Posts Tagged ‘android’

The Winner For Most Embedded Is: SQLite

So the format war of Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD is over. There are still several other rather significant battles going on in the tech world right now that aren’t Microsoft vs. Apple or Yahoo vs. Google. For example:
Adobe Air vs. Mozilla Prism vs. Microsoft Silverlight
Google Gears vs. HTML5 Offline support
Android vs. iPhone SDK vs. [...]

Google For iPhone

There’s been a lot of talk today about Google’s launch of it’s services optimized for the iPhone.
It got me thinking. Is it really about the iPhone? Or is it about mobile standards based browsers (WebKit in particular). What I’m talking about is Android, who coincidentally also uses WebKit. Call be crazy, [...]

Android SDK Released

We knew it was coming, and it’s now here. I haven’t looked at it too closely, but a few things I’ve noticed:
Yet another XML UI? Clearly it’s becoming a popular way to do things, but do we need so many? XUL, MXML, XAML, now Android? Surely there must be another way. [...]

The Illusive Gphone

So the illusive Gphone is finally announced, but not as a phone but an alliance.
One should note it coincides very nicely with last months announcement of Firefox Mobile becoming a priority. Firefox has a nice share of the Linux browser market. Extending it to mobile seems somewhat natural. A real [...]