Developers Expected To Transform First Android Phone

Google is calling Tuesday’s announcement of the T-Mobile G1 an important milestone in the young history of Android. The first Android-powered handset to come to market is made by HTC with a touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard.The combination of Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system, T-Mobile service, and HTC manufacturing comes less than a year after the Open Handset Alliance unveiled plans for Android.

“Software developers are key to driving innovation on the Web, and also for mobile. That’s why, over the past year, we’ve released several early versions of the software developer kit (SDK) and worked with developers from around the world to make it better and more complete,” wrote Erick Tseng, lead product manager on the Android team, in the company’s blog.

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Oracle, Intel Partner To Boost Cloud Computing

Oracle and Intel on Tuesday announced a joint effort to accelerate enterprise readiness for cloud computing and make it more efficient and secure. The companies also plan to identify and drive standards to breed flexible deployment across private and public clouds.Cloud computing is an efficient way to run programs and store data that a large number of users can access through Internet technologies. Oracle and Intel already have common ground in the enterprise, where customers are running applications on shared infrastructure within their firewalls using Intel Virtualization Technology and Oracle Grid Computing technologies. This foundation sets the stage for private clouds of internal applications, as well as the ability to extend them to public, multi-tenant clouds, according to the companies.

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