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Tweet Google axed Android multitouch at Apple’s request? It seems there’s a reason that T-Mobile’s new G1 touch-screen smartphone doesn’t have a multitouch display: Google doesn’t want to upset Apple. Google – maker of the Android operating system used by the G1 – is cozily in bed with the Cupertino Fruit Company in a number [...]

Tweet LiMo Foundation ups presence in OS battle The LiMo Foundation – tasked with creating a mobile Linux-based open-source operating system that can be quickly designed into a handset – unveiled a number of announcements today after being out of the spotlight for a while. The consortium said that six of its tier one operator [...]

Tweet Google Offers Reason for Pulling iGoogle for iPhone Application When Google released its iPhone-optimized version of iGoogle, the company had released a fairly useful thing. Unfortunately, the company pulled the application from the App Store last week with almost no explanatation. According to Ars Technica, a definite answer for the program’s absence has been [...]

Tweet Dell to launch Android and Windows Mobile phones New reports indicate that PC Giant Dell will be rolling out not one, but (count ‘em) two new smartphone handsets in the short term – as soon as next month. Now here’s the weird part, Dell is said to be preparing handsets for both the Android [...]

Tweet At least Microsoft and Red Hat share one common bond: Apple iPhone “If you were to try to think of the two most diametrically opposed software companies in the industry, Red Hat and Microsoft come to mind. One is the open-source leader, while the other has tenaciously held to its proprietary software background,” Matt [...]