The first Android-powered phone isn’t the only big news on the mobile front that week. Applications for the Android operating system are already making their way to market.

On Thursday, Visa announced plans to construct mobile payment-related services for the Android platform, while PacketVideo stepped out on Wednesday with news that it would launch CORE, a multimedia application framework that powers more than 260 million devices worldwide, for Android.

Meanwhile, Namco launched PacMan for the Android operating system. Glu Mobile announced that Bonsai Blast, an all-new action-puzzle game, will launch on Android. And
Big in Japan announced ShopSavvy, an application designed to help humans do comparative shopping via the Android Market.

“There’s money to be made in the Android marketplace,” said Bill Ho, an analyst at Current Analysis. “Developers, while they are intellectually stimulated by programming, at end of the day they are going into that to assemble money. So what we see is an ecosystem that’s

Getting Ready for the Mobile Web

While developers are gearing up for mobile apps, others are exhorting companies to get their Web sites ready for mobile handset viewing. Most businesses have yet to investigate whether their Web site is accessible to handheld users, according to an M:Metrics survey.

But 85 percent of iPhone users access the Web for knowledge and are 10 times more likely to search the mobile Web than cell-phone owners. Mobile technology experts say that the release of the Google Android-powered T-Mobile G1 phone made by HTC signals an acceleration of the trend.

“What we’ve seen with the BlackBerry and the iPhone is a shift away from cell phones to smartphones, and the G1 is going to further spur that shift,” said Chuck Sacco, CEO of mobile-technology company PhindMe.net. “With Google’s Android technology plus available to other cell-phone manufacturers who want to…

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