android-developers.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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I'm pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application(s) along with end user pricing for the apps. ...
bloomberg.com - 2/20/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Asustek Computer Inc., which pioneered the market for
sub-$500 laptops, may install Google Inc.’s free Android operating...
system on its low-cost notebooks, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software. Asustek has allocated ...
(more)
BloomBerg: Google Android May Run Asus Netbook, Rival ...
venturebeat.com - 2/10/2009
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venturebeat.com —
One of the bigger complaints about T-Mobile’s G1,
the first phone based on Google’s Android platform, is...
that its touch screen doesn’t use multi-touch, the technology which allows for a screen to accept multiple points of contact as simultaneous ...
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Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in ...
guardian.co.uk - 2/12/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Samsung has delayed the release of its first
mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system until...
the second half of this year. There had been speculation that Samsung, which recently leapfrogged Nokia to become market leader in the UK, ...
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Samsung delays launch of Android phone
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Android Market Now Accepting Paid Apps
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... Apple has the App Store for the iPhone and Google has the Android Market for Android based phones. Previously developers could only submit free apps, however developers in the US and UK can now start submitting priced apps to the Android Market, while developers outside of those areas will have to wait until later in the quarter. As you might expect, Google Checkout will be used as the payment systems for all paid Android apps. ...
Google launches support for paid Android apps
Ars Technica —
... applications and offered no way for developers to sell their wares. Everything in the Market is currently a free download, but this hasn't stopped apps from appearing at a respectable pace. The new support for priced applications opens the door to commercial software vendors who want to sell programs to Android users, and this could help to expand the availability of third-party software for Google's nascent Linux-based mobile platform. According to Google's Eric Chu, who posted the announcement in the official Android Developers blog, payment processing will be handled by ...
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