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Ballmer dismisses Google Android

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Read more »

Google's Android gets app market

Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system. Read more »

Security flaws unearthed in Google's Android

Researchers have found some holes in Google's Android SDK that could make the software vulnerable to hack attacks. Read more »

Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility

As the Open Handset Alliance released the preliminary SDK for the mobile Linux platform, Google revealed that members have signed a 'non-fragmentation agreement' Read more »

Android handset demo at Google Developer Day

Journalists and developers at the Google Developer Day event in London on Tuesday were treated to an unexpected demonstration of the upcoming Android handset. Read more »

Google denies Android delay report

Google has denied a report that phones using its Android software have been delayed to 2009. Read more »

Google details Android development tools

Google has released programming tools for its Android mobile phone alliance for download, giving developers the ability to start writing software for phones with $10 million in prizes to lure them. Read more »

Google starts fixing Android 'reboot' bug

Google has begun fixing a bug that would reboot T-Mobile's G1, the first Android-powered phone, any time a user typed the word "reboot." Read more »

Google reveals Android's sensitive inner compass

Google has shown off Android's inner compass which allows the screen's view to mirror the holder's orientation. Read more »

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Google's Android not what you think

If you were looking for an iPhone-killing handset from Google's new mobile strategy, you were definitely hoping for the wrong thing. Google is warmly neutral towards Apple and really has a certain software giant in their sights instead. Read more »

The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

Can Google be a partner to mobile phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos. Read more »

Nokia enters the mobile open source battle

Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms — Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP — are to be pooled into one open-sourced über-platform, came out of the blue. Read more »

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Aftermarket opportunities with Android

With Google's default Android interface being a little complex, Google developer advocate Dan Morrill talks about how there is a simplicity niche waiting to be filled. Read more »

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Making Android fully open

Dan Morrill, developer advocate for Google, explains which areas of Android will be open sourced in the future Read more »

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What is Android anyway?

Dan Morrill, developer advocate, Google, gives the elevator summary of exactly what Android is. Read more »

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Getting started with Android's SDK

Dan Morrill, Google developer advocate, explains how developers can get started with the Android SDK. Read more »

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Android's graphics pipeline

Google's Dan Morrill explains how the user interface for Android is constructed and what components make up its graphics pipeline. Read more »

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Dalvik -- the Android VM

How does Dalvik, the virtual machine inside Android, help performance? Dan Morrill, developer advocate at Google, gives a quick overview of bytecode VM. Read more »

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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder

Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year. Read more »

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Putting Android under the magnifying glass

The first Android smart phone is on sale. How does it compare to the iPhone and what is in it for developers? Charles Cooper and Kent German get into the details on this Daily Debrief. Read more »

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A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest? Read more »

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Is Google's Android ground-breaking?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android. Diaz discusses the new features available in the open-source operating system, whether it's an iPhone killer, and how the technology may eventually reach beyond phones and land inside other products such as set-top boxes, televisions, and automobiles. Read more »

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Blog (17)

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »

Android devs less than gruntled

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »

Wired keyboards lead to tin foil hat wearing

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Just because you don't wear a tin foil hat, doesn't mean they aren't after you keystrokes. Read more »

OpenAndroid: a Google geek's delight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Between OpenSocial and Android, did anyone manage not to hear about Google this week? Read more »

Windows 7 is Vista--

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The prevailing consensus is that Windows 7 will be Vista++, but it may actually be Vista--, as Microsoft confirmed that they would be removing the built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing and movie making Read more »

Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »

Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »

You've got patched flaws!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Patents and Symantec were made to look very silly this week. Microsoft said that open source was a bigger threat than Google and no prizes for guessing which month the final version of Firefox 3 will appear in. Read more »

Google Developer Day yet to fill

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Past experience would suggest that if Google restricts access then people will clamour for it -- remember GMail invites back in the day? It is therefore surprising that places for Google's Sydney Developer Day have not been snapped up. Read more »

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