Amazon announced today the availability of their official shopping application for Android, which is actually available for download in Android Market.

The application provides everything you need to search and buy products from Amazon on the go. Amazon App for Android™ came with a new experimental feature to remember your searches of barcodes or products photo.

Many other apps on Android market already provides such search features, but Amazon provides in addition to the new Amazon Remembers capabilities support for 1-click purchase, Amazon Prime, Tracking packages or modifying orders, getting the Gold Box deal of the day, and access to your wish lists.

After Sign-in Amazon app, you can see recommendation on your home page – the same way as seen on Amazon home page. From menu options you can access Home page, Search, your shopping cart, Amazon Remembers list, and Your account.

It seems that session in Amazon Android app is handled in the same way as in Amazon website because after sign-in, I checked my account and it requested password for a second time. You will notice also that navigation interface is not much different from Amazon iPhone app.

Below some Screenshots

Google Open Source Blog announced on Monday a new revolutinary solution that brings scripting to Android devices ! Now you can edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device, with access on to many of the APIs available in Android such :

• Handle intents
• Start activities
• Make phone calls
• Send text messages
• Scan bar codes
• Poll location and sensor data
• Use text-to-speech (TTS)
• And more

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we’re planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well.

Android Scripting Environment is not available in Market, but you can download the latest APK from project page http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting, you can find also documentation and sample usage. ASE group is available here http://groups.google.com/group/android-scripting

Google have always encouraged developers to make applications for Android, now with ASE  they encourage even users to become developers using scripting like Python and Lua … even if you are not developer you can simply get a demo code, customize it and you are done !

T-mobile G1 and Vodafone HTC Magic customers can now view, edit and create Microsoft Word and Excel files plus sync Exchange Server e-mail, contacts and attachments

Milford, CT, April 1, 2009 – DataViz®, Inc., a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner and leading provider of Microsoft Office compatibility solutions is now shipping Documents To Go® Standard Edition version 1.0 for Android™. The highly anticipated office suite leverages DataViz’s experience developing mobile solutions and brings a feature rich, enterprise-grade productivity tool to devices based on the Android platform.

View, Edit & Create
For nearly a decade Documents To Go has been providing mobile professionals with the ability to view, edit and create native Microsoft Word and Excel® files instantly on their mobile device. Files can be transferred via Bluetooth, USB, memory cards as well as e-mail attachments which means that unlike online or “cloud based” solutions, they are always available for “anytime, anywhere” access. In addition, users can edit their Office documents with confidence thanks to DataViz’s acclaimed InTact Technology™ which ensures that all original file formatting is retained once a file has been edited on their Android handset and forwarded on.

Send & Receive Attachments
With Gmail and other mobile e-mail solutions being at the heart of Android-based devices, having full access to attachments is more important than ever. Now customers can download, view, edit and send Word & Excel files when on the go. In addition, a free beta version of DataViz’s award-winning RoadSync application is also now available in Android Market. RoadSync uses the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® protocol to provide secure, wireless and direct push synchronization with Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 and the beta supports push e-mail, attachments and contacts.

“By utilizing the development tools provided by Google and Open Handset Alliance, we were able to bring our solutions to Android Market much faster than we anticipated,” said Ilya Eliashevsky, Product Manager, DataViz, Inc. “Whether you are a corporate customer or a student, you can instantly extend the capability of your Android-powered handset to get more done with Documents To Go and RoadSync.”

Feature Rich
Although new to the Android platform, Documents To Go supports many advanced viewing and editing features. These include but are not limited to touch, keypad and scroll ball navigation, multiple zoom levels, bold, italics, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, embedded pictures, bookmarks, comments, track-changes, word count, password-protected files, spreadsheet functions, sort, freeze pains, insert and delete rows and columns, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, save and save as.

Supports Office 97-2008
Documents To Go is the first mobile Office suite for Android that supports editing of native Microsoft Word and Excel files as well as the only solution to support all of the latest Microsoft Office file formats including 97, 2000, X, XP, 2003 and 2007 for Windows as well as 98, 2001, 2004, 2008 for Macintosh.

Pricing & Availability
Documents To Go is now available exclusively through Android Market for a limited-time introductory price of $19.99 (regularly $29.99.) The RoadSync beta is free through May 31, 2009 and also immediately available though Android Market. Supported devices include the T-mobile G1, HTC Dream, Vodafone HTC Magic and other devices running Android OS. For more information: http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/android/index.html

About DataViz
Founded in 1984, DataViz is an industry leader in developing and marketing Office compatibility and productivity solutions across a variety of platforms including Android™, BlackBerry, Java®, Linux, Palm OS®, Symbian OS™, Windows Mobile®, Windows® and Macintosh®. DataViz partners include Microsoft®, Motorola®, Palm®, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson® and other industry leaders. For more information: www.dataviz.com

Macrospecs, Inc. has released a Facebook client for Android devices, bringing users one step closer to the full Facebook experience. Built with the standard Facebook API set, FriendMobilizer pushes the FB platform to its limits as it provides users with their friends’ updates, and integrates Facebook uploading directly into the phone.

This is the second Facebook client from Macrospecs, Inc. Last year they released FriendMobilizer for Windows Mobile devices, and it’s currently the most popular client on Windows phones with a total of 50,000 registered users.

FriendMobilizer puts Facebook into the palm of your hand. FriendMobilizer integrates photo uploading directly into your Android phone. Photos are uploaded in the background without disrupting your current activity. Plus, the application is very quick and takes up little resources. The application will be available later today from the Android Market.

More Screenshots at, http://friendmobilizer.com

Android and G1 provides definitely a new mobile experience and I used to browse internet before, check my email, but never had applications that use internet in the background to update contacts, check gmail or gtalk instant messages regularly. Today’s applications – Roiding Nettraffic is a great helper to keep an eye on your daily traffic usage.

• Name : Roiding Nettraffic
• Author : Roiding Studio
• Category : Tools
• Size : 83.17 KB
• Version 1.0.2
• Description : Automatically track your network traffic and give you the monthly and daily report and connections detail.

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I have personally a 1Gig monthly internet plan on my mobile which I find more than enough to navigate, check email, watch some youtube videos, find locations on gmaps … I have also an USSD code that I can run to check my current traffic usage with my operator, but using Roiding Nettraffic I can get much more information especially 3G and wifi connections.

The only issue I found is that you can monitor traffic usage only from the day you have installed the applications. I have a 9Mb usage in 6hours shown in the application while I’m currently at 885MB with my internet plan. You cannot monitor previous traffic because there is no information available about it, but it’s still useful to track future connections.

If I’ll be able to set Free Traffic, Current monthly usage from provider (for current month), the Starting Date, and then the application calculates the missed data for the current month that will be very useful. Because I always ask myself the same question : When do my plan expire ?

NetTraffic provides you with many useful information for example the interface used, connection duration, speed and even the IP address.  Then by setting a notification threshold, you will get a notification once you exceed the traffic mentioned.

There is an experimental feature that make NetTraffic enable to connect mobile network. It didn’t work at all for me making the application stop unexpectedly, probably we will get working for next release.

NetTraffic Current Usage

NetTraffic Total usage

NetTraffic Data Detail

NetTraffic Settings