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Google Android Video Demo
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform. This platform is pretty amazing and I can't wait to see what developers put together. Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications o... more
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Google announced $10 million challengey to build applications for its Android mobi...
Google today announced a $10 million challenge for developers to build mobile applications for its forthcoming Android mobile OS. Android was announced last Monday, instead of the widely expected GPhone handset. The SDK is here and information about the challenge are here.
Earlier this fall, Google dedicated $30 million to the X Prize to get to the moon. Today's Android announcement may be more modest, but it's exciting none the less.
Read on for details and a video with a demo of some in-house developed Android apps.
The contest will run in two parts. In part 1, the 50 most promising applications submitted between January and the third of March 2008 will receive $25,000 to fund further development. Top applications from that list of winners will then receive 10 prizes of $100,000 and 10 prizes at $250,000. Those are not insignificant sums.
The list of topics Google says it is interested in seeing apps developed for include: * Social networking * Media consumption, management, editing, or sharing, e.g., photos * Productivity and collaboration such as email, IM, calendar, etc. * Gaming * News and information * Rethinking of traditional user interfaces * Use of mash-up functionality * Use of location-based services * Humanitarian benefits * Applications in service of global economic development * Whatever you're excited about!
Apparently "ad serving" is one part of Android that Google can take care of on its own.
The company announced details of the contest on its new Android Developers blog (zero subscribers as of today, that's an unusual sight on a Google blog!).
There's also an already active Google Group dedicated to discussing the challenge. Google today announced a $10 million challenge for developers to build mobile applications for its forthcoming Android mobile OS. Andr... more -
Google's Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance: a quick round-up
Carefully orchestrated announcements for broad, sweeping initiatives like the one staged by Google today don't always do a great job of diving straight into the meat and telling it like it is, so we thought we'd boil down the Android and Open Handset Alliance sitch as best we could into a tight, easy to digest series of bullets. If this list is still wider than your attention span, though, just know this: you can pick up your Google-powered phone in the latter half of 2008. Carefully orchestrated announcements for broad, sweeping initiatives like the one staged by Google today don't always do a great ... more
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Google Announces Android and Open Handset Alliance
Reports started trickling out last week that Google is ready to announce its Gphone, or rather Gphones. It is more a reference design, than a single phone. Android-based phones will start to come out on the market in the latter half of 2008 (from HTC at minimum). One mobile startup CEO I know says he was contacted on Friday by Google and given the final go-ahead to port his app onto Android, which his company has not even started to work on yet. The software development kit will be available on November 12. Todays announcement is just that. There is nothing concrete here in terms of products or services, but going mobile represents a major growth opportunity for Google, which wants to bring the Internet (along with search and contextual ads) to your phone. Reports started trickling out last week that Google is ready to announce its Gphone, or rather Gphones. It is more a reference design,... more
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The Google Phone is Here!
But it's not what you think... It's an operating system, not a new phone.
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Its a bird, Its a phone... ITS A PLATFORM! Gphone...
Some announcement overviews on Gizmodo. I want to know more... now...
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Google Phone. Is it going to be a big deal?
Google's getting in the phone business. Is it going to be a big deal?
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Google doesn't deny GPhone rumors, has prototype ready?
Move over iPhone. You might be getting some competition...
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