Just two weeks after the Droid Razr’s release Motorola has made it easier for developers to make custom ROMs for the latest Droid smartphone. Motorola has put the source code for the Droid Razr up on Sourceforge, so anyone can download it and use it as they will. It’s mod useful for developers who know more »

Independent and small developers will have to wait a little longer to get a legitimate copy of the Android 3.0 source code. Google has decided to keep the Honeycomb source code safely locked away for an undetermined amount of time. Google chose this direction because the company doesn’t think Honeycomb is quite ready to be torn apart by eager techies. This is an uncommon move when you consider Google’s track record of keeping Android open to anyone.

Yesterday, we reported Telus would start selling the HTC Desire sometime in the near future. At the time, we did not know the pricing nor the availability of the highly anticipated Android device, but it seems pricing details have been uncovered through the source code. Normally, we would suspect the source code to tell us more »

Watch out, Firefox; Google Chrome is inching towards another one of your great features. Based on a few lines of code spotted in the Chromium source code, Chrome will eventually support the ability to sync themes. Google’s browser already includes support for bookmarks, auto fill, and preferences, but themes would be a big help to more »

Jeff Bezos recently spoke at a Wired sponsored conference and revealed some interesting information in regards to the Kindle. One one hand the news was a little surprising; however if you consider the already available iPhone app then it makes a little more sense. According to Bezos, the content for the Kindle and the actual more »

In time for the arrival of the T-Mobile G1 handset to the hands of mobile consumers who ordered for it, Google has just released the Android source code freely for the public’s perusal. And so Google has launched the Android Open Source Project. What this means is that anyone can download the source code and play around with it to come up with a useful application for the T-Mobile G1 phone or some other Android phone.

The Android platform promises to be “a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations.” By releasing its source code to the public, Google, third party applications developers and mobile phone manufacturers who are eying to get a piece of the Google branding success would definitely find the Android source code a valuable tool for whatever purposes it may serve them. Continued after the break.

The Netflix player from Roku seems like it could be in store for some potentially great changes in the future, some of which would force us to remove the “Netflix” from the name. We have already discussed the possibility of other services such as Hulu and YouTube becoming available on the player, however Roku has just posted the source code for the set top box, which makes this possibility a little more of a reality.

In the past VP of Consumer Products for Roku, Tim Twerdahl had already stated that even though they had a deal with Netflix, it was not exclusive and they were still able “to seek out other content providers to put their content on the Roku box.”

That statement lead to the speculation of Roku adding other services to the player, but nothing had been confirmed, and as of now we are still awaiting (and hoping) form something official. While some of the web based video services seem like an obvious choice, there is also some recent speculation that an announcement may be coming from Microsoft or Sony as well.