Linux, which has been much maligned by Symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated. The growing momentum behind the LiMo Foundation initiative, as well as the marketing boost that has been realized from the entry of Google's Android solution ... continued »

Opera Mini browser for mobile phones is now available for the Android platform. A technical preview release is available at labs.opera.com today. Opera Mini enables Web browsing from low-to-high resource handsets by compressing data at a remote server before sending content to the phone applet for rendering. continued »

HTC have just announced a special event to be held on May 6th in London, UK. Since the tagline for the event is "Witness the next wave of HTC Innovation", the general assumption is that it's the official launch of HTC's smartphones based on Google's Android platform. HTC have already committed to a mid-2008 release for handsets using ... continued »