Maybe I’ve been watching too much Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but this sounds a bit familiar…

Featured last Tuesday on BusinessWeek, GridGrain is an open source Grid Computing solution for Java available for Android platform. GridGrain is not an application but a technology that could be used to create innovative applications with shared computing between different Android devices. But the question is, can we really turn Android devices into supercomputers ? Sounds like science fiction.

[via GridGrain]

While Google’s Android SDK for mobile applications could become a formidable competitor to Sun’s own Java platform, Sun vice president James Gosling said Wednesday it is not possible for Sun to take a position on Android.

Speaking at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference at Sun headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Gosling cited insufficient information from Google.

“It’s impossible to have a position [on Android], right, because there is no data,” he said when interviewed at the event. “Over the last couple of years, Google’s been showing their phone at telecom conferences all over the world and with different business models, all of which really scared the carriers and handset makers. And then with Android, they put out a bag of code with no business model.

“Unless the day comes when they say what they’re going to do with it, it’s just a bag of code sitting out there,” Gosling said.

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High Tech Computer (HTC) expects its revenues to grow more than 20% on year in 2008, and the company also plans to launch 2-3 Android-based mobile phones in the coming year, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times which quoted remarks made by HTC CEO Peter Chou last week at a meeting with analysts from foreign investment firms in Taiwan.

During the meeting, Chou also said that HTC plans to launch a non-Qualcomm 3G solution in the near future, introduce a new user interface which will be better than its current TouchFlo technology in 2008, and launch WiMAX/TD-WCDMA mobile devices by the end of 2008 or in early 2009, the paper reported.

[via Digitimes]