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Google Android: iPhone killer?
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| Android, essentially, is a new operating system - in the same sense that
| Windows, Mac OS or Linux is the operating system on your computer – for “the
| new breed of smartphones.” Waterloo-based RIM's Blackberry is perhaps the
| most iconic example of a “smartphone," marrying features of traditional
| cellphones with features that are traditionally the domain of computers, like
| email or Web browsing.
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http://www.argosy.ca/view.php?aid=40756
Software Becomes the Smartphone Battlefield
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| While the G1 is the first device launched using the new open source Android
| platform spearheaded by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance (OHA),
| Milanesi expects Android devices from several vendors in the near future.
| There were rumors this week that Motorola, a founding OHA supporter, is
| shoring up its in-house development efforts for future Android development.
| Motorola (NYSE: MOT) did not respond to mobile platform strategy inquiries by
| press time.
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http://www.internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3775271/Software+Becomes+the+Smartphone+Battlefield.htm
The Open Mobile Summit Will Explore How to Build and Monetize the Open Mobile
Economy
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| The Open Mobile Summit is a groundbreaking conference exploring the move to
| open up the mobile value chain, and deliver the mobile Internet. Taking place
| November 19-20, at Hotel 480 in San Francisco, The Open Mobile Summit
| features industry heavyweight speakers from both the wireless
| establishment -- mobile operators, handset manufacturers and software
| giants -- as well as Internet, WiMAX, VoIP and mobile web players.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/open-mobile-summit-explore-how/story.aspx?guid=%7B0E28D5F1-24F8-43AD-923D-1C34D0B8BA7E%7D&dist=hppr
Recent:
Google's First Open Source Product
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| But maybe the most important fact about the G1 is that for the first time
| Google has shipped a major product that is open source. Until now, it has
| used open source to run most of its backroom (back hangar?) infrastructure,
| and has contributed bits and bobs to the open source world, but nothing on
| the scale of the code inside the G1.
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| This is really an important moment, because it sees the bellwether Google
| putting its name publicly and wholeheartedly behind the free software idea.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1321&blogid=14
Android confirms Linux as mobile platform of the future
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| Linux is on course to become the most important operating system for next
| generation mobile handsets.
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| This is the view of the LiMo Foundation, a industry group behind the most
| successful Linux mobile phone operating system, following this week's launch
| of Google’s rival Android operating systems in the T-Mobile G1 handset.
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http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2008/09/25/44590/android-confirms-linux-as-mobile-platform-of-the-future.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3vqvrj
Google's Android: It's not just for phones
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| Bruggeman declined to share specifics about which Internet-connected devices
| might employ the operating system, but he did mention TVs and set-top boxes
| as well as cars. And he was confident some will arrive next year.
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| "I don't want to pre-announce any design wins," he said. "I think you'll see
| them in 2009. I would be shocked if you didn't."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10047551-1.html
GACL
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| Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now
| it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new
| mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on
| Linux. Gears is a way to run Web apps on desktops and store data locally as
| well as in the cloud. Android is a development framework for Linux-based
| mobile devices. Chrome is a browser, but not just for pages. Chrome also runs
| apps. In that respect, it's more than the UI-inside-a-window that all
| browsers have become. It's essentially an operating system.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl
Is Android Google's Ticket into the Enterprise?
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| Google Inc.'s Android project could be the start of a much larger enterprise
| strategy, according to one industry analyst. But before the search engine
| giant can threaten Microsoft's enterprise supremacy, most observers of
| wireless industry efforts agree that the company's open source OS platform
| will need to regain support from its development community.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/151306/is_android_googles_ticket_into_the_enterprise.html
Five Reasons to Be Super Psyched About Android (and Five Not to Be)
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| 1. It's open! The single best thing about Android is that's a modern mobile
| phone OS that's also almost completely open, unlike some other locked down
| mobile OSes. (There are a few restrictions in accessing the hardware for
| security reasons.) It's based on Linux, and once Google has released Android,
| most of it will be totally open source, so it'll be incredibly easy to dive
| into its guts and mess around, which will help build a robust developer
| community, along with all of the other benefits of using open software. Most
| of its other awesome traits grow out of its openness, actually.
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http://gizmodo.com/5052576/five-reasons-to-be-super-psyched-about-android-and-five-not-to-be
What to Expect from Google Android (And What We're Hoping For)
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| A lot of hopes and open-source dreams are riding on a plucky little phone
| platform called Android, and its public debut on a real-live phone happens
| Tuesday. Those of us at Lifehacker HQ who didn't spring for an iPhone, and
| even some who did, are eager to see how it performs and, more importantly,
| what kind of useful apps will soon appear for the open Android. That's not to
| say we (and many other bloggers) don't have our reservations and lingering
| questions. We've put together a guide to get you up to speed on the Android
| platform and the first phone that runs it, along with what we expect, or just
| hope, to see in Android's very near future.
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http://lifehacker.com/5052054/what-to-expect-from-google-android-and-what-were-hoping-for
Top-secret Android handset surfaces on YouTube
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| Defying Google's pathologically closed approach to its open mobile platform,
| someone has posted video of a top-secret Android phone to YouTube.
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| The video's a bit blurry. And even if it wasn't, it wouldn't tell you much.
| But if you want a glimpse of the current Android SDK, this is the only way to
| get it. For more than five months, in a display of perverse cruelty, Google
| has hidden SDK updates from all but a select few mobile developers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/google_android_video_hits_youtube/
http://tinyurl.com/6f7cvv
Google's Android mobile unveiled
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| The first mobile telephone using Google's Android software has been unveiled.
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| The T-Mobile G1 handset will be available in the UK in time for Christmas.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7630888.stm
G1 Android launch pictures leaked?
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| There may only be several hours to go before T-Mobile officially unveils the
| G1 Android-based handset. But that hasn’t stopped what’s believed to be the
| world’s first official photos of the phone being leaked online.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/23/g1_official_pics/
Early views of Android phones bubble up
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| Also unsurprising: the phones run Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, and of course
| Google search, which is where Google hopes to make its money off the Android
| project.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10048538-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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