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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. The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6 of the Android OS - aka... [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]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system. The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Earlier this year, Google launched a collaboration platform called Wave. Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com showing off... [30 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. Now with Amazon's Kindle e-book reader available internationally - in the UK and some 100 other countries - and all the... [27 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. Acer has also shown off a smartphone running Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset for low-power... [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]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News With Google's web-based Chrome operating system likely to have gained further momentum by the time Windows 8 emerges, Yarmis suggested Microsoft will be focusing more on pushing a similarly internet-based technology. [08 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. The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which... [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. The phone, which will be available through T-Mobile in the US later this year, features a 3.1 inch HVGA... [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]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Torvalds set up the Linux Foundation in 2007 to build momentum for Linux uptake and includes members such as Google, HP, IBM, Intel and Novell. Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top 10 for the sixth consecutive year in 2009 and rises two places from his 2008 ranking as Google continues to expand its product portfolio and influence... [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. This stuff [smartphones and mobile applications] is going much more mainstream," he said during the conference call. [25 Sep 2009]
