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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
In a letter obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Andy Rubin takes some time to talk to Android partners about the growth of Android, and why he feels it is the right time to step away and leave thin...
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by Sean Brunett
Mar 13, 2013
Google has announced today that Android founder and longtime leader Andy Rubin will be leaving the Android team to explore a "new chapter at Google." Larry Page posted the announcement on ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 14, 2012
Android's own Andy Rubin took to blogging this evening to respond to the reports floating around about Acer pulling out of a planned launch of an Aliyun OS powered-smartphone in China....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 10, 2012
Gotta love a good unfounded rumor on a slow Sunday afternoon. Or not.
Regardless, Robert Scoble this afternoon set up a trial balloon to see what folks though about the possibility of An...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 28, 2011
With Christmas all said and done for yet another year, it's time for those at Google to start looking at the number of devices that got activated over the Holidays. Luckily, Andy Rubin anticipat...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 20, 2011
So we didn't see any updates to Google Music this week like so many of us had hoped there would be. But Andy Rubin has said that Google is "close" to being able to offer a bona fide MP...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 13, 2011
Google's Andy Rubin was on hand today at Intel’s Developer Forum to announce some interesting news regarding the future of Android and the hardware which it will run on. As such, Intel Corporat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2011
Wow. Let there be no doubt that Android's taking over, folks. Andy Rubin (he's the cat in charge of the whole thing, if you didn't know), tweeted this morning that "There are now over 500,00...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 06, 2011
'Quality and consistency continue to be top priorities,'says Google's VP of EngineeringAndy Rubin -- the father of Android -- has taken to the Android Developer blog to shed a little light on what's h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 27, 2010
About a week ago, Broadcomm announced their latest concoction -- the BCM2157. With this chip, manufacturers can add a shell, a screen, and some memory and have a pre-built Android phone. G...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Dec 14, 2010
As promised, All Things Digital has posted their interview with Android's lead-man, Andy Rubin. In the video from last week's Dive Into Mobile conference, you'll see Rubin tear up the stage with some ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 07, 2010
Link for mobile viewingHere's video of Google's Andy Rubin showing off that Tegra 2 Motorola tablet prototype running Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the all-new Google Maps. In a word: WANT! [All Thin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 22, 2010
All Things D's Kara Swisher today announced that Andy Rubin -- the godfather of Android -- will be one of the participants Dec. 6-7 at the "D: Dive Into Mobile" event in San Francisco. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 19, 2010
If you haven't heard by now, Steve Jobs pretty much lost his sh-- (shut yo mouth!) yesterday during Apple's earnings call -- going way above and beyond his usual diatribe over Google and Android. To ...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 08, 2010
Andy Rubin recently sat down with PCMag for an in-depth Q&A session about Android and some of the hottest topics surrounding the OS. For those who don't know, Rubin is one of the founders of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 07, 2010
If you just can't get enough about Android -- and if you're reading this, chances are that's you -- then check out the Oct. 11 edition of Newsweek magazine. In the "Attack of the Dro...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 09, 2010
Andy Rubin, Google's Vice President of engineering -- Android development head honcho and the man behind both Android and Danger -- was quoted in the press release announcing the T-Mobile G2 that the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2010
Andy Rubin's "it's not fragmentation, it's legacy" line at Google IO has sparked a pretty good debate, but now we're starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel for problem of Androi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
Andy Rubin, VP of engineering for Google and one of the chiefs behind Android smartphones, just slipped a little bombshell into an interview with the New York Times' Bits blog. In it he says that Flas...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 09, 2010
Andy Rubin, in response to a question regarding the lack of multitouch on US Google Experience Android devices, namely the Droid and Nexus One:“It’s not an America versus outside America k...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 09, 2010
So we all know that the Nexus One was the first phone available at google.com/phone. Some of us may also know that Google will continue developing devices to sell in their Google Phone Store. What man...
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by Casey Chan
Jul 13, 2009
You've probably heard of Android 2.0 Donut. But did you know that future versions of Android will be named Eclair and Flan? It looks like Google is pretty serious in codenaming Android alphabetically ...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 01, 2009
We've been suggesting that there's a difference between Google and Android for quite some time now. And it actually turns out that we were right (kind of)! Specifically, there are three differen...
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by Casey Chan
May 22, 2009
If you don't know Andy Rubin (the man pictured above), you should. He's the brainchild behind this whole Android movement and his direction is what guides our favorite smartphone OS. So when And...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 18, 2008
Yesterday at an Adobe MAX Event, Andy Rubin was on hand doing a demonstration -- a demonstration about flash on Android. During his keynote, he showed off Flash on the G1, which was a combined team...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 03, 2008
Android Market keeps looking better and better when compared heads-on with the iPhone's App Store. Android Market will accept everything and deny nothing while Apple's policy is confusing and kept ...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 08, 2008
Andy Rubin, also known as the head honcho of all things Android over at Google gives a quick demo of Android to BBC and well, it looks pretty darn cool. The two noteworthy items shown are obviously...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 04, 2008
Wired Magazine has a great article on the origins of Android that goes in-depth on the back story of the makings of the next great mobile OS. To give you a quick summary of the Wired story about An...
