No need to learn foreign language ..your mobile will speak and translate for you!

Sounds interesting? Yeah, now your mobile will translate and speak for you.

Coolgorilla, mobile and ipod software providing site have the software to download. Go tocoolgorilla.com and
check for Mobile Phone Talking Phrasebook. If you are surfing from mobile then click for coolgorilla.mobi. This is talking phrasebook which you can install on your mobile. It currently supports French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. It will be very useful application while traveling in those countries. Right now Talking Phrasebook available for Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets. Hope they will release J2ME and window mobile version (cab)!

Google Talk now has bots for translation. You can try it, just add en2fr@bot.talk.google.com bot in your friend list. Talk to bot. whatever you will write for this bot in English, it will be translated to French and displayed as a reply message. And there are total 23 translation bots. ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. What you need to add ‘@bot.talk.google.com’ after these bot names. Rule is "[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com"

Now, how can you use it with mobile? Simple, use fring. Add those bots in gtalk buddy list and subscribe/login to gtalk using fring on your mobile. Now, you have them on your mobile.

Cool! Isn’t it?

Google and NTTDoCoMo will work together in Japan, Yahoo is concern!

Google and NTTDoCoMo are about to sign a deal.

NTTDoCoMo is the Japan’s leading mobile phone operator. i-mode, NTTDoCoMo’s wireless internet service is very popular in Japan and gradually increasing popularity worldwide. It has almost 48 million customers in Japan and over 5 million in the rest of the world.

This deal will be an exposure to Google search and Google App services on its handsets of all customers who are using i-mode service. Using Google apps NTT DoCoMo will give the provision of the email to its customers.

This deal is really gonna affect Yahoo search the most. Japan is one of the Yahoo’s search market where it is leading Google search by more than 35%.

Start developing an Android applications!

An Open Handset Alliance (OHA) unveiled their first product, an Open Source Mobile Phone Platform ‘Android’. It includes operating system which is based on Linux, middleware and key applications.


HTC will launch GPhone in 2nd half of next year with Android operating system. This will have email client, SMS program, calendar, maps, browser, contacts, and others as core applications.

OHA released Android SDK (Software Development Kit) on 12th Nov 2007 and it is one of the most downloaded SDK yet! This SDK contain tools and APIs which are ready to use for building applications in Java language.

What you need to do?

1. Download Android SDK from here
2. Download and install Eclipse IDE with Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in from here
3. Check for the documentation on code.google.com
4. Start with ‘Hello, Android’

Take part in Android Developer Challenge and there are chances to win $10 million, if your application is the best. You have to build an andriod application and submit it between January 2 and March 3, 2008 on Android Developer Challenge's page.

All the best!