Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace Hits 40,000 Apps

According to a recent study by All About Windows Phone, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace now has over 40,000 apps , this is up from 35,000 applications in October.
It looks like over 10,000 new apps have been added within the last 90 days, and there are now over 10,000 developers creating applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Microsoft still has a fair bit of work to do with their app store if they want to catch up with Google’s Android Marketplace and Apple’s iOS App Store.

AMD's Llanos was first preference for MacBook Air

If rumours and news from SemiAccurate are to be believed, Apple might have chosen the AMD Llano for their new MacBook Air. The current decision of not using them, eventually was done at the last moment. The other option Apple had was Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform, which they finally chose. AMD’s Llano was a low-power option with a better graphics solution than the one used on the Sandy Bridge platform. The Sandy Bridge offers superior CPU performance, as compared to the Llano. The reason for the decision to go with Intel might have to do with supply concerns with AMD. Apple finally went with Core i5 and Core i7 processors with the MacBook Air. Future MacBooks might be different, though. There’s a chance that they might be powered by an ARM-based processor.

How well the AMD’s Llanos would have performed on the Apple OS X operating system is not known. Most likely, it would’ve had a slight battery life and better graphics performance than the Sandy Bridge. The decision to choose ARM processors might have to do with when the 64-bit variants start coming out. If it’s anytime soon, the next MacBook Airs are very likely to be powered by them.

Developer builds custom ICS ROM for Nexus S

A few days ago, Google released the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich and in the process offered details how to get started with it. It has not been even a week, since the said source code has been made available, but a developer has already released a custom ROM of Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S. According to a post by Kwiboo over at XDA developers, a custom build of ICS AOSP for the Nexus S is available and it is apparently stable.

A great phone that can now run on Android ICS

The post goes on to read that most of the features of Ice Cream Sandwich are working, but there are a few features, which are not functional such as data usage statistics, USB storage support as well as the camcorder. The developer also states that this kernel is the custom build from the aosp source (same as stock 2.3.7). The same post goes on to detail that other kernels would not work, unless mxt224 patch for the touchscreen and the pvr-driver patch is installed first.

The developer notes that one should download at their own risk. To get the custom build of Ice Cream Sandwich on a Nexus S