Google's Android Gets Game
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| The one attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game
| currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin,
| participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other
| with their phone cameras. Those with the highest number of "unique kills"
| earn points and bragging rights. As the name suggests, players can
| form "armies" of up to 100 people.
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http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/11/google-android-wifiarmy-tech-wire-cx_ew_0111android.html?partner=yahootix
Many handhelds lack good security features
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| Smartphones are poised to become the next major security challenge for
| businesses.
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| [...]
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| Security experts say that in general, business-oriented smart phones come
| from the manufacturer with decent built-in safeguards, such as encryption and
| firewalls.
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http://www.bnd.com/243/story/226767.html
iPhones that run everything as root aren't helpful!
Related:
What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
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| [...]
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| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
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| [...]
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| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance — which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide — adds to the momentum.
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| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
In praise of Google
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| Google has its problems. I wish it would contribute more source-code
| modifications that it makes to Linux, MySQL, Apache, and others open-source
| projects, for one. But overall, the world is better for Google's sheer power
| of search and minimalist design.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9819638-16.html?tag=head
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
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