Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android.
Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
If you were looking for an iPhone-killing handset from Google's new mobile strategy, you were definitely hoping for the wrong thing. Google is warmly neutral towards Apple and really has a certain software giant in their sights instead.
Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices.
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Mobile anti-virus researchers and anti-virus companies are at loggerheads over access to code for a PC-to-mobile Trojan.
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood.
A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code.
The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to Microsoft's approach to its mobile platform -- today it's the most open functioning platform on the market, says new Linux Australia president Stewart Smith.
Google has launched a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location, even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Phone manufacturers aren't the only ones interested in Google's Android software, with the chipmaker looking for alternative software to run on its Mobile Internet Device project.
Palm pioneered the smart phone, but if rumours prove true, the Treo maker may not survive as an independent company to watch its creation move from the corner office to the street corner.
Palm CEO Ed Colligan has tweaked the shipping expectations for the company's new Linux-based operating system, known as Palm OS II.
Nokia plans to acquire the rest of Symbian, open source the mobile operating system and launch its first handsets in two years.
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