Google has recently unveiled the next and latest update for their very own Android mobile operating system with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in Google I/O 2012 conference.Along with Jelly Bean update, they also unveiled the new Nexus 7 tablet, the platform lead device for the new OS, and Google's hope to take on the iPad and Kindle Fire.If you were dreaming to install and run the latest updated Flash version on your Nexus 7 or any other Jelly Bean device, Adobe has disappointing news for you. Adobe recently revealed the news on their official blog, confirming that it will not support Flash on Android 4.1 devices by August 15th.There are a lot of uncertified devices which are using Adobe Flash Player unofficially. We are calling them uncertified because those devices don't have Flash Player...

Another interesting Kinect-based experiment has come to light. It is interesting how most of the exciting applications for this gaming device are those that have nothing to do with gaming at all!This new open source project enables you to control Qt applications via gestures captured by the Kinect device. With Kinect as an input device you can move your hards about in the air to control a cursor, and use gestures to perform operations such as clicking, dragging and dropping. The project is quite appropriately named Air Cursor.You can see a video of this technology in action, being used to drag and drop items around in an HTML5 application:While touchscreens have become popular on small form-factor devices such as phones and tablets, they are still mostly unheard of on even...

The upcoming Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” has been announced and showcased at Google I/O.The update brings not only a number of new features, but quite a lot of the focus this time around is on performance. Improvements have been made to the very core of Android where it handles input and refreshing the phone screen such that everything feels and works much smoother. All events and display refreshes are now synchronized and triple buffering has been added.There is good news for Indian users with heavily restricted internet plans. A new feature called “Smart App Updates” means that Android will now be much smarter about application updates and will only now only need to download the bits that have changed.Another change to applications is the ability for paid apps to...