[News] Linux-based Android 2.2 Adds WiFi Hotspot Creation, Tethering

Hash: SHA1 Android 2.2 to include WiFi hotspot creation and tethering ,-[ Quote ] | Google has been working diligently on its | Android phone OS, and update 2.2 is coming | up quite soon. So far, the Linux-derived | phone OS is selling well, ...

Message posted on the May 14th, 2010 - 12:50 PM ET

[News] 160,000 Linux-based Android Phones Sold Per Day

Hash: SHA1 160,000 Android Phones Sold Daily, Market Nears 70,000 Applications ,-[ Quote ] | Speaking earlier today at the droid X | launch, Andy Rubin (Google VP of | engineering) said that Android phones are | being activated at a rate of ...

Message posted on the June 28th, 2010 - 02:28 pm ET

[News] Analysis of Microsoft's Latest Extortion Against Linux (Android)

Hash: SHA1 HTC pays off Microsoft in Linux protection racket ,-[ Quote ] | CONVICTED MONOPOLIST Microsoft has managed | to squeeze money from the smartphone maker | HTC for using some of its much talked about | but never revealed patents that ...

Message posted on the April 29th, 2010 - 04:49 pm ET

Android sync - no exchange

Has anyone figured out if you can sync Outlook with an Android phone (Moto Droid) without an exchange server? Using Vista/ Outlook 2007. Thank you in advance!

Message posted on the December 05th, 2009 - 11:19 pm ET

Debian running on android devices

So it appears that someone already rolled up their sleeves and got Debian to run on a Android device. These are good news. Is anyone else itching to get their hands on one of these toys? Rui Maciel

Message posted on the January 16th, 2009 - 10:53 am ET

Why Android Outsells Windows Phone 7

Even overseas where the Windows 7 Phone sales were supposed to be good. So when does the "dead pool" for Ballmer's job start? ~~ Specifically, for the sales period between Nov. 11 and 24, Windows Phone 7 accounted for a measly 1.87 ...

Message posted on the December 01st, 2010 - 01:26 am ET

[News] Android is Only as Fragmented as Microsoft Windows is (Lies Debunked)

Hash: SHA1 Android Fragmentation Is a Figment of the Imagination, Google Says ,-[ Quote ] | Android fragmentation is a conspiracy | cooked up by media and pundits, said Dan | Morrill, open source and compatibility | program manager for Google ...

Message posted on the June 05th, 2010 - 01:42 pm ET

[PATCH 0/5] [RFC] Trivial scheduler related Android patches

So after all the heat that was generated in the various Android discussions, I took a look a look at the android git tree, and while there are a fair number of large and controversial infrastructure changes, there are also a number of small fixes ...

Message posted on the November 19th, 2010 - 09:20 pm ET

[PATCH] perf: Make perf buildable for Android

Hi, this patch allows compiling perf for Android (with Bionic instead of glibc). Nothing overly complicated in there, just a couple of workarounds for missing functionality and header oddities in Bionic. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer ...

Message posted on the June 25th, 2012 - 11:30 am ET

[PATCH] bcb: Android bootloader control block driver

Android userspace tells the kernel that it wants to boot into recovery or some other non-default OS environment by passing a string argument to reboot(). It is left to the OEM to hook this up to their specific bootloader. This driver uses the ...

Message posted on the June 29th, 2012 - 03:40 pm ET

Interesting article about Android

sophos.com: <http://wp.me/p120rT-aPs> Information security professional Thomas Cannon disclosed a new vulnerability in Google's Android operating system this week on his blog. Baking security into the recipe from the start is clearly an ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2010 - 09:27 pm ET

[News] Android activations grow 886 percent, smartphone OS war heats up.

Linux wins *again* !!! begin{quote} Android activations grow 886 percent By Liam Tung Aug 3, 2010 6:44 AM Smartphone OS war heats up. Google's Android operating system has become the most popular smart phone platform in the US, according to ...

Message posted on the August 02nd, 2010 - 06:45 pm ET

Is Android being shunned?

Much as I am pleased with my Milestone, it would seem that some developers are far from happy. Lets see why:- http://lwn.net/Articles/360343/ ,- | Harald Welte has issued a scathing opinion of Android on his blog. He | bases it on Matt Porter's ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2010 - 07:03 pm ET

[PATCH 0/8] Android Binder IPC Fixes

Hi all, This set of patches will clean-up and fix some of the issues that arise with the current binder interface when moving to a 64bit kernel. All these changes will not affect the existing 32bit Android interface and are meant to stand as the ...

Message posted on the April 04th, 2013 - 08:40 am ET

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