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Android Phone Owners Getting Upgrades to Cupcake

As JKOnTheRun reports, owners of the T-Mobile G1 Android phones are starting today to get over-the-air upgrades to Cupcake, the new version of Android that we covered here. Users in the U.K. and the U.S. are already getting the new firmware, according to Phandroid. We discussed the fact that the new version has a software keyboard, but some of the other features include YouTube video uploads, stereo Bluetooth support, Picasa photo uploads, and video recording. Check out more from JKOnTheRun.?


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Samsung asks if the i7500 is the Android you have been looking for. The company's Android phone has a touch screen, built-in GPS, WiFi support, a 5-megapixel camera, and 8GB of internal memory.

Report: First Android Netbook to cost $250. The Alpha 680, designed by Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies, is going through final testing now.

Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope screenshot tour. It's a multimedia-geared derivative of Ubuntu.

Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance. After 18 years, Linux is still struggling to gain a foothold on the business desktop.

The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems. Here's a slideshow on nearly 30 years of Sun history.



Report: Android Now Has 6 Percent of the U.S. Smartphone Market

In spite of rumblings that the Android operating system isn't spreading out to more handsets, consider this finding from researchers at AdMob: The Android OS now has 6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market and is tied with Palm as the fourth-largest OS. AdMob's latest research on the smartphone market also found that growth in requests [to AdMob's network] from devices running the Android and iPhone operating systems continued to outpace other platforms in March, despite the relatively limited number of devices in market. The growth in requests from devices is largely being driven by very healthy growth in usage of the app stores for both Android and the iPhone. Here are some of the other key points from AdMob's report.



Could Handwriting Recognition Become Android's Advantage?

As JKOnTheRun notes, The Android Developer's Blog has a detailed post up about soft keyboard input methods. The post includes this: The Android IMF is designed to support a variety of IMEs, including soft keyboard, hand-writing recognizers, and hard keyboard translators. Our focus, however, will be on soft keyboards, since this is the kind of input method that is currently part of the platform.? We've also noted that the new software development kit (SDK) for the next version of Android includes much better capabilities for both handwriting recognition and speech recognition. JKOnTheRun suggests that good handwriting recognition could become a big differentiator for Android devices as they compete with the iPhone and BlackBerry. Check out their thoughts.?


What If Windows 7 Starter Isn't Meant to Just Stop Linux on Netbooks?

Over at ComputerWorld, Seth Weintraub waxes poetic about Microsoft's decision to offer a Windows 7 Starter edition to keep its presence strong in the netbook arena, and why this is a huge advantage for Google's Linux-based Android.

Windows 7 Starter edition is designed to run no more than three applications simultaneously -- purchasing an upgrade allows users to run, presumably, as many apps as their netbooks can handle at one time. Now, three concurrent applications at a shot might be sufficient for a number of users; it might be all that some netbooks can handle, depending on the applications and system resources running in the background. Microsoft isn't hiding the fact it is experimenting with a limited Starter, and hopefully netbook manufacturers will also make buyers aware of this. But awareness and being almost sufficient in even most cases is irrelevant. It's the concept that there is a limit, and purchasing an upgrade for functionality that most won't need every day (but when it's needed, it's really needed) that will make netbooks running alternative operating systems increasingly attractive. It's an advantage not only for Android, but any Linux distribution netbook builders optimize for their hardware.



Confirmation: Motorola Will Deliver an Android-Based Set-Top Box

Recently, we've covered several new opportunities, including non-phone platforms such as netbooks, e-ink devices, and set-top boxes, for Google's open source Android operating system. Today, GigaOm and Information Week are discussing confirmation of what is likely to be the first fully-realized, non-phone hardware implementation of Android: a set-top box from Motorola called au Box. It's being made by Motorola for Japanese Internet service provider KDDI, and, according to Information Week, it will be capable of playing DVDs and CDs, transferring music and video to a mobile device, and ripping and storing files. That sounds a lot like full-blown computer, and there is another way the au Box will be a lot like a computer. Here are more details.


Version 1.5 SDK of Android Is Available for Early Developers

Here comes the next version of Android. Google has announced that developers can get an early look at the SDK for version 1.5 of Android, based on the Cupcake branch of the open source project. There are quite a few new capabilities that should make upcoming rounds of Android-based devices more flexible, including APIs for soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition. Video features are also coming. Developers can download the early version of the version 1.5 SDK for Windows, the Mac and Linux here. Here's more on what to expect as Android matures.?


The OESF: Quietly Working to Get Android On New Hardware Devices

As reports of Google's Android operating system heading for non-phone devices such as netbooks and E-ink devices arrive,?many people don't realize that one of the biggest pushes to promote Android as an embedded operating system is going on in Japan, led by the OESF?(Open Embedded Software Foundation). Only recently launched--on February 12th of this year--the OESF is headed by IP Vision Inc's Director Masataka Miura.?The organization has 25 participating companies as members, and Miura has confirmed to EETimes?that as early as this Fall's CEATEC show in Japan,?innovative new hardware implementations running Android will arrive.


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Google adds all-important Java support to AppEngine. It's part of a major upgrade to AppEngine.

New Gmail interface for iPhone and Android. A mobile-browser optimized version of Gmail from Google for both phone platforms.

Zend targets Java with growing PHP community. Zend Server takes the Zend Framework's Java-bashing crusade a step further.

How to upgrade to Fedora 10 from an older version. Simple up-front steps make the process easier.

Dell: The top reseller of JBoss middleware? The VAR guy says Dell gets the nod.

Red Hat CEO sees open source as a 'model for government.' Jim Whitehurst also applauds the Obama administration's interest in it.



I Want an Android Netbook, and I Want It With the Windows Version's Specs

David Coursey at PCWorld knew full well he'd opened a can of worms when he asked why anyone would want an Android netbook. Personally, I'd rather have an Ubuntu Netbook Remix powered one, or one with an operating system tailored with the latest Moblin Image Creator utility, but I'm sort of one of those types anyway.

I love and use open source software, nearly exclusively. I think the last time I really sat down to run Windows was when I transferred Windows XP on to my husband's newly built mostly playtime machine. As much as I love open source software, however, I am a stronger advocate for having the right tool for the job, and using the software that works best for the user and the task at hand. The right tool can vary greatly between users, tasks and even hardware. I have a few qualms about Coursey's statement that nobody could possibly ever want an Android netbook, unless the price was signficantly lower. I just don't believe it, and the nature of netbooks, people's expectations of what they can (or can't) do, and hardware disparities between Linux and Windows models further complicates the netbook operating system war.



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