Google released the third version of Android Native Developer Kit (NDK) on monday which will help the developers to create more better graphical apps.Applications focused on Android 2.0 or higher now gain the ability to directly access OpenGL ES 2.0 features, which brings the capability to “control graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs, using the GLSL shading language”.

Android runs apps created in Java through a virtualization process, but the NDK lets developers build their apps in native code, which is faster and provides higher-quality graphic capabilities.Native programming will open Android to more developers who may not be familiar with Java or would prefer to build apps using tools like OpenGL that are already familiar to them.But it’s not just for games. Mozilla is bringing its mobile version of Firefox to Android using the NDK, and one programmer on the project.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/03/android-ndk-r3.html

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Kontera has launched a new way to show their ads to the visitors, leaving behind the old fashioned square boxes. Kontera is introducing a new wrinkle in which the ads appear in the actual form of the products they’re advertising when triggered.Kontera calls it as freedom units and it is in testing .Well it might increase your bank balance too as a publisher as the CTR is likely to be increased with this method.

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Based on test campaigns so far, Kontera says the custom units have generated clickthroughs of 11% to 15%, far higher than the anemic rates of standard banners and roughly on par with the average click rate the company says its in-text ads get generally.

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Though Apple had released the issue date of ipad on april 3 but now there is a guess going on as Apple’s press statement suggests the iPad won’t ship with all the apps that came with the iPhone and it won’t be having all the apps which iphone has.Then what are they leaving,which apps were with it and which will remain out of it.Though ipad will consisting of 12 new and innovative apps which are mainly designed for it.It gives a relief that and it will run almost all of the more than 150,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®

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iPad will be available in Wi-Fi models on April 3 in the US for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/ipad-apps/

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html

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