Along with the Averatec announcement, there are rumors that we can expect to see an Android-powered netbook showcased during Computex 2009. The report is coming courtesy of Digitimes and simply mentions that MSI are planning to demo an Android-powered netbook in an effort to “gain orders from global PC vendors.”

Unfortunately, the details are limited to just that, and as you would expect, MSI has not offered any comment that confirms or denies the rumor. I guess it looks like we will hav...

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Averatec, the relatively small PC/netbook company appears to be jumping into the Android world with a thinly veiled announcement of their upcoming] netbooks. Based out of Orange County, California, the company has been making all-in-one desktops and notebooks since 2004, often much cheaper than their competitors.

Without explicitly saying it, company chief Tae-Hyun Cho is leading many to believe that their next line will include a 10″ Android netbook.

“The OS is going to be a surpri...

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More details have emerged on the first Samsung handset to run Android. A yet-to-be announced phone called the S8000 is being reported (translated) as the South Korean handset maker’s first entry. Look through the specs and you’ll see that this is not your typical Android phone.

For starters, it offers a 3.5mm headphone jack as well as internal storage of 2GB. There’s room to add a microSD card, should you need more space. the device is also slightly thinner than the G1 at 12 millime...

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After months of discovery and hearsay, the Android build that we’ve all been waiting for is about to finally make it out. The Android Developers Blog announced today the availability of an “early look” Android 1.5 SDK. This release seems like a mostly complete version of the final release, though Google warns that some of the APIs are bound to change.

Beyond the features that v1.5 brings to the end user (below), the new SDK carries a few key changes:

• The SDK now supports multiple v...

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DataViz have launched a version of their Office file editing app Documents To Go for Android.  Promised back in December, Documents To Go can open Microsoft Word and Excel files and attachments, as well as allow editing and creating of them, up to and including Office 2007 files.

Rich formatting is supported, such as bold, italics, underline, font color, alignment, bullets and numbered lists, together with tables, bookmarks and comments. Documents To Go will also display footnotes, endnotes ...

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Hewlett-Packard is considering using Google's Android operating system on its low-cost Netbooks, an executive at the company told The Wall Street Journal.In a story posted Tuesday, the Journal reported that Satjiv Chahil, a vice president of HP's PC division, confirmed that the company was studying the Google software.

"We want to assess the capability Android may have for the computer and communications industries, and so we are studying it," Chahil was quoted as saying in the Journal artic...

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It appears that has made a move similar to Apple in regards to the availability of tethering applications and has begun removing them from the Android Market. This was first reported by the developer behind the WiFi Tether for Root Users app, who said that Google has pulled his application.

What reason has Google Given?

“Google enters into distribution agreements with device manufacturers and Authorized Carriers to place the Market software client application for the Market on Devices...

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