Android Developer Training Camp organized by ExtendLogic open for registration:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEZvUDhvRmhIWkN4ZlBHTlNqaXV1UlE6MA
It is a two days intensive training program. More detail coming soon.
Silicon Valley Android Developers Blog- Access Growth to support Android Developers by Mobile Innovation LabAccess Growth LLC is announcing a specific program designed to support mobile developers through our Mobile Innovation Lab. We are actively seeking a few expert mobile developers that would like to participate as part time advisors and/or consultants to the Mobile Innovation Lab. In order to qualify you must have multiple applications already live on [...] […]
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Silicon Valley Android Developer Training Camp open for pre-registration
February 16, 2010 — knowledgesurfLG outs Android smartphone for China
December 9, 2009 — knowledgesurfLG on Wednesday announced it will soon release a new Android phone exclusively sold through China Mobile, the GW880. Also known as the Amundsen, after South Pole explorer Roald Amundsen, the handset runs on China’s TD-SCDMA network and sports a 3.5-inch, 800×480 touchscreen, along with a GPS receiver, Bluetooth, and a 5-megapixel camera.
There will otherwise be a CMMB mobile TV tuner and access to a China Mobile-approved app store. Despite the announcement, LG hasn’t released a price for the LG Amundsen, though the smartphone is expected to come to China Mobile before the end of November. There is no word if or when LG will bring the device to other markets. [via Akihabara]
Original:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/25/lg.bringing.amudsen.android.phone.to.china/
Meet with KnowedgeSurf Chairman at Stanford Mobile Monday event
September 14, 2009 — knowledgesurfCome to to meet our Chairman David Cao at Mobile Money event hosted at Stanford University at Mobile Monday at Sep 14th. Event detail:
Date: Monday, September 14. Doors open at 6:30 PM PST, event starts at 7:00 PM PST
Cost: Free – but registration is required to attend.
Register:
Moderator:
- Joe Jasin – Managing Director, DNA Partners LLC
Panelists:
- Oliver Gunasekara – Alliance Management at Symbian Foundation http://www.linkedin.com/in/gunasekara
- Tom Park – Director of Engineering at Digital Chocolate http://www.linkedin.com/in/tompark
- David Cao, CEO of ExtendLogic, Organizer of SV Android Developers Meetup (http://meetup.com/svandroid) and iPhone Business Meetup (http://meetup.com/iphonebiz).
Venue:: http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/about.html
Parking:: Stanford parking is FREE after 4pm.
Sponsor:
Silicon Vikings - www.siliconvikings.com
The Silicon Vikings is a collaborative business networking organization for the technology sector. Silicon Vikings operates in the intersecting worlds of Silicon Valley and the Nordic region to help members succeed in their professional and personal endeavors. Silicon Vikings accomplishes this by providing networking events, and by effectively communicating valuable information of interest to its members.
Embedded Alley Delivers Development System for Android-based Devices – Takes Android Beyond Mobile
July 4, 2009 — knowledgesurf
Partners with MIPS Technologies in Supporting Android Applications in Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Networking and More
San Jose, California and Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2009 – Embedded Alley, a leading provider of embedded Linux® solutions, today announced shipment of the Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices. The Development System enables development of Android-based intelligent devices built on MIPS Technologies’ processors, targeting applications in domains beyond mobile handsets. Delivery of the Embedded Alley Development System enables both systems and applications developers to extend the reach of Android to encompass multimedia, Mobile Internet Devices, digital video and home entertainment, automotive, medical, networking, instrumentation and industrial control.
Embedded Alley is working closely with open source community maintainers, MIPS Technologies and the MIPS® partner ecosystem. The company sustains strong participation in key open source projects (including Open Embedded, ALSA and Linux kernel development) to ensure upstream integration of Android support in key project code. Equally, Embedded Alley cultivates and maintains strategic partnerships for thoroughgoing commercial support of Android device and application development. “We look to Embedded Alley as both an ecosystem partner and as an ambassador to key open source projects,” commented Art Swift, MIPS Technologies vice president of marketing. “With deep experience in embedded Linux, the MIPS architecture and multiple application domains, they will help enable OEMs to leverage the powerful combination of Android and MIPS.”
