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Google Android Developer Challenge I: Deadline is next Monday!

If you were counting on Google’s money to develop your first Google Android application, you better stop snoozing now! The deadline for the Android Developer Challenge I is next Monday, April 14th. Who’s going to get the money? The 50 most promising entries received before the deadline will each receive a $25,000 award to [...]

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AT&T now Wants Google Android phones

Probably mesmerized by the iPhone late last year, AT&T didn’t really showed interest in Google’s Android project. But AT&T Mobility CEO, Ralph de la Vega, apparently changed his mind about Google Android and said at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, “I like it a lot more than I did before.” He also added, “It’s [...]

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HTC Reportedly Names Google Android Phone “Dream”

Could the mobile handset you see pictured at right be one of the first to run Google Android software? That is the word from a source as told to the IDG News Service. IDG reports this phone is being developed by HTC and sports the code name “Dream.” This mobile, which reportedly will be out by [...]

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Sun Microsystems in the dark

Well, it’s just the beginning of 2008 and Sun Microsystems is pretty much unsure of what to do about the new Android platform, which in all likelihood could come to rival Sun’s own Java. It could, though this is just some speculation, split Java in half in a way. You see, Google Android [...]

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Sybase takes the Case

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for the Open Handset Alliance. Their Google Android platform is maturing and growing up, it’s starting to go from crawling to walking, and the more mature phone platforms, such as Apple’s, are starting to shiver. Because of its stability now third party developers are starting [...]

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Google Android Phone App shows itself

Recently new Google Android Phone in development, based on the Open Handset Alliance platform, has had several functionality screenshots released – one of which is quite impressive for a phone. It is an entire application that shows you a map, and what is open. Consider the significance of this. It will show [...]

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