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If you think your smartphone is hot stuff today, just wait until Google, $10 million and an army of open source key bashers make their mark.

Google today announced a contest with a total prize pool of $10 million to try to encourage developers to build mobile applications based on the Android technology. Android will provide an operating system, a user interface, middleware and applications for use in future smart phones.

From: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software_development&articleId=9046441&taxonomyId=63&intsrc=kc_top

And hardware companies are already getting in on the action:

High Tech Computer (HTC) […] plans to launch 2-3 Android-based mobile phones in the coming year, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times which quoted remarks made by HTC CEO Peter Chou last week at a meeting with analysts from foreign investment firms in Taiwan.

From: http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20071112PB201.html

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