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Google Pitches Android to European Mobile Developers
2007-11-29 23:00:00
Mike Butcher wrote at TechCrunc.com. Dave Burke, an engineering manager within Google ?s mobile team, stood up today at the Future of Mobile conference in London to talk about Android and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the new open mobile platform initiative from Google. This is the the first conference presentation in Europe on the subject since ...
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Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next
2007-11-29 17:00:00
Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com. “We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing ...
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Washington Post - Verizon Wireless To Open Itself Up
2007-11-28 22:03:00
Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post writes: The company hasn’t said anything specific about the pricing of this bring-your-own-device service and doesn’t plan to until early next year. But McAdam did say that it would offer “very different” pricing for low-bandwidth devices like utility meters. During the teleconference, Verizon Wireless executives also said that any phone running ...
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Wall Street Journal - Google to Take Online Storage World By Storm
2007-11-28 21:59:00
This could come in handy for Android Developer’s. Found at The Wall Street Journal On-Line According to the Wall Street Journal this morning Google ’s preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives - such as word-processing documents, digital music, video ...
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Blogger - Why Microsoft Loves Google Android
2007-11-28 21:54:00
Blogger Richard Monson-Haefel writes in, Application Platform Strategies Blog You won’t hear Microsoft say this out loud, but secretly they are celebrating Google ’s contribution of the Android mobile phone platform to the Open Handset Alliance - at least they aught to be. Android is perhaps the best thing to happen to Microsoft since they won the ...
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The Register Developer - Inside Google Android Paranoia
2007-11-23 19:03:00
Posted Thursday by Phil Manchester Like it or not, Google has achieved something that none of the established knitting circles has managed so far; it has created a single target platform for developers to aim for. One early view of how you can build Android applications [link] illustrates this. But a unified standard does not necessarily play ...
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zaTelnet Client for Google Android, with Source Code
2007-11-23 17:45:00
ZaTelnet makes a professional and light version of telnet/ssh clients for mobile devices. A light protocol client, designed for network system administrators, end users and web designers, working with Unix/Linux/BSD systems. This new, operating system independent version comes with extended functionalities, including smart phone support, ability to save, restore and edit sessions, floating keyboard, different font ...
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Thanksgiving Interview - Android maker talks mashups and mobiles
2007-11-22 21:57:00
Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, talked to CNET News.com about Android: Q: What does Android look like? A: Google has stepped up on behalf of the alliance to do various components of the support from a developer community perspective. We have a user interface team continuing development on the UI, and there will actually ...
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Android Developers Blog - Example Application, A stitch in Time
2007-11-22 21:50:00
Posted by Dick Wall, Google Developer Programs, on the Android Developers Blog Background: While developing my first useful (though small) application for Android, which was a port of an existing utility I use when podcasting, I needed a way of updating a clock displayed on the UI at regular intervals, but in a lightweight and CPU ...
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Android Twitter Client - How to make XML over HTTP calls
2007-11-22 21:33:00
Found at Davanum Srinivas’s blog, http://davanum.wordpress.com: Davanum has created a Twitter client for the Android platform. Download the application for the Android Emulator as well as the source code from his site. Link - Twitter Client for Android (How to make XML over HTTP calls) Technorati Tags: android, xml, http, twitter, client, sdk
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CNET Crave Talk - Nintendo must make a mobile phone (with Android)
2007-11-22 17:48:00
The Crave Talk blog writes today: Playing games on a mobile phone is about as enjoyable as untangling a pair of headphones when you’re stuck in the middle of a train during rush hour. The quality of titles available is very low, and today’s phones simply aren’t designed for fast, reliable button pressing. Don’t get me ...
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The Google Set-Top Box (Think Android For TV)
2007-11-21 19:55:00
Posted this morning on Tech Crunch: Deep in the Google plex there is an engineering team thinking about how to extend Google’s reach into your TV. Its work goes way beyond the Google TV ads currently being tested by EchoStar (and targeted with help from Nielsen). It even goes way beyond the development of a Google set-top ...
More About: Television , Advertising , Android , The Go

The Register: When is Java not Java?
