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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 a bit of a looker. [06 Nov 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. Security firm Cronto designed the software to stop fraudsters from using Trojans to hijack a person's web... [02 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]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News On Thursday morning, Motorola officially introduced its first Google Android device: the Motorola Cliq. Motorola did say it would announce a second Android phone in the coming weeks. Motorola unveiled... [11 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News Specifically, they showed a mobile phone using Windows CE 6.0 run Google's Android operating system, too. VMware showed Google's Android system running on a Windows CE mobile phone through VMware... [04 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's Office coming to Nokia phones
News The deal comes even as Microsoft is trying to figure out how to keep its Windows Mobile operating system in the game amid stiff competition from Nokia in Europe as well as Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry, and an emerging threat from... [12 Aug 2009]
Apple puts Google on a leash over Latitude for iPhone
News In announcing Latitude for iPhone, a Google blog post noted that the application works much the same way as on other platforms like Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile. The big exception for the iPhone... [27 Jul 2009]
Steve Ballmer asks why Google just can't make up its mind
News To me the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting - it won't happen for a year and a half and [Google] already announced an operating system [Android]. Ballmer said research data shows that at least 50 per cent of the time... [15 Jul 2009]
Bill Gates on Chrome OS: 'I am surprised people are acting like there's something new'
News I mean, you've got Android running on netbooks. Ballmer and Gates also stressed the fact that Google now has two operating systems - Chrome OS and Android. It's got a browser in it. As... [15 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS pushes Google CEO to rethink seat at Apple's table
News He has already implemented a policy of excusing himself from discussions involving the iPhone at Apple, given that Google's Android software competes with the iPhone for consumer and developer attention. [13 Jul 2009]
Is there a place for Android and Chrome? Google says yes
News But during the discussion he noted that Android is capable of handling complicated, specialised tasks that a browser-based OS may not be able to tackle. Among the many questions raised in the wake of... [13 Jul 2009]
Google's Chrome OS: On the frontline of the new operating system war
News What does Google's Chrome OS mean for Android? Given Google already seems to have a viable netbook operating system in Android, why does it need Chrome OS too? Chrome, which shares its name with Google's... [09 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment There's no doubt Google has made moves in this direction with its pledge to open-source Chrome OS, the same way it did with several previous projects; the Chrome browser itself and its Android mobile OS. [08 Jul 2009]
Google to launch netbook operating system next year
News Google has argued that offering its Android mobile-phone operating system isn't a big enough competitive issue with Apple that chief executive Eric Schmidt must step down from Apple's board. The Android... [08 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo And if you're still hungry for mobile hardware, click here to check out our round up of 10 of the best smartphones on the market - or arriving soon - including the Android-powered HTC Hero (pictured) which is due to ship... [03 Jul 2009]