Android Mobile Phone Operating System
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Ballmer rules out new bid for Yahoo
News Microsoft's CEO tells a lunch crowd in Australia that Microsoft is "not interested" in making a new offer for Internet company Yahoo.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Search, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Australia, Sydney
Google patches Android security flaw
News T-Mobile and Google are distributing a patch to close a browser security hole that came to light in late October.
Tags: Smart phones, Open source, Security, Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, RFC, mobile phone operating system, system update, software, patch management
Android Developer Challenge winners focus on location
News The US$3.75 million in prizes distributed by Google to Android developers includes several applications that take advantage of location-aware technology in mobile phones.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Next-generation technology/networks, Mobile applications, Open source, Apple Inc., Winner, Mobile, Google Inc., Location, Cell Phone
Google establishes Android team in Taiwan
News The technical support staff will help Taiwanese hardware makers fit Google's operating system onto mobile phones.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., Android Mobile-phone Operating System, Android Application, phone, Linux, Taiwan
Google plans OS based on Chrome browser
News Google's browser project is the foundation for a Web-based operating system. Chrome OS netbooks are due in 2010.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Linux desktop OS, Linux, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, operating system, Web Application, computer, blog
Google CEO: Full steam ahead Yahoo ad deal
News Regulators have not shared any opinions yet, so Google plans to go ahead with its search-ad deal with Yahoo.
Tags: Internet advertising, Search, Antitrust, Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, phone, Regulator, YouTube Inc.
Google releases programming tools for Android 1.5
News With Android 1.5, the open-source mobile phone operating system is gradually maturing, and so are the programming tools central to creating software for it.
Tags: PalmOS, Smart phones, Mobile, Google Inc., Web Browser, Tool, SDK, phone, performance, software
Google tries to break IPv6 logjam by own example
News It argues there now are financial reasons to adopt the next-generation Internet standard. And Google itself could profit from the more democratized network.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Google Inc., Server, network, Internet, IPv6, IPv4, VoIP/IP telephony
