay tuned for more on this…

Angry Birds, the wildly popular game by Rovio has just become available for download on Android Market and guess what…the new edition that brings over 150 levels of fun and frolics, is absolutely free to download.

Just a while back, this game was released on GetJar but thanks to crazy fan following of this lovely game, GetJar’s servers could not handle the huge traffic that started peaking when the news blasted out.

Update: And guess what….even Rovio.com has gone down(currently) due to peaking traffic caused by Angry Birds launch…Now, that’s called a LAUNCH !

Go grab Angry Birds 1.3.5 right away ! Simply search for ‘Angry Birds’ in Android Market and you will find it out !

Note

For all those site owners, bloggers and webmasters, who keep themselves engaged in Social Media and Social Bookmarking services, to get their voice heard loud enough and to bring more audiences to their respective websites, its better to keep yourself prepared for the rare ‘Best moments’ of your website.

By ‘Best moment‘, we assume a situation when one of your posts gets unexpectedly picked up by the crowd so well that you find your website on Digg’s homepage or homepage of any other popular social bookmarking site. You can also take into account ‘Mass Retweets‘ by potential twittering folks as possibly the ‘Best moment’ of your site

But, your website’s ‘Best moments’ might not arrive too often. Such moments will rather be rare and unexpected, unless you’re already a well known and highly influential brand/identity on web. And in most cases, the ‘Best moment’ might just become your ‘Worst moment’.

By ‘Worst moment’, we assume a scenario when your website crashes under sudden spike in traffic , due to unexpected and sudden traffic burden, which your shared server isn’t prepared to handle, wherever your website is hosted.

By the time, your website/blog gets back into action,you realise that the ‘peak traffic’ has already passed away. Your website will certainly get restored after a while but reputation and heavy traffic monetization opportunity is already gone.

If you really care about your website’s reputation and don’t want to skip any chance of monetizing your website, you better prepare yourself for the Best moments of your site and for doing that, it is wise to choose the most suitable web hosting service for your website first, matching your needs and able to handle unexpected traffic load.

If your website has already achieved a state of consistent traffic with occasional peak moments, its better to go for a dedicated server. See all the hosting options, go through web hosting reviews available on the web and choose the best one for your site, which doesn’t put too much pressure on your wallet as well.