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according to reports  from two Silicon Valley startups, Flurry and AdMob. Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile metrics company, today said that it had seen an unprecedented 94 percent increase in the number of projects started by Android developers between September and October. 

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I asked some of my personal heroes in mobile to write down their five most significant trends for the coming decade.

Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location- based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media.

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we have decided to license our barcode scanning libraries for iPhone and Android at no cost.

With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android. The Droid will be the first phone to run Android 2.0. After it goes on sale Friday, there will be Android phones on the market running three different versions of the OS.

Google gave an equally vague answer to questions about which phones might be upgraded and if any of them had hardware limitations that might prevent an upgrade. "Because Android is open source, all software updates we release are available for carriers and handset makers to take and update their current or future Android-powered devices," Katie Watson, a Google spokeswoman said via e-mail.

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At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone.

Researcher Gaetano Borriello won the three-year grant, which includes $900,000 up front and $450,000 per year. An engineer from the company will work directly with Borriello. His project is called "Open Data: Data Collection from Mobile Devices."

About 72 hours ago, the RedLaser 2.5 update was published to the App Store.  It was a soft-launch with our new partner, TheFind, which is the fastest growing search engine for shopping in the US with over 400 million products in its search index.  In the 2.5 release we also improved our scanning speed (6% faster), and made a handful of interface improvements.

Droid application downloads increased by 93 percent over previous Fridays in December. Droid accounted for 48 percent of download volume across the leading Android handsets (Droid, myTouch 3G, G1 and HTC Hero).

This project is a port of Facebook Connect for iPhone to Android platform.

Social networking was found to fail to have any meaning influence on purchase decisions, although it was still viewed as helpful by shoppers, especially Gen Y.

Once inside stores, self-checkout is the most widely adopted technology used (71%),

Handheld scanners, kiosks for swiping loyalty cards to receive personalized coupons and touch screen signage showed high interest.