Cody Taylor

We asked developers to share what they like and would they would like to see more of from Android, Google’s mobile operating system.

An anonymous reader writes “AMD has no replacement planned for the aging Geode low-power chip, creating uncertainty for its use in products like future XO laptops made by One Laptop Per Child. There won’t be a Geode successor and the company has no core microarchitecture planned to replace the chip, AMD executives said. The comments end speculation about the future of Geode, an integrated chip used in netbooks like OLPC’s XO laptop, ultramobile PCs and devices like set-top boxes.”

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We had thought Google was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively.

More interestingly, considering this week’s leaked images purporting to be of the keyboard-free T-Mobile G2 by HTC, there’s also a shot of the new on-screen keyboard, which Arron reports will appear for every edit box.

An anonymous reader writes “A new bill is being introduced called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the phone’s camera. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone.”

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