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Enhanced WeFi Launches on Android
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| WeFi Inc. (www.wefi.com), creator of the
| worldâs largest community-based global Wi-Fi
| network, launched today an enhanced version
| of its free software for PC and Android
| mobile devices.
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=190427
Apple iPhone vs. Android Multitasking: A Comparison
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| So, you can read the whole thing but he
| starts with Android: applications that are no
| longer visible to the user are suspended --
| remaining in memory but without event
| handling or processing.
|
| [...]
|
| Quintana concludes by noting that if Apple
| introduced Android-like unrestricted
| multitasking, "all current [iPhone]
| applications that might take advantage of
| background processing would require a
| redesign to use a client/service
| architecture. Developers would have to
| maintain a completely different app for pre-
| iPhone OS 4 devices or iPhone OS 4 devices
| with no multitasking. In addition, the
| backend server infrastructure required for
| PNS would only be used for pre-iPhone OS 4
| devices and non-multitasking iPhone OS 4.
| This would fragment development severely."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/194350/apple_iphone_vs_android_multitasking_a_comparison.html?tk=rss_news
How Could Android Ever Be Considered âThe Evil OSâ?
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| Taking a quick look at the definition of
| âopen sourceâ provided to us by the Open
| Source Initiative â who is highly regarded as
| the authority in what âopen sourceâ is â I
| have to present the question: where is Google
| stepping outside of any lines to call Android
| so? Source code is readily available,
| compilable, downloadable, freely distributed,
| properly licensed, free to be modified (for
| use with any field without discrimination),
| and it definitely isnât an OS that is
| restricted to be used on anything other than
| phones.
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http://phandroid.com/2010/04/16/how-could-android-ever-be-considered-the-evil-os/
So, What's a Little Android?
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| Lately, it seems as if quite a few people are
| concerned about the status of Android as a
| Linux fork. There is quite a bit of talk
| about re-admitting the Android Linux kernel
| into the vanilla Linux kernel source.
|
| Chris DiBona commented on many things in
| Android being irrelevant to the majority of
| Linux users, such as mobile phone chipsets.
| Is most of the kernel relevant to most
| people, or is it that we de-select the
| majority of device drivers when we do our
| kernel configs? I think that the latter is
| more the case, and quite often we de-select
| the vast majority of filesystems. For most
| people, NTFS, FAT, Ext2/3/4, swap, proc, and
| sysfs are really all that is required. A few
| may get into Reiser (what a killer
| filesystem), JFS, Squashfs, and UnionFS for
| particular machines. So, why is there a fuss
| over certain things making little difference
| to main stream Linux users, when most things
| in the Linux kernel are irrelevant to start
| with?
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/04/so-whats-little-android.html
Report: Google TV Is Coming to Your Living Room
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| The TV technology will run on Intel's Atom
| chips, the report says, and Google will
| develop a new version of its Chrome browser
| for the TV project.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/191820/report_google_tv_is_coming_to_your_living_room.html
Sprint Hero Getting 2.1 âFirst Week of Mayâ
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/16/sprint-hero-21-week/
Dell Aero Due in June, Larger Streak Tablets Coming
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| Engadget scored a couple bits of Dell-related
| Android news today and was only happy to
| share with the world. First up, the Dell
| Aero handset is due out in early June. You
| know the Aero, right? It's that other locked
| down AT&T handset besides the Backflip.
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http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/16/dell-aero-due-june-larger-streak-tablets-coming/
Orange Copies AT&T, Stifles Openness On Android Devices
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| This is asinine. Orange couldnât find a
| better company to imitate than AT&T,
| seriously? As we know, AT&T has decided to
| lock down Android devices and limit app
| installation from the Android Market. Not
| that we support this notion, but fine. Orange
| is taking it one step further in stifling
| Android and its open nature, according to
| Android Community.
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http://www.cooltechzone.com/2010/04/09/orange-copies-att-stifles-openness-on-android-devices/
Recent:
Android and Linux Foundation to Reunite?
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| The Linux Kernel Archive hasnât been too
| pleased with the direction Android has taken.
| Claiming Androidâs developers offer little
| cooperation and are slow to patch and update
| their code, they parted ways last year.
|
| But all of that may change soon, as Google has
| extended the old proverbial olive branch at
| the Linux Collaboration Summit taking place
| today and tomorrow in San Francisco. Executive
| Director of the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin
| and open source and public engineering manager
| for Google Chris DiBona both see hope for
| Android to rejoin the good graces of Linux.
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http://phandroid.com/2010/04/16/android-and-linux-foundation-to-reunite/
Android and Linux Discuss Code Reunion
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| The guardians of the Linux Kernel Archive,
| repository for the source code for the Linux
| open source operating system, turned the code
| for Google's Android phone out the door last
| year. The guardians felt they were getting too
| little cooperation from Google and too few
| patches from its engineers.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_and_linux_discuss_code_reunion.php
Fragmentation good for the user, says Nokia
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| Fragmentation within mobile platforms helps handset manufacturers
| and software developers to properly address customers' needs, a
| senior Nokia executive has said.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013788o-2000331761b,00.htm
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