The net has been abuzz lately ever since rumors that Google is actively participating in creating a phone running on their Android platform. Unlike Android-running phones from companies like HTC and Motorola, this phone will be designed directly by Google to be the true ‘Google Experience Phone’. With such a mighty promise, one is certainly intrigued as to how different it will be from other Android devices.

Details have started to emerge regarding this fabled phone. It will be called the Nexus One (not the Google Phone, as many had hoped) and it will be manufactured by HTC, which have been making solid Android devices ever since they released the first phone in the world running on Android (the G1). HTC will be focusing purely on the hardware and manufacturing with Google dictating how the software will work and what kind of hardware is necessary from HTC’s part. The reason for this direct partnership is supposedly so that Google can control every single process of the phone’s design and not have to listen to carrier’s request, which is often vocal on certain issues like teetering, network support, etc.

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For many of us who are reliant of Bit Torrent to access content, significant efforts started by copyright holders have slowly chipped away at the technology and rightfully so as many corporate figures view the technology as a threat to their business model and prefer to follow a raze-and-burn tactic rather than see how to change their business model in light of technological advancements.

But Bit Torrent will be undergoing a dramatic shift soon and here are some new technologies that users may find useful to learn up on.

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Meet my new baby… the HP Mini Netbook.

Now I’m not a mini device freak…. Netbooks, PDAs or even iPhones. I got my iPhone before everyone else in Malaysia… around November 2007 I think. All I did was use it as a normal mobile phone, played a few games on it, used the super-duper browser once or twice. Then I dropped it a few months ago and since then never bothered to replace it.

I hope my new baby will be more useful. To tell the truth, I wasn’t planning to buy a netbook yet. My first laptop was actually a sub-notebook some 17 years back, it didn’t give me a great user experience with the 2-tone LCD display and Microsift Windows 3.1 OS. I don’t have any pictures of it to show you, but here’s the new baby…

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Google, the land of milk and honey, have smashed open the smartphone market when they released their Android platform for free to developers and in one fell swoop, gave a huge stride forward for smartphones everywhere. Traditionally, the smartphone market relied on specific operating systems such as Nokia’s Symbian, Palm’s PalmOS and Apple with their iPhone OS. Each company fights to keep their software on their own phones and the result is that a person is locked into using only phones from a particular company if they are familiar with the software. As they say, you can’t have your pie and eat it.

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Call of Duty 6 (geez, has there been SIX of these now? guess so) have been released last week and was one of the most anticipated releases of 2009. However, during the twilight moments of the game’s development, Infinity Ward, developers of the game, announced that the game will not have a working multiplayer LAN component. To play with other players, you NEED to be using Steam, an online game distribution system created by Valve.

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