Article: Announcements from wireless providers signal changes in industry

LIKE RAPID-FIRE text messengers, companies providing software and serves to the wireless market came out with an onslaught of changes last week.

Verizon Wireless, in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards, and Google Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., formed a strategic partnership to bring Google's Android operating system to wireless devices operating on the Verizon network. The companies will collaborate to see the Android platform pre-installed on handsets and netbooks.

"The whole notion of exclusivity that you must use the applications that the network provider endorses is gradually going to wither away," said Robert Rosenberg, president of telecom ...

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