Last month Acer announced its new 7-inch and 10.1-inch Tablets in the New York based event. We spotted videos of both the Acer Tablets running Android on YouTube. Both the videos reflect the usage of gyroscope to flip through pages of magazine or a book. The tablet has Acer UI 4.5 layered over the Android interface and flashed innovative zooming gestures, as well.

At the Acer’s Conference, the 10.1-inch Android running tablet was displayed with aluminium casing that supports a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. However, the experts believe that Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC might be the answer for the tablet. The capacitive touchscreen supports 1280×800 pixel resolution display.

Watch the videos and enjoy the eBook application that flips pages based on the gyroscope.

Holiday season has begun and we all have parties to throw and gala events to attend. I’m sure with these cool apps your holiday season would dazzle with fun & frolic and delicious food. Read on to find more.

Grocery iQ: Stock your fridge and manage your shopping list with this barcode scanner, catalog and list tool, filtering by store or occasion app. It’s a Free app to share, so that you can easily streamline the efforts for a smooth-running host’s home.

Epicurious: Loaded with delicious recipes for that perfect meal, you can search by event or diet needs, ensuring your guests thoroughly enjoy your meal and efforts. Create grocery lists from your saved recipes, reducing the usage of Android apps. Rate the recipes and add images, so other hosts can learn a tip from you. This app is free.

Urbanspoon: No more standing for long hours in the kitchen, preparing six-seven course meal for guests, this year you can enjoy a meal along with your guests while dining. With Urbanspoon, search nearby restaurants, filter by ambience, food type and proximity to meet the requirements of all parties involved. See venue ratings and reviews with this free Android app.

8,500+ Drink Recipes: This free app, makes you a perfect host/hostess as you learn how to make a good drink. Make the most of your home bar with these recipes featuring cocktail mixes on demand. Search by name, liquor and other ingredients, bookmark your guests’ favorites, and make everyone feel at home.

Aloqa:  It is a search tool for finding local venues and events, so that you can navigate and find the Christmas lights show, outlet malls and nearby winery. Search and filter by category and activity, with visual aids that displays the venues around your current location. Show your guests the best of your city with this free Android app.

Coupons App: Playing host can be expensive, this free app prevents you from unnecessary over-spending, with discounts for retailers online and in the store. Search locally for coupons you can use, and they’ll appear barcode-scanner-ready, directly on your phone.

Groupon: This free app delivers daily deal and big discounts at restaurants, local gyms, spas and activity centers across the country. It is available on Fcaebook and you can easily extract benefit from there as well.

Flixter: Enjoy movies with friends and family on holidays with this free app. It allows you to search nearby showtimes, previews and theater information. Read reviews, buy tickets, and navigate to theatres. Take the movie magic home, with Netflix queue management included.

New Andoid Market

The Android Market has being going through all kinds of changes lately, from UI to payment method, and the not-so-good 15 minutes paid app return policy. Seems like it all set and done as Google send this email to developer today.

Hello,

We’re writing to inform you about some changes to Android Market that require your attention.

As we mentioned in an email sent last week, we’ve been updating Android Market with several new features that may affect your applications. That update is now complete and the features are now active:

* The purchase refund period is now 15 minutes, and the maximum size for .apk files is now 50MB.

* The details page for every app now displays the app’s “Promotional Graphic” assets at the top.

* Market is now capable of filtering based on screen sizes and densities. NOTE: Filtering based on GL texture compression formats is not active at this time, but will be available in early January 2011.

* Applications are now automatically added to new Live Wallpapers and Widgets categories, as appropriate.

We’ve also activated two new features on the Publisher site:

* The maximum size of the description field for an application is raised to 4000 characters.

* A minimum of two screen shots is now required for all applications. You can supply up to eight screenshots for each application.

Additionally, we’ve recently redesigned the categories on Android Market to better support users and developers. We’ve split some popular categories, renamed others, and added completely new categories. At this time, we recommend that you take a look at the categories and ensure that your applications are assigned to the best categories for them. For details, see the Android Market Help Center:

http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=113475

Finally, we wanted to bring to your attention that Android Market now offers a new form of payment for users on the AT&T network — Direct Carrier Billing. This payment option lets Android users on the AT&T network purchase applications more easily.

Thank you once again for your continued support of Android Market.

Regards,
The Android Market Team

In case you wondering what a giant Nexus S will look like, here is one.

If the Android Market payment option or lack of it is being stopping you from buy apps, better days are coming. On the Android developer blog, Google announced yesterday that the Android Market now supports Direct Carrier Billing for AT&T customers. The option will allow AT&T customers to buy apps by adding the payment to their monthly bill. Think of it as a buy now pay later program. Hopefully other carriers will adoption this option soon.

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[via Android developer blog]

In the case Erich Specht VS. Android Inc, and Open Handset Alliance on the trademark for Android, Android Inc. won. Apparently, the court wasn’t swayed by the website that Specht threw up in order to prove he was still using the mark after his company went under in 2002. The judge then punctuated the decision with a cancelation of Specht’s “Android Data” trademark on grounds that he attempted to use it as a “sword” against Google and because it could create confusion with the little green bot that consumers have become so enamored with.

Erich Specht has sued Google  for infringing use of the name “Android.” He’s the owner of the trademark for Android Data Corporation, granted way back in October of 2002. Google came around and filed a trademark application for Android five years later and, wait for it, had that trademark application denied due to confusion with Mr. Specht’s.

Well now that one is over, there are logs of lawsuits still in progress with Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and many other companies with probably haven’t heard of. Those will definitely be very difficult given that these are big corporation with deep pockets enough to hire the best lawyers in town. The only thing you should know is that the green robot is here to stay.

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[via Engadget]