The Indian Connection Behind Linux Mobile
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| Google, of course, is pushing Android, its software package that runs on top
| of Linux for mobile phones, and its Open Handset Alliance. Wrap it all
| together and it's basically LiMo--only controlled by Google. Most of the
| mobile service operators and major handset makers who are members of LiMo
| have also pledged allegiance to Android and the Open Handset Alliance.
| Azingo's Veerina insists that he doesn't see Google as a major threat,
| though. "Ours is a more operator-sympathetic platform," he says. "Operators
| will launch Android phones, but, privately, they're threatened by Google.
| They don't want somebody else controlling the API and controlling how
| applications get on the phones."
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/bangaloretigers/archives/2008/04/the_indian_conn.html
Google is interested in applications (Web-based services). If some titans can
or should battle Windows on the desktops and servers, it's Oracle, Sun and
IBM, but Microsoft has already committed suicide with Vista/Longhorn/Home
Server (same s*, different name/build).
Related:
Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
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| [...]
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| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone
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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling. "Once you have devices
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said. "[T]here's a
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone
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