FierceWireless blurbed earlier today that a Seattle company issued a news release saying it was porting Adobe Flash Lite 3.17 technology (Flash for mobile phones and consumer gadgets) on Dell netbooks running the Android OS. Android netbooks from Dell? That’s news. Dell, a longtime Windows loyalist,  hasn’t said anything about Android which was developed by Google.

After I contacted Dell PR, it would seem Bsquare, a software and engineering firm specializing on embedded Windows applications, jumped the gun although I am waiting for confirmation such a news release was issued. I can’t find anything like that now on the news section of Bsquare’s web site, but it got wide coverage.

Below is the response to my query from Dell spokesman John Pope:

“Thanks for checking with us. Dell constantly assesses new technologies. On the Bsquare release, it was issued in error and Dell has made no announcements on plans to issue an Android-based netbook.”

Hmmm…where there’s smoke, there’s fire….and possibly Dell Android-based netbooks. too?)