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Android Marketplace to Offer Free App Trials

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Have you ever gotten frustrated with Apple's iTunes store because of the lack of free trials? The grass is slightly greener and the attitude more open on the other side of the operating system: Google's Android Marketplace will allow for free, limited-trial applications. This sounds like good news for users of the T-Mobile G1 Android-based phone, but there is a catch: T-Mobile intends to charge developers $2 per month for any free Marketplace app that will use more than 15 megabytes per month. That's likely to apply to many applications. Check out more from JKOnTheRun.


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The Google Phone: There's a Problem in the Fine Print

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The Web is already teeming with analysis of the T-Mobile G1--the first phone to run the Android operating system, which we covered yesterday. Today, our sister site JKOnTheRun has some good critiques of the phone and its data plan, inlcuding lack of Exchange support, and no way to sync with a computer. However, a reader of WebWorkerDaily who responded to a post on the phone that I wrote alerted me to a problem with T-Mobile's data plan that in fact be the deal-breaker for some people. It's in the fine print, and here's the problem, below the fold.


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GigaOm: Live from the Google Phone Announcement

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GigaOm is live blogging from the unveiling event for the first Android-based phone. At $179, it features a touch screen, a Webkit-based browser, one-click ordering from Amazon, integration with Google maps, and a compass mode where street view maps move as you do. The phone looks interesting, but we still expect follow-on Android phones to be more full featured. Check out GigaOm's thoughts.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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Precipitate merges Mac OS, Google Cloud.....

With Android it's the software stupid.....

Open source software in U.K. schools gets the green light.....

Open source founders doubling up on startups.....

OSCON leaves Oregon, will be held in San Jose.....



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If Android Won't Do, Consider the Alternative Alternatives

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The fateful day has arrived for the first Android-powered phone. This Google-backed open phone will likely be sufficient for a large number of users -- if not in its first incarnation, certainly within a few models and revisions.

But it certainly isn't the only open phone. It isn't the first by any means, and it has another competitor hot on its heels.

Some more pioneering souls might forego the tamer Android for the Neo FreeRunner or the upcoming NeoPwn.



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The First Android Phone is Mainly a Novelty

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As The Register reports, T-Mobile is sending out invitations to the launch of the first handset based on Google's Android platform. The handset is from HTC, and the Wall Street Journal reports that HTC says it expects to ship 600,000 to 700,000 units of the phone, called the Dream. However, I'm in agreement with Dana Blankenhorn that this first phone won't set the world on fire.


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According to Yahoo co-founder David Filo, hack day represents Yahoo?s new open source strategy....

Could control be the key to Google's Android?.....

Open mobile platforms--vulnerable to attacks?.....

Does interoperability violate the GPL?.....

Interview: Frank Hecker of Mozilla on open source.....



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Android to Offer a FOSS-Friendly Marketplace

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Android IconWe've been keeping an eye on Google's Android phone project as it progresses towards release this fall. Yesterday another key piece of the support services behind Android was announced, and this one looks like a win from the open source point of view: anyone will be able to offer Android software via a free Android Market.


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Android Revs SDK, Promises Source Code

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When last we looked at Google's Android mobile phone OS project, there were some rumblings of discontent in the developer community. This week, though, developers have a lot less to complain about (though, perfectionists that most of us are, we can still find a few issues). That's because Google has pushed out an 0.9 beta version of the SDK, making its vision for the first Android release much clearer.


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No Buy-In for Access Linux: A Bad Sign for Mobile Linux?

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Are we about to see more competitors pulling out of the mobile Linux race? Recently, researchers at J. Gold and Associates produced a report predicting that Google's Linux-based Android platform would merge with the new and open source mobile platform from Symbian,? pitting two huge Goliaths (Google and Nokia) against any Davids who might dare to produce Linux-based handsets. While it's pure speculation that that might ever happen, a sign of weakening confidence on the mobile Linux front has appeared: The Access Linux Platform's initial and only smartphone project was recently rubbished. Orange is bailing on its plan to deliver a Samsung smartphone running Access Linux.


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