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The ARM development Studio Community Edition (DS-5 CE) gives the Android community an invincible power. This puts the power at the hands of Android hackers who can now develop apps at the native level making use of ARM hardware optimizations.

ARM DS-5 CE allows hackers to program their ARM devices in C, C++ and Assembly languages. Can you imagine the impact this can potentially have.

This is the stuff the 1960s and 70s legend of Valley DYI culture is made of. Or the early Internet pioneers in India who hacked Perl and Unix shell codes to connect to the rest of the world.

It is commendable that ARM has taken this approach to giving serious developers a way to do access the native layers of their devices. That in itself will perpetuate the love for ARM and also all Android devices.

The ability to program your device

It is almost a birth-right of every serious mobile user to tinker around with the device. The ability to do this what the open source movement finds its own roots into. Just imagine the Unix or the latter Linux system not having a Bash shell -- It wouldn't even be smoke.

What I loved with my old Symbian Nokia handset was this ability to program it in a variety of languages, especially Python and Java. If you were a hardcore C++ programmer you had a better grip on these machines. I loved this environment. Then suddenly Symbian lost its way. Alas.

My common grouse with most post-modern smartphones is: Why can't they include a simple programming language (I am not naming any single language) so that the curious minds can take to program the phones the way they want.

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" RIP. iTunes Match!," said one comment to a blogpost of Google music launch. That sort of captured the mixed sentiments in the blogosphere over the new service.

Google's coup appears to be in at least two fronts. First, it provides free storage space for upto 20,000 songs. You can bring your own.

In comparison, Apple offers a total of 5 GB storage on iCloud and have to pay $24.95 per year to bring in your own non-songs and match it up with iTunes.

Second, it has a far richer music recommendation system. It has a dedicated staff writing reviews and recommending their own picks.

Well, all India fans (for that matter all non-US fans) need to take break. This service is available only in US for now.

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Iris (the Siri of Andriod) makers, Dexetra has been funded by One97. The company shot into fame by hacking up voice recognition to their AI backend, Friday. The product Iris became an instant hit in the Android world which saw Apple's Siri with envy.

Friday, in fact, is an interesting application which helps you with an elephant's memory with the help of your mobile phone. It has a AI backend, you use your mobile to find things out, ask questions and crunch data. It's backend is called Friday. Not surprisingly, it is feminine.

Dexetra is a Bangalore-based company. One97MobilityFund is as it says, ahem, focused on mobile startups.   An announcement on one97.com said that the investment was made sometime back but is being announced now.

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Its raining funds. Close on the heels of Intel Capital's $40 million fund for Asia, Accel Partners is announcing a $155 M fund for India.

This fund, third in its half-decade of operations in India, is the largest and focuses on early stage startups, reports Techcrunch. 

Accel's marquee investee in India is Flipkart. The fund has a deep interest in technology, security, health and biotech, and retail sectors.

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