This shouldn’t come as a huge shock, since Google had pretty much already promised that the next major version of Android would be available by the end of the year, but Google chairman Eric Schmidt has now pretty much confirmed that we’ll see Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich in October or November. I guess that kind of rules out September or December, then. Ice Cream Sandwich is… Read more »

Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at the Web 2.0 conference today, holding a phone that looks a lot like the rumored Nexus S phone from Samsung, running Android 2.3. Schmidt says the next-generation operating system will be available within the next few weeks, and he listed a few of the features baked into the OS (and the Nexus S smartphone), including support for… Read more »

There are millions of Google Android smartphone users, with Google reporting that 160,000 new handsets are activated every day. But since Google is giving away the operating system for free, you might be wondering how Google plans to make money from Android. The most obvious thing Google is doing is creating demand for Google services including search, email, calendar, contact, and other cloud-based apps. The… Read more »