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Even though three companies hosted the launch event and the software is backed by a consortium, the introduction of the first Android phone made it very clear that Android is about one company: Google.

Cell phones have always been about helping you keep in touch and now they're helping you stay healthy.

Hackers descend on New York City, a new service sends you directly to voicemail, augmented reality mixes computers with the real world, a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again, and more!

NTT DoCoMo demonstrates Super 3G wireless at an event in Tokyo

As if "openness" wasn't already the key word of the year for mobile communications, Nokia took the concept a step further Tuesday, announcing plans to create an organization called the Symbian Foundation, which will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.

Social networking powerhouse Facebook launches in Japan, Solitaire gets an interesting honour and Greenpeace finds hazardous chemicals in popular gaming consoles. All that news and more on this week's World Tech Update.

Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first US operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

Adobe launched a new community development project on Thursday aimed at using its Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technologies to create a consistent application interface across all devices -- whether they are smartphones, PCs or set-top boxes.

Linux is expanding its influence outside of the world of smartphones, and is poised to take a significant share of the mid-range mobile phone market as well, according to a new study from ABI Research.

The LiMo Foundation was formed on January 2007 as a consortium of mobile industry companies joining together to create for handsets an open and standardized software platform based on Linux. Their goal is to deliver an open handset format that will become more widely accepted and used over closed, proprietary platforms. The foundation's major founders include Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone. These companies and other members share leadership and decision making.

Not over here, at least. Our overseas correspondents report on the latest technology from Japan.