Android 2.4 "Ice Cream" may come as early as this summer, Google TV finally gets jailbroken, and Amazon launches the Kindle app in the Mac App Store.
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- Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer
Rumor has it that though Honeycomb was unveiled at CES, the next version of Android (codenamed Ice Cream) will make an appearance as soon as this summer. [Pocket-lint] - Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies
Either a sneaky way to poach future Googler's, or just a great way to continue science education, Google's begun their first official online science fair for teens 13 to 18. [Google Blog] - Google TV Jailbreak Opens the Doors to Developers, Hulu
The GTVHacker dev team have finally cracked into Google TV boxes allowing users to jailbreak their devices. Currently in its infancy, hopefully we'll begin to see easier to implement modifications shortly. [ReadWriteWeb] - Microsoft enables workaround for expiring Vail Home Server beta
Microsoft has released a workaround for users testing Microsoft Vail's Home Server beta, preventing the expiration of their current device at the close of the beta round. [ZDNet] - The Gloves Are Off: Google Chrome Browser Will Drop Support For H.264 Video Codec
The battle between online video codecs continues on with Chromium dropping H.264 support. The Chromium dev team has decided to continue supporting only open source codecs including Theora and WebM, and not the H.264 codec popularized by Apple. [TechCrunch] - Kindle for Mac lands on the Mac App Store
In continuation of their purchase once, read everywhere program, Amazon Kindle has released their Kindle app through the Mac App Store. Already topping the charts, Kindle owners can now manage and read their purchased books through OS X with ease. [TUAW]