“The opportunities presented by Android span the gamut of intelligent devices types and markets,” noted Matthew Locke, Embedded Alley COO. “To meet the visible and growing demand for Android enablement in new designs, Embedded Alley has made significant investment in creating and delivering our Development System.” These investments include:
- Porting the Dalvik virtual machine underlying Android to the MIPS architecture, including architecture and build support and comprehensive optimization for Dalvik acceleration on MIPS cores
- Extending Android bionic library, linker and other Android infrastructure to the MIPS architecture
- Providing an Android-compliant Linux kernel and configuration tools for the RMI Au1250 SoC and MIPS processors
- Integrating and testing board support and industry-specific device drivers, CODECs and other middleware
- Supporting the MIPS architecture in the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and Android targets in the Embedded Alley customizable Development System
Embedded Alley Development System Features
Supporting Android for MIPS-BasedTM devices entails a range of capabilities and investments above and beyond supplying a stock Linux kernel. The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices features:
- Support for cross development of system-level and application software for MIPS-based devices hosting the Android platform
- Up-to-date MIPS production kernels (2.6.28) for MIPS CPU cores, run-time libraries and other core components for Android
- Optimized Dalvik Virtual Machine and JNI (Java Native Interface)
- Android Application Framework and SDK (Eclipse Plug-in)
- Android Device Emulator for Eclipse
Availability
The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices is available immediately and includes support for select MIPS architecture boards from RMI and other MIPS licensees. RMI will be demonstrating Embedded Alley support for Android on the Alchemy Processor family at CompuTEX in Taipei, Taiwan on June 2-6, 2009. Contact Embedded Alley for more information athttp://www.embeddedalley.com or via email at info@embeddedalley.com.
China’s R&D center for 3G warming up for iPhone Android development
May 20, 2009 — knowledgesurfXi’an, well known for being R&D center for China’s top 3G vendors is rising on smart phone development, is speeding up with Smart Phone development, especially for iPhone and Android.
Xi’an Software Park, located at heart of Xi’an High Tech Development Zone, is already the home of R&D centers for China’s largest 3G vendors including Huawei, ZTE, Datang, and many other international companies, including, Sybase, SPSS, Oracle, Emerson, Rockwell, TeleNav, Newegg, KnowledgeSurf, Objectiva, Active Network, Infineon, Platform, Fujitsu, NEC, NTT Data, Yokogawa, Sorun, ABeam, GrapeCity and many more.
Right now, beside KnowledgeSurf, there are many companies in Xi’an already start iPhone and Android development, from TeleNav Software (GPS Application), Zhongzhi (Mobile Streaming), Xiuyi (iPhone games), many others.
With the approaching of touch down of iPhone in China, as well as the release of China Mobile’s Android based OMS, smart phone development become a hot area, those mobile companies now are rising quickly.
“We had been planning for the smart phone revolution for years” Catherine Li, the sales manager for smart phone in KnowledgeSurf said “With our rich mobile experiences in iPhone, Android, and Mobile platform development; we want to stay as the No.1 iPhone and Android development provider in China.”
For more information http://knolwedgesurf.com/mobile
Google Android’s Biggest Hope – China
May 20, 2009 — knowledgesurfGlobalSourcingInfo.org – Google’s Android 1.5 is facing a tough competition in catching up with iPhone 3.0 in US, but not everywhere else. China absolutely is Google’s biggest hope.
China’s mobile released its version of mobile operation sytem recently, which is based on Google’s Android platform. With more than 400M subscribers, China Mobile failed to made agreement with Apple for its iPhone. As the result, China Mobile might be the largest operator for Android soon.
Besides OMS, several manufactors had reported plans to release Anroid based phone in China, of cause, not only for China Mobile. This makes China the biggest potential market for Android and most likely will not face the same level of competition it faced in US with Apple.
With a large resources pool of expereinces Java developers, Android platform is far more popular than iPhone in the development communities. Not only that, the Chinese operators and government all like the open source nature of the platform, so they can take over the control. I met lots of developers who are excited with Android development while I was in China one month ago. All of them were Java developers.
Break down of subscriber data in Jan (sohu.com)
| China Mobile | China Telecom | China Unicom | |
| The total number ofusers (by January 31, 2009) | 463，920，000 | 28,930,000 | 134,000,000 |
| Number of new users in January 2009 | 6,670,000 | 1,020,000 | 839,000 |
| Number of new users in December 2008 | 7，070，000 | -6 0，000 | 424，000 |
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