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• Report: HP may offer Android in netbooks over Windows

  Hewlett-Packard is considering offering an operating system platform developed by Google in its netbooks at the expense of Microsoft's Windows OS, according to a published report Tuesday.

• Google bans tethering app from Android Market

  A developer is reporting that Google has banned his tethering application from the Android Market, one of the first hints that the store may not be as open as Google has promised.

• ABC launches new mobile Web site

  The ABC has launched a Web site optimised for mobile phones. On Monday the national broadcaster also unveiled news applications for the iPhone and Google's open source Android operating system for smartphones. Both applications are free to download and available now.

• LogMeIn Linux support coming this year

  Hosted computer access and management application LogMeIn is planning to support Linux “this year” in response to growing demand for the platform.

• Vodafone to sell second HTC Google phone

  High Tech Computer (HTC) unveiled its second Google Android-based smartphone, the HTC Magic, with mobile service provider Vodafone on Tuesday.

• Google, Nvidia bringing Android to Tegra chips

  Nvidia on Monday said it is working with Google to build support for Linux applications on smartphones with its upcoming Tegra mobile chips.

• Huawei unveils first Android smartphone

  Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has announced its first Android-powered smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to be commercially available in the third quarter of 2009.

• HTC launches first Android phone in Australia, partners with Optus

  HTC has partnered with Optus to release the first mobile phone in Australia based on Google's Android platform, the Dream.

• Sony Ericsson to build Android phones

  Sony Ericsson has joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group of companies, including handset manufacturers and carriers, committed to the Android open mobile platform.

• Australian first: Kogan unveils Android-based mobile

  Melbourne company Kogan today announced Australia's first mobile phone to ship with Google's Android operating system. The phone is just the second in the world to have the Android OS preinstalled, after T-Mobile launched the G1 in the US in September.

• Ballmer doesn't see Google Android as competitor yet

  Google's Android mobile platform doesn't "bubble up to the top" of Microsoft's list of toughest competitors to Windows Mobile in the market for smartphone OSes, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
  

• Motorola loses $397M in Q3, plans switch to Android

  Motorola plunged to a US$397 million loss in the third quarter, unable to control costs to match its declining revenue. The company announced plans to cut costs by $800 million in 2009, but has postponed plans to sell its loss-making mobile devices division until 2010. Instead, it will revamp its product line to focus on phones running software from Google and Microsoft.

• The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits

  An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?

• Visa to develop applications for Android, Nokia phones

  Visa wants to become a part of your mobile phone, working with Nokia on realizing mobile payments and also announcing services for Google's Android platform.

• T-Mobile lifts 1G-byte limit on Android phone

  T-Mobile is backpedaling on the limit it placed on the so-called unlimited data plan that will accompany its Android phone, but the operator isn't saying exactly what the new terms will be.