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Android 2.3’s ‘Gingerbread’ OS: What’s inside

CNET We’ve been talking about Android 2.3–code-name Gingerbread–for so long, this morning’s Google’s co-announcement with Samsung of the Gingerbread-powered Nexus S was frankly anticlimactic. Nevertheless, version 2.3 of the operating system that’s taking the mobile world by storm is a significant next step in Android’s evolution. While there are plenty of user interface changes (we’ll get to those), some of …

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Verizon may pay Apple for iPhone semi

Verizon Wireless may be willing to pay Apple to keep the iPhone off competitors’ networks when the carrier eventually gets the device in 2011, one Wall Street analyst says. On Monday Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu published a note to investors in which he cited unnamed sources who indicated that Verizon is willing to pay Apple to keep the iPhone …

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