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Is there life in Google’s Android?
Insight Last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, software, LiMo Foundation, brand name, Apple iPhone, U.S.
iPhone soars, Microsoft 'main loser'
News Apple iPhone's market share grew significantly over past year while newcomer Android also made waves and Windows Mobile suffered, says Canalys.
Tags: Smart phones, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBerry, Apple Inc., Motorola Inc., Smart Phone, Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OEM
Nokia: Symbian has smartphone 'heritage'
News Nokia's experience as smartphone maker is its best weapon against competitors in hotly contested high-end segment, says mobile device maker.
Tags: Symbian, Open source, Apple Inc., Security, Smart Phone, Platform, phone, Emerging Market, Open source, Symbian
First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
News The move by Nokia and allies to spur the development of mobile Web applications is seen as a major strike against Google and its nascent Android platform.
Tags: Symbian, Linux, Open source, Cellular phones, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Google Inc., Symbian Inc., handset company, Wall Street Journal
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News Symbian's research chief warns there will be multiple versions of the search giant's mobile stack, but Google says there will be little motivation to make versions incompatible.
Tags: Symbian, Linux, Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile, Google Inc., Open Source, Fragmentation, intellectual property, phone
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Announcing new members, including Mozilla and Verizon, the LiMo Foundation claims to be in talks with two major enterprise Linux-distribution companies.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Linux, Browser, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile Linux, Mozilla Corp., intellectual property, enterprise computing, software
Acer to sell Android netbooks, phones this year
News After the launch of a model running on Android later this year, the majority of Acer's netbooks will offer the open source OS as an alternative to Windows.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Notebooks and tablets, Acer Inc., Smart Phone, Android, operating system, phone, subnotebook, Microsoft Windows
Nokia and the battle for open source’s soul
Insight news analysis The formation of the Symbian Foundation is good news for the mobile industry but the open source community could see some ethical compromises.
Tags: Symbian, Open source, Mobile, Google Inc., Symbian Inc., software, LiMo Foundation, SIM card, Linux, Nokia Corp.
Report: Motorola expanding Android team
News Cell phone maker is apparently in the midst of dramatically expanding the size of its Android team, according to TechCrunch.
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc., Google Inc., Android, operating system, phone, TechCrunch, Eric Schmidt
Gphone vs. iPhone: The security debate begins
News Plans for Google's Android spark discussion about whether its Linux platform will prove more--or less--secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.
Tags: Security
