—By Elisabeth Oppenheimer There’s been some recent discussion about a “rogue” Android app, MemoryUp, which was supposed to manage memory on the G1 phone, preserving battery life and allowing apps to run more smoothly. Apps are posted in the Android Market with user reviews, and many of the reviews for MemoryUp complained that it froze […]

Almost since the introduction of the iPhone, there have been complaints that it doesn’t support Flash. Those complaints have picked up steam in the last week week, as Adobe demonstrated polished versions of Flash on other mobile platforms—including Android—and all but publicly begged to be allowed onto the iPhone. Flash, an Adobe product, is software […]

A few weeks ago, Google and T-Mobile rolled out the G1, the first mobile phone to run the open-source Android operating system. As the Android platform and Android Marketplace develop, it will be interesting to see how they compare to the iPhone platform and the App Store. Will the openness provide the benefits the Open […]

By Yvette Wohn After much anticipation and fanfare, the Android made a wobbly debut. A security flaw was discovered just days after it was released and users discovered some fine print that gives Google more power than originally anticipated. Despite these problems, critics are still optimistic about the Android because it encourages generativity. Android is an […]

Readers of FOI may recall the introduction’s focus on the iPhone as the book’s first example of a tethered appliance.  The release of Android was viewed with some excitement as a challenge to Apple, in more ways than one. Google, and later the Open Handset Alliance, have touted Android as an open source alternative to […]