Dell: Working on an Android Netbook?

May 6th, 2009 - BusinessWeek

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Dell may be cooking up a series of netbooks based on Android software. On May 6, software company Bsquare announced that "it is porting Adobe's Flash Lite 3.17 technology onto Dell Netbooks running Google's Android platform."

Dell hasn't officially announced any netbooks based on Android, which is an operating system developed by a slew of companies including Google. Dell hasn't yet returned my request for comment.

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