Tim Bray--co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee--has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone.
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Software Patents Kill Another Program for Linux (Android)
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The wonders of "innovation" show their ever-so-wonderful benefit to society yet again (the application above died from software patents)
Read more »Arduino - the hardware revolution
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As we watched for signs of hope in netbook sales, Drupal sites and partly-FOSS Android phones, a revolution was taking place all around, in the physical world but not entirely away from the internet.
Read more »The Famous Symbian OS Goes Open Source
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Symbian is the famous operating system that power up most Nokia mobile handsets. This OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd. but then Nokia claimed it, next to an independent non-profit organization called Symbian Foundation, and implemented it on its devices.
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Android will soon trail only Symbian, says IDC
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Android will trail only Symbian in mobile phone market share by 2013, according to IDC. Android phones such as the pictured Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, which is now heading for NTT DoCoMo, will grow 150.4 percent to 68.0 million units by 2013, but other Linux-based phones will struggle, says IDC.
Read more »Google delays Android launch in China after hacking dispute
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Google announced that it was delaying the launch of two Android phones in China due to a dispute with the Chinese government over censorship issues. The delay will affect Google-endorsed Android phones from Samsung and Motorola that were to be carried by China Unicom, says an eWEEK story.
Read more »Android, Not Microsoft Slate, Big Winner at CES: Analysts
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have stolen a little thunder from Apple's rumored announcement of a slate PC during his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, but three leading analysts say that the real thunder theft at this year's show is coming from Microsoft's mobile competitors.
Read more »2009 is the Year of the Linux-powered Smartphones
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Although I don't consider 2009 as the year of the Linux desktop, most of you will probably agree with me that this is the year of the Linux-powered smartphones. We can mainly thank Android for this as its popularity and market share has been growing at a rapid pace.Gartner Inc. predicted that by 2012,
Read more »Is the Success of Google's Android a Threat to Free Software
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While the vast majority of the its apps are closed source they will not help spread real user freedom, or offer much of an alternative to Apple's tightly-controlled approach. The free software community needs to address these problems by encouraging many more developers to build great Android apps that are truly free.
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Brin: Two Google Operating Systems May Become One
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Google co-founder says Chrome and Android could someday become a single OS. Chrome browser plus Android OS equals... Android.
Read more »Verizon Droid's Sales Surge: Report
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The Droid, the smartphone released Nov. 6 through a partnership between Motorola, Google and Verizon Wireless, has significantly outpaced other Android handsets in first-week sales, according to one analytics firm -- which said the feat makes the Droid the first viable iPhone challenger.
Read more »A tiny cloud in Android
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This article proposes creating an Android-based service that emulates a network server that enhances the value of the local machine in unique and unexpected ways. Put a tiny cloud in your Android handset and experience the usefulness of a local Web server.
Read more »Windows Mobile loses 28 percent of market share, trend towards Open Source
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Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza suggested that, given the strong emergence of free, open-source operating systems, Microsoft might find it difficult to demand licence fees from smart phone manufacturers for the mobile operating software. She also added that the recently introduced Windows Mobile 6.5 was not "a major improvement" from its predecessors.
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Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)
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[Matt Porter's] presentation explains in detail why Android is not what most people refer to when they say Linux. What most people mean when they say Linux is the GNU/Linux system with it's standard userspace tools, not only the kernel.
Read more »Why open clouds are more important than open phones.
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Free-software advocates want software on mobile phones be free, but with the increasing irrelevance of single-node freedom when it's tied into a network, should we not be more concerned with freedom between nodes, than with freedom of the nodes themselves? The real concern should be over open data, not open phones.
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