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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Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android.
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood.
Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world.
Sun's cofounder thinks Google could supplant Microsoft, 'with the Web as a platform'
Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie reckons open source programmers' freedom from answering to shareholders makes it a greater threat to Microsoft than Google.
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.
With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
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