Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Google Says There Are Now 30,000 Apps In Android Market

Google Says There Are Now 30,000 Apps In Android Market: "

At the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company's partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it's no wonder that the size of the Android Market is increasing in its slipstream.

While Google doesn't publicly show how many apps there are in Android Market, a Google rep this morning informed me that the store now serves approx. 30,000 apps in total.





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Restoring Ubuntu 9.10 in GRUB menu after a windows install

It becomes a bit tricky in Ubuntu 9.10 to rewrite MBR because of the newer version of GRUB: GRUB 2. You can follow the steps here, its pretty straight forward.:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

Following this procedure,  you'll recover your Ubuntu system. Incase there are any discrepancies in your Windows system, updating grub from your native ubuntu (the one on your hard disk) might help

sudo update-grub