Blackberry AppStore

Today BlackBerry announced it's own Application Store...similar to the Iphone Appstore.

Apple took the business to the next logical area by opening up it's software and letting users decide what they want. This essentially created a huge company where Millions worked for Apple for free or rather waited for their payment if they are successful. This I think is just an idea borne out of the opensource mania sweeping the techworld. Apple proved that it is the way to go and you will be amazed by the range of applications available. I really was surprised by the "A Free Level" application as it was pretty simple and innovative.

Now all the others have started following hte tail and Google already has it's Appstore. Research in Motion (maker of Blackberry) announced it's App store or as they call it App World was released today. I heard Microsoft and Nokia will be following suite.
Of these ones I guess Nokia's should be the interesting one as they will have the highest number of devices out there to run the Apps on.

We will have to wait and see as to how these pan out...interesting is n't it...


Here is a link for Blackberry Application Site

Google Pranks

Google has a big tradition of launching some pranks on April Fools day. I am not sure if there is a department in google to do just this and think up a spam for each year.

Google should have spent a fortune...(Fortune atleast for us the less fortunate ones) to host the links and introduce that in it's pages and more so think and come up with the pranks. I initially thought that this is all a big waste of money and resources. But coming to think of it..I can't help it that the first thing I did after I switched on my computer is to check the Google and Gmail pages to see what they have come up with this year. I guess if they fail to do this for a year now millions of techies around the world would be disappointed...

here are the few pranks that come to my mind ..
The toilet pranks that came last year(2008)
The paper emails before that...

Interestingly enough Google released GMAIL with 1GB storage on April 1st. May that was part of a hoax and since it evoked too much interest google went ahead and created the project :-) Just may be...what do you think...?


For a complete list of pranks visit the below link.
Google Pranks