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Nokia's recent acquisition of Symbian and the subsequent open sourcing of the platform, in addition to their acquisition of Trolltech earlier, have cemented the company as a leader in open source mobile platforms. Google's Android project has garnered interest from industry leaders and carriers worldwide. Research firm J. Gold and Associates believes Symbian and Android are destined to merge.

As it continues its sometimes-rocky march to an actual release, Google's Android mobile phone platform is now fighting a sort of internal revolt from upset developers. The problem stems from the unsteady release rate of the Android SDK, a necessary tool for anyone who wants to build applications for Android phones.

While Google posted them a few days ago, I've just had a chance to sift through some of the large volumes of video-based presentations from its Google I/O and Developer Day events that the company is now offering via its blog. This is quite a large and interesting library of posts, for developers of all stripes. Just check out the presentation topics you can watch here from the Google I/O event. Here, below the fold, are some of the better offerings that Google has posted from its recent events held around the world.

I just came across an interesting analysis of the competitive landscape for mobile operating systems from Andreas Constantinou, a technical researcher with a Ph.D. in compression algorithms. Constantinou heads up Vision Mobile, a market analysis firm focused on the wireless sector. Among other things, he predicts that Microsoft may open source much of Windows Mobile, in response to challenges from an open source Symbian OS, Google's Linux-based Android platform, and the LiMo platform. Is this likely?