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Users may help to vet Android apps
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| Google is making Android freely available to developers under the Apache
| open-source license and not restricting what they build with it. The company
| says its aim is to establish a common software platform for many handsets and
| help make mobile applications proliferate. In much of the world, software for
| mobile phones traditionally has been supplied through carriers after
| laborious reviews and modifications.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=99127154&rid=-50
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
Recent:
Google Inks Deal to Use Tele Atlas Maps on Android OS
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| This Wiki style of map making by using user edits has already been a
| tremendous help to both Google maps and TomTom devises through the Map Share
| feature, however now edits made on one map system will be carried over to the
| other.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007201.html
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