Real Madrid C.F. launches MyMadrid the official application of the greatest club of the 20th Century.

With MyMadrid you'll be able to:
• Have access all the official news from the club
• Video clips from Real Madrid TV
• Official photo gallery
• Access Real Madrid's official YouTube channel
• Follow matches live
• Check results and match reports
• See the best goals in real time
• Check the league table
• Have exclusive access to Real Madrid products and content
• Buy match tickets
• Read player profiles

The price is 1.95€

The supporters can download the Java version of the application sending a sms with text REAL to 5425.

Yesterday GetJar published the highlights of their latest consumer poll. The poll was conducted over the past month and they received over 13,000 replies from apps consumers all over the world.

You can find details of this release here: http://forum.getjar.com/link/n_328

Key findings:

- 65% of our consumers are between the ages of 18-34 years old with over 80% being male
- 61% of consumers are downloading content at least 3-4 times per week
- 57% download apps, 22% games, 10% music, 8% wallpapers and only 3% ringtones (in general)
- 67% would be willing to pay for content
- 80% of its users consciously download apps that contain advertising
- 74% say they would actively download an app sponsored or developed by a well-known brand. GetJar
- 72% of its users access the internet more from their mobile handsets than from their computers
- 80% have recommended apps to friends

Visit Getjar

The software is downloadable from http://m.opera.com/next. As stated in the Opera Mini Blog, the new main features are:

• New, sleek design
  
• Tabbed browsing
  
• Password manager
  
• Inline text editing
  
• Copy-and-paste function
  
• We have made a special, native version for BlackBerry which includes opening links and copy-and-paste functions

At a first glance the new graphic is really nice!

The new Android SDK 1.6 is available for download. To know the new features click here

The feature making me more surprise is the text-to-speech API that allow synthesizing speech from text, for immediate playback or to create a sound file.

A video to discover the new SDK:

In this photo from www.motocoder.com the new Android phone from Motorola. The OS version is the 1.5

Stefano Sanna released in the past days a new version of his Bluetooth API for Android, the version 0.2. Some of the changes compared with the previous version are:

• Bug fixing for RSSI (signal level of discovered devices) and I/O management;
• SDP support to discover the RFCOMM channel assigned to a specific service  of a discovered device

These are added to the first release features:

• Chance to start and stop the device Bluetooth;
• Discover of the remote Bluetooth devices;
• RFCOMM client connection

The library is available from http://code.google.com/p/android-bluetooth ed e’ distribuita con licenza Apache 2.0. It has been tested on Android 1.1 and 1.5 and it doesn''t require any hacking.
Link to Stefano Sanna blog