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RSS androidAndroid woos 20 per cent of T-Mobile contract customers
News The G1 Android handset now accounts for 20 per cent of T-Mobile's contract sales, the operator revealed in its latest financial results. Android: The lowdown Cheat Sheet: Google Android:... [03 Mar 2009]
Android development kit goes native
News A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing applications for handsets running the platform. Android... [26 Jun 2009]
Android on your desktop gets its second alpha
News Android then runs directly from the CD, leaving the user's hard disk unchanged. The system is based on Android 1.5 and is designed to work on x86 systems, such as desktop PCs or netbooks.... [09 Jul 2009]
Android's Hero edges a Flash ahead of iPhone
News HTC's new Android-based Hero phone will also come with the ability to handle Flash elements that adorn many websites and power YouTube video. Instead, the Android version will handle ActionScript 2... [25 Jun 2009]
Android security hole gets patched up
News Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates. [03 Nov 2008]
Photos: Android unlocked - developers are Ion-clad
Photo Google handed out thousands of HTC-built, Android-powered, unlocked Ion phones to attendees of its Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The Android 1.5 software enables video, too.... [28 May 2009]
"Android is not open. It's a marketing label"
News Google jumped into the mobile world just over two years ago with the public announcement of its mobile OS platform Android, while the newly created Symbian Foundation is reworking various flavours of the proprietary... [23 Feb 2009]
Android rocks up at Mobile World Congress
News Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress. Google launched Android, an open development platform in November last year. Phones... [12 Feb 2008]
Zittrain: Android holds the key to free future
News Android's battle to be the dominant mobile phone operating system (OS) could decide the future freedom of our technology, according to a leading web academic. He said: "I think Android will be a very... [30 Jun 2008]
'Android-powered netbooks coming this year'
News Android-powered netbooks will emerge this year, analysts are predicting. While Linux netbook sales are increasingly lagging Windows ones, the analyst reckons Android could help reverse the trend. Linux... [18 Mar 2009]
Web-based Gmail lands on iPhone, Android
News Google has released a new web-based version of Gmail that gives iPhone and Android phone users a more sophisticated version of the online email service, including access to messages that's faster and that works even when... [08 Apr 2009]
Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
News This month, silicon.com has been busy wrestling with Android. Cheat Sheet: Google Android Not manhandling tin men but exploring Google's new operating system for mobiles with our definitive Cheat Sheet... [27 Mar 2008]
Android to land in Chinese market?
News Once there was just a single Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. OPhone is a codename for phones that will be based on China Mobile's OMS [Open Mobile System] which is essentially Android + TD SCDMA [China's... [15 Dec 2008]
Android is now open: So where next?
News Less than a year after announcing Android, the open-source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile internet, Google began sharing the project's underlying source code. The Android Open... [22 Oct 2008]
Android to show up on Acer netbooks this year
News Acer has announced a version of its Aspire One netbook that will run the Android operating system. The manufacturer made the announcement on Tuesday at the Computex show in Taiwan, promising a release for the... [02 Jun 2009]
