Dave Burke talks Android in London
Dave Burke, a mobile engineering manager at Google, gave a talk at the Future of Mobile conference today.
Mike Butcher blogged the talk live on TechCrunch UK:
Burke did a fairly impressive demonstration of coding an application (in this case a mobile browser) inside 8mins (or 7mins 58 seconds to be exact - he timed it on stage).
Burke did say: “We’re really serious. We want to see serious innovation. We want operators and application developers to spend less time on little silos and more time building great stuff.” At the end he added an advert: “we’re hiring in Europe”.
During Q&A he said he hadn’t “heard” if Android will support Flash Lite, but he did say the Webkit would support Netscape style plugins.
How come Google is only releasing the full source code when the handsets hit the market next year? He said Google wanted to wait until it really worked on handsets before releasing the code.
What about the difference with the OpenMoko project, an open source mobile platform? “The difference with Moko is this [Android] is real,” he said “We have a lot of momentum with key partners. We are not talking about specifications, we’re just building it and trying to get support.”
And caught a little in video:
July 17th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Press release ; CAT-iq Design Competition Blog and Video Message
Press information
CAT-iq Design Competition Blog and Video Message
Leading Companies Inspire Students to Exciting Home Communication Devices
Berne, Switzerland, July 10, 2008. Leading global companies of the home communication industry are pleased to sponsor the international CAT-iq Design Competition for the next generation of communication devices and services. The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, arranges this competition in collaboration with Jakajima. “Surprise the customers, excite them!” says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum, in his video message of the global CAT-iq Design Competition.
The new video message of the Chairman can be watched at: www.catiqdesigncompetition.org. The CAT-iq Design Competition addresses students from various disciplines: industrial design, interactive design, electronic engineering and gaming design.
Additionally the DECT Forum has initiated a CAT-iq Blog in order to start a public discussion with comments and short articles about the unlimited opportunities of the CAT-iq technology. The new CAT-iq Blog is aiming at becoming the interactive tool towards the designer and developer world: hardware, software, network operators and designers.
The CAT-iq Blog is available at: blog.cat-iq.org
The home communication industry is challenging participants in the CAT-iq Design Competition
in two basic areas:
• Products – stylish non-computing hardware devices
• Innovative and new services that can be offered by telecom network operators
For the winners of the CAT-iq Design Competition these prizes are available:
• First prize: 10,000 €
• Second prize: 5,000 €
• Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €
The registration closes on September 19, 2008. The deadline for the submission of entries is October 10, 2008. Winners will be announced on November 14, 2008. Interested design students find all details and contacts at www.catiqdesigncompetition.org and www.cat-iq.org.
About DECT Forum and Jakajima:
The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition. The DECT Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry association representing the worldwide home communication industry. Jury members of the Design competition are: Vincent Buet (Philips), Pieter Hermans (Jakajima), Erich Kamperschroer (DECT Forum), Nicholas Rhodes (St. Martins College London), Sofia Svanteson
(Ocean Observations), Lesley Taylor (SGW Europe), C.H. Tong (VTech).
For more information please visit: www.cat-iq.org www.dect.org www.catiqdesigncompetition.org.
Jakajima is an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics trade chain. Jakajima is based in Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at www.jakajima.eu.
Media contact: Applicants’ contact:
Jakajima BV – Organisation
Pieter Hermans
Phone: +31 40 263 11 31
design@jakajima.eu
www.cat-iq.org www.catiqdesigncompetition.org