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Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore
Photo This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! Dell has chosen Google's... [01 Dec 2009]
Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
News Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own? Another negative came last month in response to the question of whether the UK will ever create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft,... [30 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo Google released the source code for Chrome OS on Thursday, beginning the process of producing a browser-based operating system by the end of 2010 for lower-end PCs called netbooks. Although Linux runs under the covers,... [23 Nov 2009]
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. The chipmaker said an Lenovo smartbook running Android will launch on US mobile... [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... [19 Nov 2009]
2009 Smartphone and Carrier Buying Guide
White Paper The real innovation in the mobile phone world is in the area of smartphones where we see the Apple iPhone, Palm WebOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Mobile... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo The Mini 3 is powered by Google's mobile OS, Android. Dell has named mobile operators Claro in Brazil and China Mobile in China as the first carriers for the Mini 3 but... [16 Nov 2009]
The Darker Side of Mobile
White Paper With growth industries in GPS navigation, sensor networking, social networking and Google Maps the virtual and physical worlds are on a collision course that is unstoppable. Someday, everything will be 'Always Connected'... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Find out how else Google has tweaked Android here. Photo credit: Google Shown above is the Samsung Galaxy i7500 which runs on Google's Android. Google Android is also... [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 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 crafting a... [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]