A developer's perspective on Google's Android SDK
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| This in-depth, hands-on article introduces Android, Google's Linux/Java
| mobile phone SDK (software development kit). After a tour of Android's tools,
| documentation, and code samples, it suggests a path for further exploration
| and concludes with a simple applet showing the power and simplicity of the
| Android environment.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9900056470.html
ZipIt Z2 Wireless Messenger passes FCC
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| The ZipIt Wireless Messenger passed the FCC today.
|
| [...]
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| This time it sports A color screen, and still runs Linux. So let the hacking
| begin, available soon for about $150.
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http://blog.big-dutch.com/?p=87
Related:
Zipit gets Linux, gets on the web, teenagers around the globe
scream with glee
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| Zipit, the WiFi Instant Messenger that lets kids IM and um, IM,
| has been stuffed with Pixil, a PDA Linux OS.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/26/zipit-gets-linux-gets-on-the-web-teenagers-around-the-globe-sc/
http://tinyurl.com/uor2d
Emulate Google’s Android Mobile Stack in Linux
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| To try out the Android emulator, download and unzip the Linux SDK package.
| The emulator executable is located in the tools subdirectory.
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http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/11/13/emulate-googles-android-mobile-stack-in-linux/
Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile
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| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech
| Computer Corpto design a Linux
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Google Android dev kit exposes Apple-inspired roots
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| The release to developers of Google's Linux-based Android operating system
| for mobile phones reveals that the prototype software shares at least a few
| aspects in common with interfaces from the company's Bay Area neighbor,
| Apple.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/12/google_android_dev_kit_exposes_apple_inspired_roots.html
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