Application eco-system is the biggest advantage of today's smartphone market, Google Android just surpassed Apple iOS in terms of total usage - with this added advantage of wider audience the Android application eco-system is bound to expand as more developers come-in to get advantage of this large user-base. To makes things even more interesting and favoring for the Android app. eco-system, Myriad the team behind Dalvik Turbo virtual machine has demonstrated "Alien Dalvik" virtualization which allows Android applications to run on non-android platforms like Nokia N900 (MeeGo) without any modifications at same performance levels.

Alien Dalvik is scheduled to get unveiled at upcoming Mobile World Congress and an official demonstration video is already out showing it in action.

Rapidshare copyright woes made it loose traffic to competing file locker services like Hotfile.com as evident from the Alexa traffic chart shown below, the heat is now shifted to Hotfile as MPAA has now sued them citing copyright infringements. The MPAA lawsuit against Hotfile on behalf of 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. accuses Hotfile of not only "facilitating copyright infringement" but committing "direct infringement" by awarding users cash incentive for doing it and making money from the illegal activity.

Rapidshare Vs Hotfile Traffic Comparison

Get My Videos Back is a small and specialized application for Windows developed specifically to recover audio and video files from scratched CDs and DVDs, including support for reading source file byte by byte which comes handy when the optical-disc has lots of small scratches.

Get My Videos Back is very basic, portable application which gets the job done with options to save the job and continue them later.

I was eager to review Viber but waited for an Android version to get released, sadly Viber For Android is nowhere to seen - so here we have the review of currently available Viber For iOS.

Viber the free VOIP application for iOS (Android and Blackberry versions expected soon) allows users to call other Viber users anywhere in world for free using their 3G or Wi-Fi connection, the best part of this must-have utility is the sound quality which is simply "exceptional".

Viber uses your phones address book and is always in-sync with it, highlighting contacts that have Viber so you know you can call them for free. To get started all you need to do is, enter your phone number and the confirmation code received via SMS.

Bored with regular desktop backgrounds and simple wallpaper rotators ?

WallCast is here for the rescue - a smart desktop background manager application for Windows and Mac which turns your desktop wallpaper into a personalized dynamic collage of photos showing pictures from you, your family and your friends.

WallCast will not only rotate your desktop background multiple times per day, but your wallpaper will be refreshed to display a fresh collage of photos you like, if this is not enough, how about photos from family and friends getting updated live on your wallpaper as soon as they snap and upload via iPhone/iPod app, web-browser or email.

As expected untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 from Chronic Dev Team is now available for download, Greenpois0n RC5 for Mac OS X got released few days ago and today we have Windows version as well letting users untether their jailbreaks.

Apple iPhone 4 is now available on both Verizon and AT&T, to get things started Verizon started ad-war on AT&T and now AT&T has replied. Both videos availability after the jump, enjoy.

Torrent downloading from mobile phones has always been a functionality users are looking for, we have shared TorrentDroid which gets the job done for Android users. µTorrent Remote - the official offering from none other than BitTorrent Inc. the maintainer of BitTorrent protocol and creator of multi-platform µTorrent client is also out now promising complete, hassle free, remote control of your torrent client from anywhere.

µTorrent Remote and µTorrent Web allows users to add, remove, track, stream and control their torrent downloads from anywhere using their mobile phone or any web-browser connected to internet.

Love birds are eagerly waiting for 14th February to celebrate Valentine's Day, to get the mood going Microsoft has two Love themes for Windows 7 desktops.