Next - 'Allo, 'allo, Android

I've written several times in this blog about the difficulties faced by mobile phone applications developers (check out posts here, here and here) as they strive to overcome multiple operating systems and multimedia software tools when building their software. Several solutions have been touted, and each has been thwarted through being unable to capture enough of the handset market to alleviate the problem. The latest in the list is Android, a mobile phone technology platform acquired by and being developed by Google ahead of its open-sourcing later this year. I had the chance to chat to Android founder Rich Miner at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. You can read about it in this story from Next in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers here.