Google CEO Eric Schmidt used his closing keynote presentation yesterday at this year’s IFA conference in Berlin to reveal his company’s future plans and strategy around Android, search and television.

Google TV is to support the company’s Android Market application store early next year, the company announced this week. Google TV will be switched on in the US in the next few weeks, followed by a worldwide rollout from 2011, and the company wants to integrate its application store into the offering.

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UK fixed-line incumbent BT has launched a new mobile app that will allow its broadband customers to automatically connect their smartphones to the firm’s nationwide Wi-Fi network. The ‘BT FON’ app is available to customers that own an iPhone or Android phone and is downloadable free of charge via the respective app stores, Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market.

Bloomberg quotes Lee Kai-fu, the former head of Google’s China division, as stating that China’s mobile Internet users may more than double within five years as smartphones that can browse the Web and download music become more affordable

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US video game manufacturers Gameloft and Electronic Arts are the leading producers of multi-platform mobile apps, according to the latest figures from Distimo.

Bloomberg reports that app developers are beginning to embrace Android despite the limited potential for short-term revenue growth, in order to be well positioned as the platform gains traction in the coming months.

Baidu, China’s largest Internet search provider, launched a searchable applications library which allows third-party apps to be launched directly within its website, for example when a customer searches for a specific product or application category.