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Google Android platform source code: "free for everyone"
Blog In a quiet but friendly tip off this afternoon I’ve been told that Google and the Open Handset Alliance have made the Android platform source code available free - “For everyone,” says Google. Less than a month after the search giant unveiled news...
[October 21, 2008, 16:01]
Google Android review
Reviews At GSMA 2008, Kent German takes a look at Google Android, Google's mobile operating system.
[February 14, 2008, 23:00]
Google Android looms large, blurry
Blog It shows Mike Jennings, Android 'developer advocate', demonstrating Google's mobile play in some detail. Android's looking smooth and responsive, the functionality looks like it can at least match that found in current Windows Mobile phones...
[September 17, 2008, 11:17]
Google releases Android SDK beta
News Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software-development kit for Android phones, a significant step forward in the company's plans for 'open' phone technology. Google, which is leading the 34-company Open Handset Alliance to...
[August 19, 2008, 8:22]
Google fixes Android root-access flaw
News A bug has been found in Google's Android mobile platform that allows command-line instructions to be automatically run with root privileges. The operator T-Mobile has, however, not yet said when it will be pushing the update out to users of its G1...
[November 10, 2008, 16:35]
Google shares Android source code
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. Google said it will offer a compatibility test suite to ensure...
[October 22, 2008, 8:30]
Google demos Android software
News Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is due to ship as open-source software...
[May 29, 2008, 12:09]
Google releases Android SDK
Blog As promised, Google has pushed out the preliminary software development kit for its mobile Linux-based software stack, Android. One of the big issues with Android has been the fact that, because a big whack of it falls under the Apache licence...
[November 12, 2007, 16:38]
Google denies Android phones delayed
News Google denied a report on Monday that phones using its Android software have been delayed until 2009. Some of our partners are publicly stating that they plan to ship Android phones in the fourth quarter," Google said in a statement.
[June 3, 2008, 9:00]
Google's Android Alliance gains 14 new members
News The Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the use of Google's Android mobile operating system, added 14 new members this week, including the world's largest mobile operator Vodafone. Google started the alliance a year ago when it officially...
[December 10, 2008, 10:21]
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
News Google and its Open Handset Alliance have released the preliminary software development kit (SDK) for their new mobile platform, Android. We've built some interesting applications for Android, but the best applications are not here yet, and that's...
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
Google touts Android Market for phone apps
News Google has announced Android Market, an online centre that will let people find, buy, download and rate applications and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open-source operating system.
[September 1, 2008, 11:37]
Google's Android paves way for mobile supremacy
News Unlike the PC market, Google joins the contest for mobile access to the internet with its Android software while there is still much work to be done. If there were to be a Google phone, Android would be an excellent platform for it to use.
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
Google releases Android SDK
Blog Comment In response to the statement that "Google's holding a big-money competition to attract developers to make apps for Android", I have to ask the questions. Why are they offering to pay for these apps at such an early stage in the development of Android?
[November 12, 2007, 23:44]
Google rewards Android app developers
News Google has made several software developers a little richer this week, distributing $3.75m in prizes for 20 applications designed for its Android mobile-phone operating system. The full list of winners is available on Google's Android Developer site.
[September 1, 2008, 14:30]
Google sets up Android team in Taiwan
News Google has set up a team to provide technical support for its Android mobile-phone operating system to hardware makers in Taiwan, the company confirmed on Wednesday. This means that anyone can take the Android platform and add code or download it...
[March 13, 2009, 8:07]
Google releases final Android SDK
News Google has released version 1.0 of the Android software-development kit. Google hopes its Android operating-system project will help spur the mobile-phone industry into a more enthusiastic embrace of internet technology.
[September 25, 2008, 10:51]
Google to unveil 'Android' mobile-phone software
News The search giant is likely to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil the project, which is expected to incorporate Linux software into a mobile platform code-named Android that is designed to run on phones, according to sources familiar with...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
Google Voice coming to Android, BlackBerry
News Google Voice is launching on BlackBerry and Android smartphones. Android and BlackBerry owners who are also Google Voice users will be able to use the service directly on their handsets starting on Wednesday, said Vincent Paquet, senior product...
[July 15, 2009, 14:17]
Google offers update for Android security flaw
News Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile-phone operating system. The researchers who found the browser flaw — Charlie Miller, Mark Daniel and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators — called the Android web-browser flaw...
[November 4, 2008, 14:51]
