Android 3.0 Gingerbread ready by end 2010

Google's Android operating system is set to get a major update in the coming weeks, in the form of Android 3.0 Gingerbread, which should become the first flavor of the platform to include real support for tablet PCs. With the OS version almost here, all that remains to be seen is when the first devices powered by it would be ready, something that might happen before the end of the year.

Among the major companies set to unveil tablet PCs in early 2011, we can count Acer, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International, all three expected to bring their devices at CES in January.

Tablets should the major market targeting for the Android 3.0. Companies like HTC Corporation and Motorola are expected to launch Android 3.0 tablet PCs, as well as Samsung, which is said to plan showcasing at CES its “Android 3.0-updated Galaxy Tab.”

With the new release, Android is expected to increase its share on the tablet PC market. Moreover, it should grow even more next year, as soon as Android 4.0 is brought to the market.
Android is seen as a much cheaper option for makers interested in pre-loading it on Tablet PCs.

More interesting developments in the work.

Father of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot, dies at 85

Not so long ago, I was in love with fractals on my IBM PS/2 with 386 cpu (1988) and a very cool (back then) graphics card. I remember that I have constantly played, changed one or two values of fractal set which changes the look of fractals by itself...gosh...it was fun.

Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, died on October 14 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 85.
Mandelbrot fled Poland ahead of Nazi occupation when he was 11 and moved with his family to Paris. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique under the mathematicians Gaston Julia, whose Julia set is a function of complex dynamics closely affiliated with a set of fractals now called the Mandelbrot set, and Paul Pierre Levy, an expert in probability theory.

After World War II, Mandelbrot got a Masters degree in aeronautical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in mathematical sciences from the University of Paris; he did a stint at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton University after that, where he was sponsored by none other than John von Neumann.
In 1958, after a few years in academia, Mandelbrot became a mathematician at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center, a post he held for 32 years before retiring as an IBM Fellow and taking a teaching position at Yale University a decade ago.
Just as personal computers were going mainstream in the early 1980s, Mandelbrot put together his now famous book, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, which mainstreamed the idea of fractional dimensions and, more importantly, illustrated these fractals, as Mandelbrot called them, with hypnotic graphics.The Mandelbrot subset of the Julia set, seen herewith, is probably the most famous image in mathematics, akin to the most famous equation in physics, E=mc2.

Well, indeed, he was the one who gave the life and the meaning of mathematics which lead to computer graphics. Rest in peace Dr. Mandelbrot.

Lao mobile company on Viengjanh Times (VTE Times)

Highlight of XY Mobile was on VTE Times Business section: Lao Mobile to be produced and developed by Lao company. Anousak, Allan, Lars Pedersen, and Lars Nielsen were interviewed.