Tag Archives: Google

Using the GPU in Android to process live camera images

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Chris

Updated 18th May 2011 with a description of Android’s Renderscript feature. There has been a lot of research done in using GPUs (the Graphics Processing Units used for acceleration in video cards ) to build super computers. However there was an … Continue reading →

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Android – it all comes together in an open sandwich

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Chris

At Google’s developers conference Google IO 2011 they announced their roadmap for Android. Currently Google ships 2 versions of Android 2.3 Gingerbread an open source version suited to smartphones 3.0 Honeycomb suited to tablets and only available to OEMs They … Continue reading →

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Android is still free, but at what price?

Posted on April 2, 2011 by admin

There has been a lot of press recently about how Android is being controlled by Google. While that is true in many respects there is also confusion as to what Android actually is and what Google is controlling. What is … Continue reading →

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