Google presented the slide below at its developer conference. Google says over 100,000 new Android-based handsets are activated every day. This suggests Google’s Android phone growth is greater than Apple’s iPhone growth. Last quarter, Apple reported sales of 8.75 million iPhones, which is 97,222 units per day. It’s possible Apple’s iPhone sales grew in the last month, but it seems that at best, it is running even with Google. Considering Apple’s head start, this is astounding....

Today, Google is announcing that Wave will be open to everyone. This includes not only consumers with Google accounts, but also Google Apps customers. The project is now a part of Google Labs, where it will remain as work continues on it. But much work has already been done — if you haven’t tried it in the past few months, now is probably a good time to revisit it, as is it much more stable and faster than it was in the past....

Facebook has announced the launch of a new free-to-use mobile service. If you navigate on over to http://0.facebook.com on your mobile device you will find a lite version of the current mobile site. This site is free to use if you are lucky enough to be on one of the following combinations of country and operator: If your on the above list. Browsing to the new facebook page will be totally free of charge - no data charges from your network operator....

Facebook revenues reached $500 million in 2009, up from $300 million in 2008, according to Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick, who cites “well-informed sources” in his upcoming book, The Facebook Effect. Facebook expects revenues to reach $800 million in 2010. Where did 2009’s $500 million come from? Self-service ads, which appear on the right side of the screen on Facebook, accounted for about $250 million to $300 million. They look like this:...

In its 60days of launch, this blog is currently at its peak level with 43 posts (not many though) and 1342 page views altogether! Here is the detailed report: Visits overview: I would discuss AdSense reports on some other day. Thank you all!

Now that Microsoft has released Office 2010 Final build officially to public, you can download the 60-day trial version from the link http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx After installing it, user will have initial 30 days of free evaluation period before having to activate the product for lifetime continuous usage. Now to extend this expiry period to 6 months, we have to REARM the product. (Just follow the steps below instead of searching for REARM!...

Facebook isn’t just popular with its 500 million or so users. According to the copy of The Facebook Effect, Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick’s brilliantly-reported new book about the company’s founding, Facebook has also always been very popular with the M&A suits. Below is the list of all the companies that swung and missed– 1. In June 2004, an unnamed financier offered $10 million 2. Friendster also tried to buy Facebook...

Google seems to be working on a Tablet to rival Apple’s wonder tablet computer; the iPad. However, to the most of us this shouldn’t come as a surprise as Google had previously shown interest in bringing Android and Chrome OS to the market on a tablet computer and even shared a video mock-up. For now the details of the tablet are all under the hood but now with Microsoft Courier and HP Slate out of the scene, this is our only contender for the ‘iPad Killer’ but will it be?...

Adobe is thinking different countering Apple’s hate with love. This blog readers already knew that Steve Jobs announced in the past of removing Flash support from Apple products - http://avinashkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-removing-flash-support-from.html Today Adobe started a new campaign to the world that they love openness and Apple through essays, ads, etc. Adobe says: We love creativity We love innovation We love apps We love the web We love Flash We love our 3 million developers...

As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users. Apple introduced Gianduia last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference), an independent event scheduled near the company’s own WWDC event in June. It is likely that more information will surface at this year’s WOWODC and WWDC events....