2007-11-21 19:50:00
From The Register : Google ’s cunning plan to bypass the Java license might not be cunning enough, depending on how Sun decides to play it and if they see Android as a significant threat to their Java revenues. The Android platform can run applications developed for Java Micro Edition (J2ME) but to avoid the restrictions of Java licence ...
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Android Developers Group - Seattle,WA Android User Group Formed
2007-11-20 21:51:00
Hi, Just a reminder since our original message has been buried by the thousands of posts: If you are in the Seattle , WA area, I am forming a Seattle Android User Group to meet and discuss the Android platform,  share ideas, help each other, etc. If you are interested, feel free to email me or join ...
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CIO - Google?s Android Mobile Platform and the Enterprise
2007-11-20 21:19:00
Al Sacco from CIO Magazine writes, Even IT leaders who are not gadget lovers had better understand the implications of Google ’s recently unveiled “gPhone”?which turns out not to be one phone but a software platform called Android. And Google hopes it will power many, many phones. “If CIOs are not planning for mobility now, they better start,” ...
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Code Sample - Drawing overlays for Android Maps (aka Search for Starbucks)
2007-11-20 19:36:00
 Show me the Code! posted this sample application on November 19, 2007 Key strokes S - Toggle satellite imagery T - Toggle traffic imagery I - Zoom in O - Zoom out F - Search for addresses or businesses P - Search for pizza 1 / 2 / 3 ?. 9 - Display information about a specific item and center it View the ...
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Exclusive: The Andriod User Experience, Could Chaos Reign?
2007-11-19 23:52:00
 An interesting thread has started in the Google Android Developers group, why hasn’t Google provided a User Interface Guide for Android? Is it up to the Android community to write these type of documents? This is a scary thought - as Linux and Free-Software as a whole has not had a celebrated history of creating outstanding GUI ...
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Rumour - Google Thinking of Buying Skype from eBay?
2007-11-19 20:51:00
Jenima Kiss writes on the Guardian’s blog, pda:the digital content blog It’s been a while since the last juicy web business rumour, so this will do nicely. Currently in favour around London’s webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype , the web telephony firm, from eBay. This makes sense on a number ...
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What is the Business Model for Android Developers - Part II
2007-11-19 20:22:00
  An update to the thread that was originally posted here, What is the Business Model for Android Developer s. After perusing the forums and thinking about google’s statements, I think that we can safely say that the direction they want us to take is toward desktop-izing this platform.  You have your staple apps that must be on ...
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How to Program Google Android
2007-11-19 17:40:00
Found at Google Blogoscoped (http://blogoscoped.com), So you saw the Android announcement and decided you wanted a piece of that US$10million in prize money huh? In the week since the SDK was released more than 4,300 people have joined the Android support forum posting more than 4,000 messages between them. Robert Scoble doesn’t know ...
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Android Developers Group - Useful Links for Android
2007-11-19 17:22:00
Aaron P. D’Souza wrote to the Android Developers Group: Useful Links for ANDROID Developers Main Page - Android Wiki <http://androidwiki.com/wiki/Main_Pag e> Android Developers Blog <http://android-developers.blogspot.c om/> Android Portal & Community <http://www.android-portal.com/> Open Handset Magazine <http://openhandsetmagazine.com/> - Google Android Platform - The Android Log <http://theandroidlog.com/> Android Freeware Directory <http://www.android-freeware.org/> ; Android Development Community - Android Wiki <http://androidwiki.com/wiki/Android_ Development_Community> Goodies - Android <http://code.google.com/android/goodi es/index.html> OHAdev.com <http://www.ohadev.com/> Android Resource - Resource and Community for the Android OS - Home <http://androidresource.com/> Android, Google Phone, Open ...
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Installing Google?s Android on Ubuntu
2007-11-19 17:10:00
Found at androidinfo.blogspot.com Today we will try to go through “Install Android SDK on Ubuntu 7.10″ quest. Hope this will be helpful to some of you. let’s get started. Continue reading, Installing Google Android SDK in Ubuntu Technorati Tags: Google, Android, SDK, Ubuntu, Linux, Eclipse , Java
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Android on National Public Radio - Phones of the Future and Google?s Cell D
2007-11-19 17:05:00
National Public Radio ’s Talk of the Nation Radio for November 16, 2007 Fed up with your current cell phone ? or your service provider? Mobile experts discuss what can be expected from cell phones and cell companies in the future. Google is working to develop a new kind of software that could work on many different ...
