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Many people use the open source application Tor on the desktop for anonymous browsing sessions. Thanks to a grant from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge and the team behind The Guardian Project, now Android mobile phone owners can use Tor to browse privately on their handheld devices, too.

We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application bundle that installs, runs and provides the glue needed to make it useful to end users?. secure, anonymous access to the web via Tor on Android is now a reality, writes Guardian Project team member Nathan Freitas.

Keep May 19 - 20, 2010 open if you plan to attend the next Google I/O Developer Conference. It's slated to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA and registration opens in January. The event brings thousands of developers together for a two-day sprint through session about some of Google's most popular products and tools, including App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Android, and Chrome.

Evernote is easily one of the best catch-all notetaking apps ever invented, but the open source community hasn't been getting a lot of love from its developers. That's beginning to change, however, with the beta release of Evernote for Android. It's available now for download and testing, and the development team would like your feedback.

If you don't know about Evernote, you owe it to yourself to find out more. It captures and organizes everything from documents and images to Web pages and screenshots. Data is stored in notebooks and fully searchable by keyword, tags, or titles.

I have -- no kidding -- been just waiting for a reason to tell readers about one of the coolest gadgets on the market today, the Eye-Fi series of SD cards that uploads video and photos to your computer wirelessly. Now with the release of Eye-Fi Droid 0.8 beta, I get my chance.

Eye-Fi cards take the hassle out of connecting your camera to your computer and waiting for tons pictures to upload while you just sit there. Instead, you simply swap out your camera's old SD card for the Eye-Fi wireless version and it will upload pictures automatically to a Web service like Flickr or a networked computer of your choice.

The skyrocketing success of Apple's App Store and the recent launch for Research In Motion's (RIM) App World for BlackBerry is clear proof that people want third-party apps for their mobile phones. Unfortunately, developers with a brilliant idea for the next blockbuster app typically have to decide which platform to choose before they write their first bit of code -- iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, etc.

The creators of PhoneGap think it's nonsense that developers have to write the same app in several different programming languages to reach the widest swath of mobile phone customers, so they developed an open source, cross-platorm framework that bridges the gaps among them.

As more applications move to the cloud, it's not surprising that developers are spending a lot of time working on ways to provide mobile access to the cloud. To create applications and services for handheld devices like the iPhone and Android-based G1, they use tools like Volantis' Open Source Mobility Server, a java-based development and runtime platform.

Volantis Systems released version 5.1 of GPLv3-licensed Volantis Mobility Server (VMS) Community Edition this week. It has connectors that integrate with many popular Web sites including Picasa, Flickr, and Google Docs, with more expected to be added in future releases. The new version is optimized for the iPhone and also includes tools to create mash-up mobile applications. When looking at the future of VMS, Dave Roberts, Manager, Business Development, says thanks to the open source community, the sky's the limit.

Free music service Last.fm announced today that it's now available for handheld devices that use the Android platform. Like the Web-based version, users can stream radio stations, track listening habits, and get personal music recommendations. Last.fm users can also get artist information, view their personal music files, and access event and tour information.

Reports are emerging of a serious security flaw with the Android software that powers T-Mobile's newly-launched G1 smartphone. Charles Miller, the researcher who discovered it, says he notified Google of the flaw this week but decided to also go public with the information to protect users from becoming exploited by people with nefarious intent.

Faster than you can say, Where's the Missing Manual? the dudes at Big Nerd Ranch have put together Android Bootcamp so sys admins and developers can learn all there is to know about Google's new foray into the world of mobile technology. Known for it's intensive, hands-on training courses, the Ranch is a popular way to get specialized Unix instruction on a variety of topics including Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, and more.