Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android.
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.
Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP are to be pooled into one open-sourced ber-platform, came out of the blue.
Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
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.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
The search specialist's open-source mobile platform has the telephony industry hot under the collar -- but what will it mean for the average business user?
Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.
The co-founder of one of the most popular mobile Linux platforms has predicted a "revolution" in the use of open-source software on phones and handheld devices.
Sony's choice of Symbian -- instead of the Palm or Pocket PC OSes -- as its software partner for wireless was all about smartphones, and getting into the market quickly.
A new version of Opera's Web browser, with revamped small-screen rendering technology, is due to debut next week.
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