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Google: Oracle altered Java Android code evidence

...put into the platform by other members of the 78-company-strong Open Handset Alliance "without the knowledge of Google". In a Groklaw blogpost about... Read more

15 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Android Market: Threat Analysis of the Android Market

Android Market: Threat Analysis of the Android Market

In keeping with the Open Handset Alliance goals of Android being the first open, complete, and free... Read more

21 June, 2010

Google's Rubin reasserts Android openness

...Android 1.0. "In fact, all of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance agreed not to fragment Android when we first announced it... Read more

7 April, 2011 by David Meyer
Android's rise: Five fuelling factors

Android's rise: Five fuelling factors

...contrast, Google changed its plans and announced the Android OS and the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007. By the time the first Android phone... Read more

30 December, 2010 by Jason Hiner
Symbian vs Android: How they square up

Symbian vs Android: How they square up

...to be congregating into two major camps: the Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, which is developing Google's Android, a rival mobile platform... Read more

26 June, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Google unveils Nexus One Android 'superphone'

The Nexus One offers significant enhancements to the graphics of the Android OS, along with deep integration of voice recognition and control, and will be sold via Google's own web store Read more

5 January, 2010 by David Meyer

Symbian Foundation signs up more supporters

...include mobile makers, software and services companies, network operators and chipmakers. Rival Open Handset Alliance — which backs Google's Android open mobile OS — currently counts... Read more

16 February, 2009 by Natasha Lomas

Google's Android Alliance gains 14 new members

The Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the use of Google's Android mobile operating... Read more

10 December, 2008 by Marguerite Reardon

Android may spread beyond phones

...it. But Wind River is a notable member of the 34-company Open Handset Alliance that Google gathered to build, support and use Android. Wind... Read more

23 September, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging

...big, mobile open-source consortia, alongside the Symbian Foundation and Google's Open Handset Alliance — at the start of 2008. Working alongside NXP Semiconductors, it... Read more

4 July, 2008 by David Meyer

Trolltech switches sides in mobile Linux war

...the handset market. The two largest alliances — although Google's recently announced Open Handset Alliance may prove a worthy adversary to both — are the Linux... Read more

8 January, 2008 by David Meyer
Gphone vs iPhone: The security debate

Gphone vs iPhone: The security debate

...the companies in the LiMo Foundation have also become members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which Google has formed to develop and promote Android... Read more

8 November, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Google's Android paves way for mobile supremacy

...The search giant announced the Android platform for mobile devices and the Open Handset Alliance on Monday in a move to break the lock existing... Read more

7 November, 2007 by Elinor Mills

Opera updates its mobile browser

...deny whether Opera had been approached to be a part of the Open Handset Alliance, the organisation founded by Google to develop Android, saying only... Read more

7 November, 2007 by David Meyer

Android gets Voda, Sony Ericsson, ARM and more

The Open Handset Alliance has just announced a huge increase in big names signed... Read more

9 December, 2008

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