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Google has published the first details of the application store for its Android mobile operating system. In a post on the official Android developers blog yesterday, Google's Eric Chu described 'Android Market' as a user-driven content distribution system that will help users find, purchase, download and install various types of content onto Android-powered devices

T-Mobile USA hopes to sell over half a million HTC Dream ('G1') Android phones before the end of the year, according to an Electronista report that cites estimates from AndroidGuys.

Dell chief executive Michael Dell said his company may one day sell a device that competes with Apple's iPhone, though he does not plan to get into that market any time soon, notes Reuters

Google's new 'Chrome' Internet browser - launched this week and seen as a major new competitor to Microsoft's market-leading 'Internet Explorer' - is being linked to Google's Android mobile platform.

TeleGeography reports that T-Mobile USA has announced that it has launched the T-Mobile brand in all former SunCom Wireless markets throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

The Boy Genius Report says that T-Mobile USA has switched on its 3G network in Philadelphia, following previous city launches in, amongst others, New York and Las Vegas.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed that spectrum for public-safety usage be put up again for auction under rules that would be more lenient than those that stifled a bid earlier this year for the D block airwaves, reports Information Week.