Google has made strides to move many of the Android users over to the Android 2.0 environment. Google recently released statistics that show that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that connected to the Android marketplace in the past two weeks of early June 2010 were running Android mobile OS 2.0 or higher.

There has been concern for a growing divide in capabilities between more modern forms of the OS and earlier incarnations.  These recent statistics provide a sense of comfort for such concerns–that users are moving towards the more advanced 2.0 environment and upgrading their software (and in some cases, devices).

Overnight Print’s blog featured an interesting article on “Top 5 Small Business Marketing Products” that provide ideas like instead of “getting t-shirts printed with your business name on, go a step further and find out if a local sports club would like to have their uniforms sponsored by your business!”. The idea of printing on M&Ms  was quite interesting, but I wished they provided a link directly to that feature. I agree that the USB drive as a marketing product is another good idea, and the pricepoint of “64 MB drive with your logo on it for around $5″ is doable for a lot of businesses.

Overall, I like the direction that Overnight Prints is taking with this blog post. I much prefer it to others like “Become our No.1 Fan on Flickr…Win 500 Free…”. Looking forward to more Overnight Prints!

Web Designer NY put out a brief outline of HTML 5, and what it will be for web designers. It is a very high-level look at the new core language for the web. We found this useful for those that are not familiar with the features of HTML 5, but might be interested in learning more.

Link: HTML 5: Why is it important?

The new iPhone is coming out this summer. Here are the prices and the dates of release for the US.

The Price And Release Dates of iPhone 4 | Ironpaper: Current.

The race for the ultimate iPhone Twitter app did not slow down after Twitter.com purchased and relaunched Tweetie. No, no, no… now there is a Hello Kitty iPhone Twitter client in the marketplace. This absolute game changer is probably making Tweetie managers cry at their desks.

The app was developed by Digital Garage–makers of the free Japanese Twitter client Tappit. Images of the cute cat were licensed by Sanrio.

The price of the novalty app is: $3.99.

hellokitty.tappit.net

Features:

• Ability to switch between four different backgrounds
• Ability to change the color of text (helpful if you are changing the bg color)
• Japanese language support
• Retweets handled just like main Twitter
• Ability to search by geolocation
• Custom gestures allow you to set actions

Time Magazine recently published a list of the “Top 50 Worst Inventions” and the list included both mega-hits: Zynga’s online game Farmville and the location-based social application Foursquare.

The buzz for both these web applications has been extraordinary. Foursquare for instance has almost 1 million checkins per day. Farmville now has 30 million virtual farms run by 2 million users in the U.S.

A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other media products.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance, representing U.S. copyright industry groups, estimated that US trade losses due resulting from piracy in more than three dozen countries exceeded US $15.8 billion in 2009. The losses attributed to China were estimated at US$3.5 billion by the International Intellectual Property Alliance.

The Federal Trade Commission approved the Google AdMob deal, saying that the deal “is unlikely to harm competition in the emerging market for mobile advertising networks.”

AdMob has seen great success in advertising for the iPhone platform. Yet, even with the $750 million dollar deal to buy AdMob, Google will not have a confident guaranty of success within the mobile environment.

Growth in mobile advertising will certainly continue. The market will face greater competition with both Apple acquiring Quattro and iAd and Yahoo announcing the ‘Project Nike’ with Nokia.

Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook.

The goal in doing this for Google is to attract more corporate clients by integrating specific productivity tools into its general purpose email service.

Webdesigner-newyork.com, a subsidiary of Ironpaper, Inc. launched today. The site will focus on NYC market for web design and development and content management. The site will market to small and medium sized businesses with a less-is-more approach to design.

Visit: Web designer New York