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Smartphones based on Google's Android mobile operating system outsold Apple's iPhone in the US during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group.

Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Here you can review the project's design docs, obtain the source code, and contribute.

Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month. And with that release, Mozilla — maker of the Firefox browser — and Google Chrome are expected to also announce support for HTML5 video playback using the new open codec.

The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets Android application developers build performance-critical portions of their apps in native code. It is designed for use only in conjunction with the Android SDK.

Google has decided it needs greater control over the power coming in, and will be launching its own utility, which will focus on supplying it with renewable energy

With opportunities abounding in renewable power and energy efficiency, traditional IT companies are making some rather aggressive moves into this market. This week, Google announced that it will launch its own utility, while Yahoo has found a source of funds for a new data center: the Department of Energy.

The folks over at iFixit take apart the new $530.00 Google phone.

Go is designed to serve as a systems language, rather like C or C++, but is extremely fast for development like Python, while still providing the benefits and security of being a true compiled language. The programming software is being released in an open source version because it is now at the stage of being powerful and useful, and because the open-source community is a great resource for developing better tools and libraries.