Google holds back on open-sourcing Honeycomb, heralds massive shift for Android
Google, in an interesting but not entirely unexpected twist, will not be open-sourcing Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the foreseeable future.
Historically, Android is usually open-sourced via the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days or weeks after the code is finalized. While this departure from the norm won't affect OEMs like HTC and Motorola that have access to internal builds of ...
No, that's not a typo: an update to Android 2.3 will arrive in April to allow single-core smartphones to run Honeycomb's dual-core apps. The news comes from hardware manufacturer Viewsonic, which insists the new version will be numbered 2.4 -- and it won't be called Ice Cream as expected; it will just be an updated version of Gingerbread.
Apparently the only change between 2.3 and 2.4 is the ...
We saw a 'misconfiguration' expose something suspiciously like Android 2.4 on a Sony Ericsson Experia Arc at CES last week, but now Pocket-Lint has come right out and declared Android 2.4 Ice Cream on the way and set for a Summer 2011 release. Sources told the British gadget site that 2.4 would be announced at Google's I/O conference at the beginning of May and that it would land on devices ...
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Before I get a bunch of angry comments, I want to say I'm aware that Linux powers all sorts of computers outside of the PC market, but this particular example was too, well, cool not to share. The MooBella is a Linux-powered ice cream maker currently being tested in New England. It's not ...
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Google iScream
Google Atlanta
Eric Schmidt and the hand washing scandal
Google Dance pictures
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