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Will you forget about Android?

Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...

Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge

Responding to a crescendo of criticism from the developer community, which saw books canceled, long time fans lose enthusiasm, and some calls for defections to Android, Apple finally relented Wednesday: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. ... The NDA has created too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones

Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones statement. Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant...

Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Phone, Nokia Corp., Android, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Image Gallery: Hands on with the T-Mobile G1 Android device

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the T-Mobile/Google launch event for the T-Mobile G1 and took a few photos of the hardware and various screens on the device. by Matthew Miller

Tags: Matthew Miller, product photos, android, google, smartphone, t-mobile

Image galleries 2008-09-24

Hands-On with T-Mobile G1

Hands-on with the T-Mobile G1, an HTC-manufactured phone built on the Google Android platform. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: T-Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca, product photos, event coverage, Google, Android, \

Image galleries 2008-09-24

T-Mobile G1 Event: Google Android, HTC

At the international debut of the T-Mobile G1, the first handset with Google's Android platform, made by HTC. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Google Android, T-Mobile, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca, product photos, event coverage, Google, Android, G1

Image galleries 2008-09-23

Is Google's Android ground-breaking?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android. Diaz discusses the new features available in the open-source operating system, whether it's an iPhone killer, and how the technology may eventually reach beyond phones and land inside other products such as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Operating System, Diaz, Tv & Home Theater, Open Source, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Software, Android

Videos 2008-09-23

Gallery: Android's mobile competition

Google's eagerly anticipated Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system up to applications. Here's how its competition stacks up. by ZDNet

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, ZDNet, Android, operating system, mobile

Image galleries 2008-09-23

Will Apple help Android succeed?

I have to wonder how Apple manages to have any sort of developer ecosystem, given how closed the company is and how it regularly treats its developers with what can only be described as contempt. I sincerely hope that Google (and T-Mobile) does a better job with Android's developer community...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Apple Inc., Android, Telecom & Utilities, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-22

An Android, far from the Android

Until Clearwire closes and is built out, in other words, the Android era has not yet begun, and the iPhone monopoly will continue. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Android, Clearwire Corp., Android Vision, Internet, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld

The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Handheld, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Video, Sirius, Android, Mesh Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own, and...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Eclipse, Android, Eclipse Public License, Eclipse Foundation, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Jason Chen answers questions about Android

At the recent Google I/O 2008 conference, Jason Chen from the Android team presented a 90 minute introduction to Google's new software platform for mobile devices. Since I've written about Android basics before I'll just cover some of the points that were new or previously unclear. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Jason Chen, Android, Q., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Android will be 100% open source, says Google

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android "Android", including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google. [ See also: Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform ]...

Tags: Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Android, Open Source, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Google I/O doesn't disappoint

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi checks in with News.com Senior Writer Stephen Shankland about the two-day Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. From demos of the Android touch screen to details on the Google App Engine (don't forget the free junk food), Shankland calls the event a success.

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Stephen Shankland, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, News, kara tsuboi, steven shankland, google, android, developer

Videos 2008-05-30

A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest?

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, News, kara tsuboi, steven shankland, google, sdk, android, iphone, apple, conferences

Videos 2008-05-28

Sudoku ported to Android

I've written a free Android version of Sudoku. It's very basic, but after I clean it up I hope it will serve as a good example to beginning Android programmers. Here's a screen shot: The source code and binaries can currently be found...

Tags: Touch Screen, Theme, Eclipse, Documentation, Emulator, Android, Android Life Cycle, Android SDK, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Nokia debuts Android phone, sort of

No, Nokia is not jumping on the Android bandwagon yet, but the new Nokia 6210 Navigator reviewed by ZDNet's Matthew Miller points the direction ahem for Android phones set to debut later this year. The centerpiece of this device is Nokia Maps 2.0 (think Google Maps meets...

Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Hardware, Nintendo Wii, Android, Android Software Development Kit, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-18