open source android
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at Symbian market share," Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, said in a statement, adding: "Although there are relatively few open source... [02 Nov 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 said the advantage of an Android boot option... [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... [12 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... [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. Prior to joining Google in 2001, Schmidt was chairman and CEO of open... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's Android coming to a set-top box near you
News Mips Technologies released the source code on Monday, two months after it first said it had ported Android to the 32-bit version of the Mips architecture. The Android operating system is... [06 Aug 2009]
Google's latest Donut batch missing multitouch
News Donut is a repository of code that will be fed into the next version of the open-source Android platform. Google has released the latest version of code for the 'Donut' branch of its... [28 Jul 2009]
Symbian offers app developers a helping hand
News Google, meanwhile, has offered Android developers cash prizes in a series of competitions to raise interest and create a buzz around the platform. The Symbian Foundation, the organisation which steers the development of... [16 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet The latest release of the platform is Android 1.5 - which incorporates code from a development branch that was kept outside the open source arena for a while, known as Cupcake.... [10 Jul 2009]
Symbian takes step towards open source with first package release
News Symbian competes with a number of mobile operating systems, including Apple's iPhone OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Mobile. The Symbian Foundation has released its first... [10 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? Following Google's announcement it's... [09 Jul 2009]
What does Google's Chrome OS mean for Android?
News Interestingly, it's a market that it's set to enter, thanks to its Android mobile OS: Acer is already preparing an Android netbook and analysts are predicting the OS could do well in the low-end of the... [09 Jul 2009]
Google Chrome: Do PC makers really want another OS?
News More recently, Asus, Acer, and Samsung have said they plan to offer Google's Android, which is really an operating system for mobile devices like smartphones, on netbooks. Judging by their public reactions to 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... [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]
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