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Google goes to 'Android Market' in App Store challenge
By: Stephen Withers

We've seen how successful Apple's App Store has been as a conduit between developers with $US30 million in sales and 60 million downloads in the first month. Now Google aims to follow suit with the announcement of the Android Market. Why 'Market' rather than 'Store'?


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Google Android delay: Bluetooth, GTalk APIs
By: Stephen Withers

Uh-oh... Two major features have been dropped from the APIs for version 1.0 of Google's Android mobile phone platform: Bluetooth and GTalkService (Google Talk).


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Google says: Hack the Android!
By: Davey Winder

Google has released the 0.9 SDK Beta and admits that its ambitious project to produce the first complete, open, and free mobile platform is "converging on a final Android 1.0" release. It has also taken the bold step of posting an open letter to the security community which, in effect, invites them to hack the Android...


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Wow, a Google Android phone by September 17?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Little more than two months after the launch of the iPhone 3G, the first Google Android handset looks set to arrive much earlier than expected through an exclusive “pre-sale” with T-Mobile in the US, coming with a raft of iPhone-killing specs that must surely be adding some spice to the close Apple and Google relationship!


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LiMo gather new allies for looming handset battle
By: Stuart Corner

The battle between multivendor handset platforms is heating up: the LiMo Foundation has announced new members and new handsets, and Qualcomm has been hinting at  iPhone beating Android based products, as well a singing the praises of its upcoming Snapdragon chipset.


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iPhone is the last 'must have' handset, says analyst
By: Stephen Withers

Carriers may have been working hard to gain the rights to sell Apple's iPhone, but the idea of exclusive access to particular mobile phone handsets is on the way out, according to an analyst.


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LiPS licked, joins LiMo to progress Linux handset platform
By: Stuart Corner

In the wake of this week's formation of the Symbian Foundation, the LiPS Forum one of two organisations set up to develop Linux-based open handset platforms, has thrown in the towel and joined the other, the LiMo Foundation.


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Consortium to unify Symbian platform as iPhone and Android threats loom
By: Stephen Withers

Nokia and its friends are circling the wagons in the face of Google's Android mobile phone platform and the massive level of interest being shown in Apple's iPhone as it gains greater international distribution. Big changes are afoot in the Symbian world.


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Google Sydney "Developer Day" about making the cloud more accessible to developers: Stocky
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Google’s second Australian “Developer Day” saw over 650 developers making the trek to Sydney’s “Wharf8” venue for a jam-packed day-long set of sessions for developers to devour. iTWire spoke to Tom Stocky, Google's director of product management, to get the latest Google goss!


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Google's Android arrives in Sydney
By: Stuart Corner

Australian mobile application developers got their first look at Google's Android mobile handset platform at Google's Australian development day in Sydney.


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Microsoft teams with SingTel to encourage Windows Mobile Application developers
By: Stuart Corner

Microsoft has revealed the latest move in what is shaping up to be a major battle for the future mobile applications market. It has launched a programme to get independent software vendors, developers and operators developing applications for Windows Mobile OS, and has roped in a major telco, Singapore Telecom, to help it.


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Consumers clamour for more choice in mobile services
By: Stephen Withers

I know my mobile phone usage is far from typical. If the supermarket is out of our usual brand of butter, I don't ring home and discuss it, I just pick from what's there. But it is reassuring to learn that I am in at least one respect part of the majority according to a new survey.


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Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge
By: Stuart Corner

Microsoft is expecting that 40 percent of smartphones sold in 2012 will be based on its Windows Mobile operating system. No doubt it won't be resting on its laurels if it gets there, but open source-based platforms, particularly LiMo, are making rapid headway.


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Nokia CEO flags shift into services
By: Stuart Corner

Less than 20 years ago the world's dominant cellphone manufacturer was making, amongst a host of other things, car tyres. Now it's shifting focus again, into services, and gearing up to take on Microsoft and Google.


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Here comes the operatic Android
By: Stuart Corner

The Opera Mini mobile browser has been ported to the Google-backed Android mobile handset platform.


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Watch out for the LiMo, Android!
By: Stuart Corner

The LiMo Foundation has released, on schedule, its Linux based platform for mobile devices, along with a set of freely available application programming interfaces, and has signed up Texas Instruments as a new core member.


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Android prototypes draw huge crowds
By: Ian Grayson

The first mobile handsets based on Google’s much anticipated Android operating system have made their debut - but you’ll still have to wait a while to get your hands on one.

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Yahoo! with Microsoft: way ahead of Google & Android
By: Stuart Corner

Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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