Android: The Smartphone OS with Multiple Faces
Christof Kerkmann, Mobile Tech Today, 5/31/2011 Many manufacturers have decided to make use of the open-source mobile operating system Android, but everything can change from one Android-operated smartphone to the next: interface, functions, options available. The one thing that stays the same: With an Android-enabled smartphone, you’re only a click away from the Internet. Android [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Ericsson, Flash, HTC, Linux, Motorola, Samsung, WiFi
Google Memo Reveals Importance of Android Location Database
David Murphy, PC Mag, 5/1/2011 Just how important is location-based data to Google? Just how important is it for the sun to rise each morning? Same deal. This question comes in the wake of eyes turning toward mobile handsets—specifically, Apple’s iPhone and smartphones based on Google’s Android OS—for the information they collect about the various [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: GPS, Hotspot, Motorola, WiFi
Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) coming to Android
Mobiputing.com, 4/16/2011 The Silverlight platform is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, allowing developer to write rich media applications for the web or for computers. And Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight designed to run Silverlight apps on Linux. Now the developers of Moonlight are working to port the project to Android. That means [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Flash, Linux, Motorola
Google admits Android ‘both open and closed’
Gene Amdahl, The Register, 4/12/2011 Google Android boss Andy Rubin sees himself as a latter-day Gene Amdahl, insisting that anyone who questions his commitment to building an “open” mobile platform is merely spreading FUD. “Recently, there’s been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google’s role in supporting the ecosystem. I’m writing [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Motorola, WiFi
Google Apps Enhances Android Security and Device Management Tools
Klint Finley, ReadWriteWeb, 4/8/2011 Today Google announced a new version of its Google Apps Device Policy app for Android. New features include the ability to locate a lost or stolen Android device on a map, and remotely reset the PIN or password. The new version also includes the ability to encrypt all data stored on [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Motorola
Android topples Symbian as world’s No. 1 mobile OS
Brad Reed, Network World, 1/31/2011 For the first time in its short history, Google Android is now the No.1 mobile operating system in the world, according to research firm Canalys. A new report from Canalys shows that 32.9 million Android-based phones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter, eclipsing the 31 million Symbian-based phones that shipped [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Linux, Motorola, T-Mobile, Verizon
LG Optimus 2X goes on sale in Korea, teases white version for February
Vlad Savov, Engadget, 1/23/2011 No big surprises here, unless you count that snowy white number up above. Yep, LG’s not only stolen a march on Motorola in introducing the world’s first dual-core smartphone, it’s also about to beat Apple to the white handset punch as well. The 1080p-recording, Tegra 2-wielding Optimus 2X is now available [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Motorola
Google copied Java in Android, expert says
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, 1/21/2011 An intellectual property expert has uncovered 43 instances where it appears that Google copied Java code without permission in the most recent versions of the Android operating system. The discovery could challenge Google’s defense in a dispute with Oracle over Java patents and copyright material in Android. “The discovery [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: HTC, Motorola, Samsung
Verizon unveils 10 mobile devices with LTE built-in
John Cox, Network World, 1/6/2011 Smartphones, tablets, hotspots and more due by mid-2011 Verizon Wireless today at CES 2011 unveiled 10 mobile devices, all of which will have built-in support for the carrier’s burgeoning LTE 4G wireless network. The devices include smartphones, tablets, portable hotspots, netbooks and notebooks, from well known brands: HTC, HP, LG, [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Hotspot, HP, HTC, LTE, MiFi, Motorola, Samsung, Skype, Verizon, WiFi
“SMS of Death” Could Crash Many Mobile Phones
Erica Naone, Technology Review, 1/4/2011 The phones in many people’s pockets today are miniature personal computers, and they are just as vulnerable as PCs to viruses, malware, and other security problems. But research presented at a conference in Germany last week shows that phones don’t even have to be smart to be vulnerable to hackers. [...]