Sprint's annual Application Developer Conference begins today, and with the list of keynoters including Google vice president of mobile technology Rich Miner, there is growing speculation the operator is poised to formally announce its first device based on Google's Android mobile operating system. Sprint is a founding member of the Google-led Open Handset Alliance, the industry group fo...

Remember not so long ago when Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that Android was "not yet good enough" for the Sprint brand, and how weird and awkward that was, all things considered? Well, it turns out that Google's VP of mobile technology, Rich Miner, is set to deliver the keynote at Sprint's mobile developer's conference on December 12th. We assume he'll be there to talk about how m...

Rich Miner is Group Manager of Mobile Platforms at Google. He spoke recently at the Future of Mobile conference and Ben managed to grab him for a chat as he came off stage. Here’s the interview…

I've seen various pitches from Google about mobile. In particular, I've seen several Android presentations over the last year. Each one looks less convincing than the last. I've just been watching Rich Miner speaking at the Open Mobile Summit, and although the developer story looks fairly well-articulated, I just think that some of the wider back-story about mobile looks tired, and ...

It’s been a hectic morning at Future of Mobile which kicked off today.  You can follow much of the action on Twitter, but we’ve been grabbing interviews with everyone we can which we’ll put up over the next few days. There’s an excellent range of speakers - Rich Miner is currently on stage presenting on Android

I was a bit bummed that T-Mobile and Google launched the first Android-based phone when I was in Cologne on business and couldn’t possibly participate in the conference call. Fortunately, I got a second chance earlier today when an email from Anthony House, Google’s head of communications and public affairs, announced that Rich Miner —

Google has been taking a swipe at fellow mobile operating system purveyors Apple. According to IT Week, at a conference last week, Google's mobile platforms manager Rich Miner said: “Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone. There's a

"Google has not released sales predictions for devices based on its mobile operating system Android. But that doesn't stop Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms at the search giant, from being confident.After his presentation on Thursday at the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, Miner said he expects Android-based devices to outpace sales

Even though we still wait to see the first real device running the Android platform released, Google's group manager for mobile platforms Rich Miner is confident they will outsell the Apple iPhone. Speaking after his presentation on Thursday at the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, Miner said that's it's the

Despite Google's relentless PR campaign to position Android as the benevolent leader of "openness" in the mobile world, some executives and of course competitors are wary about its vile ambitions. At the Mobile World Congress, Google mobile platforms group manager Rich Miner reiterated that the Android is harmless and will not bite anyone. In short, it's not the enemy. The Internet giant did not e