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The article compares Google’s Android platforms to existing Linux builds, licensing regimes and the Windows CE operating system, and also describes how potential users can start to leverage existing hardware and software development kits and tools.

The article provides fundamental guidelines for getting started in developing products and applications based on the Android platform. It reviews the content of the technology, some of the available tools and useful short cuts that have been applied.

Google’s Android platform was originally developed for the mobile communications device market, but in recent months has also generated growing interest in other sectors. The most notable of these include embedded systems and consumer electronics. The article provides an overview of what is contained in Android and how its various options as well as its [...]

Major players in embedded development tools debate some of the key issues facing themselves and their customers.

Jim Zemlin charts the course taken by the open source OS to preeminence in the device market and beyond.

Analyst Stephen Froehlich looks at the platform’s emerging role in the pay-TV market.

The embedded world Exhibition & Conference remains one of the industry’s most vibrant gatherings.

Will CES 2010 ultimately be remembered for marking the point where Asia began to drive consumer electronics? Paul Dempsey reports.

For the first time in four decades, a new book goes inside the Defense Department’s cutting-edge research agency DARPA.

Imagination Technologies creates and licenses semiconductor intellectual property (IP) processor cores for graphics, video, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP and multi-standard communications applications. These products are complemented by software tools and drivers as well as developer and middleware ecosystems. The company recently embarked on the development of an advanced system-on-chip for one of its customers that could [...]