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TI Joins Android Prototype Party

Texas Instruments has joined ARM as a second chip maker to give the Google-forged Android mobile operating system a test drive at the Mobile...

Chip Maker ARM to Help Android Get a Leg Up

ARM, whose chips power more than 90 percent of all mobile devices worldwide, plans to demonstrate a prototype mobile phone running Android's mobile operating...

A la Mobile Serves Up Android Apps

With questions swirling about the viability of Google's Android mobile operating system, startup A la Mobile on Jan. 14 released a stack of applications...

Google Android Developers: Start Your Coding

Developers got their first crack at Googles Android mobile platform Nov. 12 when Google and its Open Handset Alliance released the Android software development...

Google Releases Android SDK Preview

As expected, Google has released an "early look" version of its SDK (software development kit) for mobile phones. The Eclipse-based Android SDK lets users write...

Android: Licensing Software So You Don’t Have To

Google has made its much anticipated and rumored play in the mobile phone market. But instead of a cell phone, Google is releasing an...

Could Google’s Android Be the Cell Phone Savior?

For years, American technology leaders have gotten used to seeing the United States no longer globally technologically dominant. But nowhere is that lack-of-dominance more...

Pundits Weigh in on Android and the gPhone

Google's open-source, Linux-based Android software stack may do for mobile phones what DOS did for the PC: create a de facto standard riveting developers...

Does Android Dream of Domination?

Will people have a phone number assigned at birth? Will customers pay only for network services and not the phones themselves?The Android mobile phone...

Google Programs Android as Next Mobile Operating System

There is no Google phone, but what Google revealed Nov. 5 could be even bigger.Google unveiled a complete mobile phone stack under an open-source...