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Cortex-A8 SoC integrates e-reader controller
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| Freescale Semiconductor announced an ARM
| Cortex-A8 system-on-chip aimed at e-
| readers, along with a Linux- and Android-
| compatible reference design. The i.MX508
| integrates an 800MHz Cortex-A8 core with a
| display controller from E Ink, improving
| performance, screen resolution, and battery
| life, while halving cost compared to
| earlier i.MX-based e-reader designs, says
| the company.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Freescale-iMX508/?kc=rss
Dual-display e-reader offers Android telephony
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| 1Crosstech demonstrated a dual-display
| Android MID and e-reader device at last
| week's CeBit show, says ARMDevices.net. The
| MIDHybrid offers a 6-inch E Ink monochrome
| display on one side and a 3.2-inch HVGA
| display on the other, and provides 3G
| telephony, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a VGA
| webcam, according to the story.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/1Crosstech-MIDHybrid/
CeBIT 2010: ARCHOS announces two Android-based Home Tablets
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| At this year's CeBIT IT trade fair in
| Hannover, ARCHOS, the French multimedia
| tablet manufacturer, has announced two new
| touch-screen tablets that run Google's open
| source Android operating system. According
| to ARCHOS, the ARCHOS 7 and ARCHOS 8 Home
| Tablets are aimed at home users, bridging
| the gap between smartphones and desktop PCs
| and providing always-on access to the
| internet and multimedia content.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/CeBIT-2010-ARCHOS-announces-two-Android-based-Home-Tablets-943898.html
Android app brings in $13K a month
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| One Android developer is earning more than
| $400 a day from his find-your-car
| application, proving it's not just Apple
| fans who'll pay for basic apps.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/android_app_profit/
Unleash your inner food critic on Yelp for Android
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| We're big fans of most Android apps that
| can help us get the skinny on nearby
| restaurants and bars, Yelp included. We
| weren't overly impressed with Yelp's
| initial attempt for Android, however, but
| the last two updates have brought it closer
| in line with Yelp's other mobile apps.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10463251-251.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Android on MIPS platform gains virtual emulator
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| MIPS Technologies announced the
| availability of new debug and development
| tools for its Android on MIPS development
| platform. MIPS is now offering the open
| source QEMU emulator, as well as Viosoft's
| Arriba development tools for QEMU, and has
| added a compiler and development GUI to its
| Android Native Development Kit (NDK).
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/QEMU-for-MIPS-and-Android-and-Android-NDK/
Application development for Android using MIPS tools
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| Embedded processor manufacturer MIPS
| Technologies has released free tools for
| developing and testing Android
| applications. These take the form of a
| distribution of open source processor
| emulator QEMU aimed at speeding up Android
| application design on MIPS processor
| architecture, and the Arriba Java
| development tool for QEMU, which has been
| produced as a result of a partnership with
| Viosoft, the company behind Arriba.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Application-development-for-Android-using-MIPS-tools-948906.html
Report: China Unicom to sell Android phones
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| China's second largest mobile phone company
| will be selling Google Android phones after
| all, according to a report from Reuters.
|
| China Unicom's chairman Chang Xiaobing told
| Reuters Wednesday, on the sidelines of a
| conference in Beijing, that the carrier
| "recognizes that Android is a mainstream
| system." And he told the news service that
| the company "will definitely use Google's
| Android in our mobile handsets."
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Digi-ConnectCore-WiiMX51-Digi-JumpStart-Kit/
Recent:
Company puts Android on laptop with China-backed chips
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| A Chinese company is tweaking Googleâs
| Android operating system to run on a laptop
| using homegrown Chinese microprocessors,
| which are backed by the government.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2010/030410-company-puts-android-on-laptop.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Mobile Roadie Now Creates Apps For Android Ecosystem
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| Weâre big fans of Mobile Roadie, a startup
| that helps develop iPhone apps. But the one
| gripe we had was that Mobile Roadie was
| limited to the iPhone platform. Today, our
| wish came true as Mobile Roadie is launching
| functionality for Android phones.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/mobile-roadie-now-creates-apps-for-android-ecosystem/
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