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  • Temsamani rebuts Ballmer's Android take

    Google's Australia and New Zealand general manager Karim Temsamani yesterday defended the business case for the search giant's Android mobile platform against comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last November.

  • Ballmer dismisses Google Android

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound.

  • Google's Android not what you think

    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.

  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • Apple's Jobs more powerful than Gates

    Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world.

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    Tell them they're Dreaming

    The amount of attention the HTC Dream gets when I flash it around in New Zealand is quite remarkable; and the HTC Magic on Vodafone seems set to get even more.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Microsoft and Google need to step up a Gear

    In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?

Features and Case Studies (10)

  • Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future Web

    Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.

  • The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

    Can Google be a partner to mobile phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

    A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

  • No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu

    Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.

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Reviews (5)

  • Samsung Galaxy Icon

    While we like the design, Samsung needs to do more with the software. Without customisation, Android's absent features are glaringly obvious.

  • HTC Magic

    Parts of the phone are as the name suggests, magic, but the absence of outstanding multimedia jeopardises the success of this latest Android.

  • Samsung Preston Icon

    The Preston has the look of a better handset, but poor call quality spoils an otherwise well-performing budget-priced touchscreen phone.

  • HTC Touch Diamond2

    If you're prepared to manage the memory and train yourself to use the keyboard, then there are few WiMo phones sexier than the Diamond2.

  • Palm Pre

    With webOS, Palm goes past matching its competitors and offers something more. The Pre might not be a home run, but it is an indication of good things to come.

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