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Google confirms its mobile Linux plans
News Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. According to a statement released by Google on Monday, Android incorporates an "operating system, middleware [the software that sits between the...
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple versions, Symbian's research chief has claimed. While Android is a full mobile software stack, LiMo — a rival industry consortium to the OHA — is only developing a common...
[June 12, 2008, 15:05]
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
News Although the base of the stack falls under the fully open-source GPL licence, many parts fall under the Apache licence, which allows companies to modify the code into a proprietary form and not have to feed it back into the wider Android community.
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
Google denies Android phones delayed
News Wind River supports Linux in embedded computing devices, but will support the full Android software stack, which extends to higher-level software as well. When Android is open-sourced, we will support the entire stack," Bruggeman said.
[June 3, 2008, 9:00]
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Leach added that LiMo's latest announcements reflected badly on its main competitor, the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which intends to bring out the Android stack later this year. I think it's been a bit of a poor showing [for Android...
[May 14, 2008, 13:43]
Google Dalvik Virtual Machine Goes Head to Head With Java & .NET
Blog Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual machine. Android includes an operating system, middleware...
[November 14, 2007, 14:33]
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]
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2009
News Some companies are in a precarious position; to pick a prime example, all eyes are on Motorola to see if the ailing manufacturer can surprise the market with a judicious application of the Android stack.
[February 13, 2009, 14:35]
LiMo sets standard for mobile Linux widgets
News By contrast, Google's Android platform is an entire stack that incorporates the operating system, middleware and applications. Compared with Android, LiMo's approach means that owners will be less likely to be aware that they are using a "LiMo phone".
[February 9, 2009, 14:18]
HTC Hero: First impressions
Blog The screen is bright and well-sized, and the now-familiar HTC-Android 'chin' has been given an angular, slightly futuristic makeover. The iPhone App Store is fuller than the Android Marketplace, but the latter is rapidly growing and HTC has also...
[June 24, 2009, 17:31]
Inside the BlackBerry app store
News On Monday, Research in Motion opened up the submission process for its Application Storefront, through which third-party software for the BlackBerry can be sold to the public by its developers — the handset maker's answer to the iPhone App Store...
[January 27, 2009, 16:21]
Microsoft prepares smartphone challenge to Apple
News While this business model worked fine just a couple of years ago, it is difficult to justify now given that device makers can get free software from Symbian, Google Android and Linux. And several competitors, including Android and RIM, are...
[February 10, 2009, 9:50]
A rough guide to mobile open source
News Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system up to applications, developed by the Google-led Open Handset Alliance. On Tuesday, Google is expected to finally introduce its mobile, open-source Android platform to the world.
[September 23, 2008, 0:01]
Android phone takes 20pc of T-Mobile contracts
News The G1, which is currently still the only handset on the market to use Google's Android software stack, was launched exclusively on T-Mobile at the end of October 2008. The G1 Android handset now accounts for 20 percent of T-Mobile's contract sales...
[March 3, 2009, 9:00]
Google's Android joins three-horse mobile race
News The Android software stack, which is based on a Java-over-Linux platform and which will form the basis for a new generation of mobile devices, has attracted considerable interest across the industry. Both Symbian, the leader in mobile-device...
[November 7, 2007, 12:14]
Google launches SIM-unlocked Android phone
News Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system to applications. Google's Android developer team on Friday announced the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software.
[December 8, 2008, 15:51]
First Google Android phone unveiled
News Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system to applications. On Tuesday, Google and T-Mobile unveiled the first handset to use the Android platform: the T-Mobile G1, also known as HTC's Dream.
[September 23, 2008, 16:15]
HTC to make first Android handset
News HTC, the mobile-handset manufacturer best known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, is set to become the first vendor to release a handset using Google's Linux-based software stack, Android. Android, which comprises all the elements of mobile...
[November 6, 2007, 11:08]
Google releases Android SDK beta
News Google, which is leading the 34-company Open Handset Alliance to create the largely open-source Android software stack for mobile devices, already had released an 'early look' software development kit (SDK) in November 2007.
[August 19, 2008, 8:22]
Android phone hits UK shops
News It uses the open-source Android platform, a full mobile stack including operating system and applications. T-Mobile started selling its G1 phone, which runs on Google's Android platform, throughout the UK on Thursday.
[October 30, 2008, 11:59]
