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Google confirms its mobile Linux plans

Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. Read more »

What does Nokia's Symbian move mean for Android?

The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry. Read more »

Nokia phones to support Exchange

Nokia took aim at smartphone rival RIM this week, announcing plans to expand the number of devices that will automatically be capable of accessing Microsoft corporate email via the software giant's Exchange platform. Read more »

Phone: Google Maps ditches satellites for triangles

Forget satellite -- Google's mobile phone mapping application can give a user's location without being GPS-enabled, but just a little less accurately. Read more »

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Apple answers call for iPhone applications

Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again. Read more »

Aussie Linux head: Microsoft more open than iPhone

The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to Microsoft's approach to its mobile platform -- today it's the most open functioning platform on the market, says new Linux Australia president Stewart Smith. Read more »

Counting down to the iPhone SDK

While Australia waits for the iPhone, time is quickly closing in on the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the iPhone, one that could signal just how far Apple can take its maiden voyage into the smartphone world. Read more »

Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones

Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »

Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

Jobs' Flash-trashing signals Silverlight for iPhone?

At Apple's shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs took a bat to Adobe's Flash -- leading to speculation the door is open for Microsoft's Silverlight on the iPhone. Read more »

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Google's Android not what you think

If you were looking for an iPhone-killing handset from Google's new mobile strategy, you were definitely hoping for the wrong thing. Google is warmly neutral towards Apple and really has a certain software giant in their sights instead. Read more »

J2ME shortcoming opens door for Microsoft

In the war between the world's two biggest platforms, a weakness in one J2ME specification may be opening a window of opportunity for Microsoft that could have a chilling effect on the heat in Java's brew. Read more »

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Ubuntu gets jaunty

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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