Everyone is familiar with Google, it’s everywhere, you can’t miss it. What started off as a mere search engine has now evolved into something bigger, much bigger. Since 1998 it has grown exponentially and it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Enter Google’s latest project. Simple.

Simple is a new compiler and run time for the popular Android operating system. Google say the aim of Simple is to ‘bring an easy to learn and use language to the mobile world and the Android platform’. The language it self is a BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) dialect that is kind to beginner programmers.

There isn’t all that much information on the Simple website about what it does or how it does it, just a few tutorials to get you started is all that you will find. We will certainly be keeping an eye on the development of Simple and the progress it makes so check back for regular updates!

Slowly but surely new features for the latest version of HTML are making their way into our browsers. Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome, IE 8 and Opera 9 all now including working examples of what we can expect when the full version is released. The question is will these new features exile existing technologies such as Adobe’s Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight.

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