Anant Shrivastava

after the unofficial acceptance by google authorities earlier. Google has today launched its mobile application development platform ANDROID

This mobile platform has a lot of new things including but not limited to
1) Open Access through standard API calls even to the core mobile functionalities
2) On of the most intersting feature i liked is its non discriminative nature — even the dialer or home screen can be replaced.
3) As always google is now targeting mobile users and in order allowing desktop applcations to migrate to mobile level.
4) Complete SDK also includes device emulator and advanced debugging tools.

We have seen the growth a platform can get with the open developer’s involvement (simple example is Facebook), and hence came the google android chalange a $10M Challange for the best android apps.

As per android challange site

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards — no strings attached — for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.
How It Works

The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:

* Android Developer Challenge I: We will accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008
* Android Developer Challenge II: This part will launch after the first handsets built on the platform become available in the second half of 2008

In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50 most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000 award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.

Read more about it at TECHCRUNCH and GIGAOM

Tags: google, googleos

earlier HERE i posted about my speculation in context with Google and O.S.

but now its everywhere
a hour or so ago it was allover in the Google news section,

New York Times reporter Miguel Helft, who published a feature on Google’s mobile strategy this morning, says on his accompanying blog that “sources I talked to with knowledge of the project say Google is not building a phone.”
but the most interesting fact that he found was that the Google was not in mobile development but is developing a mobile O.S.

and this mobile O.S. as per Google will be Linux based and will be using open standards (doesn’t necessarily means open source).

but Google has promised that they will not be charging any licensing fees as compared to other mobile o.s. manufactures like microsoft etc.

HOPE that this might change the current scenario.

More read out here.

Article 1

Article 2

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the new buzz of the town is that google is in OS development.

another proof that came in my sight today i favour of this argument is

a entry in http://www.google.com/robots.txt

The second last line says : Disallow: /gcc/

well gcc as to the best of my knowledge could only mean GCC the gnu compiler collection.

well it could be a false alarm also as Google could also be planing to launch a new service with abbreviation G.C.C.

but for now on gcc could be said to be associated with compiler and if google is working on gcc then there could be no better proof of its involvement in O.S. development.

disclaimer: - this is not a confirmed news its just the interpretation of robots.txt of google.com as per an outsider (anant shrivastava that’s me)

NOTE : - asimmilar discussion is going on at http://blogoscoped.com/forum/106798.html

Tags: googleos