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Google Android to get three more delicious flavors
In case you haven't noticed, companies have a tendency to give often-silly sounding codenames to upcoming software releases. Ubuntu Linux, for example, gives each major operating system update an alliterative adjective/animal name such as "Hardy Heron," "Intrepid Ibex," and "Jaunty Jackalope." Google, on the other hand, is going for desserts with its Android operating system.The company has already released an OS update code-named "cupcake," and the next version of Google Android is being called Donut. But it looks like Google is already looking ahead. Google's Andy Rubin tells Information Week the company has already picked out names for the next few updates, including Eclair and Flan.
That's right. Flan. Any thoughts on what obscure and possibly tasty treat Google has planned for the 24th Android release? (That'd be the one that will theoretically start with the letter X).
No word on what new features will be included in Eclair of Flan.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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deserts said 1:47PM on 7-14-2009
I like your suggestion of deserts- Android Arabian, Gobi and Kalahari. Google's idea of desserts is half-baked though.
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Jash Sayani said 1:47PM on 7-14-2009
I still prefer Dunkin Donuts over Google Donuts !
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Clint said 1:47PM on 7-14-2009
xanthareel. Maintenance release.
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sybgtwy said 2:11PM on 7-14-2009
xylocarp pie
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T said 2:29PM on 7-14-2009
Xocolatl!
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b said 2:44PM on 7-14-2009
since when is flan obscure? you must have grown up on white bread and peanut butter or McPies™.
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