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Android is a recently-announced, open source mobile-phone operating system and development platform from Google. The Android software stack could be installed on any number of handsets, from various cell providers around the world. I’ll take a first look at Android, with an Eclipse project and an Android plug-in, to create and debug a simple Hello World application.

The story surrounding this router is an interesting one. The WRT54G is a consumer level router with a wireless access point that has been selling “literally hundreds of thousands per month” according to an article at Linux Devices. The router has been through several versions (around 6 major versions) as Linksys has tweaked the hardware and software. Recently Linksys has decreased the hardware performance of the WRT54G while leaving the product name unchanged, confusing and arguably, cheating consumers.