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  • 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 gets app market

    Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system.

  • Security flaws unearthed in Google's Android

    Researchers have found some holes in Google's Android SDK that could make the software vulnerable to hack attacks.

  • Google peeps get Android phone for Xmas

    Google Australia employees and those in many other countries received an HTC Dream Android phone for Christmas.

  • Google reveals Android source code

    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.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Jailbreaking: A geek's Everest

    If I choose to upgrade the engine of my car, Holden will not recall it at some point in the future to restore its default configuration. Yet to most users, this behaviour is perfectly acceptable for devices.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    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 - David Braue

    Cash cow in a BigTinCan?

    Around one third of Australia's telcos have shut their doors over time, but that isn't stopping new ventures hoping to chip away at carriers' mobile call bonanza. By fighting carriers at the smartphone rather than the home phone, could the latest two contenders be onto something big?

  • 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?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's iPhone-free parallel universe

    Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.

Features and Case Studies (20)

  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    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.

  • Photos: Software tools for Google Android

    Google released a software development kit for its Android mobile-phone software on Monday. Google spokespeople have talked of "innovations we can't even envisage yet" in Android. Take a sneak peak at the software development kit.

  • Google's Android head on the iPhone, Linux and the Dream

    Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.

  • Security showdown: iPhone vs Google Android

    Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.

  • HTC Dream vs Kogan Agora Pro

    With the Australian release of two Android powered smartphones coming closer to fruition, it's time to chuck these Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots in the ring.

Videos (4)

  • 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?

  • Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder

    Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.

  • 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 set-top boxes, televisions, and automobiles.

  • Buzz Report: Android is falling apart

    Google's Android alliance is falling apart, and Molly thinks she knows why: something about children, mean parents, and monkeys.

Reviews (8)

  • HTC Hero

    HTC shows just how customisable Google's Android platform is, delivering a swag of home screen widgets out of the box. We can't wait to get our hands on the Hero.

  • HTC Dream

    We're not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features; however, the Google Android platform has the potential to make smartphones more personal and powerful.

  • Kogan Agora and Agora Pro

    The much-hyped Google Android phone operating system will hit Australia on 29 January 2009, in the form of the Kogan Agora and Agora Pro. At first glance, this looks to be one of the most exciting products of the year.

  • 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.

  • Chrome (beta)

    Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

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