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YouTube - Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle
2007-11-18 21:02:00
Part 2 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike explains the application and process lifecycle as a user navigates through different applications. Technorati Tags: davlik, android, openmoko, ubuntu, fonts, howto, dex, sdk, webkit, eclipse
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ComputerWorld - Google?s Android could be a game-changer
2007-11-18 21:00:00
Frank Hayes Framingham, writer for ComputerWorld New Zeland wrote, Being in the mobile space is advantageous. Will the Google Phone matter? Recently, Google officially unveiled its long-rumoured mobile phone software. Dubbed “Android”, the Linux-based software stack is being backed by more than 30 partners, including handset makers Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC, and service providers Sprint Nextel, ...
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Carl Rosenberger - Why Android Will Start the Mobile Tornado
2007-11-18 20:55:00
Please visit Carl Rosenberger’s blog, db4o Developer Community Looking from a global perspective, the landscape of mobile operating systems is highly fragmented. The key players are phone manufacturers and carriers, all with own proprietary technology. Thinking globally even Symbian, Microsoft and Apple are small, with 20m, 10m and planned 10m deployed phones. Because there is no ...
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Google Developing YouTube and Gmail Applications for Android
2007-11-18 20:43:00
This was found posted on the Android Developers Google Group yesterday An interested developer did some digging around inside the Android system internals this weekend and found these error messages during one of the startup applications: /system/app/AlarmProvider.apk /system/app/Calendar.apk /system/app/Camera.apk /system/app/GDataFeedsProvider.apk /system/app/Gmail .apk /system/app/GmailProvider.apk /system/app/MediaPickerActivity.apk /system/app/PimProvider.apk /system/app/ApiDemos.apk /system/app/Sms.apk /system/app/SyncProvider.apk /system/app/YouTube.apk Could this indicate that Google is working on a number of applications in-house to ship with Android, including a Gmail and ...
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What is the Business Model for Android Developers
2007-11-18 02:30:00
An interesting thread started on the Android Developers Google Group this week. Kev started the conversation by questioning how other developers felt was the best method to create a product that provides some revenue. If we develop a handy utility or game or whatever to run on Android what is the intention for the business model for this: Is the idea that it is all just a free-for-all? Are we expected to make our own arrangements to sell the app from our sites or Handango or whatever? Is there going to be some market place where users can pick and choose the apps? Is there going to be some mechanism for promoting apps to users? Are there going to be bus dev people for us developers who will help get apps built into Android devices as they are shipped? How can we protect our apps from piracy? If our app gets popular will Google buy us? Any other guidance as to what to expect would be great. What followed was some great discussion, with one of the best responses coming from 3Dwulf...
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Build your first Android Application - 3 Different Examples
2007-11-18 02:09:00
A number of stories published today around the net about building first Android applications. First is a video by a Google Application Developer Advocate. He moves very fast, but it’s a good overview of using the tools shipped with the SDK. Kevin Cawley develops his hello world application in under 15 minutes. I started to write my first simple Google Android app at 10:30 tonight and was done by 10:45. This included installling the SDK, installing and configuring the Eclipse plugin, coding (okay it was one line), and running the application in the emulator. Read the entire process at, Kevin Cawley goes Android in under 10 minutes. John Lombardo at Linux Devices builds his Android application in 10 easy steps at, Build ing an Android File Browser. Technorati Tags: davlik, ubuntu, android, sdk, logging, webkit, howto, ubuntu, eclipse
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Symbian dismisses Google Android
2007-11-17 16:36:00
Darren Waters, Technology editor for the BBC News website writes: Google ’s dominance of the web will not translate to the mobile phone market, a senior executive at Symbian has said. John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, the platform that powers many of the world’s phones, said Google lacked experience. Google has formed an alliance with 33 ...
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