AzureWave announced the sponsorship and launch of the 0xlab (zero x lab), an open platform development team which will concentrate on bring together the Android's open software and hardware industrial design. 0xlab is created by eight young engineers who have deep knowledge and abundant experience in open software development and design. They believe that the open software technique will hold the key to future consumer electronic products, and Android(TM) platform represents the best opportunity for the industry to create next generation of portable devices which will be rich in futures and friendly to users.

"The recent development in portable devices market suggests the importance of software as the key to the success of devices," 0xlab said. ?œfor most of Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, however, software development and design remains as a deep gap to overcome."

0xlab expressed that their main goal is "to assist Taiwanese design and manufacture industries to understand and efficiently utilize the open platform like Android(TM), therefore reducing the period of research and development, and bring the best and competitive products to the market."

Not only 0xlab is excellent in hardware/software integration, but also they are innovating in software technology. They have developed a method to migrate non-JAVA software to Android platform, which uses Java(TM) as main development language, without rewiring those programs. Their technology will reduce research spending and increase the speed of distributing software to customers. 0xlab member demonstrated their success in migrating Firefox to Android(TM) platform at 0xlab launch press meeting.

The main sponsor, AzureWave Technologies Inc., emphasized that "Openness" and "Integration" are two trends in the industry. They believe Android(TM) platform and open software development will deliver a complete set of software for portable devices and is open to any company who want to provide their best product to customers.