By David Meyer
Imminent enhancements to Google’s Android mobile platform were revealed last week, in the form of a development effort called “Cupcake.”
Android is in the process of being turned by Google from its own development project into open source. Last week, some of the changes made to the mobile operating system by a private [...]
Dan Meyer
Application: Amazon MP3 for Android
Running on: HTC G1 using T-Mobile USA’s network as well as Wi-Fi networks.
Yay: A simple way to browse and sample music. Much easier than carrier-branded music store offerings. Nice integration with online Amazon accounts. Pricing is very competitive. Songs are DRM-free. Continued……
NEW YORK Omniture rolled out a new mobile application giving customers the ability to check SiteCatalyst information with Google Android. This is an extension of Omniture’s initiative to let marketers access reports and other data through mobile devices including the iPhone, which was announced in October. Continued…..
The Google Android based T-Mobile G1 has now been out for a while, and even though it sort of came into the mobile arena rather subdued it has gained a following, with several android based forums being set up. There are also other companies looking at producing their own android based smartphones. Continued……
By James Alan Miller
November 18, 2008
A free, ad supported version of WeatherBug is now available for Google’s Android platform. You can download and install the application through the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1, the first - and so far only - Android-run handset. Continued…….
Author Gordon Kelly
If the launch last week of the wonderfully impressive INQ1 didn’t make it abundantly clear, there is an intense war now being fought across the mobile phone landscape and it has nothing to do with megapixels, gigabytes or even - despite what mainstream advertising might tell you - touchscreens. In fact, this war [...]
By Dario Borghino
Google Releases First Android Patch
In the first test for its users response speed, Google just released a patch to its Android operating system that corrects a bug in its browser that came to light about ten days ago, as well as some other minor details. The update process was reportedly smooth and completely [...]
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates.
For the Android test phone I’m using, a T-Mobile G1, the update was smoother than the process by [...]
By Clint Boulton
Security expert Charlie Miller leverages a flaw within an SDK component of Google’s open-source Android operating system. The buffer overrun flaw lets hackers hijack the Web browser on a user’s T-Mobile G1 smart phone, which is Google’s first big entry into the mobile and wireless game to deliver users mobile Web services. [...]
Sprint may have signed up with the other 30 or so companies to support Google’s development of the Android mobile phone operating system, but currently they are not so keen.
The CEO of Sprint has proclaimed that Google’s Android OS is not good enough just yet, Dan Hesse spoke in Washington to The National Press Club [...]
The objective of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system may be similar–providing a rich mobile Internet experience–but the philosophy behind the two are just about as far apart as you can get in the technology realm.
That divide was illustrated Tuesday not just by Google’s release of the open-source Android software but perhaps even more [...]
New Packages Enable Software Developers to Easily Integrate Advertising Into Mobile Applications
NEW YORK, NY, Oct 22, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — MoJiva ( www.MoJiva.com), the company that simplifies mobile advertising and mobile publishing, announced today the launch of a software kit that allows developers to make applications for both the Apple iPhone and Android [...]
Arriving along with the official launch of T-Mobile’s G1 is Google’s Android Market, a place where G1 owners can download mobile applications.
Melissa Perenson, PC World
It’s all about the apps. Concurrent with the launch of the T-Mobile G1 Android-based mobile phone today, Google is launching Android Market. Conceptually, the one-two combination of the Android operating system [...]
Boston (dbTechno) - The first Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 has gone on sale today in the United States, and is expected to be a huge hit. The G1 from T-Mobile is the latest must-have gadget of the year, as it hopes that it will be able to compete with the likes of the [...]
R. Colin Johnson
PORTLAND, Ore. — Google Inc. is adding a security software suite from Mocana Corp. to its Android Mobile Platform.
Designed for OEMs using Android specifications for the Open Handset Alliance, Mocana’s software suite, called NanoPhone, builds security algorithms into Android smart phones. Continue…….
Google’s mobile Android OS just got even more open: The company today announced that it would make the operating system code available as open source, just one day prior to the release of T-Mobile’s G1, the first handset to utilize Android. Continue……….
US GSM operator T-Mobile USA is expanding its 3G network ahead of the launch of the much hyped Google phone, the G1.
Based on the Open Handset Alliance’s (OHA) Android operating system, the G1 will go on sale at T-Mobile stores on Wednesday, costing $179 with a two year voice and data agreement. Continue……
Marketing man touts mobile mail capabilities ahead of G1 launchThe first Android-powered phone is set for release by T-Mobile this week, and Google has been showing off the Gmail experience running on its new mobile platform. Continue…….
Posted by Eric Zeman
More specs of the Android-based phone from Motorola (NYSE: MOT) have hit the Webosphere and the news is looking good. The phone will have a large touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and will undercut the HTC G1 by $30.
We already know that Motorola is working on an Android phone. Recently, we [...]
Like my Mercury News colleague Troy Wolverton, I agree that the new T-Mobile G1 — the first phone to use Google’s open-source Android operating system — doesn’t quite measure up to the iPhone.
But after using the G1 and several smart-phones with other operating systems, I’m convinced that it will make an impact not so much [...]
If Google wants its Android-based phones to unseat Apple’s iPhone as the top touch-screen handsets, it will have to offer cool apps. On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here’s a look at some of them. Continue…….
Tom [...]
Posted by Brian Leahy
Google has admitted to including a remote “kill switch” to their Android platform, which would allow them to remove malicious applications from an Android device.
Apple came under fire for including the same “device” in the iPhone, which they would use to disable a dangerous application if it had somehow approved an application [...]
I got a close-up view of an Android phone today. It was an HTC phone, dubbed the T-Mobile G1. It is the first phone that runs Google’s Android software, and it is probably going to give the iPhone a run for its money as the coolest gadget of the season. T-Mobile has already signed up [...]
Tricia Duryee
When Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t integrate Adobe’s ( NSDQ: ADBE) Flash into the iPhone, it seemed Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT) may have an opportunity for its competing Silverlight technology, but now it is appearing unlikely that neither will work with Apple, and instead Microsoft is turning its attention to Google’s ( NSDQ: GOOG) [...]
With the App Store for the iPhone, Apple has to approve the application before
it becomes live to the public.
With the Google Android Market, however, it’s an absolute free-for-all,
simultaneously providing both its greatest strength and greatest weakness.
As expected, Google showed off the Android Market alongside the new T-Mobile
G1 today and we got to get a better [...]
MARC SALTZMAN
With the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone 3G launch in Canada, not to mention Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, one might think there’s hardly room for yet another contender in the highly competitive smart-phone space.
Google would beg to differ. Continue….
The Google Android T-Mobile G1 has been given a first user review by kazio, an Android Community Forum member, shows off the Android OS and has put together a few Q and A’s and some pro’s and con’s in their view. Click here for the whole story
If Google’s Android expectations are fully realised, the Android OS could well become the tipping point towards just how people view the concept of a mobile phone; this shift will affect mobile handset manufacturers, consumers, and critically mobile network operators. Click here for the whole story
Forget smartphones: Android could move into the far larger, low-end mobile market, sparking more change in an already turbulent industry.
By Judy Mottl:
Google’s foray into mobile operating systems, courtesy of its Android software, could mean more than another challenger to the popular Apple iPhone: It could prove to be the ultimate game-changer in [...]
