Android finally gets a web store :)

Up till now the only way to browse and search for Android Apps was from within your device, but has Google announced the Android Market Web store this week that allows you to search for the apps using web browser as well.

There’s nothing special about the website design, however, the Apps are placed neatly into categories and there is also a featured-app section on the top.

There are only two main categories, Games and Applications, each of which is further broken into many sub-categories. For now, there is no mechanism to sort the app according to different parameter which is much needed especially when you have over 100,000 apps.

One thing that I like about the website is the Individual Application page where you can read all the information about the app, the reviews, see detailed ratings, view related apps and even share it via twitter.

You can also login to the website using your Google account to see all your previous and current purchases and your Android device information.

You can also install the application to your device directly from the web. Here’s a recording of the Google event held on February 2 where they unveiled the Android Market Website along with Honeycomb.

Store 9000000 GB data in 1 gm of Bacteria

Scientists have been working on using proteins, bacteria and other organic material as storage media for a while, and if it looks like all those efforts are bearing fruit only now, it doesn’t make it any more unlikely!Calling it ‘bioencryption by recombination’, a team of scientists from Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK) have figured out how to store and en/decrypt data onto living bacteria cells.

According to CUHK’s mission statement: CUHK iGEM 2010 team is formed by a group of undergraduates and instructors from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.Our project is to create a brand new biological cryptography system.We harness the incredible adaptability of simple organisms in the tortured environment to make sure that the message stored can be left undisturbed regardless of any environmental changes.

Taking the dream one step closer to industrial reality, the team has developed data proof read/correction and random access modules, in addition to an encryption module, all using site-specific recombination of the inversion type.In essence, the team has transferred information onto DNA, and the encoding method to do this used DNA bases, taking adenosine, thymine,cytosine and guanine to represent numbers 0 to 3.

Source: Digit