Google's not only about software, anymore

It's quite late and I'm pretty tired, so I am just going to paste here the URL pointing to an Official Google Blog entry that sounds fantastic to me. I can bet there's not speculation in that, even more because the blogger is Larry Page in person...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/towards-more-renewable-energy.html

Google's commitment to innovation in the production of renewable energy at costs even lower than those entailed by coal is true and concrete (remember one of my previous posts about Google.org?). 

Now they're looking for "creative and motivated entrepreneurs and technologists with expertise in a broad range of areas, including materials science, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, land acquisition and management, power transmission and substations, construction, and regulatory issues."

Everything looks so exciting! The most of us will surely have to wait and see what's going to happen, while others (more capable and lucky) do have the chance to mold reality as it should be.

Android Dev. Challenge... not for everyone

Yesterday Google Inc., following the announcement of the constitution of the Open Handset Alliance, finally released the official SDK for developing next-generation mobile applications: Andorid!

It's truly amazing and thrilling for a bunch of different reasons. Android is based on Linux 2.6, comes with a set of C/C++ libraries mainly for OpenGL implementation, SQLite data-store and so on, but the most exciting thing I founded out is that the Android runtime is fully Java-based. Actually is an ad-hoc Java version that is neither a JSE nor a JME implementation. This is one of the most debated point, but this is not the reason behind this post. So why am I posting?

Well, along with unveiling Android, Google has officially launched a competition aimed at awarding those visionary-developers that will create new amazing applications for the Android runtime. This competition is not opened to every one in the globe, here you can find a list of not admitted countries, and amongst those countries... there is Italy!

Between the words, I'm not complaining about Google Inc., I'm complaining about my country. Obviously there are legal restrictions that prevented Google from opening this challenge to italians, that's why I my country's fault.

That's really sad, one more time there is a chance to actively take part into something dramatically important and once again there are men and women doomed to miss it.

Luckily we can still develop with Android, 'though we are not eligible for the challenge we can still learn this new SDK and envision new applications.