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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is... [06 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to snap at Symbian's heels, according to market watchers In-Stat, with the company also seeing increasing competition from a new... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google's Android 2.0 unifies email
Photo Google this week released screenshots of Eclair, its 2.0 Android update. On previous Android phones, users have complained about the disparate experience between the various email apps.... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The first mobile device running Google's Android OS - the G1 - came with GPS and a built-in compass which gave app developers an exciting toolkit from an augmented reality point of view - allowing the... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo The laptop will feature two OSes: Google's open source Android will sit alongside a choice of either Windows 7 or XP. Here's the netbook running the Android OS. Acer said the advantage... [16 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo However, Android wasn't the first mobile Linux effort by any means: work on open source mobiles by the LiMo Foundation, as well as the Openmoko project was already underway by the time the Google OS was... [12 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic... [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet That year also saw the announcement of Android - Google's open source software platform for mobiles, while another Linux-based mobile OS effort, the LiMo Foundation, also came into being around that time. [01 Oct 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile It also continued to push its Chrome web browser while the Android mobile phone OS has become much more mainstream. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top 10 for the sixth consecutive year... [29 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News And there are new Google Android phones from HTC and Motorola coming to market soon. Even though RIM still saw strong sales of BlackBerrys, the news sent the company's stock price tumbling in... [25 Sep 2009]
Google: Apple rejected Google Voice for iPhone
News It also translates voice mails into text, and is a popular application on Google's own Android mobile operating system. Google told the Federal Communications Commission in a redacted... [21 Sep 2009]
Google's Android gets new functionality baked in with Donut SDK
News Google has said it wants to release two major updates to Android per year, with the first major release of 2009, codenamed Cupcake, having arrived in May. Those smartphone developers waiting for the next... [16 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News It struck up a partnership with Google and Android because it realised Google could do a much better job of coordinating third-party software developers and application sales than... [15 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo The Cliq is Motorola's first Google Android device. It will be the third Android phone for the carrier (joining the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and the T-Mobile G1). Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha... [14 Sep 2009]
