Canonical has unveiled the first fruits of a project that could put applications for Googles Android on a netbook sooner than the search giant can deliver itself. Ubuntus chief sponsor has demonstrated an execution environment that lets applications built to fit the screen, power, and hardware of an Android smartphone on an Ubuntu-powered PC. The execution environment potentially lets these applications take advantage of features common to a PC such as support for mouse-based input instead of touch, multiple windows open simultaneously, and have an application run while the CPU is idle.

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