Tag Archives: Android

Chrome: who and why

By take21 | Published: October 2, 2008
Wired has a piece by Steven Levy on the team behind Google’s Chrome browser. Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web. (Their Capital Letters, Not Mine.) Fascinating glimpse into the development process and an easy introduction to the technologies used in Chrome. Jack Schofield in the Guardian thinks the secrecy [...]
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Google G1

By take21 | Published: September 22, 2008
Google G1 mobile phone launches. Piece by the Guardian’s Richard Wray gives the background. Open Handset Alliance vs Apple iPhone and Nokia’s newly-free Symbian. And “For many people in the developing world, the only way they are likely to get on the web, for the foreseeable future, is through a mobile device. A quarter of [...]
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Mobile Blues

By take21 | Published: August 6, 2008
Tim Bray works for Sun Microsystems. He is an influential blogger, takes photographs, writes essay length pieces. Now, you know about iPhone, a bit about Google’s Android, which is an SDK without hardware and we’ve mentioned open source contender Open Moko. You know Apple’s environment is closed source. Actually, let’s say Apple’s culture is closed [...]
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