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Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo Among the devices on show was this Quanta smartbook prototype (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. A prototype smartbook running a vanilla version of the Android... [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Fast forward to the present and open source is indeed on the rise - most notably in the mobile industry, for example, where handset makers are falling over themselves to embrace new open source OSes such as Google's... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo The Mini 3 is powered by Google's mobile OS, Android. Dell CEO Michael Dell is pictured above, right, showing off the Android-powered smartphone with Joćo Cox, president of Claro. Dell... [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. The Google boss also touched on the company's upcoming OS,... [16 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer recently launching a device that can dual boot both the open source OS and Windows 7. The latest iteration of Android, known as... [12 Nov 2009]
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. The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6 of the... [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 quarter - Maemo, a... [02 Nov 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]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Hardware makers have already been showing off their Windows 7 machines ahead of the launch - for example, last week Acer unveiled a dual-boot netbook with Android and Windows 7. It looks like the software behemoth is... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo Here's the netbook running the Android OS. Acer said the advantage of an Android boot option is much faster loading and shut down times - the company claims netbook users can starting... [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]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. Apple used the event to announce the release of the new OS 3.1 for both the latest iPhone and iPod Touch. Photo... [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]
Toptable books in new CTO
News Broome will lead the roll out of Toptable's mobile applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile OS. Online restaurant booking company Toptable has appointed a new chief technology officer... [23 Sep 2009]
