computerworld.com - 10/7/2009
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Computerworld - While the Google-backed Android mobile operating system currently runs on less than 2% of all smartphones, Gartner Inc. predicts it will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market in 2012 -- ahead of the iPhone , as well as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones. In that ...
maximumpc.com - 10/14/2009
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Holy dual-platforming netbooks, Batman, have you seen Acer's
revamped Aspire One D250? The netbook has developed a...
split personality since we last saw it and now rolls with both Google's open-source Android OS and Microsoft's closed-source Windows 7 software in 32-bit form. But this isn't ...
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Acer's Latest Netbook Runs Both Android and Windows 7
maximumpc.com - 10/9/2009
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Fresh from the rumor mill comes word that
Barnes and Nobel’s upcoming eReader may be running Android...
. This would certainly be a nice change of pace from the fairly low-power operating environments in other eBook readers. Android seems like a great fit for eBook readers. It already has ...
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Rumor Has It that Barnes and Noble's eReader Will be ...
feedproxy.google.com - 10/5/2009
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Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming
availability of the Samsung Behold II powered by Android....
The Samsung Behold II is a full touch-screen phone running on Android with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. Features of the Samsung Beho...
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Samsung Behold II OLED Android Phone Announced On T-Mobile
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Gartner Predicts Big Gains for Android by 2010
Maximum PC —
... "Google's other up-and-coming consumer and enterprise products should make [Android] a dominant platform," Ken Dulaney, VP of Gartner Research, told ComputerWorld in an interview. ...
Google Android To Overtake iPhone OS By 2012
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... Today, Android is the underdog. It's new, it's not in widespread use, and it's being beaten by just about every other OS out there in terms of market share. The huge number of upcoming Android smartphone releases are evidence that this trend is changing, but it could still be a long time before Google's OS overtakes any of their big competitors. Or, if analysts from Gartner Inc. (via Computerworld )are correct, it could just take three years. Gartner's just released a forecast that predicts the Android OS will be the #2 smartphone OS in the world by 2012. By that time, they ...
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... - A response to AMD's views Fudzilla reports GeForce GT220 to launch October 12 and Intel worried about GPU viruses NordicHardware reports Radeon HD 5800 still lacks proper Folding@Home support C|Net reports Intel Light Peak optical links could arrive in '10 and Comcast alerts customers to infected PCs Slate wants you to pay more for iPhone data Dell plans first U.S. smartphone with AT : source Android to grab no. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner TG Daily reports WiMAX has failed , industry guru claims ...
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Samsung, HTC Offer First Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones —
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From PC World: HTC and Samsung are at the head of the line of U.S. handset vendors offering Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, the first smartphones based on Microsoft's new OS that are meant to finally give Microsoft-powered phones features that are on par with those available in Apple's iPhone. ...
Windows mobile app store, My Phone service officially opening —
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From CNET News.com: On Tuesday morning, as Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 phones hit the market, two of its mobile services are officially launching.
Brand new to 6.5 phones are Windows Marketplace for Mobile--an application storefront like that found on iPhone, BlackBerry, and every ...
Acer Shifts Focus to Android-Based Smartphones —
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Industry sources presumably in the know say that Acer, who is still developing Windows Mobile-based smartphones, has decided to shift its attention to the Android platform. The sources say that half, if not more, of Acer's new handsets launched in 2010 will be built around the open-source OS.
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